Word: patting
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...lack his confidence. I have read Plato and Aristotle (in English and in Greek), and I still need all the help I can get. I hope Choi will forgive me for including the work of women and minorities in my search for viewpoints that will challenge me rather than pat me on the back. Choi has chosen Plato and Aristotle as the end of his liberal education. They are the beginning of mine. --Joel Derfner...
Ross Perot has presented himself as even more of a joke this year than he did four years ago. He couldn't even get an elected official in the whole United States to be his vice-presidential running mate, and instead chose a radical and misguided economist named Pat Choate who trades in tariffs and isolationism. The "American Revolution" that Perot launched at Valley Forge makes a mockery of legitimate attempts to forge a third party and offers us nothing but demagoguery...
...those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P. primary electorate dominates the nominating process. On the other hand, the prospect of two moderates, Kemp and Colin Powell, battling the likes of Pat Buchanan could make the 1960s struggle for the party's soul seem tame by comparison...
...book Agents of Influence by Pat Choate was roundly denounced by reviewers as an overwrought piece of Japan bashing and got him fired by TRW Inc., a high-tech company he had been serving as a kind of one-man think tank. But Ross Perot lauded the book on a Larry King Live TV show that Choate happened to be watching. Phone calls led to meetings that led to a jointly written 1993 Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well...
...PAT ROBERTS Republican--Kansas A self-described "Eisenhower Republican," Roberts continues the string of Kansas G.O.P. Senators dating back to 1939. In a landslide victory, he retained retiring Senator Nancy Kassebaum's seat...