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Well-rested with his typically impeccable coif, Mitt Romney is back on center stage. Fresh from a ten-day vacation at the Beijing Olympics, the former Massachusetts governor barreled through Denver Tuesday, crashing the Democratic convention with a barbed audition for his possible spot on the McCain ticket.
In part because there was a risk that voters might see the trip not as an audition but as a bold act of presumption, Obama spent much of the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip joined at the hip by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West...
The speech was the public capstone of a weeklong foreign trip that has amounted to an audition on the world stage for Obama. As such, it also sent a message to critics who say the 46-year-old freshman Senator from Illinois is not strong enough or experienced enough to...
For U.S. voters, the trip is a chance to gauge how a 46-year-old Senator with relatively little Washington experience might fare on the world stage. That was the promise in making such a high-profile tour in the middle of a tight presidential contest, but there was some...
He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled twelve-year-old in short pants, union card or no union card. ''Keep away from the...