Word: opportunisme
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By what overall logic or principles, Kerry's opponents ask, can he explain a 1991 vote against the first Gulf War, a 2002 vote for the second and a 2003 vote against the money to pay for it? Only the logic of political opportunism, they answer. A certain amount of...
DO YOU SEE ANYTHING TO ADMIRE IN KERRY? What's negative--opportunism, undiscriminating ambition, extreme sectarianism--overwhelms the positive, which is the lean New England determination, which I find attractive.
How all this happened--and the bitter battle to rationalize the system--shows how far America has yet to go in establishing something called homeland security. With no clear direction from the feds, state officials have been engaged in a perverse competition for antiterrorism dollars. The Bush Administration recently proposed...
While that is a valid point, certain kinds of attacks would kill far fewer people in Casper than they would in Boston, owing to population density. And as it stands, the funding system is vulnerable to opportunism. While money for homeland security has grown, regular state and federal funding for...
Those remarks raised the hackles of Clark's rivals for the party's nomination, veteran Democrats who questioned whether Clark-who says he voted for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan-is a closet Republican who changed political stripes out of opportunism. Clark says at the time of that speech he...