Word: moralisms
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...greatest gift Hu Jintao could give to Bush would be political reform in China. That would enable America's leader to embrace Hu as a moral equal and prevent human-rights abuses in China from roiling the relationship. A bit of political goodwill would also work wonders during the rough spots that inevitably crop up between the U.S. and China?such as America's bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the deadly collision of American and Chinese military airplanes in 2001. But such reforms seem unlikely, at least in the short term. Hu has shown...
...short, Bush and his cronies all too ably grasped one element of the storied Massachusetts tradition that we’ve since parted with: Puritanical zealotry. For many a follower of Bush, the only values are “moral values,” a.k.a. religious values, a.k.a. conservative Christian religious values. These voters are likely to side with such newly minted senators as Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who believes that “abortionists” should be punished with the death penalty, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who insists that single mothers should not be permitted...
...difference between victory and defeat in Tuesday’s election wasn’t just a few million votes. According to an Institue of Politics (IOP) panel last night, the key disparity in the election was the way Democrats and Republicans employed moral values in their campaigns...
...bulk of America is very concerned about moral issues which made them vote for the president,” said Stephen Goldsmith, professor of government at the KSG and special adviser to President Bush on faith-based and not-for-profit initiatives...
Alex S. Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press and Public Policy, said that the lack of other major issues—domestic or foreign—besides the war, is what caused moral issues to emerge in this election cycle...