Word: processions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week that Iowa rewards "entrenched power," the Vice President was almost instantly on the phone to Eskew: "I want to talk about this today." From the stage of a school gym, Gore, who in his 1988 presidential race skipped Iowa entirely, extolled the virtues of the state's unusual process of picking a nominee. "Fighting for people is what the Iowa caucuses are all about," he thundered...
...learned about billbradley.com Last week she signed on, studied the candidate's positions and learned the arcane incantations necessary to vote for him at the Iowa caucuses. "I'm comfortable going to the caucus and not feeling inadequate about the person I am supporting," she says of the process she ducked in previous years. "I wouldn't be going if it weren't for the computer...
...They are no longer pro-bowl versions of high school oratory contests; increasingly, debates are the arena itself, where most of the winning and losing and living and dying of candidates takes place. His contempt for Gore just looked like bad manners, but his message that the whole ugly process of becoming President was beneath him just looked...
...Even the process of getting to the hospital in an ambulance has become more fraught. Consider the tragedy of Londell King, a 16-year-old straight-A student from Bridgeport, Conn., who was shot in the hip while standing on the street one March afternoon in 1997. Though an ambulance operated by American Medical Response arrived promptly, the EMTs on the scene allegedly didn't take King's vital signs or recognize his internal bleeding. They kicked him out of the ambulance and drove off, according to a lawsuit filed against AMR. Relatives took King to the hospital...
McCain's commitment to salvaging the political process form the pernicious influence of monied special interests has been inspiring. For years he has fought the good fight in the Senate, working with Democrats and alienating the leadership of his own party. His commitment to the common good, even at the expense of his own political fortunes, is extraordinarily refreshing...