Word: moralizes
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...There’s an odd sort of integrity, a sui generis moral code in the movie that in no way corresponds with its quality. Most of the dialogue amounts to unimaginative and unnecessary narration delivered by actors who couldn’t convince you to buy toothpaste, let alone their performances. As for production values, half the film takes place in a bathroom. There are no frills, no flourishes, no showy fountains of blood or heart-pounding chase sequences with the camera trained on the victim’s bouncing bosoms...
...belief in Obama as a force for moral reform rests on another shaky pillar--the idea that people should get their values from what they see on television. This goes for entertainers and Presidents. Obama can't do the work of the family. It's not his job to buy your kid a belt or teach him to box. His job is to monitor this nation's nuclear arsenal, not your daughter's iPod...
...truth is that the people create the conditions for the leader, not the other way around. Obama isn't bringing moral values to the black community; he's responding to the community's own innate, quasi-conservative embrace of those values. Thus the question of what Obama has to teach black people is exactly backward. The real question is what black people, through Barack Obama, have to show America and the world...
...spotlight to the personal ones. From the start, Mackey rationalized his thieving in the name of his kids. The idea--the same big lie that justifies a million little compromises in ordinary lives--was that he could insulate his kin from the consequences of his actions, taking the moral bullet for them...
...importance as a post-'60s generation grows to adulthood. Foreign policy doesn't divide Democrats as bitterly as it used to either because, in the wake of Iraq, once-hawkish working-class whites have grown more skeptical of military force. In 2004, 22% of voters told exit pollsters that "moral values" were their top priority, and 19% said terrorism. This year terrorism got 9%, and no social issues even made the list...