Word: baseness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...denizens of the left blogosphere consider themselves the Democratic Party's base. But they are not. For Democrats, as opposed to Republicans, the wing is not the base; the legions of loyal African Americans, union members, Jews, women and Latinos are. In the end, the sillier left-village practitioners are stoking the same populist exaggeration - the idea that Washington is controlled by crooks and sellouts - that conservative strategists like Bill Kristol believe will bring the Republicans back to power. The perversity of this is beyond comprehension...
...unveiling, last December, of the Base Village restaurant and retail complex added an extra dimension to the popular Snowmass ski area near Aspen, Colo. The development now expands with the addition of the swish Viceroy Snowmass hotel...
...seemingly frustrated Crist read off a litany of his conservative stances and said, "I don't know what else you're supposed to be, except maybe angry too." And yet, if he's going to right his campaign, he has to engage the anger of his party's base...
Four full days into his Hawaii vacation, Barack Obama went to Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Monday for his usual 50-minute workout and made a brief stop at the Kailua Racquet Club, a 72-year-old club that was established as a private hideaway amid a forest but is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood. (He may have played tennis with the First Lady, but that has not been confirmed.) Then the President put on a suit coat - but no tie - as he faced the nation to talk about the attempted terrorist attack...
...Punjab have been among the areas scarred by anti-Shi'ite attacks. The latest bombing will call attention to the Taliban's long-standing but murky presence in Karachi. Until this past week, they have resisted mounting attacks in the city, preferring to use the sprawling metropolis as a base for recruiting, smuggling weapons and racketeering for funds. Now there is fear that the city's Pashtun-speaking communities (where the Taliban find refuge) may come into conflict with Karachi's huge Urdu-speaking majority...