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Amidst all the hype over his meteoric rise to the top rungs of the Democratic Presidential field, Barack Obama has been especially criticized for running a campaign that is long on high-flown rhetoric and short on policy specifics. On Tuesday, in Iowa, he tried to address that potential weakness in a dramatic way. Taking on one of the nation's most urgent and politically fraught domestic challenges, Obama unveiled a detailed health care proposal that he claims would come close to providing health coverage for the 45 million Americans who now lack it, while reducing health care costs...
...Petersen-Sundquist campaign faced budget-hampering penalties yesterday after committing campaign infractions involving postering, e-mailing, and financial reporting.But all of this seemed commonplace compared to accusations leveled against the rival Hadfield-Goldenberg campaign earlier this week for a showier, more high-flown gaffe—baton twirling.“Somebody complained that a campaign was using a baton–a twirler’s baton–in front of the Science Center, and they were not reporting the baton as a campaign expense,” said Joshua G. Allen ’09, who chairs...
Whether overt or not, however, these lies are often more believable if stated with high-flown rhetoric. And you must be aware that relative literary excellence in a greeting card often goes hand in hand with a particularly sordid family dynamic. Every so often some of you will come across a card written entirely in rhymed couplets, or structured around an elaborate acrostic phrase like "SEASONS GREETINGS." If you see an acrostic like this, know that it likely should have been something closer to "WE’VE FILED FOR DIVORCE...
...could be the limit—although Ogunwole’s goals aren’t as high-flown...
...live in California is to go about your business knowing the earth could move under your feet at any moment. That's pretty much the tectonic nature of California politics too, with voters regularly floating recall petitions to throw out their elected officials and pushing referendums on high-flown social questions like whether a police officer should be allowed to carry a ventriloquist's dummy. So over the past few months, while Governor Gray Davis has battled with the legislature over the state's deepening fiscal crisis, he has paid little heed to the underground rumble of a loosely organized...