Word: charisma
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Stabenow, 50, positively glows charisma. Abraham, by comparison, can look a bit bug-eyed and pudgy. He often appears uncomfortable on the campaign trail. His strategist, Mike Murphy, the man who guided John McCain's presidential campaign, calls Abraham, 48, "made for radio." Murphy doesn't show the candidate's face much...
...writer-director, son of political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, lets his large, attractive cast display varieties of charisma and chicanery for an hour or so. Then he has everyone make speeches; it's as though a TV remote control had switched from The West Wing to the Lieberman-Cheney debate. All drama, not to mention insider dish, gets lost in the wind tunnel. By the end, The Contender is as edifying and stultifying as--what would the real-life equivalent be?--a Ralph Nader presidency...
...Stabenow, 50, positively glows charisma. Abraham, by comparison, can look a bit bug-eyed and pudgy. He often appears uncomfortable on the campaign trail. His strategist, Mike Murphy, the man who guided John McCain's presidential campaign, calls Abraham, 48, "made for radio." Murphy doesn't show the candidate's face much...
...popularity/credibility as a national gadfly. Perot had been doing his "great sucking sound" charts-and-graphs act on infomercials and on King's show, and he was aching for a shot at somebody in the pro-NAFTA Clinton administration, and delighted to get somebody as high up - and as charisma-deprived - as Gore...
...After years of courting military disasters, economic devastation and diplomatic isolation, Serbs were ready for a man decidedly lacking in charisma and historical ambition. Barred from broadcast media, Kostunica diligently drove from village to town, averaging five stops a day, speaking directly to the people. He wooed them with the prospect of being "normal" again, promising "a dull, average European country with an average economy, an average relationship with its neighbors, an average political life." When Milosevic's thugs pelted him with tomatoes and rocks at a campaign rally, he took a cut beneath the eye before retreating, then calmly...