One unsigned comment called the candidate "inwardly a frightened person who sees himself as weak and threatened by strong virile power around him," and added that "his call for aggressiveness and the need for individual strength and prerogatives is an attempt to defend himself against and to deny his feelings of weakness".
"I think the president himself has been unbelievably bending in the direction of trying to be careful about what happens to national security, protecting our national security interests, being very sensitive about the C.I.A.'s prerogatives and needs and so forth," Mr. Kerry said Sunday in an interview on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" on ABC.
He said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the administration does not "want to abridge anyone's religious freedoms, so we're going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions".
"We're going to look for a way to move forward that both guarantees women that basic preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions," David Axelrod, who left the White House to work on Obama's reëlection campaign, said.
"We certainly don't want to abridge anyone's religious freedoms, so we're going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions," David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama's re-election campaign, said on Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe".
"We certainly don't want to abridge anyone's religious freedoms, so we're going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions," Mr. Axelrod said.
Instead, most liberal theorists envision the need for authoritative international and global institutions that modify significantly the powers and prerogatives traditionally attributed to the sovereign state.
As Utah governor from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Leavitt championed states' rights and prerogatives.
They're just interested in protecting their own power and prerogatives.
He is, they argue, a smart, genteel and assiduous protector of its power and prerogatives.
