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...point. Despite the rock-star crowds generated by celebrity candidates like Clinton and Obama, despite the various polls that indicate a heightened level of public interest in the election this time, the battle hasn't been joined-and probably won't be, fully, until Thanksgiving Day. But when the stubborn voters of Iowa and New Hampshire get around to picking and choosing, my guess is they won't choose Biden, because of a matter of style and a matter of substance...
...product" to be introduced in the fall, as Andrew Card famously described a previous Iraq-strategy launch six autumns ago, and my guess is that the President is planning to support a draw-down akin to the one being devised by the Petraeus staff. But Bush is a stubborn man. He doesn't want to appear to be forced into a draw-down, and especially not by members of his own party. He wants to be able to make his announcement after Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testify in September to the positive al-Qaeda developments. "We could actually...
...twisted symbolism of that vine. He was enthralled by irony, and I wish Doug were around to reflect on the gothic ridiculousness of his own death, at age 57, on a back road in Mississippi, in a collision with a loblolly pine that was as straight and true and stubborn as he was. As Doug would say: Lord, I'm gonna miss that...
...When Bill Clinton came along, he defied the stubborn conventional wisdom that had formed about the two parties' relationship to religion. A Southern Baptist who could literally quote chapter and verse, Clinton freely talked to publications like Christianity Today, made religious freedom a key focus of his domestic agenda and insisted his staff work with conservative evangelical leaders in addition to progressive religious allies. But in many ways, Clinton's personal comfort with religion and ability to act as his own religious liaison masked the ongoing problems of his party. Democratic leaders were happy to let Clinton sermonize. They...
...just being stubborn," says DeGette (a co-leader of the House passage of the bill) of Bush's expected veto. "There is a national consensus on this...The only thing that is preventing it from becoming law is the President." While statements like that can usually be attributed to legislative bravado, DeGette points out that the Senate is one vote short of a veto override and the House is only about 30 votes shy of the same goal, evidence that the bill is making headway. "In January of this year, we picked up 16 votes in the House...