Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...well timed. Last September, while awaiting sentencing on a federal extortion conviction and just days before he was to be indicted on fraud charges, former New Jersey State Senator David Friedland was reported to have drowned in a scuba-diving accident near Grand Bahama Island. Last week the missing politico's attorney received a phone call with a taped message: "I am alive and in fear for my life," it began. Friedland hinted that he had evidence of other possible crimes, implying that he might cut a deal with authorities...
...family ties thicker than political ones? Not in Illinois when a Governor nearing a re-election campaign is pitted against a street-smart ward politico who happens to be his father-in-law. The simmering feud between Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife's father, Chicago alderman Dick Mell, reached a boiling point last week. In a press conference, the Governor lashed out at his in-law amid reports that a grand jury is investigating allegations by Mell that Blagojevich's administration traded jobs for campaign contributions. Blagojevich denied the charges and asserted that the investigation was started only...
...smart politico will tell you: the fundamental reason Democrats lost in 2004 is because the party seemed wobbly on national security issues—particularly Iraq. Rather than choose a) the confident anti-war argument that acting in Iraq would divert resources from America’s real enemies, or b) the confident pro-war argument that acting in Iraq would remove a threat and plant democracy in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood, we liberals appeared to choose c) the squeamish hope that post-Saddam Iraq would collapse, and Bush would get embarrassed...
...terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
...school prayer, gay marriage, stem cell research, and virtually any other moral or social issue worth mentioning. What do these issues have in common? Only that they offer one party a clear electoral advantage. As we should all by now be aware, “wedge” is politico-speak for “an issue which hurts our party and helps the other one.” Crying “wedge” or “division” in politics is analogous to complaining that a debate opponent is being “mean...