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...fact that Obama and Clinton face the challenge of being potential presidential firsts--African American and woman--I suspect neither Senator worries overmuch about those innate hurdles. Both have a more immediate and intimidating problem: each will spend the next year running against the most formidable living Democratic politician, Bill Clinton...
...Pelosi can pull it off, perhaps there's hope for another prominent female politician, whose White House ambitions have been dogged by an apparently immutable public image: Hillary Clinton. The last event of Pelosi's swearing-in celebrations is the renaming of the 200 block of Albemarle St., in Baltimore, as Via Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi. President Street is only a block away...
...well liked in Iowa, where polls show him ahead of three of his likely opponents, Clinton, John Kerry and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack. If Obama runs, his task will become much more difficult, since Edwards would then be competing against a politician with many of the same attributes - charisma, good looks, an idealistic message - and who is an even fresher face on the political scene. Of course, Edwards ran and lost as as the fresh face in 2004. Now he's hoping his experience and unorthodox style will be what helps him finish...
...That was a preposterous development in the career of a politician who had never run for office beyond the confines of the Fifth Congressional District of Michigan. In his first televised statement after his swearing-in, Ford acknowledged his anomalous status: "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots. So I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers...
...Assad regime." To capitalize on that opportunity, the document proposes a secret "election monitoring" scheme, in which "internet accessible materials will be available for printing and dissemination by activists inside the country [Syria] and neighboring countries." The proposal also calls for surreptitiously giving money to at least one Syrian politician who, according to the document, intends to run in the election. The effort would also include "voter education campaigns" and public opinion polling, with the first poll "tentatively scheduled in early...