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...context was hardly an auspicious beginning for the phrase in the presidency, and it didn't immediately catch on. Gerald Ford eschewed it, as did Jimmy Carter. But not Ronald Reagan. Reagan made "God bless America" the omnipresent political slogan that it is today. He used the phrase to conclude his dramatic nomination acceptance address at the Republican Party convention in July 1980, and once in office, made it his standard sign-off. Presidents since Reagan have followed suit, and the shift in presidential rhetoric could hardly be more striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy 35th, 'God Bless America' | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Wright became head of Trinity, a church on a hardscrabble strip of Chicago's South Side with barely 90 members. The church adopted the slogan "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian." A light-brown-skinned man with an Afro, Wright regularly wore dashikis, and laced his Sunday sermons with a level of political rhetoric that over the years has often proved too political for some African Americans. Nevertheless, Trinity's congregation grew to some 8,000 (Oprah Winfrey and the rapper Common have attended services there). Wright's prominence in Chicago soon gained him national attention and won him entry into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jeremiah Wright Found Religion | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...these days trying to raise money at hotel ballroom fund raisers, understands the concerns and plight of all Americans. "As President of the United States, I am not going to leave anybody behind," he said Thursday at a town hall in New Orleans, echoing the "No Child Left Behind" slogan of President Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Sells the Caring Conservative | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

With the excuse of fighting infectious diseases, the regime launched Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, clearing slums across the nation under the slogan of “driving out the rubbish.” In effect, it was mainly targeted against the support base of the Movement for Democratic Change, a party that eventually challenged Mugabe in the March 29 elections...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Colonialism Redux | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...have a national slogan: Build the Socialist Countryside!" explained Sun Hai Yan, a member of the local government in Huaxi. "Others build socialism on the ground. We go one step further and build a new socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Richest Reds in China | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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