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...Speaking Kerry's Language In "What Kerry Means to Say ..." [May 10], you described how John Kerry's every utterance is scrutinized for the slightest inaccuracy. His opponents quickly ascribe his mistakes to shiftiness or dishonesty. But when Bush tells blatant whoppers about important things, such as Iraq possessing WMD, his misstatements are quickly excused or forgotten. With thousands dead in the fighting as a result of Bush's dishonesty about a nonexistent Iraqi threat, why is the press accusing Kerry of fudging the "all-important" distinction between 30-year-old medals and ribbons? Jerel Dawson Miami...
...economy is beyond a President's control is to ignore the wide-reaching effects of such fiscal policies as tax cuts and the setting of interest rates-which, even when they aren't enacted directly by the President, are introduced by his supporters. Krauthammer's view also ignores the blatant effect of government programs and spending on the economy. Budgets are a zero-sum game; you can't invest heavily at the same time in education, housing programs and the military. Each pattern of investment produces distinctly different outcomes, and budget priorities are principally determined by the President...
...earnest, hardworking kids-from-Fame vibe about the group. Their week is grueling, filled with song-selection sessions, rehearsals, run-throughs, commercial and promo shoots, performances and interviews. (Minors Trias and DeGarmo, 16, also spend three hours a day with a tutor.) But in ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching. While they ultimately make their own decisions, they get advice on their song choices and performance to counter the judges' feedback, which often amounts to personal critiques: that DeGarmo is too girlish or London too staid. On one shopping trip for show-night clothes...
...horrified, etc., only in May. “It is the photographs,” he said. “Words don’t do it. The words that there were abuses, that it was cruel, that it was inhumane, all of which is true, that it was blatant, you read that and it’s one thing. You see the photographs, and you get a sense of it, and you cannot help but be outraged.” For Rumsfeld, as for Owen, what matters is not what you know but what you see. This...
...instance, labeling someone a “homophobe” for favoring, say, an ROTC presence on campus is an effective way of ending a debate, not engaging in one. To be sure, Skier’s pronouncement that “most objections to [the bathroom proposal] are blatant transphobia [sic],” may give her the rhetorical upper-hand by labeling potential critics as hateful, but it wins her no friends...