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Still, an opportunity for reconciliable Sunnis to turn from the insurgency to participation in the government does not appear to be near. Last week, Iraq's presidential council blocked a proposal for new provincial elections, sending the measure back to the parliament for reconsideration. So U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul are left to slog on against the insurgency rooted there without the prospect of a change in the political dynamic that might alter the situation in the way the tribal revolt in Anbar Province against al Qaeda in Iraq did last year...
...didn't even really care," Huckabee told me about his grade school opponent, as we drove through Des Moines in January of 2007. "He didn't even want to be on the student council. His friends put him up to it at the last minute to be funny. And I was really serious about it. He wasn't. And I thought, golly, what a deal...
...Mike Huckabee was no athlete. He didn't have money for nice clothes and felt awkward among his classmates. But ambition fueled him. Though no man in his family had ever finished high school, he aspired to be a leader. So in the seventh grade he ran for student council, against a popular football player...
...ridiculous conditions: sleepless weeks of unending town hall meetings, airplane flights, conference calls and attacks on their character, not to mention the microscopic glare of the carnivorous press always predicting their coming demise. For Huckabee, the tale that keeps him going has its roots before puberty, in that student council election. He still sees himself as he was then, the outsider with the skill and determination to out-hustle the world's popular kids...
...miracle never came, but his career in public life is sure to continue. As he explained to me in Iowa, he ended up losing that student council election in seventh grade to the popular football player. But that never slowed him down. It only made him work harder. "There was always," he said, "something deep in me that knew I am going to have to work really hard to get up to where the other kids are." At the age of 52, Huckabee is not done...