Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a man named Bush in poll-position to win a three-horse race--with all the pundits silenced by the confounding novelty of this crowded winter carnival. And in '92 we found out that the pundits (even in their tentative comments and predictions) had the odds all wrong--the third horse really matters. Anti-Politics helps Arkansas Anti-Hero nose out Hero in Iraqi-Khaki. Never mind the Blair Witch Project and New Hampshire, Buchanan and weeks of eerie pollster silence on the topic must be starting to make George W. Bush feel that the State House is haunted...
...fact, it may be that the third candidate on the right will help persuade voters of the moderateness of "compassionate conservatism," ridding the Republicans of alienating reactionary baggage. Why? Because Buchanan will simply fail to attract a substantial number of votes across a national base. The time is wrong, and history is against...
Rollert said Seton's willingness to admit that he was wrong demonstrates a maturity that ought to be applauded...
...aides have been with him 15 years.) But behind McCain's outbursts is perhaps a more troubling tendency to see the world in stark good-vs.-evil terms, even when the issue is more complicated than that. "I have always had this acute sense of right and wrong," McCain told TIME. "All my life I have been offended by hypocrisy." His approach to many legislative issues can sometimes resemble the way he boxed while at the Naval Academy. "McCain would charge to the center of the ring and throw punches until someone went down," writes Robert Timberg in his account...
...smallest of all the presidential contenders', but it's also the most powerful. He's like an old-fashioned persimmon-wood golf club--hit it just right, and the ball sails a mile; miss by a hair, and it squibs into the rough. Ask him what's wrong with the campaign-money game or Clinton's foreign policy, and McCain can be dazzling--puzzled and outraged but full of strong, simple ideas for cleaning up the mess. Ask him, however, about the concerns that actually drive elections--health care, education, Social Security, what he listlessly calls our "various domestic challenges...