Word: statesman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...develop this real impression of an apolitical guy," said Bush biographer Bill Minutaglio in an interview with the Austin American Statesman...
...Then we met Gore's lawyers, led by the imperturbably brilliant David Boies, who was heroic for a lawyer but made lousy company for a would-be statesman. And Gore, his cause completely wrapped up in theirs, made few successful attempts to distinguish himself from his legal lieutenants and their try-anything battle plan, which even a non-president must sometimes do for appearances' sake...
...temporarily holds a Senate majority between Jan. 3, when the new congress takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship in the general interest." Could there possibly be any better to term to describe how the two presidential aspirants have not acted...
...early to predict, but right now his chances of being reelected are very dim. He succeeded in uniting the politicians, but the man in the street dislikes him and disagrees with him. He wasn't born to be a statesman; he was born to be a soldier...
Gore's stand-in is Warren Christopher, the man who put the elder in statesman. He's so dull, he ordered Irish coffee during a layover at Shannon Airport with the instruction, "Hold the whiskey, and make it decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino...