Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both commentator Pat Buchanan and humor columnist Dave Barry are running for President. It's time for a Draft Ann Landers movement. Listen, Cookie, hard- pressed Americans could use some practical advice...
...particularly inopportune time for the Governor, who has watched the state's economy continue to stumble, along with his own political fortunes: one new poll placed his approval rating at 29%, down from 40% in July. "The Symington suit puts Arizona in a political holding pattern," wrote Arizona Republic columnist Keven Willey. "Seems to me we've about run out of gas. Have we crashed...
Though he has taken on the gun lobby by supporting legislation to restrict firearms and annoyed abortion activists by backing parental notification, Clinton has a reputation in Arkansas for trying to please everyone. John Brummett, a columnist in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says Clinton's "desire to be loved is unhealthy, even for a politician." Back in office in 1983, Clinton rewarded his opponents on the right by approving home schooling and signing more than 100 corporate tax breaks...
...declaring his long-shot challenge to George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan toned down some of his reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...
...naivete, his use of discredited testimony, his reliance on suspect "experts." A TIME critic said that if Stone's film "turns out to distort history, he may wind up doing more harm than homage to the memory of the fallen President." Tom Wicker, a New York Times columnist, has seen the film and believes it does all that and worse. He calls JFK "paranoid and fantastic," full of "wild assertions" and propagating an idea that, "if widely accepted, would be contemptuous of the very constitutional government Mr. Stone's film purports to uphold...