Word: swiftly
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...assumed the role of future superpower. Tokyo '64 was like that, heralding the emergence of what was to become the world's second largest economy. The enduring legacy of Beijing 2008 won't be known for some time. For now, all we can do is celebrate the accomplishments of swift Jamaicans and amphibious Americans and, most of all, a battalion of Chinese athletes who resoundingly displaced the U.S. atop the gold-medal count. These really were China's Games...
...Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign ran in 2004 to defeat Kerry. McCain, though, seems determined to deploy the slime. Is America really going to let itself be swift-boated again? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville...
...cancer before he could slice and dice Bill Clinton in 1992, and Bob Dole was too honorable to try in 1996. But the arrival of George W. Bush and Rove - an Atwater protégé - brought August back with a vengeance in 2000 and, spectacularly, with the "independent" Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry...
...prepared to run for President again, McCain made peace with Bush and their party. The iconoclast who attacked Jerry Falwell as an "agent of intolerance" during the 2000 campaign made a pilgrimage to Falwell's university to make amends. The scold who attacked the Swift Boat Veterans campaign as dishonorable in 2004 signed up its funders for his campaign. McCain now wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and he has not only reversed his opposition to offshore drilling but has also made offshore drilling the centerpiece of his economic message. Several veterans of the McCain 2000 campaign told...
...what was to become the world's second-largest economy. Or, maybe, like Berlin '36, the Olympics will shine a light on a repressive, closed political system. The enduring legacy of Beijing 2008 won't be known for some time. For now, we can celebrate the accomplishments of swift Jamaicans and amphibious Americans and, most of all, a battalion of Chinese athletes who resoundingly displaced the U.S. atop the gold-medal count. These really were China's Olympics. With reporting by Alice Park/Beijing