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- Mandelson fires new salvo in free trade row with Sarkozy
- LONDON AFP — EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson hit out again Sunday in his battle with French President Nicolas Sarkozy over world trade talks by attacking "populist and self-serving" rhetoric on the issue. Mandelson wrote that the latest Doha round of negotiations "is not about individual personalities" and warned...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- The rebranding of Barack Obama
- WASHINGTON AFP — Barack Obama bills himself as a new brand of leader poised to drain Washington's swamp of political cynicism. But despite spellbinding calls for "Change We Can Believe In" the Democratic hopeful is not shirking from cold-eyed positioning to boost his hopes of victory over Republican White...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Race to the bottom? The presidential candidates' positions on trade
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Only when the American people are free to exchange goods unimpeded by the often faulty judgment of politicians will freedom and prosperity prevail." IN RECENT MONTHS, the economy has been in the headlines and in the sights of politicians seeking the presidency. Particularly on the Democratic...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Policy is the best honesty
- A lot of journalists get lured into the profession by the excitement--the chance to cover wars, natural disasters, political campaigns, or the lives of powerful people. I'm not immune to such inducements and have done a bit of all of the above. But most of my time in the business...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Courage, not rhetoric, is vital to unite U.S.
- WASHINGTON -- She threw the kitchen sink at him. Accused Barack Obama of plagiarism. Mocked his eloquence. Questioned his truthfulness about NAFTA. Wasn't enough. Hillary Clinton still faced extinction in Ohio and Texas. So what do you do when you have thrown the kitchen sink? Drop the atomic...
- Research articles 2008-03-09
- White House hopefuls and their 2008 mood music
- DES MOINES, Iowa AFP — Whether it's with rock star swagger, corny Irish jokes, boardroom-like seminars, storm-the-barricades rhetoric or motherly soothing, each White House hopeful has a unique pitch to voters. Candidates' acts are now honed by months traipsing through school gyms, churches, diners and living rooms on the...
- Research articles 2008-01-02
- DNC: No Speech Can Fix Romney's Flawed Foreign Policy
- To: STATE EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of the Democratic National Committee, +1- 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Smooth talking Mitt Romney still seems to think he can talk his way out of his campaign's biggest problems. After failing to address his litany of flip-flops and complete lack of credibility in yesterday's...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- Pepperdine University Expert on Campaign Rhetoric and Strategy Available to Comment on Mitt Romney's Faith in America Speech
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Wileen Wong of Pepperdine University, +1-310-506-6589, wileen.wong@pepperdine.edu MALIBU, Calif.,Dec. 5/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --This week,the most important event in the Iowa presidential campaign actually takes place in Texas, where Mitt Romney will address his faith and how it would inform his presidency,states Pepperdineexpert on campaign rhetoric and strategyAccording to PepperdineUniversityDistinguished...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- War of words between Clinton, Obama rages on
- DES MOINES -- Barack Obama launched a new "Hillary attacks" website Monday even as Hillary Rodham Clinton was telling voters in Clear Lake that he had ducked votes on guns and abortion as an Illinois state legislator. The sharp exchanges between the two Democrats, a month...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- Hunting the devil: democracy's rhetorical impulse to war.
- The rhetoric of evil, so prominently evident in contemporary presidential public address, articulates a primal motive for the war on terrorism by projecting democracy's shadow onto the external enemy. In this regard, the president's discourse is a manifestation rather than aberration of U.S. political culture, a reflection of the nation's...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- "A discovered dissembler can achieve nothing great"; or, four theses on the death of presidential rhetoric in an age of empire.(Essay)
- Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical factors are combined with the peculiar communicative habits of President George W....
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Dangerous supplements, inventive dissent, and military critiques of the Bush administration's unitary executive theories.(George Bush)(Essay)
- Given the growing resonance of presidential rhetorics that are filled with tales of "unitary executive" power, wartime necessities, and unlawful combatants, critics of the administration need to find novel ways of dissenting. In recent years, several generals and other soldiers have assiduously avoided using frontal assault strategies in their critiques...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- George Bush, , and American democracy.
- This article examines the role the ideograph plays in George W. Bush's presidential rhetoric. By strategically wielding throughout his presidency, and by using it to amplify his use of association and dissociation, Bush connects his actions in important ways to the foundational myths of American democracy....
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Bushspeak and the politics of lying: presidential rhetoric in the "war on terror".(George Bush)
- The Bush administration, aided and abetted by U.S. corporate media, manipulated a politics of fear to push through a right-wing agenda that included the Patriot Act, massive changes in the legal system, a dramatic expansion of the U.S. military, and U.S.-led military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. Accordingly, I dissect...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Putin's comments on US missile defense 'fairly troubling': US defense chief
- WASHINGTON AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin's hardline rhetoric against US missile defense plans in Europe are "fairly troubling" and at odds with his private comments to US officials, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. At a summit with EU leaders in Portugal earlier Friday, Putin likened the...
- Research articles 2007-10-26
- "Don't declare mission accomplished" : Obama to Clinton
- WASHINGTON AFP — White House challenger Barack Obama is trying to stamp out the notion that front-runner Hillary Clinton is the "inevitable" Democratic nominee, warning it is too early for her to declare "mission accomplished." Obama, who styles himself as a break from the politics of rancor which he...
- Research articles 2007-10-18
- DNC Calls on Republican Candidates to Denounce Ann Coulter's Prejudiced Comments at RJC Forum
- To: RELIGION EDITORSContact: Luis Miranda of the Democratic National Committee, +1- 202-863-7131 WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee:As the four leading Republican presidential candidates prepare to appear at the Republican Jewish Coalition Forum tonight, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Books received
- EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Above the fray? The use of party system references in presidential rhetoric.
- Examining communication items from four presidents, we find that presidents link themselves to the party system rhetorically. Employment of party references is tested against recurrent features of the office and shifts in the political environment, including presidential approval, partisan independence, presidential successes and defeats in ...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency.(Book review)
- Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency. Edited by James Arnt Aune and Enrique D. Rigsby. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. 347 pp. The 2000 Presidential Rhetoric conference at Texas A&M University, "The White House and Civil Rights Policy," featured an...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
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