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Obama Survives But Doesn't Advance | Fox News - 0 views

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  • t's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long
  • Let me give you some advice.
  • You also have
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  • investments
  • You also have
  • investments
  • you also have
  • investments
  • incumbent
  • eady to fight, jaw-clenched and a bit overmodulated,
  • sour, sullen fellow Americans had seen two weeks prior.
  • keep the
  • spat going by
  • clearly punctured.
  • fracas, he saw his presidential prestige
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      uproar
  • did nothing to address his most serious problem:
  • CBS found
  • Romney beat Obama on “leadership” by a dozen points.
  • yrrhic one.
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      a victory which is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it
  • narrowly judged to have won the battle, Romney kept winning the war.
  • angst
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      strong worry and unhappiness
  • the folly
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
       stupidity, or a stupid action, idea, etc
  • moderator Candy Crowley’s attempt to do a fact-check in real time on Romney’s attack on the president’s handling of the attack in Libya.
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      Very biased
  • Her failure was compounded within the hour when she told a fellow CNN anchor that Romney was actually right, she just thought his specific word choice was wrong.
  • he word “terror” did appear in his speech.
  • But when it’s even a close call, a real-time fact check seems way out of place.
  • swipe at his challenger.
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      Hit or try to hit with a swinging blow she swiped me right across the nose she lifted her hand to swipe at a cat Steal someone swiped one of his sausages
  • And Romney was right. Obama had used the words “acts of terror,” to describe bad acts around the world and throughout recent history, but certainly hadn’t called Benghazi a terrorist attack. He called it a spontaneous uprising spurred by a Web video that was exploited by radicals.
  • The real challenge for the president last night and for every day from now until Nov. 6 is to make Romney an unsuitable replacement. That has been Obama’s central campaign theme and it is too late to change course.
  • Obama’s plan was to make the election not a r
  • eferendum
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 18 Oct 12
       
      A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision The process of referring a political question to the electorate for this purpose
  • on Romney rather than on his term in office
  • With 20 days to go, Romney looks increasingly plausible and voters remain unhappy with the condition of their country. The “kill Romney” strategy hasn’t worked, and the president is almost out of time
  • “For Obama, the bar is rather low.  He just has to string a few sentences together coherently to make eye-contact with a single sentient human, and show the slightest animation in his face.  I think he can do that and he will be ahead of where he was and might win on that basis alone.”
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Obama campaign promises he'll be 'energised' in next presidential debate | World news |... - 0 views

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  • eroded
  • promised
  • mount a strong comeback
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  • lift Democrats' morale
  • building on running-mate Joe Biden's aggressive showing on the vice-presidential debate last Thursday, and win over floating voters.
  • studied intensively Romney's policies and is practising hard w
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Obama expected to 'come out swinging' at Tuesday's debate - CNN.com - 0 views

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    This article is used to write the in class commentary in response to the question, How does your article use language to achieve its aims? 
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Obama Gets His Mojo Back - Bloomberg - 0 views

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  • Apparently Barack Obama does want to be re-elected as president.
  • the president’s spirited performance
  • though Romney’s treatment of the president and the moderator, Candy Crowley of CNN, was occasionally too pugnacious
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  • Obama won pretty decisively on points
  • more responsive than Romney
  • responses tended to be more substantive
  • Romney’s was nonsensical, somehow morphing into a sermon about the need for two-parent families
  • It’s fair to say that Obama has done too little on gun control. For Romney’s party, however, that little is too much.
  • Obama has some real achievements to cite here
  • Romney’s answer, by contrast, was a conceptual and linguistic muddle
  • Romney’s performance suffered compared with the president’s
  • he got his facts wrong
  • allowing Obama to lecture him about playing politics
  • declining to elaborate
  • It’s not that Obama’s answer was bad
  • Could Obama get his mojo back? He could and did
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Connecting with the viewer: 'Romney was able to out Obama Obama' - CNN.com - 4 views

