Word: wimp
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...Your "Five Faces" omitted the one I consider most salient: the wimp. Having backed down on the things he should have stood up for - peace, the environment, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, separation of church and state - Obama is now a Republican lite, like John Kerry was. That's not change I can believe in, and I am afraid it will cost him the election. Janet Maker, Los Angeles...
...moment the White House was assiduously touting the imminence of a massive terror threat in Iraq, they also appear to have mobilized much of its senior staff in a campaign essentially to tar Joe Wilson as a wimp. And in that is the sobering message beyond the Libby trial's legal minutiae: The same wise men who were assessing a phantom threat to America's domestic peace were the same people taking minute note of their own PR. Perhaps the larger moral here is that had Washington torn itself away from the petty melodramas such as who dissed whom...
...into a scoop have a baked line that also seems to have kept the quality, although the Tostitos All Natural Picante Sauce is a bit watery and a tiny bit sweeter than you would expect, considering there's no sugar. Still, eating them made me feel like a snack wimp. If I'm man enough to watch men tackle one another, I'm man enough to work a little partial hydrogenation through my arteries...
...along. President Lowell once observed that you can get anything done as long as you don’t insist upon credit for the accomplishment. There is wisdom here and not the kind usually found in those books on business leadership that proliferate in airport bookstalls. A wimp or a wuss will not do, and mere popularity and likeability are thin gruel for an effective presidency. Intellectual passion moral vision, and the ability to recognize and support excellence in other are among the qualities to be most desired in a president of Harvard. A becoming modesty and a sense...
...fight in these wars, the painful things that he'd seen, the love he has for Africa and the bitterness he has as well," says DiCaprio. And that's not all he learned. "They drink a hell of a lot of beer and Jägermeister," says the star, no wimp in the party department, with a chuckle. "That was their hard-core drink of choice: flaming Jägermeister shots, which I can't hang with...