Press corners risk being beaten for long gains on every down, so the position requires the guts and short memory of a closer in baseball, or perhaps a door-to-door salesman.
Very little about the Republicans' government shutdown strategy made sense from a national political point of view; for once in my short memory of the Tea Party, its members seemed to be truly acting out of conviction and not at the whim of economic forces, or because they sought to solidify a political legacy.
In Act I, or "The Laughably Short Memory of the Media," the Media Chorus announces loudly and with great alarum that the nation is on the very brink of the Fiscal Cliff.
Washington's political class is apparently counting on the short memory of the electorate: it is barely a month and a half since we withdrew the last combat forces from Iraq, and already we have incessant agitation over Iran.
The failure to recognize the short memory of the American people and a belief that Americans would seek out an explanation of the administration's economic plan on the Internet has left people blaming Obama for the economic meltdown, which started long before he thought about being president, and labeling him as out of touch with Main Street.
I also more than suspect, based on her record as a Senator and the record of the Clinton administration, that there are a number of areas where Senator Clinton is more likely to disappoint us and I am surprised at the short memory of my friends and colleagues who are supporting Senator Clinton.
Fans sauntered by, silently, and wrote short memories of Earnhardt on it.
Just a note about the oddly short memories of many people commenting on this final stretch of the presidential campaign.
These are fictional characters shaped by the predilections, prejudices and short memories of the media and the electorate.
They believe the business will continue to thrive – thanks to the short memories of ministers and officials, stricter laws about security guards that should make outsourcing more attractive, and the UK's irrelevance when billions can be made elsewhere.
