Word: pander
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...sense, the trend provides an interesting riff on a chord that theorists of democracy have long been playing, one that dates back to none other than Socrates. In the Republic, Socrates describes for his companions what he terms the Democratic Man, a figure who panders shamelessly to public whim and so wins its approval. To my mind, what is distinct about our American democracy is not that we have these Democratic Men--for we have legions of them--rather it is that thing to which our Democratic Men (and Women) so often pander, namely, our hunger for a great leader...
...question is not whether the oil release is a pander but whether the pander is a good one or bad one--an effective policy that also wins votes or just a hollow gesture. The answer depends on whether this is a true oil emergency--and whether 30 million bbl. will help solve...
...this winter seems optimistic. Since it will take 40 days or more for the oil to work its way from salt cave to refinery to peoples' homes, no one will know how effective the release was until after the election. In that sense, at least, it's a perfect pander for Gore...
...choice and Eastern Republican. She springs from the same Eastern WASP aristocracy that produced Bush. But those facts do not hurt with independents. The chemistry of the Bush-Whitman ticket could be winning. The choice of Whitman for the Bush ticket would have no taint of the condescending gender-pander; an Al Gore-Diane Feinstein ticket, by contrast, would merely seem the crowning insincerity...
Ethnic parades are disruptive, ruinously expensive, divisive rituals of residual dual citizenships. Politicians pander to them; they will never be abolished...