Word: patriotism
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...different issue\very day for a month. Kennedy School student Maura C. Sullivan said she was happy to have Edwards visiting the school. “Elizabeth Edwards is an inspiring figure in American politics,” said Sullivan. “She impressed me as a true patriot who is concerned about the future of her country.” During the question and answer session that followed Edwards’s speech, Kennedy School student Morra A. Aarons asked Edwards her view on the increasingly long presidential campaign season. Edwards said she thought longer campaigns...
...tenure, federal spending has risen at an average rate unmatched by any president since Lyndon B. Johnson—those ‘small government principles’ were unceremoniously trashed. And in the name of the War on Terror, the Republicans have become the party of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, which effectively put paid to habeas corpus and a slew of other civil liberties...
...Americans had attacked him and his loyalists, even while allowing the militias of his Shi'ite rivals to prosper - as well as the U.S.-paid Sunni militias that are now being integrated into the Iraqi police and army. He can reasonably argue that he is the one true Iraqi patriot, the Iraqi leader the Americans fear most. How else to explain the attack on his Mahdi Army while he was observing a unilateral cease-fire? Furthermore, like Hizballah in Lebanon after the Israeli invasion in 2006, the Mahdi Army can claim a victory by simply surviving an assault...
...mirror Paul held up to the modern Republican Party. When his fellow candidates denounced big government, Paul was there to remind them that President Bush and the G.O.P. Congress had shattered spending records and exploded the deficit. When they hailed freedom, Paul asked why they all supported the Patriot Act and other expansions of executive power. And when they called themselves conservatives, Paul asked what was so conservative about sending thousands of young Americans to try to transform the Middle East...
Feingold was the only Senator to vote against The Patriot Act in October 2001, and was one of 23 Senators to vote against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he has visited Iraq and Afghanistan twice, once with fellow Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Feingold advocates immediate withdrawal of the troops...