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...Bennett on drug policy, Lindsey Graham on health care, John Breaux on Medicare. Out of all the domestic issues that cut with voters, his campaign has offered detailed proposals only on Social Security reform, taxes and health care, and that plan was held together with Post-it notes and glue sticks. He has got away with all this because his campaign isn't about his policies; it's about his character and personality. That's why people who disagree with him say they will vote for him anyway, and why his supporters tend to give him the benefit...
...since the deeply annoying "Let's not and say we did.") But it's easy to see why the snobs wince. Yes, New Year's resolutions are glib, sanctimonious and self-serving. Yes, they are the haiku of holiday kitsch. But isn't glib, sanctimonious, self-serving kitsch the glue that holds us together as Americans...
...paints life as it is--thank Heaven--for we could not bear it," and receive few arguments from his readers. It was an era in which the word irony described a passing attitude, not a cultural imperative, and celebrity was something pleasant that happened to deserving strivers, not the glue that held everything together, everyone in its thrall...
...walls are covered with Winnie the Pooh stick-ups, which are a really nice way of brightening up all the white space. I guess I'll just list everything else I have: Pooh desk lamp, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore pencil, pen, crayon, and marker holders, Pooh eraser, Pooh glue stick, Pooh mousepad, 2 Hanging Pooh head pillows, Hanging Tigger head pillow, Pooh trash can, Pooh tissue box, 4 Pooh clocks, Pooh hamper, 5 Pooh picture frames, 2 Pooh Piggy Banks, A Few Pooh Magnets, Figures of all the Pooh characters, Tons of dolls of all the Pooh characters...
Donahue recalled one tobacco-related issue that was slightly more controversial. One shareholder proposal asked the company H.B. Fuller, which makes glue, to stop selling its product to cigarette companies...