brownnosing

You may also know it as "brownnosing", but I'm not sure that's polite in the current circumstances.

Somali pirates, U.S. crew, Rush Limbaugh, and Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2009

Already, Obama's deepened the debt by unGodly factors, and has endangered our soldiers abroad through his muslim brownnosing .... and you say Bush did nothing?

President Obama back on the fundraising circuit 2009

For all Romney's parsing and brownnosing, he ended up with a pathetic 4 percent in the Value Voters straw poll.

Michael Sigman: Note to GOP: Sometimes an Opinion Isn't Just an Opinion Michael Sigman 2011

To be accepted meant instant popularity, but scoring the invite took an insane amount of brownnosing.

FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

To be accepted meant instant popularity, but scoring the invite took an insane amount of brownnosing.

FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

To be accepted meant instant popularity, but scoring the invite took an insane amount of brownnosing.

FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

To be accepted meant instant popularity, but scoring the invite took an insane amount of brownnosing.

FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF Jo Whittemore 2010

And the moderates who admired the circa 2000 McCain were appalled by his brownnosing the right-wing in 2008.

"The last candidate for president of the United States from a major party that will take public financing was me." Ann Althouse 2009

At the same time, though, when I read the account in Figaro, it doesn't mention Sarkozy blowing up or anything, so perhaps the French just took it as a bit of smarmy American brownnosing of a global elder statesman or something.

Does Obama not know who's president of France? Or is he intentionally insulting Sarkozy? Ann Althouse 2009

Just starting to think a bit about all the caning of any Apple venture and all the MS brownnosing going on in Wired .......

doggdot.us 2008