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The magazine explains why the president's poll numbers are so high: 1) he courts them ("like a kid who gets straight A's by flattering the teacher"); and 2) polling questions are phrased with a calculation and nuance that are positively, well, Clintonesque.
) A flattering profile of Janet Reno describes her as the least political person in Washington.
Celebrities demand flattering representation as the price of their cooperation, and no one is better at flattering in a sophisticated yet intimate way than Leibovitz.
The Post story refers to Clinton's appeals in these appearances for the expansion of individual liberties and his polite but unambiguous condemnation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but then says he's spent far more time flattering Chinese audiences than challenging them.
Gore and Bradley have got themselves into a shameless arms race, each one trying to outdo the other in flattering and cajoling minority voters.