Word: temperance
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...although it was hard to believe that the President had ever read Nietzsche, who coined the phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely ideology and that it was evil. By invoking fascism and totalitarianism (read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said...
...although it was hard to believe that the President had ever read Nietzsche, who coined the phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely ideology and that it was evil. By invoking fascism and totalitarianism (read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said...
...kind of delicate hand holding may be as much as any President can do to alter the course of a sprawling national economy. Having already deployed his most powerful weapon, tax cuts, and shackled himself to a promise not to spend Social Security surplus money, he is left to temper the worry during the wait. But the longer it lasts, the more the downturn is foreshortening Bush's plans and expectations, endangering everything he wants to get done in office. The downturn has taken chunks out of the magical budget surplus, threatening the President's plans to reform education...
...most down-to-earth person. I was just reading these things in the paper, and it's like, I don't understand where these people come up with these things. Like, I heard I was in this hotel in Europe, and I threw a temper tantrum because I didn't get a big enough room, and my quote was, "I sold so many more records than any of these other artists in this building." I would slap myself in the face if I said anything like that...
...polls, Americans overwhelmingly say yes. But should we temper our response, be certain to hit only those responsible, even if it means waiting months, years to retaliate? Or should we strike fast, and hard, even if it means killing some innocents? Would we feel better once...