There are certainly two reasons for supposing that the positive-thinking governor is more in touch with reality than his gloomy electors.
While Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and others trying to guide the EU out of the gutter have been forced to sound overly optimistic, the Economic and Financial Committee appears to be more in touch with reality, taking into the account the possibility of a renewed crisis in the financial sector that could reverberate into the real economy.
The cartoonish impression of Biden that exists on the far right (and in the Onion) is way out of touch with reality, and Paul Ryan would do well to not be overconfident.
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The problem with many corporations these days is that executives, with their exorbitant salaries, have lost touch with marketplace realities and grown complacent in their own reality shows.
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Maybe just this once he should skip his never-ending weekend appearances on the Sunday talk shows and spend some time sitting in the corner thinking about how he has lost touch with reality and what it really means to be loyal to the United States Constitution and the principles for which it stands.
In a different way, he is as out of touch with reality as are the drug warriors.
But critics suggest he is out of touch with the reality of Egypt and lacking in political experience.
His offence was slight: he had accused the party leadership of being out of touch with reality and of running the organisation in a most undemocratic manner.
Unfortunately, the story fuels the perception of out-of-touch athletes living for the moment, out of touch with reality and frittering away money they will need later on in life.
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In recent days, John Brennan has made comments that make plain how dangerously out of touch with reality he is.
On the other hand if they duck the issue and overlook the sentiment in the market and the rating agencies then the IMF will be slammed as being out of touch with reality.
To put it kindly, whoever crafted those statements must be out of touch with the reality that is now catching up with the quasi-theocratic regimes (in other words, situations where religion is immune from state power, and has power of its own) which persist across Europe.
Kerry's determined effort to savage his record, undermine public support for his efforts to consolidate the liberation of Iraq and promote the idea that Mr. Bush is out of touch with reality about the latter being part of the war on terror and the progress being made in it.
"I think the people at the upper echelon of the FCC have lost touch with reality, " says Andrew Seybold, editor of The Outlook, a wireless industry newsletter based in Boulder Creek, Calif.
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