Word: smokescreening
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...doubt some of the President-elect's differences with Bush have to be discounted as inflated campaign rhetoric. Israeli political scientist Yosef Goell, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, regards the Democrat's promised tilt back to Israel as "total nonsense" and "all a smokescreen" designed to woo America's Jewish vote. On the whole, in fact, both major-party nominees saw eye to eye on the country's global role. Says Robert Hunter of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "One good thing about this election is that the two candidates are internationalist. The isolationists were defeated...
...issue of family values is the last refuge of a scoundrel -- or of a threatened Republican incumbent. The issue is almost by definition a smokescreen, and a manipulation of voters' closeted fears and prejudices. The Republicans are wary about emphasizing race this year. They are sensitive about criticism of the way they used Willie Horton in 1988. And they have been making progress in attracting black middle-class supporters. So they have switched their emphasis to family values with a sexual subtext -- Murphy Brown, out-of-the-closet gay militance, condom distribution in the schools, sexual flamboyance in publicly funded...
...more Quayle is derided for trying to address that need, however imperfectly, the less future politicians will try. Already H. Ross Perot thinks the word "principles" is nothing but a smokescreen to conceal one's values and positions...
...bisexual people and persons with physical disabilities is small and that this has impeded the school's efforts to integrate its faculty. And somehow Stanford Law School has managed to hire a faculty of which 29 percent are women and minorities. The "pool" argument is really a smokescreen for attitudes which reflect the old boy network of legal academia...
...Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give...