Word: bushism
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...that action has benefited terrorists. Perhaps Bush was too stupid to realize that when he took on Iraq, it wouldn't be an easy task. Would he dare attack North Korea? Never. It is not that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin; it is that Americanism and Bushism are. They are found everywhere. PADDY SINGH New Delhi...
Much of the flood of anti-war poetry has been in direct response to the Laura Bushism, “There is nothing political about American literature.” With anti-Americanism spreading and war stewing, the librarian-turned-First Lady has turned to poetry readings and literature symposia to revive “the crux of what America is.” Understood in these terms, poetry can feed the American soul, so long as it does not question...
...where it is so conspicuously absent? Only in this way can we become full-fledged members of a community, and not just advocates of one. Only in this way does our rhetoric become something quite useful, and only in this way can we turn a debate mired in the Bushism of good versus evil to one that’s inward-looking and self evaluative. B.J. Greenleaf, in yesterday’s column, “Network Aversion,” identified the Harvard approach to social connections as Rolodex building. It’s much more difficult...
Whatever strategy Clinton pursues in a race against Bush -- and he probably wrote a hundred-page scenario years ago -- it isn't hard to conceive of a debate in which, after listening to a Bushism, the candidate turns a practiced, quizzical look on the President and drawls, "Say what...
...wonder how genuine it is. No one would have accused him of excessive niceness during the 1988 campaign, when he was more concerned with appearing tough. A really nice person doesn't stop being nice when it's inconvenient. More recently, about the budget deficit, there was this classic Bushism: "People understand that Congress bears a greater responsibility for this. But I'm not trying to assign blame." He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make...