Word: counterspin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...counterspin is also true. As Obama's trip enters its final turn, with a whirlwind tour of two Turkish metropolises, the president has found his considerable success at setting a new tone for international relations repeatedly frustrated by the harsh reality of how hard the job is. Despite new agreements for international support of the war effort in Afghanistan, victory against Al Qaeda remains a distant, difficult, long-range goal, with the military onus remaining on U.S. combat troops. Furthermore, a consensus of economic observers advise that the economic crisis, though mollified by some international confidence-building agreement, is unlikely...
Does accurate history matter? Maybe it's necessarily all projection? Maybe there isn't any final draft - only addition and revision, praise and debunking, the endless spin and counterspin of ideology and propaganda? Tolstoy said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true...
Bradley has been lavishing money and time in Iowa, cutting Gore's lead in the polls from 28 points to 13. But Bradley's forces are downplaying their chances so that, in the expectations game, a close loss will become a psychological win. Gore's counterspin is that Bradley has raised the stakes, so nothing less than outright victory will do. Organization makes the difference here, and Gore still has all the advantages: unions, endorsements, the party machinery...
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