Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...invariably accompanies the election season. Everything, the various candidates relentlessly insist, is to be done in the name of "our young people" and "our children." And these days, post-Columbine and Eminem, the popular culture seems to have become the principle "enemy-of-the-children," with everyone from Lynne Cheney to our would-be moralist-in-chief, Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, inveighing against the filth and obscenity peddled to America under the cloak of "free speech" and "artistic expression." This rhetoric, self-serving though it may be, is at least a sign that America still possesses the capacity...
Bush has attempted to paint his distance from Washington as a sign that he will inject a fresh perspective into tired old bureaucracies. He has also indicated he will surround himself with top-notch advisers, one of which includes his running-mate, former Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney. But presidential leadership, more than anything else, must reside within the individual. During the debates, it became painfully clear that Bush lacked a minimal level of familiarity on many international issues. Consequently, the Texas governor seemed to confuse foreign affairs with military affairs...
...vice presidential race, we are also far more comfortable with the positions and voting record of the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), than those of Cheney, who consistently espoused a far-right position while in Congress...
...Dick Cheney must have done worse," the Republican Reassurer said. "He flunked out of Yale...
There was a fair amount of Bush-Cheney lawn signs scattered around these pretty tree-lined neighborhoods. It turns out up to half of them - maybe more - belong to NRA members. Michigan ranks among the top five states for deer hunting licenses, and these guys (and gals) see anti-gun Gore as a threat to their Second Amendment rights. They are voting for Bush. OK, that's not surprising. But look at these numbers: In the state of Michigan, as of an October 25 statewide poll, those who own a gun or rifle and are members of the NRA identify...