Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like La Follette, a legendary reformer, McCain will be remembered as a crusader who took on corruption in Washington by enacting campaign-finance reform with the McCain-Feingold Act and speaking out against pork barrel spending...
...might claim that McCain’s pandering to the far right and his increasingly negative and divisive campaign tactics sullied his reputation and clouded his accomplishments as a senator. However, presidential losers are rarely remembered for long, and the final act of McCain the candidate was a positive one—the concession speech in which he returned to form in calling for unity during challenging times. The lasting image of McCain in the public’s perception and in the history books will be one of a dignified and independent-minded senator driven by his conscience rather...
...While the full force of hope and change operated on the psychological and emotional levels, indeed, visible proofs of faith have also abounded. The ubiquitous Obama campaign buttons—attached to fleeces, tattered satchels, and even professors’ tweed jackets—and t-shirts with the Senator’s stylized silhouette served as frequent external reminders of the campus’s conversion. But these, it turns out, were rather modest autos...
...revival at the statue was only one of many throughout campus—from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holyoke to the portico of the Spee Club. But, for a twenty-minute interlude, all fell silent and none stirred abroad as the President-elect delivered his final campaign sermon...
...ease of crafting metaphors between Obama’s campaign and a messianic cult presents a distinct cause of concern. His youthful adherents have set their expectations too high for not only his presidency but also the salvific effects of any politician or political system. Without a religion of their own, their faith is in Obama and the political process—with potentially disastrous effects for the size, scope, and sanctity of our government...