Word: blur
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have a plethora of comparison points on the political issues of the day. But as we look toward November with both parties eyeing potential swing voters, sides are beginning to blur. How can we tell the parties apart these days? Perhaps tribal signifiers won't rest on positions vis-a-vis Iraq or universal healthcare. Instead, our true colors might come out when we examine what we do on the Web. Do blue state Web surfers prefer visiting tennis sites while red staters prefer golf? There are ways to find...
...phone, all the while calmly strolling the building's spectacular battlements in his pajamas. Later that night, over dinner of curried chicken and beer in the dining room, he spoke lyrically of his desire to see East Timor succeed as a nation. With his death, as rumor and propaganda blur the details of the latest slaughter in Dili, that success seems a little further away...
...education, putting pressure on the field to match him. "He led on just about every single issue: poverty, economic stimulus to universal healthcare," said Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to Edwards' campaign. "He pushed both of them further than they would've gone without him. When they wanted to blur the lines and not have real proposals, he came out with them and forced the others to move ahead." The former trial lawyer arguably won a majority of the debates, time and again challenging his opponents to refuse money from lobbyists and speed up their plans for withdrawing combat troops...
Rudy Giuliani has been running for President in a blur--literally. He needs his eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech--tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11--while gazing into a fuzzy void. The spectacles come on only briefly, during question time, so he can make eye contact with his inquisitors...
Rudy Giuliani has been running for President in a blur-literally. He needs his eyeglasses to see distance, but at most events he won't wear them. Instead, he rattles through his stump speech-tax cuts increase revenue, beware of Hillary Clinton, remember 9/11-while gazing into a fuzzy void. The spectacles come on only briefly, during question time, so he can make eye contact with his inquisitors...