Will President Obama fulfill his campaign pledge to "protect the middle class" or will he surrender to right-wing blackmail?
MR: [laughs] When you guys are creating the music, there's a point where you're all very accepting of the material that you bring into the process, like a surrender to it, right?
As spectacular and public as McCain's surrender to the right-wing crazies is, it did not tell voters anything new.
Representative Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota accuses Republican moderates of "abject surrender" to the "hard right wing".
While New York is "different," Mr. Bloomberg's victory should still serve as a warning to Republicans that continuing to surrender to the far right may soon prove a one-way ticket ride to political Palookaville.
Worse, Obama's abject surrender to Israel's right will embolden every anti-American group from Morocco to Indonesia.
Clearly nothing less than a complete Palestinian surrender to Israel's right to every last inch of historic Palestine will ever be acceptable to the Likudniks and religious fanatics who control Israel's government.
For those of you out there my age, and older, we elders might as well pack up our blankets, wave bye-bye to the younger set, and head for Inuit country, surrendering to death right here, and now.
This pair might look identical, but they couldn't be more different – and young bruiser Corin is delighted to surrender his right to the throne to his more responsible brother.
"He said that he was prepared to surrender rights to the mother, but not to a stranger," she said.
MPs who thought the PM had promised to surrender his right to call a general election whenever he chooses had to listen up to hear that, in fact, he will simply get his MPs to dissolve parliament rather than doing it all by himself.
