Word: communisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally a word about the Democrats' "contributions" to the Cold War. The Democrats to which the majority refers were admirable leaders like Truman and Kennedy who appreciated America's moral and strategic imperative to fight Communism. They are a far cry from the modern day liberals who wanted to slash defense spending and ignore Soviet expansionism--the kind of liberals that the majority endorsed in every presidential election since...
...these catastrophes make Bush's bragging about his foreign policy experience laughable. He has claimed credit for bringing the Cold War to a successful end, ignoring that it was Ronald Reagan who presided over (and, with all his militarism, almost overturned) the end of the bipartisan effort to defeat communism. And Bush not only dismisses the contributions of Democrats (the ones who began containment), he shamelessly ignores the people of Eastern Europe, whose defiance of despotism was an important ingredient in communism's fall...
...Artists in this country have become the enemy to the conservative and religious right," says Alliger. "[The right] no longer has communism to attack....The artist has replaced that." Lamenting the fate of creativity here, he added, "America is one of the only countries that really undervalues the artist. European communities at least recognize the role of culture in society. Most Third-World cultures don't even have a word for `art' because it's part of everyday life, it's completely integrated....We've lost that...
...dozen years, the nation's life has been dominated by a philosophy that proposes to limit government, encourage the creation of private wealth and confront enemies with a huge arsenal and a hair-trigger willingness to fight. The record is mixed. The Reagan-Bush policies hastened the collapse of communism and the end of the cold war. But at home only the rich have truly prospered. The middle class is hurting, the poor are poorer, inequality has grown and the country's ability to compete has been hindered by an undistinguished education system and widespread inattention to the problems...
...President again demonstrated Sunday night, no punch is being pulled. Bush has labeled this year's campaign the "nastiest" he has ever seen, but it is he who borrowed a tactic from the early career of Richard Nixon to imply that Clinton, as a student, was tainted by communism...