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...other war—the increasingly peripheral conflict in Afghanistan. Johnston’s assessment of the original War on Terror largely echoes Sen. John Kerry’s recent charge that official assertions of stability and freedom in Iraq constitute a “fantasy world of spin...
...calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd. How wonderful it was to be back in "God's own country," he said. The people of the "Coast" lapped it up; this line wasn't crafted by a spin doctor or slipped in by a local party hack. He knew the region, its history and its issues, because his Nanna and Pop retired to the region and he'd spent many school holidays with them. At his first "new politics" outing as leader, he listened with Clintonian empathy...
...another man of conviction, had spent 22 years in Parliament; Paul Keating just as long. But there are gaps between what Latham promises, what experience tells us is possible, and what Latham actually does. Eight months ago, he said people had become cynical about election campaigns with "too much spin-doctoring and stage management." In the middle of his first electoral contest, has he broken the mold? Or is he just a dangerous talker but at heart a safe player...
...hint that there was a question, that would have sent us back," says Howard. The morning the show aired, CBS staff members had shown copies of the memos to Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director. In response, according to a transcript of the interview, Bartlett tried to spin parts of the memos in Bush's favor and attributed the whole debate to partisan sniping. He did not, however, challenge the authenticity of the memos...
...never seen George Bush lose a debate. He is a brilliant minimalist. Kerry by contrast is all oratorical flab--although he did begin to show some signs of life last week in a solid speech to the National Guard convention, in which he blasted Bush's "fantasy of spin" about Iraq. It is a powerful fantasy, though. And it is easy to predict Bush's response to any Kerry criticism about Iraq: "My opponent is too pessimistic," the President will say. "See, what he doesn't understand is that the President of the United States has to stand firm...