Word: argumentive
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...town hall format to a status not previously seen in a general election campaign, which is traditionally dominated by television ads, airport hangar rallies and formally moderated debates. McCain has challenged Obama to a series of weekly town halls this summer, an idea that is fast becoming the central argument of his candidacy. McCain's intention is to make the town hall format synonymous with honest campaigning and a new kind of politics. "I could give speeches all day long, as you know, and in different places," he continued on Friday. "But this is for you. This is for America...
...years of friendship were over his treatment of both Clintons, which I thought was occasionally too sharp - and had its roots, I believed, in the strict lessons about sex and probity he'd learned from the nuns (which he often joked about). Our last conversation, sadly, was an argument over that...
...sure to get through. In 2007 a group of pediatric-obesity experts convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on childhood obesity, which included a strong argument that the language of weight gain had to change. A decade ago, kids whose body mass index (BMI) tracked at or above the 85th percentile for their age were dubbed "at risk of overweight." The new recommendations urge doctors to cut to the chase and simply call such children overweight...
...combination of shadowy dishonesties. It usually involves a complex web of facts, many of which may even be true. It exploits its own complexity and the reluctance of the media to adjudicate factual disputes. No matter how thoroughly a charge may be discredited, enough taint remains to support an argument. The fundamental dishonesty is the suggestion that the issue, whatever it is, really matters. This is how swift-boating differs from its cousin McCarthyism, which deals in totally baseless charges that would be deeply serious if true. Swift-boating is McCarthyism lite. There is usually a little something...
What these proposals definitely are, though, is different from what Bush has been doing. Which helps explain why Obama's most compelling economic argument remains the fact that on the economy, McCain sounds an awful lot like Bush...