Word: exploiter
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...endorse President Bush, nor did it conclude that Governor Clinton was untrustworthy. In fact, we have at various times been critical of all three candidates, and over the past two years we have produced a number of cover images that any political campaign could exploit to discredit the others. When the Bush-Quayle campaign refused to withdraw the commercial, we filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case will be heard this week...
...there is a market for it, it's fine for HSAto exploit it," Kostka said. "But I would feeluncomfortable hiring my peers to do that kind ofwork...
Bush's ad makes several unproved assumptions about what Clinton would do in office and ignores the Democrat's proposal to cut taxes for the middle class -- precisely the kind of folks depicted in the Bush spot. Yet the G.O.P. ad does exploit a confusing element of Clinton's economic program: he has proposed raising taxes on couples earning more than $200,000 -- representing, he has said, the top 2% of wage earners. The Bush projections are based on the 2% figure -- which actually includes people with incomes of less than $200,000. The Clinton camp has acknowledged the slight...
...people were paying attention -- except George Bush. In daily meetings with his top political advisers, the President pushed staffers to find ways to exploit Dornan's charges. Most of his advisers, deterred by Dornan's loose- cannon reputation and lack of proof, at first shied away from the allegations. But Bush just "wouldn't let go," says a top adviser, adding that the charges played on the President's aversion to anything he considers unpatriotic -- "like the flag-burning thing...
...office. Given the record of his second term (his fogginess on the details of < Iran-contra, Nancy Reagan's astrologer), these turned out to be legitimate concerns. But they vanished in the second debate as soon as Reagan delivered his practiced crack that he had no plans to "exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." What was ironic was that Reagan's closing statement in that same debate, a scarcely coherent ramble about a trip down the Pacific Coast Highway, turned out to be a telling illustration of the vagaries of the President's mind...