Word: candor
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...sure, Franklin Roosevelt was far from perfect. Critics lamented his deviousness, his lack of candor, his tendency to ingratitude. His character flaws were widely discussed: his stubbornness, his vanity, his occasional vindictiveness, his habit of yessing callers just to be amiable. At times, his confidence merged into arrogance, diminishing his political instincts, leading to an ill-defined court-packing scheme and an unsuccessful attempt to purge his opponents in the 1938 by-elections. One must also concede the failures of vision that led to the forcible relocation of Japanese Americans, which deprived tens of thousands of men, women and children...
...call it, 'earned media' - helps cut a well-financed candidate's advantage," says Carney. "For McCain and Bradley it's key. And there's no candidate like John McCain in terms of media accessibility. He's an open book." During an increasingly long election cycle, that kind of candor is catnip to reporters. The results: Since September, McCain's "unfamiliarity" rating in nationwide polls has dropped 20 points to 31 percent, and his national approval rating is now over 50 percent. Lesser but still positive gains are seen in the Bradley camp...
While Rose's candor about wanting the big bucks is admirable and polls have shown that the majority of fans want Pete in the Hall, he's had an almost pathological resistance to acknowledging the darker parts of his history. According to the compelling evidence gathered by Major League Baseball on his gambling habits, Pete never bet on his Reds to lose a game. But he didn't always bet on them to win. The implications remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn...
That McCain felt compelled to release all this information is testimony to two things: first, to the power of the whispered allegations against him; and, second, to McCain's instinct for candor. At a holiday party last Friday night, McCain joked about how the moderators at last week's debate seemed obsessed with his temper. "They kept asking, 'Are you crazy? Are you crazy?'" Answer: No crazier than anyone else who would run for President...
Even if you totally disagree with Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's vow to "fight to the death" against a right-wing assault on his city's affirmative-action program, you have to acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...