Word: ironization
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Open Hand or Iron Fist...
...meantime, Bush worked like a dog, putting on a tableau of transition. He may not be President, but he played one on TV, using the Governor's mansion in Austin like the set of The West Wing, ushering his make-believe Cabinet through iron gates into meetings. He gave up his usual afternoon video games and naps for lunches with his maybe Vice President on a table set with linens and silver, evoking those famous weekly Clinton-Gore meals adjacent to the Oval Office. He jauntily shooed away photographers, claiming that his soup was getting cold, which wasn't much...
...social security a federal program? Does the current President know that social security is a federal program? Would the President know that social security is a federal program if his advisors hadn't told him so? Have you ever seen a lock box? Have you ever seen an iron-clad lock box? If you had an iron-clad lock box in your garage would you loan it to the president contingent upon him knowing that social security is a federal program...
Upon completing these questions place the survey and your answers in an iron-clad lock box where they will be safe until November 2004. At that time, answer the survey questions again and compare your 2000 and 2004 responses. Will you be better off? Possibly. Will this improvement be the direct result of the next president? In all likelihood, no. But as a civic-minded Harvard graduate, won't you be glad that you have a way to outsmart the candidates, see through their rhetoric and make a judgment for yourself...
...election-cast is threatening to become like some journalistic Hands on a Hardbody contest, as the entire iron-calved Alphabet news crew is going for their third hour standing up. (Except for George Stephanopoulous, but maybe they just didn't want to subject the poor guy to the embarrassment of being dwarfed by the statuesque Jennings.) Further accentuating the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" parallel, Jennings throws out a question to the audience - Do you think Hillary will run for president now? - to vote on at the ABC web site. Thanks, Pete, but I think tangling with the absentminded...