Word: whiners
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...least not to hear him tell it. His performance at the National Prayer Breakfast last Thursday, a long cri de coeur, has forced many of us at last to face an uncomfortable truth: the President of the U.S., the most powerful man in the world, is a whiner...
...course, a run-of-the-mill whiner. His whines are of a particularly elevated type. He went to Oxford, after all. At the Prayer Breakfast he took as the text for his complaints a passage from Isaiah: "Thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach." He has used the passage so often lately--it appeared, as well, in his Inaugural speech and the State of the Union--that he may soon attach it to his official title: President of the U.S., Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Repairer of the Breach...
...shouldn't make a big thing about not having been asked to deliver the poem at Bill Clinton's Inauguration next week. She said I was beginning to remind her of Newt Gingrich talking about having to get off Air Force One through the rear door. "Nobody likes a whiner," she said...
That's some psychodrama for you, complete with echoes of H. Ross Perot, a consummate whiner who had the feeling anyone standing in his way to the White House was somehow not a true American...
Respected government professor and resident Harvard whiner Harvey Mansfield recently delivered his judgement of homosexuals: they are "irresponsible," "unhappy," and "a little bit shameless." They miss out on the civilizing effects of straight relationships, in which the partners "make each other aware of what a woman especially knows and what a man especially knows." And their "kinky sexual practices" make their love "imperfect and stunted and frustrated." Nor do they keep these problems to themselves; "gays eventually undermine civilization...