Word: clintonized
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...didn't work, however, on the presidential level in 1996. Bill Clinton overwhelmingly won the African-American vote, and no national Republican since then has staked such a bold claim to black support. President George W. Bush appointed the first black Secretary of State, the highest ranking cabinet position, but gained little following in the black community. Senator John McCain barely tried in last year's race against the first black presidential nominee...
...problem for Republicans, as the RNC's Steele memorably put it in a TV appearance, is that there's "absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions." Republicans, after all, proclaimed that President Clinton's tax hikes would destroy the economy, that GOP rule would mean smaller government, that Bush's tax cuts would usher in a new era of prosperity; now the House minority leader says it's "comical" to think carbon dioxide could be harmful, and Steele says the earth is cooling...
...after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded Saberi's release, an Iranian prosecutor told the Iranian Student News Agency that Ms. Saberi would be released from custody ''in the next few days...
...reportedly arrested in the nation's capital for trying to purchase a bottle of wine (possession of alcohol is illegal in Iran). Since her April 18 conviction, hundreds of journalists, students and professors have staged demonstrations demanding her release, while both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have proclaimed her innocence...
...officials have acknowledged that anti-Taliban bombardments were carried out while declining to comment on the extent of civilian casualties. In expressing regret over the incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the joint investigation would take time to come up with answers. Meanwhile, Gen. David McKiernan, commander of US forces and NATO forces in Afghanistan, moved to cast doubt on the emerging narrative. "We have some other information that leads us to distinctly different conclusions about the cause of the civilian casualties," he said, without providing further details...