Mutual dislike and political disagreement, something that goes on every day of the week in politics, has been given legs by its treatment as essentially female behaviour.
An emasculating runway gimmick that is as appealing as haggis but has been given legs this fall by labels like Comme des Garçons and Rick Owens, as in, 'Is Marc Jacobs channeling Jean Paul Gaultier or 'Braveheart' with his kilt?
Tony Blair told me that John Smith's alternative budget had "given legs" to the Conservatives' fraudulent claim that the shadow chancellor was about to explode a tax "bombshell" among the middle classes.
The Sherrod story was given legs via a conservative website and summarily carried out as a legitimate news story by varying news outlets.
That story went 'round the world, even picked up by the Singapore Straits Times, given legs by the irony of Mr. Bush getting assistance from the very doctor who had been regaling the Board minutes before.
Harkening back to the days of Victory Gardens (but not calling it that), it seems that the first lady's garden has given legs to a movement of garden-fresh food, and those who've followed in her footsteps are making an investment in a delicious future.
