Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Watergate and beyond working together. He is one of the people who, when people say your books are this way or that, he reads them and realizes that they are not political but factual, though he would personally take more of a stand on things. I am a non-partisan, ink-stained, 63-year-old reporter…if you can get ink on you from a computer. I do, from my laser jet printer. Sometimes, it sprays...
...speechwriter and top adviser who left the White House mid-June—is at Harvard this week as a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government. He now serves as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan Washington think tank. In an interview with The Crimson on Monday, Gerson said a speechwriter often cannot predict which points the public and the news media will view as salient in any given speech. One such case was President Bush’s famed branding of North Korea, Iraq...
...toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome - others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends...
...While some have reduced a critical and complex foreign policy issue to a debating point in partisan politics, it is important to sort out the facts of what has happened in the past decade or so if we want to chart a more effective course for policy...
...federal budget. Eventually, he realizes he has been filibustering and apologizes to the crowd for "making a speech." No one seems to care, since Obama is doing something pretty rare in latter-day American politics: he is respecting their intelligence. He's a liberal, but not a screechy partisan. Indeed, he seems obsessively eager to find common ground with conservatives. "It's such a relief after all the screaming you see on TV," says Chuck Sweeny, political editor of the Rockford Register Star. "Obama is reaching out. He's saying the other side isn't evil. You can't imagine...