Word: weaknessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Obama may believe in investing in a mandate to govern - helping to expand Democrats in Congress and in local and municipal races - but that won't matter a whole lot if he fails to win the presidency. "This 50-state strategy, I hope it's real," says Bill Steiner, the...
Germany's venerable Social Democratic Party (SPD) has become one of the oldest political parties in Europe through a long history of often fruitful internecine battles. But the leadership putsch it underwent on Sunday seemed evidence of weakness rather than a push towards new vitality.
Why was it remarkable? Because John McCain is. "They broke me," he said flatly, of the torture he endured in the Hanoi Hilton. It wasn't the first time he'd said that - indeed, he has been more specific: he has admitted attempting suicide after the North Vietnamese twisted and...
But Obama's weakness for undue prudence seems downright virtuous compared with the recklessness that McCain showed in choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. He had months to make this choice, but he allowed it to come down to a chaotic scramble in the last week - a reaction, it...
Obama on the stump is constantly underlining this idea. As he told a recent town-hall meeting in a New Mexico high school gym, "We can't keep doing the things we've been doing and expect a different result." It's a message his campaign organization has taken to...