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    politician


    1. He tried to engage the elderly politician next to him in conversation


    2. This wasn't a politician looking for votes or a local kid collecting for a sponsored run


    3. What would I have done in this or that situation? How would I react if I found myself facing similar choices? Would I have been as bold as Menachem and entered into a passionate affair with an English woman, a civil servant, just as he had done? Would I have dared to chase a French politician through the streets of Paris to ask that one final question, a question that resulted in Aban spending three days in a French gaol?


    4. During recent periods of parliamentary jousting one politician above all others has become synonymous with the ruthless pursuit of truth and the calling to account of those who would betray the allied boons of principle and practicality


    5. The great politician did not believe in conceptual attitudes like fear, but nonetheless he felt it best to send one of his advisors to find out how things stood


    6. After all, the political and media establishment knew about the magic powers this wonderful document possessed and the great politician knew that these people, who generally failed to see the bigger picture, would be as keen as mustard to see how unfit or stupid various members of the government might be


    7. Not long after this, and with the day of the speech now very near at hand, the great politician sent another official to review the document and to report back on its progress, but exactly the same thing happened to him as had happened to Sir John


    8. "It really is your sort of thing", he said to the great politician later that same day


    9. Reassured by his aides and aware that the world’s press was waiting with baited breath, the great politician himself now wanted to read the document, even though there were still some relevant facts to include and a few final conclusions to draw


    10. Together with Sir John and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin were pretending to type away furiously at blank computer screens

    11. He took the great politician to one side and showed him page after page, reassuring everyone assembled in the room that it was only the stupid or the incompetent who wouldn’t be able to read a word


    12. "Bollocks”, thought the great politician, "I can't see anything at all on these pages


    13. Calling on every ounce of his experience and all of his blithe abilities, honed to perfection through dealing with cabinet crises and the terrier snappings of the gutter press, the great politician read through a few pages silently


    14. During the course of the morning the finished document was delivered to every cabinet minister, to the media, to members of parliament and, of course, to the great politician himself


    15. For the rest of the morning the two men worked with the great politician, schooling him in the contents of the report


    16. As the great politician tried out different tones of voice and different facial expressions, as he opened his stance and practised his smile, the two doctors of spin encouraged and enthused; "Oh, sublime, Sir


    17. There was a look of madness in every elected representative’s eyes, and the reporters in the gallery, having assumed they were in some way mentally sub-normal, were ready to hang on every word that the great politician might say


    18. Following a brief introduction by the Speaker, the great politician rose from his seat on the front bench and the wild chatter that had filled the great hall subsided and was replaced by a hum of nervous excitement


    19. The great politician cleared his throat and raised himself to his full and magnificent height


    20. For his part, the great politician broke off from his prepared text and brought his verbal guns to bear on the heckler, just as he had done with unfailing accuracy so many times before

    21. Even as he spoke the great politician became aware of a whisper circulating around the chamber


    22. The great politician was drowned out in a storm of derision, with shouts and cat-calls ringing out everywhere


    23. The great politician shuddered and sank back into his bench seat


    24. The rest, as they say, is history, although throughout his long years of retirement, when he published his memoirs and his diaries and tried to settle into a state of fatherly grace in the House of Lords, the once great politician told anyone who would listen that he had been right, that his opponents had been wrong and that a report with blank pages was exactly what he had intended all along


    25. politician was stunned when he heard these claims


    26. sort of thing", he said to the great politician later that same day


    27. breath, the great politician himself now wanted to read the


    28. and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the


    29. The great politician nodded approvingly at the piles of papers


    30. politician, schooling him in the contents of the report

    31. As the great politician tried out different


    32. politician rose from his seat on the front bench and the wild chatter


    33. great politician raised his hand for silence, but just as he was about


    34. The great politician


    35. Lords, the once great politician told anyone who would listen that


    36. promote his child and any politician will try to surround


    37. philosopher, was a poor politician


    38. To judge whether such retaliations are likely to produce such an effect, does not, perhaps, belong so much to the science of a legislator, whose deliberations ought to be governed by general principles, which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called a statesman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs


    39. “Yes, he is a politician or such and wants


    40. For example, a politician who intends to make a personal donation to charity may choose to inform the press, so that he could acquire extensive publicity to improve his image or increase his ‘political mileage’

    41. ) Bulletproof politician that he is, he can get away with casting his vote the way he did, as well as his incredibly stupid way of justifying that vote


    42. The effects were gradual and, like a politician who makes regular media appearances, only stark when compared to archive footage


    43. At that precise moment, Forgo spun around and delivered a meaty left hook to the Mayor’s jaw and sent the politician sprawling to the ground, splendidly and completely unconscious


    44. Somewhere along the line another fat politician will try to live up to his politically correct god and reduce the SAPS to a “civilian service”


    45. The changes were utterly ridiculous and the Nationalists made fools of themselves because it made no difference! People still died at the hands of the SAP! Only a politician who could be that short-sighted and keep his high paying job, for in the real world he would be fired on the spot


    46. ” A recent example is a politician who “did not inhale,” and did not have sexual relations with a certain intern


    47. involved a small time politician that had netted her twenty thousand


    48. Any politician who is either unwilling or (unable) to govern objectively; that is to say, in accordance with the requirements of public office, should step down


    49. Now a politician chose to be a politician


    50. I simply will never trust any long haired liberal politician that far














































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    Synonyms for "politician"

    pol political leader politician politico diplomat bureaucrat administrator legislator campaigner office seeker manipulator

    "politician" definitions

    a leader engaged in civil administration


    a person active in party politics


    a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways