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Obama and Presidential Speechwriting

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

His phrases line up regularly in striking and meaningful patterns; his cliché ratio is, for a politician, admirably low; his stresses and pauses seem dictated less by the usual metronome of generic political speech than by the actual …

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Obama and Presidential Speechwriting

Irresponsible Stand

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

He is awkward with the political leaders, and often finds it difficult to disguise his dislike for the politician. He has still to grow into the space that his mother and the party managers have created for him. …

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Politics, politics, politics

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. › Charles de Gaulle. The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that …

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With subjects like these, the emperor needs no gunboats

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Perhaps thinking themselves as legitimate players in the crude power politics that Bangladesh has witnessed in the past 18 years, these diplomats have abandoned the ‘diplomatic custom’ of keeping their views on the country’s internal …

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Foreign interference in local politics condemned

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

‘It [Tuesday’s tea party] also reflects the overall political bankruptcy here as the politicians went to the US embassy to give their views on local politics,’ he said. ‘We should be able to resolve our political problems on our own,’ …

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Confident Carwyn has a reminder political careers all end in failure - WalesOnline

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Confident Carwyn has a reminder political careers all end in failureWalesOnline,?United Kingdom?- 8 hours agoMany of a certain age who have only a …

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Kyoto & The Australian Full Carbon Accounting Model

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion. The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, …

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Obama's World Stage Debut

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Yes, it is a political show. But it’s his show—and if we’ve learned anything over these many months of campaigning its that he is supremely efficient in staying on message, on making sure the image he wants of himself is transmitted …

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Selection ‘08 - Buyer Beware! v.2

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

He goes on and on about the partisan politics, the bickering, oh it’s so divisive….

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Indo-US Nuke deal & Communists resistance to it

Friday, July 18th, 2008

… or democracy to some extent and looked up to USA in the best interest of their country. … But hey, who is perfect? There is no such politician in competitive politics who is completely unselfish….

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