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...another terrorist attack, a domestic event that becomes a mega-story. What they prepare for are known unknowns. And the biggest one for Bush is the economy. Republican pollsters are telling the White House that job security tops Americans' list of economic concerns. As a result, the White House mantra is "jobs." Bush used the word 33 times in a speech last week in Canton, Ohio...
...ironic that a school training its students to be public leaders does not trust its own students to have input on their commencement speaker. It is more ironic when the invitee is someone whose mantra has been “ask not what I can do for my country, ask what I can do for me.” John Kennedy would be ashamed...
...tolerance” is a dicey word. It gets repeated like a mantra in these parts. Its syllables merge into the murky, hypnotic murmur of PC-speak that might be called the soundtrack to Harvard life. Tolerance is a generous word, not particularly demanding on those who use it, because it leaves lots of room for uninterrogated prejudice under a brittle veneer of civility. Tolerance accommodates statements like, “I have no problem with gay people, I just don’t see why they have to be so in-your-face about...
...quite "Who lost China?" - the mantra of Joe McCarthy's witch-hunt that began a purge of the State Department - but Newt Gingrich's attack on Foggy Bottom certainly matches McCarthy for hysteria. Indeed, if the (dare we say "disgraced"?) former Speaker of the House is to be believed, President Bush's foreign policy is being systematically sabotaged by a determined group of fanatics in the very department charged with carrying it out. The evidence? Quite simply that most of the world opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq; that no UN Security Council resolution could be garnered to authorize...
...even new members pick up this mantra quickly...