Word: mantras
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thus even before Barack Obama racked up his first win in Georgia, the Clinton campaign held a conference call with reporters and repeated four times its mantra that "the results tonight will be inconclusive." As exit polls pointed to strong Obama showings in what were once solid Clinton states, the Clinton campaign tried to raise the bar for Obama, suggesting that a failure to win California would be a setback after that Oprahpalooza over the weekend. Clinton's projected win in the Golden State was surely her biggest prize of the night, while victories in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas helped...
...Republicans, of course, have no monopoly on bad feelings between candidates. In recent weeks, the bitter feuding between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has made many voters wary and disappointed. Yet in recent years, Republicans have made a mantra out of Reagan's "11th Commandment": "Thou shall not criticize other Republicans." Unaligned pollster Whit Ayers notes, however, that the Clinton-Obama clashes have "tapped into racial fault lines," something missing from the anti-Mitt sentiment. "It doesn't tap into anything larger," says Ayers. "It's just personal...
...periods well for the first time in a while.” “[This was] one of the only games all year we played a full 60-minute game,” Taylor’s co-captain, Dave MacDonald, said in agreement. As the 60-minutes mantra necessitates, Harvard came out swinging from the very beginning against the Big Green. As the defense killed a couple of penalties early, the offense was able to put together a series of quality scoring chances. And while Dartmouth goaltender Mike Devine was able to keep the game scoreless until well...
...minutes mantra necessitates, Harvard came out swinging from the very beginning against the Big Green. As the defense killed a couple of penalties early, the offense was able to put together a series of quality scoring chances. And while Dartmouth goaltender Mike Devine was able to keep the game scoreless until well into the second period, the Crimson never lost its intensity, even when its early efforts were denied...
Bush's latest strategy involves trying to contain Iran by arming Sunni counterweights in the region, like Saudi Arabia and other gulf states. Such a strategy is rooted in the cold war mantra that even if a regime was a "son of a bitch," it should be supported as long as it was "our son of a bitch." It doesn't work. Washington supported both Osama bin Laden and Saddam in the 1980s on precisely this logic, but after 9/11, Bush himself acknowledged that coddling the enemies of our enemies had not made them friends; instead it had helped...