Word: sloganeer
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...real sin in Beijing's eyes may have been to give the lie to the common assertion of Asia's authoritarian regimes that East Asian cultures and de-mocracy do not mix. The element of Lee's platform that most disturbed the mainland was the powerful campaign slogan telling voters, "You're the boss." Says an Asian diplomat in Beijing: "Mainlanders are bound to ask, 'If the Taiwanese could directly elect their leaders, why can't we?'" This fear of democratic contagion comes at a difficult time for the Chinese leadership. While the Taiwanese people elected their President directly, China...
...history, a Senate majority leader and a President, opposing candidates in a general election, who must work out some modus operandi while trying to knife each other in the back. (The only sitting Republican Senator--not even a majority leader--elected President in this century was Warren Harding. His slogan: "Return to Normalcy.") For the next few months, voters will be able to observe a complex, multilevel game in which Dole and Clinton will be constantly analyzing who is hurt or helped by different legislative strategies. At this point, neither knows what the other is going...
...change his mind on the Senate bill S. 1394 restricting legal immigration. Odds are that other speakers may have been scared away. For Simpson had received the honorarium of a combative battery of questions following his speech in addition to the jeers of 150 bullhorn-touting, slogan-shouting, rabble-rousing students...
Despite these evasions, Alexander's "less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
What in the world is he thinking? What do people do in Boston if they don't jaywalk, as free as the proverbial birds? It could be a slogan for a clever opponent of Menino's in the next election who seizes upon his weakness: "Menino doesn't know Boston. I know Boston, and Boston jaywalks. Vote for Trillertrot." You can hear the wild cheering...