"Politicians are using this issue to distract us from the bigger issues – the corruption, the crisis, the economy of this country".
The administration will finesse the issue to distract the public from the larger point: the administration is inclined to trust flimsy or even false evidence if it supports an agenda.
"Those who do not wish to do that are making a choice that is an unfortunate one in my mind, to politicize every issue, to distract from what is important".
A prosecutor, John Murphy, said the panel members should not consider Mr. Hamdan's cooperation, "however slight," and suggested that the defense had raised the issue to distract the panel members' attention from Mr. Hamdan's guilt.
Old lags of health reform suggest that some in Congress want to pick a fight over the public plan issue to distract from other, bigger reforms in the works.One of those is the once controversial notion of an individual "mandate" to purchase insurance.
A loonie idea Opposing worlds Calderón the campaigner ReprintsEven if some Argentines believe that Ms Fernández is using the issue to distract attention from approaching economic problems, most back the demand for sovereignty over the islands, which have been a British territory since 1833.
A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, strongly denied the accusation, saying that Fatah was raising the issue to distract attention from the fact that it remained on the sidelines and did not challenge Israel during the three weeks of fighting in Gaza.
"Since the mayor has never been as feisty about issues such as getting our fair share of resources from Albany and Washington, we can only assume that he's directing so much energy toward this issue to distract from the fact that he's planning to spend $100 million on his own re-election campaign," Forrest R. Taylor, Mr. Miller's chief of staff, said in a written statement.
Analysts say Mr Morsi could be using the issue to distract attention from severe domestic political and economic challenges.
