Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed" and "Uh-oh" were prominent among them. When she announced her candidacy, the term carpetbagger was immediately hurled. But New York likes its carpetbaggers--people seemed to forget that Robert F. Kennedy and James Buckley not only ran for Senate from the Empire State but won--and New York likes high-wattage celebrities a lot. Hillary was an immediate hit in the city and environs, and when she worked hard Upstate, she became something of a hit there...
...Democrats are also planning to stick to the argument that a big tax cut means you can forget about using the burgeoning federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt. In an adroit bit of political gamesmanship, Bill Clinton played up the goal of debt elimination last week when he unveiled new White House budget calculations that show the total surplus over the next 10 years rising to nearly $5 trillion, an $800 billion increase over the last estimate issued just six months ago. ?We should be shooting for a debt-free America by the end of the decade...
...When this Hillary gets to the Senate...she will be 1 of 100, and we won't let her forget...
...GORE Forget the recount. With unemployment at 3.9%, it shouldn't have been close. Be glad Dems don't have war-crimes trials
...voters themselves may find that it washes away rather quickly, with a little cynicism and lots of egg nog, but the elected officials themselves are less likely to forget. This was a brush with politicians' greatest fear - irrelevance in an increasingly Wall Street Nation - and the best way they can win back voters' attentions is to promise to listen more carefully next time...