Word: flipped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sept. 27]. President Bush famously said, "You are either with us or against us" in the war on terrorism, but by cooperating with Syria, a well-known harborer of terrorists and a suspected developer of weapons of mass destruction, Bush seems to have changed his mind. Sounds like a flip-flop to me. William Pass Kansas City...
...show any contrition about anything. "There's no turning back now," says an outside adviser to the Bush team. "It's too late for the President to admit mistakes or take a nuanced position on Iraq. He just has to keep arguing he was right and Kerry's a flip-flopper who can't be trusted to keep America safe...
...well have saved President Bush from blowing a gasket in the second presidential debate. His last half hour, when stem-cell research and abortion were discussed, was his best. He stopped huffing about, slipped into Man of God mode. He even accused Kerry of being a flip-flopper in a more thoughtful...
...this nominative madness. Split up your kids—half get dad’s name, half get mom’s. Or condense the hyphenated names into some sort of acronym (in the second example above, Mary’s last name could be Elbo). Or flip a coin ‘fer crissakes.’ There’s no easy solution other than marrying a family member, but a solution has to be found. Just don’t saddle your young’uns with the same burdens. The future of standardized testing depends...
...that when Bush changes his mind—like, on whether there should be a 9/11 commission, or reneging on a promise to fund his own education reforms, or opposing the existence of a Homeland Security Department until the moment he took credit for inventing it—the flip-flop is denied, ignored or cured with one dose of “you are either with us or you are with the terrorists.” And somehow when Kerry changes his mind—for example, on just which failure of this president’s foreign policy...