Word: spinnings
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Marvelous stuff, by a guy who proves you don't have to be Ross Perot to be funny. Keillor for Secretary of Spin...
...mostly past, however. The loyalist majority now boasts 50 state chapters, each firmly under the stewardship of a paid director chosen at Dallas headquarters. "It was difficult to communicate when we had a growing membership without an official organization structure," says Georgia state director Richard Taylor, applying the official spin. "We are changing that...
Reality hit within hours. The race that would make the case for activist government was lost. Carville and Begala were almost too depressed to put their spin on things. "I couldn't look Florio in the eye last night," Carville began. "But," he added, pitching forward cheerfully, "today's the first time in a while that I read the business section before the front page." Sure enough, the "real stuff," as Carville called it, was encouraging: housing starts, manufacturing, productivity and construction spending were all up. Perhaps the man who had won the White House by promising to focus...
Clinton knows the general mood of the country is anti-NAFTA. He knows this well; his whole campaign was based on exploiting fears of economic decline. Indeed, Clinton has tried to spin his support for NAFTA as a protectionist counter to the Japanese menace...
...televised war of sound-bites and spin, Perot has more than enough ammo to take on the whole administration single-handedly. Clinton's "NAFTA we HAFTA" baseball cap just can't compete with Perot's ten-gallon polemics...