Word: disgustful
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...leave open the possibility that machines might have missed legitimate votes, only that Gore was determined to keep counting until he got a result he liked. Gore's Democrats were, for the first time in a long campaign, united behind their leader last week, if only out of shared disgust at his enemies. Democrats kept finding new fuel for their indignation: when Trent Lott denounced the Florida Supreme Court's "unelected judges" for usurping the rights of the people by letting the recounts continue; when Florida Republicans threatened to name their own set of electors to send to the electoral...
...back off, Democratic avengers. Nader didn't steal Gore's election; he just mobilized some of the mounting disgust for money-polluted politics, with its battery-operated candidates and look-alike, corporate-welfare-state policies, whether they're labeled Democratic or Republican. All right, maybe the Republican disguise worked for the Democrats in 1992. But if you go around long enough in camouflage clothes, you're eventually going to be mistaken for, well, a bush...
...this sounds like ranting. The distant music of H. L. Mencken dead-ends in Don Imus imitations. It savors of precisely the poison that it condemns. Indeed, the political malaise we suffer from is usually attended by self-disgust. That is one of the dangers of the current situation. But rather than self-loathing, this election - two inadequate candidates fighting to a weird, ignominious tie, with no expectation even that the winner will be the less lousy - should rouse Americans to self-examination...
...still can and still must take moral positions, nuanced yet clear, open-minded yet firm. Walking away, whether in confusion or disgust, has its own moral price, and that price is too high. One cannot take a position on the fence when it is made of razor wire...
...this year, I suspect I'll run into the same sort of disgust. Friends, lifelong New Yorkers, will shake their heads when I explain my decision to back the boys from Queens. Why not root for the Yankees? All that history! All those championships! All that money! But I'll stand firm. Joe Torre seems like a nice guy, but I find Bobby Valentine (and all his contract woes) even more winning. I named my cat after Bernie Williams, but I adore Mike Piazza. And in the end, I can't stand the idea of George Steinbrenner...