I used to admire John McCain. I am grateful for his military and civil service and for taking on his own Republican party when they were just plain wrong. But the John McCain I see in this campaign is a shell of the man I once looked up to.
His general election campaign is being run [...]

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John McCain recently seems to have little problem uttering such blatantly false and idiotic statements that it  makes President Bush look like a statesman.
Today, Sen McCain said that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”
He said this the same day that investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy [...]

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I was duped. Even though I take a critical eye to political language in this blog, I failed to take that same critical eye to the use of political imagery in my previous post. That got me thinking about how much political imagery gets faked and more importantly, how much of it is the general [...]

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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.

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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University today brought out the best and worst in modern American culture. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger showed courage in inviting such a polarizing and controversial figure to speak. There were calls to cancel the Iranian president’s invitation and now some politicians want to cut funding to Columbia [...]

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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
The next euphemism to enter the complete glossary is below. Click on [...]

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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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