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A few days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. "I want somebody ... who shares...
John McCain's campaign has been working overtime to ridicule Barack Obama as "the One," the rock-star celebrity with adoring fans, the politician with the chutzpah to announce his candidacy in a speech about Abraham Lincoln. So it was a bit surprising to watch the opening of McCain's...
Bush made the announcement after a morning of "rolling meetings" with national security advisers. These started at 8 a.m. with his daily intelligence briefing, which became a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC). Bush spoke to French President Nicolas Sarkozy at 10 a.m., then made his announcement in the...
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I must have remembered those picketers, because even in the daze of the moment my thoughts turned immediately to our driver. At the station before Queensway, Lancaster Gate, he had broken from protocol to announce to the pranksters holding up the doors not...
A bout of soul searching is also due for the longstanding main opposition Sam Rainsy Party, which, after a strong showing in the 2003 national election, only managed an increase of two seats, to 26, on July 27. Three smaller parties took a combined total of seven seats, though official...