Word: bitters
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...Political Elite Regarding "A Bitter Lesson" [April 28]: The pundits were frustrated when they couldn't label Barack Obama a racist, so they came up with élitist as an otherwise suitable condemnatory epithet. For heaven's sake, the man is running for President of the U.S., not chairmanship of the bowling league. An élitist is surely someone who has a wider field of taste, interests, education and comprehension than the average person. Isn't that what the country desperately needs after eight years of the cowboy populist? John W. Gray, Toronto...
...Show with Jon Stewart,” to stress his honesty and dedication to sticking to his principles. In criticizing Bush about Katrina, however, McCain has recently shifted away from this straight talk, embracing the endorsement from his former enemy, Bush, last month. McCain seemed willing to forget the bitter and personal struggle he lost to Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000, saying, “I hope that he will campaign for me as much as is in keeping with his busy schedule.” While this remark does not show any false fondness from McCain towards...
...setbacks for Obama's seemingly charmed presidential campaign have come one on top of the other lately. There was his admittedly clumsy comments in a private fund raiser about "bitter" small-town voters who "cling" to religion and guns, questions about his association with a 1960s-era terrorist and nitpicking in a recent debate over why he doesn't wear an American flag pin on his lapel...
...battle will soon be over and such divisions will heal quickly formost Democrats. While the folks on the losing side will be sore, most will quickly rally to the nominee. They’ll get over it and for good reason. If Hillary Clinton loses, her supporters will be bitter but will wind up for Obama because whatever differences exist between Hillary and Barack, they are nothing compared with the differences between a Republican and a Democrat in 2008. On the Democratic side, the current nominating system contains within it the very mechanism to bring about a quick conclusion: superdelegates...
...million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians - that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions, with the first 40 minutes focused exclusively on so-called character issues rather than policy. Obama was on the defensive from the start, but gradually the defensiveness morphed into bitter frustration. He kept his cool - a very presidential character trait - and allowed his disdain to show only when he was asked a question about his opponent's Bosnia gaffe. "Senator Clinton deserves the right to make some errors once in a while," he said. "What's important is to make...