Word: argumentative
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...making the case that she would be a better President than Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton never forgets to summon the argument that she has more experience. But as the Florida State simulations show, experience doesn't always help. In fact, three decades of research into expert performance has shown that experience itself - the raw amount of time you spend pursuing any particular activity, from brain surgery to skiing - can actually hinder your ability to deliver reproducibly superior performance...
...which some 150 died, are inserted almost randomly into otherwise fluid prose that appears to have been written long before. The ubiquitous references to terrorism, however, underscore an important point. As a Muslim, a political leader and later a victim, Bhutto was uniquely poised to present an impassioned argument: namely, that the war we should all be worrying about is not that between Islam and the West, but between moderate and fundamentalist Islam...
...We’re a tight-knit family, but even so, any event that brings that many relatives under one roof can easily devolve into argument...
...Still, the question of weak states underlies some of the uglier fights the candidates have had on foreign and national security policy. Iraq is, after all, a failed state, and the national argument over whether and how fast to get out is largely about the effects of instability if we do. In Tuesday's debate, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama danced around the difficult question of whether they'd re-invade Iraq if al-Qaeda reestablished itself there after the U.S. withdrew...
...emotional high point in the debate came on a discussion of the Iraq war, when Clinton accused Obama of having given a good speech against the war at first but then, in essence, having an identical record to hers' after he came to the Senate. Obama dismissed that argument dramatically, saying Iraq "was a big strategic blunder" and then arguing that Clinton "facilitated and enabled" George W. Bush in driving "the bus into the ditch...