Word: flips
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...Sticks and Stones," (Three Rivers Press; 128 pages; $14) looks, at first flip-through, like a kid's book. The illustrations are large, often taking up an entire page, and contain no dialogue. While even pre-literate children may be able to suss out the broad good vs. evil story, only more mature readers will recognize it as a pointed political parable. It portrays a giant rock creature, born of a volcano, awaking to a barren, grey world. Klutzy and unskilled, he takes command of a tribe of tiny laborers by virtue of his might. Still unsatisfied, he makes...
...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, Kansas, U.S. Political Reality or Fantasy? Joe Klein's column "Bush's Iraq: a Powerful Fantasy" [Sept. 27] was accurate and frightening. It was scary not because President Bush is living in a fantasy world but because so many Americans are blindly following...
...this week’s New Republic, Jonathan Chait brilliantly reveals a pattern too long ignored: John Kerry, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 2004, bears an uncanny resemblance to Al Gore, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 2000, and Bill Clinton, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 1992. What a coincidence that every Democrat who’s run against a member of the Bush family shares the same crippling character flaw...
...five Nalgene bottles, 12 pens, an Abercrombie t-shirt and a pair of Gap flip flops,” said Tse. “But what I really want...
...have been moderator Jim Lehrer, whose questions kept much of the debate strictly focused on Iraq. The President came armed only with the brilliantly succinct paragraph he uses on the stump to defend the war: The world is better off without Saddam, progress is being made, Kerry is a flip-flopper who sends mixed signals. It usually takes Bush no more than two or three minutes to deliver these lines to tumultuous applause. But he had 45 minutes to fill last Thursday, and there was no applause. Simple truths became simplistic evasions. He used "mixed signals" or "mixed messages" eight...