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  • sporadically
  • fray,'
  • Facebook users, who rated the performance using the CNN grading application, described Obama as "meek" and "unprepared." A number of users who graded the president poorly mentioned that he was regularly looking down.
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  • Romney said
  • former Obama adviser Van Jones
  • Romney directly told viewers
  • Romney said
  • Critics sometimes accuse the president
  • James Carville, a CNN contributor and former adviser to President Bill Clinton
  • Carville continued
  • CNN's Chief National Correspondent John King
  • Again, as Romney was answering, Obama seemed to be taking notes
  • And viewers agreed.
  • told t
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Biden and Ryan Quarrel Aggressively in Debate, Offering Contrasts - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "His interruptions were strategic, intended to raise questions about the Republican ticket. When Mr. Ryan attacked the administration's stimulus program, Mr. Biden pointed out that Mr. Ryan had sent him a letter, requesting money for his Congressional district in Wisconsin. As soon as the debate was over, Republicans were trying to liken Mr. Biden's performance to that of Al Gore against George W. Bush in 2000, when unflattering cutaway camera shots caught him sighing and rolling his eyes impatiently as Mr. Bush spoke. But while the two campaigns awaited the results of "insta-polls" determining a winner and a loser, the key question would not come as quickly: Whether Mr. Biden did enough to help move the Obama campaign beyond the president's own listless debate performance a week earlier. At one point Mr. Ryan even made reference to his imperative to do so, telling him, "I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground." It was the biggest moment of the campaign for Mr. Ryan, who invigorated the Republican base in August when Mr. Romney asked him to join the ticket. But his role as chairman of the House Budget Committee also opened him up to significant criticism from Mr. Biden, particularly when Mr. Ryan promised a bipartisanship that he said Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden had not delivered as promised. Before the debate, Democrats were curious about whether Mr. Ryan would stand by his approach to Medicare, which has included different versions of a plan to offer people 65 and older an option to use government subsidies to purchase private insurance. He did, and then some, saying his only intention - and Mr. Romney's - was to ensure the program's longevity. "Medicare and Social Security did so much for my own family," Mr. Ryan said. "We are not going to jeopardize this program, but we have to save it." Looking into the camera, Mr. Biden said, "These guys haven't been big on Medicare from the beginning," asking the
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US elections: Mitt Romney prepares for key televised election debate - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • But the pressure is high for him to land some heavy blows, if not a killer punch, in a gladiatorial setting that has delivered some of the most memorable moments of American political theatre over four decades
  • wooden and with a recent track record of verbal gaffes
  • "comeback kid"
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Liberals 'freak out' after Obama's poor debate performance | Fox News - 2 views

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  • collateral
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      Something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default
  • vein-throbbing rant
  • vented
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      Give free expression to (a strong emotion) he had come to vent his rage and despair
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  • begging the president to do better.
  • tenure,
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      The holding of an office his tenure of the premiership would be threatened
  • allay
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      relieve or alleviate
  • attaboys
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      An informal expression of encouragement or admiration, typically to a man or boy
  • soundbytes
    • Christine Nguyen
      Christine Nguyen on 15 Oct 12
       
      WHAT THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT: The article talks about the reactions of major media outlets in the US toward Obama's failed performance in last week's presidential debate against his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. The main highlights of the articles are the strong reactions from the liberals, who are said to "freak out" after Obama's performance. However, at the middle of the article, the writer presents readers with positive feedback from other major media outlets such as the CNN, NBC and other political critics. The article as a whole is biased toward Romney's side because even though it tries to mention both sides of the argument, the language seems to shift toward praising Romney. For example, the sentence "Despite the math of the evening's results, some major media outlets downplayed Romney's big win". The word "big" indicates the writer's point of view about Romney's performance, which shows that the writer is favoring Romney.
  • 'freak out'
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US election: Joe Biden 1 stems Democrat bleeding with aggressive debate performance - 1 views

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  • stems
    • Linh Nguyen
      Linh Nguyen on 16 Oct 12
       
      The articles talks about the altitude of the two vice presidents during the vice president debate  It describes Mr. Joe Biden as someone who doesn't show good respect toward his opponent - his determination to win the debate has been shown by his unrelenting aggressiveness, onslaught, disrespecting, repeatedly interrupt --> more negative  On the other hand, the article describes Mr. Ryan as a person who fight valiantly with a good closing statement --> more positive  Even though the headline seems to favor Mr.Biden --> it actually emphasizes the bad temper of Me. Biden  --> bias toward Republican 
  • onslaught
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  • secretly-recorded remarks
  • morale
    • Linh Nguyen
      Linh Nguyen on 16 Oct 12
       
      the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time  tính thần, chí khí, nhuệ khí
  • unrelenting
    • Linh Nguyen
      Linh Nguyen on 16 Oct 12
       
      not yielding in strength, severity, or determination không nguôi, không bớt, không gim
  • disrespecting
  • repeatedly interrupted and overpowered
  • unhinged
    • Linh Nguyen
      Linh Nguyen on 16 Oct 12
       
      make (someone) mentally unbalanced làm mất thăng bằng, làm cho mất phương hướng, làm cho rối (trí)
  • When you don't have a record to run on, laughing is all you can do".
  • valiantly
    • Linh Nguyen
      Linh Nguyen on 16 Oct 12
       
      possessing or showing courage or determination
  • "unravelling".
  • "Mitt Romney and I want to earn your support,"
  • enraged
  • trigger-happy young radica
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