Word: jabbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talk-show circuit is fine, but the town meetings show you're willing to listen to people and take their questions.' MITT ROMNEY, Republican presidential hopeful, making an early jab at opponent Fred Thompson, who is expected to announce his candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Sept...
...This jab was in keeping with the particularly feisty attitude that the McCain campaign has shown lately. He recently criticized fellow G.O.P. candidate Mitt Romney for his wavering views on immigration, mocking the former governor's spotty gun rights record as well as accusations that he's employed illegal immigrants: "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard," McCain said. More recently, an anonymous McCain staffer concluded a dueling series of press releases about the Iraq spending bill by taking a swipe at Democratic candidate Barack Obama's inexperience: "Obama wouldn...
...wanted to tell someone: In middle school, I went through a “gargoyles” phase during which I amassed a large collection of books, posters, and over 30 gargoyles of various sizes. Favorite childhood toy: My “Street Sharks” action figures, featuring Jab, Streex, Slammu, Ripster, and Dr. Piranoid. Sexiest physical trait: Child-bearing hips and two extended collarbone “nubbins” that I hope to hyper-evolve into wings. Favorite part about Harvard: The people! Describe yourself in three words: Heart and Lungs In 15 minutes you are: Doing...
...more viable candidates had plenty of criticism to hurl, but almost all of it was directed at George Bush. Amongst themselves, there was only the occasional, indirect jab. Everyone knew that former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was referring to Illinois Senator Barack Obama when he said that on health care: "Rhetoric's not enough. High-falutin' language is not enough." Edwards is the only candidate in the race to have put forward a detailed health care plan; Obama has talked about the issue as a moral imperative demanding bold action, but hasn't offered any. Asked whether Senator Hillary...
...damned to behave criminally? Was Saddam damned to be Saddam? Are we damned to be in Iraq? It is not even necessary to look this far outside the book; the moral shortcomings of shifting the blame to demonic forces are readily apparent within it. Perhaps attempting to take a jab at President Bush’s policy on homosexuality, Mailer’s narrator reveals that he “took a hand in the jury’s deliberations” at the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde. But rather than condemning Wilde’s unjust imprisonment...