Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope Clinton hears this advertisement, and I hope it shocks him into feeling a long-overdue sense of shame for disgracing himself and the country he swore to protect. When the president's actions, regardless of whether they were illegal, have reduced him and one of the nation's anthems of dignity to hawking for bars of doubtful repute overseas, it is time for the American people to send him packing without so much as a good...
...know this? It's in the scornful looks I received on the street when people recognized my American accent--looks I don't usually get. It's in the shame British newspaper columnists evoke when they write of Britain teaming up with the United States to bomb Iraq. Most poignantly and most painfully, it's in Prime Minister Tony Blair's hint of reticence where there was none before when he speaks to his people about joining the United States in bombing Iraq, as if he cannot be as certain of his ally in world affairs as he once...
Although I've lived in Europe for a long time, I've always been proud to be an American. But this vacation, for the first time, I found myself trying to hide the accent. I began to feel shame. Shame for our president. Shame for how he has weakened our country among nations. And shame because I felt ashamed. America is too great a nation for its citizens to live in shame...
...where everything is personal, no one trusts anybody, the lines are down and the friendships and history have been replaced by bad blood and grudges. And so by the time he had finished his four minutes in the Rose Garden that afternoon, talking about his wrongdoing and his shame and Ben Franklin and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the whole blue book of his family's pain and his God-given abilities, the power brokers in the Capitol who had been desperate for some help were slamming down their phones. "What was he thinking?" asked one. "He'd have...
...There needs to be a greater understanding that discussion is not the same as advocacy. Talking about the indiscretions of the President in government class does not mean that the school supports or endorses "inappropriate" behavior. It is high time to move beyond outdated sensibilities that cloak sexuality in shame and secrecy...