Word: portrayal
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While the various aspects of the policy mesh, they have created an acute political dilemma; hence the fog of soothing rhetoric, an elaborate damage- control operation designed to portray the President as a compassionate moralist saddened by the regrettable course so many misguided souls choose. Don't be fooled. Through presidential vetoes, ideological appointments, Justice Department actions, executive orders and public advocacy, the Bush Administration has implemented antiabortion policies that are even more restrictive than Ronald Reagan's. Consider the record...
...whole issue comes down to politics and economics. In a quest to woo voters from the rural Northwest, conservative politicians portray the issue as jobs versus the environment, security versus the owl. The move is on to water down the Endangered Species Act in order to allow the timber industry to retain current employment levels and log the spotted owl into extinction...
Despite Bush's adroit acceptance speech, his handlers know that to elevate Bush in the polls, they need to bring down Clinton -- and fast. With James Baker directing the campaign, Bush will now begin trying to flush Clinton out of his comfortable moderate's nest and portray his opponent as just another tax-and-spend liberal Democrat with neither the experience nor the ability to deal with the nation's problems. The Bush team is sure to run a fine-tooth comb over Clinton's 12-year record as what Republicans are calling "the failed Governor of a small Southern...
...distant enemy, Saddam loves Bush. By keeping U.N. inspectors in search of weapons documents out of the Agriculture Ministry for 18 days, then allowing them inside only after insisting that no Americans could be on the team, Saddam was able to portray himself as a leader on the comeback trail, tenacious and triumphant even against a superpower foe. Senior U.S. and British officials believe that one reason Saddam provoked the showdown was to assert his authority after uncovering a coup plot two months ago that resulted in 200 executions. If Saddam can embarrass Bush and contribute to a Republican defeat...
...Clinton camp considers its Campbell rejoinder "simple stuff." True elegance was on display last Wednesday, when Clinton visited New Orleans, the site of Bush's 1988 "Read my lips" pledge. The centerpiece of the G.O.P. strategy is hardly mysterious. Two words, values and trust, symbolize Bush's attempt to portray Clinton as publicly "too slick" and privately "too loose" to be President. Until last week, when Clinton finally found a way to expand the definition of those words to his benefit, his responses had been less than satisfying. On Tuesday the Administration's Budget Director, Richard Darman, told a congressional...