Word: clintonian
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...player haters” alluded to are former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his fellow Congressional Republicans. Short is lauding the president for having deftly defused the 1998 Republican impeachment attempt, thereby precipitating the resignation of hater-in-chief Gingrich. It is this Clintonian political prowess that prompts Too Short’s call for a “national holiday” and his suggestion that its title should indicate a commemoration of the nation’s “players...
...four - was revealed to be conducting what Royce, writing in the tabloid Daily Mail, called "rumpy-pumpy at the Sextator" with his "Singular Life" columnist Petronella Wyatt. Johnson's private life is his own business, but Tory leader Michael Howard fired him as shadow arts minister on the deliciously Clintonian grounds that he hadn't told the whole truth about it when asked (which Johnson denies). One executive at the Spectator's parent company jokes, without much mirth, that "it looks like they don't have enough work to do there...
Obama is charismatic, but not in a jovial, Clintonian kind of way. He is intense, surprisingly so. He has a way of telling you something as if it's the only time he has told it to anyone (even if, like all politicians, he is working you with the same line he has used at every ballroom in the state). His brow is almost always furrowed, and his voice is deep, even somber, despite his boyish face...
...Vote or Die” and the efforts of 527 groups like Moveon.org, there would be something futile about protest and political action after a Bush win. After all, liberal activists were born to win this election. An opponent and circumstances like these really should not require Clintonian charisma to gain the support of the American people...
...spin doctor or slipped in by a local party hack. He knew the region, its history and its issues, because his Nanna and Pop retired to the region and he'd spent many school holidays with them. At his first "new politics" outing as leader, he listened with Clintonian empathy for two hours as people spoke about the issues they wanted Latham to take back to Canberra...