Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a symbiotic effect because most people have a strong moral sense and wish to feel that they're doing what is right," Kagan says...
...best-seller lists, someone else is, and he's not exactly a moral paragon. In the current best seller Absolute Power, the Leader of the Free World, the heir of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, almost kills a paramour during rough sex and then aids in the cover-up. In the summer's hot title Exclusive, the President of the United States murders the baby his girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play...
...primary cause of the public's distrust of government. Last week, in the wake of Dole's final debate with Clinton and with less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Dole made the centerpiece of his campaign not his 15% tax cut but Clinton's moral fitness. "We're just starting to get tough," he told an audience in Riverside, California, noting that for the next 19 days he would highlight what he called "the sleaze factor" in the White House. "Never has America seen a politician," Dole said, "who brags so freely about promises he never kept...
Several years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested that Americans were "defining deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds...
...character is still important in deciding who should be President; a campaign shouldn't be turned into a Sunday school picnic where money, religion and politics are off limits. But neither the candidates, who have similarly flawed histories, nor the press, which reduces moral subjects to cartoon dimensions, is well positioned to weigh one man's soul against another's. Dole has had a free ride for several weeks. But beware. There's time for several more news cycles and rules changes without notice. Clinton could decide to defend himself so that any victory he has contains an element...