Word: fiascos
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...four months could severely damage the party nominee's general-election chances. In Florida, primary participants may be especially sensitive to being told their votes won't count. "Disenfranchisement is, um, a hot-button issue here," says a Florida Democratic Party official, alluding to lingering fury over the electoral fiasco...
...same time, Obama's stance could help him garner a larger share of the state's non-Cuban Democrats (especially non-Cuban Latinos), who were repulsed by hard-line exile politics during the Elian Gonzalez fiasco. And as for the general election, even many hard-line voters have changed their mind about Bush's travel and remittance policy...
...This debacle is the result of the superarrogant Bush Administration, acting until recently with virtually no oversight by a compliant Congress. The sooner this Administration and its passive enablers in Congress are out of office, the sooner we will find the means to extricate ourselves from this fiasco. May Bush go back to Texas and never be heard from again except as a very bad history lesson. John Griffin, Walnut Creek, Calif...
...watch CNBC, you know that these are not happy times for American homeowners. U.S. home prices just fell for the first time in 16 years, new condos are languishing in former hot spots like Florida, and the subprime-lending fiasco threatens to drag down the wider economy...
...today's climate, however, this counts for naught compared with the blame that Blair attracts for ensnaring Britain in the fiasco of Iraq. As the Bush Administration careered from a war in Afghanistan to one in Iraq, with Blair always in support, it became fashionable to say the Prime Minister had become the President's poodle...