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...shot of passage in the next few months. Standing in their way are President Bush and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, both of whom consider the measure to be unconstitutional. The President's aides have advised him to veto the bill. McConnell said, in a March speech, "In order to get a congressman, you have to be a state ... This is not murky. It is abundantly clear...
...from Iraq. But George W. Bush has demonstrated only an intermittent relationship with reality about Iraq. He has trotted out the same old ironclad abstractions--"Our enemies will stop at nothing ..." and "Freedom is God's gift to man"--for four years. Recently, in his desperation, starting with his speech at the Naval War College on June 28, he has been telling an outright lie, and he repeated it now, awkwardly, in Cleveland: "The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is the crowd that is now bombing people, killing innocent men, women and children, many of whom...
...Czechs and their 48-star flags have become Clinton staples. She trotted them out in a speech about government reform in New Hampshire on April 13 (albeit with a different "down ramp": not about restoring America's role in the world, but about not "giv[ing] up on America's ideals") and has mentioned them at least five times since then. The anecdote also made a brief appearance in Clinton's autobiography, Living History...
...either by coincidence or convergence, Senator Clinton's story bears a remarkable similarity to one frequently told by Al Gore. In Gore's tale - the version below is from a September 8, 1999 address to the American Legion (full disclosure: neither of us remembers working on the speech, but we remember the story] - there was no triumphant Albright returning to her homeland, just a man from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, visiting his Senator...
When Kissinger dropped the line in his speech about his fifty-plus visits to China, the crowd issued a murmur of awe, as if to say, "what commitment to our country!" And yet, as the audience should have known, most of these visits were just business; Kissinger Associates, the firm he founded after leaving office, has helped a long list of multinationals enter China. Anthony J. F. O'Reilly, the ex-head of Heinz, a top baby food seller here, explained how Kissinger is especially valued in countries "where the principal players and the dynamics among the principal players...