Word: democratator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...often asked about religion while the other candidates dealt with questions of government policy. Why, he asks, was a "floating cross" in the window of one of his ads such a media controversy when reporters gave a pass to a Barack Obama direct-mail piece that obviously photographed the Democrat before a large Christian cross...
...they say, someone like Obama would most likely try to fit in while sticking to the values of his birthplace. Hawaii state senator Clayton Hee, an early Obama supporter, is hardly surprised that Obama doesn't go around telling people on the mainland about his roots. Says Hee, a Democrat and the former chairman of the state office of Hawaiian affairs: "When you look at Barack Obama, Illinois may be his home, but he belongs to Hawaii...
...Stevenson proved twice. But for now, Republicans might need to look for a new line of attack. With Obama on his way to the White House, the Axelrod-Emanuel-Podesta trio by his side and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin the new center of influence in the U.S. Senate, Chicago Democrat appears to be a winning label...
...fact, Obama's biggest challenge lies not in the tone he takes with the Russians but in the substantive policy choices he makes. While Medvedev may in part have been testing whether he can fluster Obama, he's more interested in probing the Democrat's ambiguous position on missile defense. And in that regard, Obama faced another test near the time of the Medvedev phone call...
...Obama's nonconfrontational response impede progress on resolving the dispute with Moscow over missile defense? Probably not. Given the Democrat's ambiguous position on the issue, Russia is unlikely to accept any U.S. deal offered in the interregnum after his election. Yet Obama's "no drama" reaction at least avoided confrontation and bought him some time to pull together a foreign policy team and decide where he really stands on the deployment of missile defense to Europe. As former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage used to say, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while looking...