Word: blusterer
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Throughout his entire first term and most of his second, U.S. President George W. Bush has tried pretty much everything to get North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to come out of his cage. He has tried to coerce him with economic sanctions and schoolboy bluster-a policy course that ended on in the autumn of 2006, when Kim tested a nuclear weapon, precisely the opposite of the result Bush intended. Since then, the Administration has tried bribery, offering blandishments like food and free fuel oil in hopes that in return North Korea would stand down its nuclear program...
...sign his side of the peace deal in Sudan, Museveni put on a show of force and implied he was ready to help the Sudanese stop the LRA attacks. Regional diplomats say they are pushing for more cooperation against the LRA. But that is all likely to be bluster. "We are not talking with the group because they have political legitimacy but because they can't be beaten militarily," said one exasperated follower of the peace talks. He makes one grim prediction. "They are in the black hole of Africa - if left alone, they could grow into a regional mercenary...
...Obama recognizes his essential dilemma- that when it comes to going negative, he is damned if he does and damned if doesn't. Still, he said on Wednesday, voters "are not looking for politicians to be calling each other names and acting with a lot of bluster. That's been the politics we have had for the last 20 years. They are looking for somebody who is tough enough to stand up to the political tides when it is the right thing to do. That is the kind of toughness I have shown for my entire career and public life...
...Even if Clinton wins the state's primary on April 22, her chances of taking the big prize are slim-as Rendell, for all his bluster, must surely understand better than most. Either way, Ed Rendell will go on. "I like Barack," he says. "If he's the nominee, we'll bust a hump...
...difficult to separate real plans from bluster, but militants opposed to the government's Basra operation already struck a high-profile blow in Baghdad. Tahsin al-Sheikhli, the government's spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, was kidnapped from his home on Thursday. The al-Sharqia television station on Saturday aired an audio tape in which Sheikhli said that his fate depended on the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Basra and the opening of negotiations with Sadr's movement...