Word: portrayal
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...Independent supporters say the CCA will use the Walsh scandal as an excuse to purge City Hall of Independent sympathizers. They allege that CCA councillors are likely to portray the Connarton dismissal as part of a move to clean up City Hall...
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...
...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...