Word: compassionate
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It won't all be dark, of course. "Campaigning," said a manual used by Nixon's political staff, "is symbolic, i.e., it is not what the candidate actually does as much as what it appears he does." Bush will do what he has already begun doing. He will speak of...
A heavy dose of feigned compassion, coupled with appeals for law and order, is only half the game plan. The other half, already on full display, is designed to nail Bill Clinton, and it too borrows from an old Nixon campaign maxim: It is not what the opposition candidate actually...
While the president felt sickened last year when he viewed the Rodney King beating, this week Bush overwhelmingly condemned the violence in the streets, without much compassion for the problems of the inner cities or the blows taken by King.
Take, for example, welfare reform. When ever Duke mentions welfare reform, I hear liberals huffing about "code words." Well, perhaps, in Duke's mouth, "welfare reform" is a code phrase. He sure as hell didn't show too much compassion for Blacks or Hispanics or other poor people before.
A. There are cities in the U.S. -- including a couple in Connecticut -- that have infant-mortality rates that exceed those of Third World countries. Our state has as good a record of compassion as any as to how it regards the frail elements of society. And yet the Connecticut department...