And basically to distract, I think, attention from that and to change the subject.
One can imagine Putin wanting to change the subject from his backtracking from democracy at home.
P. pick now might give the Romney team a chance to change the subject.
The Obama campaign replied principally by trying to change the subject back to Bain.
He took every opportunity to change the subject to economics and the woes of the average American.
Ian Willmore from Ash described the news as a "rather transparent government attempt to change the subject".
And in circumstances like that, there are efforts made -- sometimes desperate efforts made to change the subject.
The IRS seems to have followed his orders, so no wonder he is trying to change the subject.
The easiest way to regain ground may be to change the subject and to go slow on reform.
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Mr Clinton frequently preached about the importance of personal character before the Lewinsky affair forced him to change the subject.
To change the subject entirely from business, economics or even the passing news, how about a book recommendation for the weekend?
With the foreign-funded Palestinian terror machine on the verge of being delegitimized, something had to be done to change the subject.
First, it was supposed to change the subject of the electoral campaign.
By creating a distraction he would be able to change the subject in a manner that would enable him to maintain those policies.
Obama accused the McCain campaign of focusing on political attacks in an attempt to change the subject from the issues voters want to hear about.
There's no question that we have to change the subject here.
Critics suggest the president is trying to change the subject from 1996 Democratic campaign abuses -- many of them linked to prominent Clinton supporters and fund-raisers.
"He is also trying to change the subject from his miserable speech last week, from his gaffe that the private economy is doing fine, " Romney added.
But Mr Bauer's keenness to change the subject suggests that the religious right is not the source of intellectual and emotional energy that it used to be.
Ministers tried to change the subject to their longer-term record.
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How can you, within 24 hours, try to change the subject to tax returns when you keep saying you want to talk about jobs, you want to talk about Medicare?
After I took up with Colleen and she wanted me to leave Manhattan and move into her house in Scarsdale, I resisted, punted, tried, as men often do, to change the subject.
While Starr will be bringing Lewinsky and the President before the grand jury--and then penning his final report--members of Congress will be out on the trail, working hard to change the subject.
And as Clinton, Kerry, Gates and Hamilton all make clear, the administration's policy for dealing with those dangers is to change the subject and hope the American public won't notice or mind.
Professor GARY SICK (Middle East Institute, Columbia University): First of all, to change the subject as much as possible from Iraq, which is a catastrophe, to Iran, which is not yet a catastrophe.
That's part of every campaign, and it's often the result of one side trying to change the subject when they're losing the debate on the substantive policy issues that matter most to the American people.
But today the president suggested it was Republicans like House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- who this weekend called for an investigation of alleged Democratic violations of campaign law -- who want to change the subject.
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