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...pessimism??“that our politics are too broken and our people too unwilling to make hard choices,” Obama said—would be far more detrimental to the nation’s progress in using clean energy...
...despair: if the national divorce rate is pushing 50 percent, what are the chances a young couple could actually make marriage last in a society that entertains itself by watching “Desperate Housewives” and the Home Shopping Network. Don’t mind my pessimism??it merely serves to explain away my own status as a bachelorette. But honestly, a young bride seems so “Little House on the Prarie,” so “Spears and Federline,” certainly not the stuff of which successful relationships...
...could almost imagine Democratic campaign aides high-fiving each other as news of another insurgent attack hit the wires. Understandably, hoping that Iraq would fail gave many Americans the impression that Democrats…hope that Iraq would fail. Finally, Bush’s “pessimism?? charge started to stick...
...opposed his DNC candidacy for very similar reasons...But I’ve begun—in the face of the inevitable and despite my ingrained electoral pessimism??to reconsider...
...book, Louie also suggests that the perception of racial discrimination—the source of what she calls “immigrant pessimism??—looms large...
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