Word: clocked
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...argue that it was ham-handed of the McCain campaign - they had to have known, right? - to somehow let this drop just a few days after the announcement. Pregnancy does show, and it does have a ticking clock. The story was going to come out eventually...
Bill Clinton raised the roof of the Pepsi Center and shut down with a crash the complaints that people named Clinton somehow never manage to say anything nice about Barack Obama. Clinton was cued up for 10 minutes; his clock ran out halfway through, but on he went, making previous speakers seem small and pinched by comparison as he laid out the case for the man he described as being "on the right side of history," as though unwilling to leave a single argument on the table...
Barack Obama is usually the candidate who begs his staff to let him take one more question at every event, but this week he hasn't been a man to linger. Even though his public schedule was relatively light, behind the scenes he was racing his own internal clock to finish what is the most important speech of his career...
...government can make a more powerful statement by declaring the end of another era, his own era, an era of small politics. You could call it the Clinton-Bush era, an era of partisan war rooms and poll-tested spin and round-the-clock gamesmanship designed to win the next news cycle. It would be hard to imagine a more compelling proponent of Obama's claim to a new politics than a legendary victim as well as an adept practitioner of the old politics...
...agreement is close, and each side seems eager to finalize the agreement before the current U.N. mandate for the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq expires at the end of 2008. Still, among the various parties to the talks, al-Maliki now appears to be the one controlling the clock...