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...reason it is so easy for the U.S. to declare wars ... is because so few Americans feel the actual pain of those wars. We've been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than we fought in World Wars I and II combined. If voters had to choose right now between instituting a draft or exiting Afghanistan and Iraq, the troops would be out of those two countries in a heartbeat." --12/8/09...
...language and methods of governing by actually conceiving and shaping a new face and vision of France," Muzet says. "In many ways, Sarkozy reflects the contradictions of the French themselves: demanding both free markets and social job protection, wanting modernity and tradition, and wanting fast results with no pain. But those are the very hypocrisies voters elected Sarkozy to combat with his own viable vision for France - not take on for use as his own, inconsistent governing style...
...Great Depression," would race into the protective arms of Washington. After all, the Federal Government had given us the New Deal in the worst of times and a patchwork of economic safety nets since. The idea is that we instinctively turn to its beneficent hand to ease the pain of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes--and recessions...
...hearing talk from Democrats in Congress about the need for another new jobs program to ease our pain. With unemployment standing at an agonizing 10.2%, there is palpable fear among Democrats that they have little to show for nearly a year in office. But as the 2010 election season opens, they--and the President--would do well to entertain a different fear: looking as if they're doing too much...
Jenny followed up the AP interview with a profile in Vogue and a televised interview with Barbara Walters, showing enough pain to be sympathetic yet enough grit to avoid seeming pathetic. "Certainly his actions hurt me and they caused consequences for me, but they don't in any way take away my own self-esteem," she told Walters. "They reflect poorly on him." Perhaps the poorest reflection was when the governor, whose interviews seemed to be ever more cringe-inducing, said the other woman was his "soul mate" but that he was "trying to fall back in love" with...