Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton sent a letter last May to the islands' Governor, complaining that the labor practices "are inconsistent with our country's values." Last week a bipartisan congressional commission on immigration released a scathing report that said, "Only a few countries, and no democratic society, have immigration policies" like Saipan's. Representative George Miller, a Democrat from California who has sponsored legislation that would end Saipan's exemptions, visited the island two weeks ago and said he was "deeply troubled" by conditions...
...womanizing has inevitably been redefined as sexaholism: the old kind of touchy feely meeting the new kind of touchy feely, which certainly sounds like President Clinton. One imagines that his tomcat aura may even have helped him in those precincts of the electorate that had come to see the Democrats as the no-fun, take-your-medicine, be-nice-to-everyone party--i.e., the girly-man party--after the Carter, Mondale and Dukakis debacles. Of all Clinton's straddles, maybe this was his greatest: to be seen as both family man and rogue, feminist sympathizer and Kennedyesque swordsman...
This is part of the reason why I am a Democrat, although I believe, to the core of my being, that abortion is not only morally wrong, but tantamount to murder. An oxymoronic reality? I voted to re-elect the President in 1996, not because I no longer felt abortion was a major issue or because my views had changed. Instead, I believed that a Democratic administration was the best hope to systematically reduce the number of abortions in this country. The goals of the party are to help strengthen and improve the social safety net this country so desperately...
...once had the opportunity to ask Clinton adviser and political strategist James Carville whether it would be possible for a pro-life Democrat to be elected to the Presidency. He felt that it would never happen; I hope that someday someone proves him wrong. Alternatively, I hope that the Republican party turns towards the poor rather than to those who vociferously trumpet the need for change in the party...
...best case scenario, Lewinsky, a 21-year-old from a broken Beverly Hills family, lands a White House internship by working connections with a wealthy New York Democrat. Fresh out of Lewis and Clark College, where she was known to boast about affairs with married men, Lewinsky quickly takes to the idea of flirting with the President. She grabs assignments that will get her close to Clinton, making excuses to force her way toward the Oval Office. Clinton comes to notice her and treats her in his usual, friendly fashion. She finds him receptive to her flirtatiousness, and steps...