Word: usual
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...usual, Woodward empties his notebooks, delivering the delicious quotes ("I'm a Socratic Method person," says Bush) and analysis (Woodward claims the reduction in violence owes as much to covert operations against extremists as to the surge) that we've come to expect--and frankly, demand--from his work. A better first draft of history might be difficult to find...
...national ticket. If the investigator's findings are anything short of a full exoneration for Palin - assuming the findings do indeed come out before the election - the McCain campaign will continue to make the case that it's all just another partisan attack and just more politics as usual...
...trip overseas in July. Asked if she'd ever met a head of state, she raised her unshaken hand like a badge of honor: "We've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time," she said. "It is for no more politics as usual and somebody's big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yeah, they've had opportunity to meet heads of state...
...same midcourse correction Hillary Clinton made last spring. As with Clinton, McCain's first instinct was to run on wisdom and longevity against the newcomer Obama. And as Clinton did, McCain discovered that many Americans are sick of experience if it means an M.B.A. in business-as-usual. So, again like Clinton, McCain shifted to the "fighter" theme: "I fight for Americans," he declared in his acceptance speech. "I fight for you." And he returned to the theme in the rousing finish of an otherwise subdued speech: "Fight with me! Fight with me!" he cried. "Stand up, stand up, stand...
...party system, each party must be broad enough to haul in diverse constituencies, so the idea of party unity is inevitably a screen that hides factions and rivalries. In St. Paul, the GOP assembled its screen with more than the usual amount of duct tape and staples showing. If they couldn't agree on politics, they could agree that John McCain is a patriot. They could rally to the conservative dog-whistle of low taxes and free enterprise. They could match the audacity of hope with the audacity of a thrice-married New York City mayor pretending to be horrified...