Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent New York Times survey points to some of the flaws in tailor-making a platform to the regional voter's profile. The poll found that Democratic voters who support Gore were not substantially more "hawkish" on security issues, that Gephardt supporters were not more likely to blame Japan for the U.S.'s trade woes and that Dukakis backers were not most worried about a war in Central America...
...attempting to broker a solution at this point, Kissinger believes, the U.S. may do harm to its position as a neutral arbiter. "If Shultz doesn't watch his step," Kissinger warns, "he'll have the worst of all worlds. The Israelis will blame him for betrayal, and the Arabs will dismiss him as Israel's lawyer...
...call it a mistake, a mendacity. I call it sin . . . I have no one but myself to blame," he intoned. As he continued, his voice sometimes fell to a hoarse whisper, sometimes cracked with emotion. He embarked upon an extemporaneous litany, begging forgiveness in sequence from Wife Frances (who nodded and smiled tightly), from Son Donnie (who mouthed the words "I love you"), from pastors and missionaries of his denomination, from fellow TV evangelists across the land and from his followers around the world...
...existence of the ordinance is a great excuse for people who like to ban smoking. Take a jeweler, for instance. He doesn't want smoke on the jewels, but he doesn't want to ask someone to put out a cigarrette because they might leave. This way they can blame it on the city," he says...
Perhaps Reagan, JFK and FDR are to blame for this travesty of the political process. The efforts of these three men so finely tuned modern political tools of mass communication that we've forgotten that presidents are just citizens. Now, they're just an electron-etched face placed next to a bust of Lincoln. Let's face it, we're spoiled. Candidates have to meet our mass-culture image of the presidency to be considered worthy of our vote...