Word: smarting
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...make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq...
After reading the excerpt from Barack Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, I've reconsidered my concern about his lack of experience [Oct. 23]. I'm inclined to vote for a smart, effective communicator and consensus builder who may have little experience but is pragmatic and inclusionary like him rather than someone who has experience but is absolutist and exclusionary. Our current President derived seemingly little benefit from his years as Governor of Texas. The Founding Fathers and another gentleman from Illinois in 1860 had no such qualifications, but they didn't do so badly...
...Americans are enthusiastic about the Senator because he allows them to forget about "racial guilt." As an Asian American who strongly supports Obama, where do I fall? Once again, a conversation on race has been reduced to white and black. I am energized by the Senator because he is smart, thoughtful and pragmatic. He represents me, a Democrat with strong Christian values. He knows the struggle of trying to attain the American Dream and the difficulties of being an ethnic minority in America. It's as simple as that...
...feel that David Kuo, the former second-in-command in the President's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, is a smart man, but I am shocked that he bought into the promises of the current Administration lock, stock and barrel. This country is too religiously diverse for one religion to have an office in the White House. I am sorry for Kuo's feeling of personal betrayal, but what happened to the Evangelicals was just politics as usual...
...think we're both pains in the neck. That's probably why we get on. Really, what it is is Russell is very smart and therefore asks all sorts of assertive and intelligent questions, so if you're not ready you're going to get caught in the cross fire. So you'd better be ready. I'm used to him now. He's fundamentally a bit of a puppy...