Word: argumentative
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...Myers:The book isn't an argument about Hillary Clinton at all. I'd be thrilled if she did win, though at this point it's unclear. It's not an argument for one woman to rule, but for more women in Congress, legislature, business, diplomacy, at every level of public life. Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, Hey, women already rule my life. But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin...
...Myers:I'm plenty willing to give George Bush credit for appointing women. Karen Hughes, Condoleeza Rice, Dana Perino...I applaud the president for that, and I'm not quick to applaud him on a lot of fronts. I'm not sure Hillary's argument had great legs anyway. More women is good for women, whether it's Republican or Democratic, not because it makes political sense, but because it makes government better. You shudder to think what his government would have looked like without women...
Beyond the reflected hipness, the debate skit served a Clinton campaign theme: that Big Media has grilled her ceaselessly while going wobbly over hot, charismatic young Obama. (An often true argument, if undercut by the fact that the point was made for her by giant Big Media institution SNL.) And Cleveland was the perfect place to press the attack, since MSNBC has been the campaign's chief target, from Chris Matthews' criticisms of Clinton on Hardball to host David Shuster's remark that she "pimped out" daughter Chelsea on the campaign trail...
...unclear if Clinton can pull out a win by convincing voters that journalism's old boys have ganged up on her, but at least the skit crystallized the argument. And if she succeeds, it will be partly by doing something the Bush Administration has perfected: running against the mainstream media. Clinton has spent months arguing that she's the best candidate to beat the gop. With her SNL strategy, maybe she can instead make the case that she's the best candidate to beat the press...
...Nature Argument Lapindo says its drilling plan was approved by the government. "The drilling process complied with mandatory regulations," says company vice president Yuniwati Teryana. "We met the requirements." Teryana offers another explanation for the eruption. Two days before Lusi started, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the city of Yogyakarta, about 190 miles (300 km) to the west of Porong. Lapindo believes that the quake opened natural fractures that allowed the mud to escape. "The mud eruption is caused by a natural phenomenon," Teryana says. That's an opinion shared by Adriano Mazzini, a geologist at the University of Oslo...