Word: pledgees
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The political discourse has been empty, but not for a lack of "issues." There are always issues and we had them, ephemeral and inflated though they might have been. Lest we forget, we had the "Pledge issue," the "National Guard issue," a national debate over who was worse, Willie Horton...
In June, while the Bush forces were fine-tuning their fall strategy and testing attack lines, the Dukakis camp, nomination assured, worried about Jesse Jackson's reaction and the Veep selection. Distracted by these pressing events, campaign manager Susan Estrich, an intense Harvard law professor, failed to concoct a coordinated...
When Bush finally started firing away on Horton and on Dukakis' veto of a 1977 bill requiring teachers to lead the Pledge of Allegiance each day, Dukakis' "strategy of shrugging off attacks suddenly stopped looking presidential and started looking weak," says a top aide. Estrich dismissed the potency of patriotism...
The meanness of George Bush's attacks coupled with the ineptitude of Michael Dukakis' campaign tends to obscure an important truth for the Democrats: the party is still doing penance for the 1960s. The code words like Willie Horton, the Pledge of Allegiance and the A.C.L.U., which the Republicans used...
Bhutto mixes appeals to virtually every segment of Pakistani society with sharp attacks on the Muslim League for collaborating in Zia's authoritarian rule. Rejecting the socialist policies associated with her father, Bhutto proposes to end poverty through economic growth rather than by taxing the rich. At the same time...