Word: campaigners
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...other people who can effect this change, whether they're in office or out of office. I don't need a title to do that. I don't need to be sitting in front of a governor's desk. In fact, my intention is to go out and to campaign for people who can effect change all across our nation. I can't do that from the governor's desk no matter how careful I were to be, because we've got lots of double standards hitting us. Other governors probably could travel around and campaign for others and speak...
...health care? And health care too. I remember certainly on the campaign trail, John McCain and his ideas - basically, bottom line, allowing businesses to afford to pay for health care, to provide health care and to give employees options, and Obama scoffed at that. His campaign thought that that was ridiculous. It's funny now to hear him kind of go to some of John McCain's ideas. John McCain had some good ideas about bolstering the economy through businesses so that families could afford to pay for health care and making sure that no one was falling through...
What will be your next steps? I will campaign to raise awareness in the free world. I will appeal to the White House, the European Parliament and the U.N. to condemn Chinese actions. I will ask the U.N. to appoint an independent inquiry into what has happened in Urumqi...
...responsible for creating the crises they're trying to solve (poverty and global warming, for example). There have been some major demonstrations this decade, ranging from the relatively peaceful (225,000 people taking to the streets of Edinburgh in July 2005 as part of the Make Poverty History campaign) to the undeniably violent (the Genoa G-8 protests of July 2001, which drew an estimated 200,000 demonstrators with hundreds injured - and even some deaths - following clashes with police). And as recently as Tuesday, the day before the start of this year's G-8, there were 36 arrests after...
...negotiated settlement to this crisis, and while Latin America appreciates the U.S.'s new style of engagement, it's also still wary of Uncle Sam playing the heavyweight in these situations." That's especially true in Honduras, where the Reagan Administration backed a brutal right-wing campaign against leftists during the 1980s. Read "Honduras Braces for a Protracted Fight...