Word: proclaiming
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...common nowadays for a celebrity to come out and proclaim how much of a geek they were in high school. Is it just a trend to soften celebrity, or massive karmic retribution for the popular kids...
...mean it to be a positive commentary on the Republican front-runner, or was it just a coincidence? If it was the latter, let's hope it's the last. Religious imagery and rhetoric in politics are alarming both because of the moral superiority implied by candidates who eagerly proclaim their faith and because of the time devoted to exclusionary religious discussion which should be spent on policy issues that matter to voters regardless of their religion...
George Bush shocked Ronald Reagan with a 2-point win in 1980. That prompted Bush to proclaim he had "the Big Mo," and prompted an NBC analyst to suggest that "Ronald Reagan is politically dead." Eight years later, it was future President Bush's turn to be not just defeated but also crushed with a third-place finish. That was the year Pat Robertson dominated headlines with a second-place finish. It was also the year Dick Gephardt won the Democratic contest, while Michael Dukakis finished third. It's possible, of course, that front runners Bush and Gore could both...