WASHINGTON -- With his flaccid debate performance against Republican Mitt Romney in the rear-view mirror, President Obama spent his travels Thursday saying things he probably wishes he'd said on stage – including a rejoinder to the Romney line about Big Bird.
By way of rejoinder, his personal Web site includes a 1973 quotation that he attributes to Vladimir Nabokov.
It also includes this rejoinder: "This is, obviously, a far cry from clinical programs designed to provide educational opportunities while benefiting impoverished or underprivileged segments of society for which legal services are not readily available".
The chief justice's responses to Mr. Carvin included such rejoinders as "I don't think that's fair" and "I don't think you're addressing their main point, which is that they are not creating commerce in health care.
Shortly thereafter, an Apple press conference attended by TechCrunch provided a rejoinder from two Apple executives, including General Counsel Bruce Sewell, who said that "the tone of the brief reads like an indictment".
And he referred to Russia's desire for an indivisible Europe, a rejoinder to Washington's expansion of NATO to include former Soviet satellite countries.
A rejoinder to this proposal is how could 300 or so individuals, including about 200 bishops (depending on how many actually attend), develop such a document in one short week?
"Witness testimony led us to conclude that someone in the room made a rejoinder about Vice President Biden to General McChrystal's comment, and that the rejoinder may have included the words 'bite me.' " The White House and General McChrystal have taken steps recently to make amends.
Implicitly a rejoinder to the polyester charms of Don Ho and "Hawaii Five-0," it was at heart a willful reclamation of native arts, including musical traditions like ki ho'alu, or slack-key guitar.
Iran swiftly issued a rejoinder.
