Word: argumentativeness
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...Clinton's main argument was that she can beat John McCain because she's already been vetted in this culture, "having gone through 16 years on the receiving end of what the Republican Party dishes out." She's basically saying that her dirty laundry - the questionable money she made in cattle futures, the Travelgate firings, her kiss of Suha Arafat, her husband's pardons, the unpleasantries of 1998 - is no longer newsworthy, and the mere fact of her political survival shows that it's irrelevant. "I have a lot of baggage, and everyone has rummaged through it for many years...
Ever wish you had your own Lauren Conrad look-alike to be best friends with and then shockingly betray in a scripted argument? Yale students do...all the time. To satisfy this urge, Yalies attempted to set the record for the most people dressed as “The Hills” star in one place last weekend. Yale Law School Auditorium was filled with countless LC look-alikes hoping to be a part of this historic event, but it has not yet been determined whether The Guinness World Records will recognize the feat as a new category. Courtney...
...turning the accusation around. "I am amused by this notion of elitist given that - when you are raised by single mom, when you are on food stamps for a while when you're growing up, you went to school on scholarship," Obama said "So when someone makes that argument, particularly when I've spent my entire life working with workers in low-income communities to try to make peoples lives a little bit better, that's when you know we're in the political silly season...
...problem for Brown is how to position himself to take advantage of that change. "A lot depends on the mood after the Inauguration, as to whether the new U.S. Administration will want to be connecting to the multilateralist argument, in which case Brown will be in the right place," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society...
...Associated Press interview from July 2007, Obama suggested that even the likelihood of genocide was insufficient grounds for retaining an American presence in Iraq. “If that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife—which we haven’t done.” Obama is implying America should bear as much responsibility for the security of citizens...