Word: puppeteered
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...inexperienced freedom fighters of 1948 are today waging a campaign fought for the same ideals of liberty, yet on a completely new set of tactical terms. The Israel of today is the only democracy of the Middle East (not to be confused with Lebanon's Syrian-controlled puppet government). For this reason, along with its renowned military capabilities, which have been tested to the utmost degree in the wars over the past years, Israel is the United States's foremost ally in a turbulent area of our globe...
Most of the time, contributions don't go directly to a candidate--that would be bribery--but to a candidate's many puppet organizations. Thus Archer Daniels Midland, one of Dole's largest lifetime donors, gave $900,000 to the Republican National Committee between 1991 and 1994, plus $200,000 to Dole's PAC, Campaign America, and his think tank, the Better America Foundation...
Europeans have a name for the state of economic-political affairs into which we have fallen, where all national decisions are dictated by private corporate monopolists to whom servile puppet government is beholden: the Europeans call it fascism. --Steven Wohl
...them should even try. At this late date it would be hard to raise the millions of dollars necessary for a credible race. Ross Perot's nascent party would seem a convenient vehicle for an independent candidacy, but none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. Still, the Lamm group would like to run its own candidate and, failing that, nudge those in the race toward their positions. "There is the danger of creating a spoiler and ending up with a worse result,'' frets Tsongas. The remarkable thing, perhaps, is that such a group of professional...
Birnbaum notes that Ross Perot's nascent party might be a possible vehicle for the group, but he adds that none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. There are also some ideological disagreements: "The seven in this group are all free traders, something that Perot is opposed...