Word: kooks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sabotage a compromise in order to provide a campaign issue and portray the opposition as intransigent, as they did to great effect with homeland security in 2002. A Democratic Senate aide said that Democrats on Capitol Hill "are concerned that this will stir up the right-wing opponents and kook fringe while accomplishing very little," creating "a side issue" that distracts from the goal of getting a good bill...
...Environmentalists see less complement than insult?and some fear that this rival plan may deliver a fatal blow to the Kyoto Protocol. "The new pact will attempt to lure in other nations from the Asia-Pacific region and expand its influence," says Choi Seung Kook, deputy chief of the Green Korea environmental group, "until it is big enough to ignore the Kyoto treaty." Environmentalists point out that the agreement announced in Vientiane spells out no concrete goals to reduce global warming, sets no emissions targets for countries, and can't even be called a pact?the six countries merely endorsed...
...country, you need to raise money, seek endorsements from semifictional groups like the Civil Liberty Union and the Gun Owner's Association and take positions on real issues, from Social Security to the war in Iraq. You get help from spin doctors, war heroes and a video-camera-wielding "kook" who looks suspiciously like Michael Moore. You have to manage the media too--by answering softball questions on Barry King Live or risking a roasting on The O'Malley Scenario. There's enough here to keep political junkies happy until the real game wraps up in November...
...He’s a really annoying person...he’s somebody I would never know except as a writer,” she said. “He’s a good guy, not a bad guy. He’s a complete kook...
...miscalculations continued right up until last week: Roh could have defused the impeachment threat by apologizing for the election-law violation, which he refused to do in a press conference a day before the vote. Instead, he excoriated former Daewoo Construction chief Nam Sang Kook, who was under investigation for allegedly offering $25,000 in bribes to Roh's elder brother. Nam killed himself an hour later by jumping off a bridge into the Han River. The suicide gave the Grand National Party's (GNP) Old Guard the high moral ground in its push for impeachment, persuading some wavering younger...