Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been asserting that the Iraq invasion was justified because freedom and liberty will be welcomed in that part of the world. It seems the Administration changes its reason for going to war to shoo away whatever bad situation there is on the ground at that particular moment. Bush's flip-flops show how dangerous he is and how indifferent he is to the loss of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Nitin Ahuja Noida, India Kerry said he would reserve the right to take unilateral action in defense of the U.S. but that any such action should pass a "global test...
Bush needed to demonize Kerry to make him an unacceptable alternative. The strategy carried some risk: negative ads over the summer portrayed Kerry as such a ridiculous, windsurfing, flip-flopping fop that when the cartoon version of Kerry didn't show up for the debates, Bush suffered in contrast. It was a rare miscalculation by a politician who understands well the value of low expectations. But overall, Bush succeeded in making Kerry appear an élitist emphatically defending moderation at a time when nothing less than passion would do. In Boston at their convention, the Democrats held a tasteful remembrance...
...bloody, impassioned, rhetorically charged, knockdown bare-knuckled fight over who will run the country. We get to lambaste a President, his military failures, his rationale for fighting, his domestic policies and any number of other things. We get to call his opponent a traitor, a war criminal, a flip-flopper, a weak-willed vessel who will say anything to get elected. And much of the time, we even mean it. And then we decide. And then we realize that we are still in a real war, that we still have real enemies to defeat and that the world didn...
...Studio is one of the few places in Boston devoted exclusively to karaoke, with separate rooms for private parties. This grungy venue is decorated with cheesy fake flowers and psychedelic art illuminated by black lights. With the flip of a switch, mood lighting and disco balls turn the rooms into an Austin Powers extravaganza...
...getting the puck to the net and getting through traffic [are my offensive priorities],” Welch said. “On the flip side, not letting guys get to the net, and not letting the puck get to the net. I think those are two things extremely tough to do but can obviously have a really, really positive or negative impact on the game...