Indeed, until recently there were few local or state politicians willing to criticize him publicly.

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Bradley is a good person and I'm not going to criticize him on a personal level, but I think that is a policy mistake.

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The political parties are going to criticize him for having waited for seven months in which there could have been many alternative way of ending this siege.

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"It was difficult for them to support what he had done, but at the same time, because of their affection and loyalty for the senator, they did not want to appear to criticize him, " Fischer said.

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You are free to criticize him, to find his personal conduct distasteful, but ask whether this is the moment when, for the first time in our history, the actions of a president have so put at risk the government the framers created that there is only one solution.

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Vagueness about his housing policy preferences is a good political tactic for Romney because it allows him to criticize the president without having to either espouse more conservative positions, which will alienate some voters, or champion centrist positions, which will make criticism of the president appear hypocritical.

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Drinking coffee in the refuge of a Riyadh hotel room, Enazy says the government has warned him not to criticize the kingdom's religious establishment.

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Chavez threatens to throw out foreigners who criticize him.

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The fact that Ryan was willing to take a position on Medicare endeared him to many since taxpayers were growing weary of those in Congress who were willing to criticize the current system but not offer up an alternative.

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