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A passionate, persuasive, passivist, pushy president, potentially pillaging people, persistently personalizing policy ... puking pititful!
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Because he is, as Banner, a passivist who happens to have enormous power at his disposal but hates the "hangover" effect and shame of his episodes, he thus always seeks out peace and quiet first until as a last resort folks willfully provoke the Hulk out of him.
Is Hulk Destined to Become a Bad Guy in The Avengers? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The passivist claim that all death is unacceptable is naïve and can be easily dismantled.
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In the case of the former, you use that activist base to mobilize the more apathetic passivist base to get out and vote.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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The passivist, strict constructionist, originalist answer must be: No. If states want to engage in affirmative action, such programs do not violate the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause, and they do not violate the intent of its Framers, who never envisioned affirmative action.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics 2009
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In the case of the former, you use that activist base both to raise money and to mobilize the more apathetic passivist base to get out and vote.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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In the case of the latter, you spend a lot of money on ads to either motivate at least some of the passivist base to get out and vote, or to actively suppress voter turnout through incessant negativity.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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In the case of the latter, you spend a lot of money on ads to either motivate at least some of the passivist base to get out and vote, or to actively suppress voter turnout through incessant negativity.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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The passivist, originalist, strict constructionist view must be: No. But Justices Rehnquist, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito consistently say: Yes.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics 2009
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Thus, in theory, originalists can be either activist or passivist, depending on their reading of the Framers 'intent in any specific situation.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives 2008
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