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Presidential candidates must be salespeople of the first order. They take to the stump peddling their ideas and watch which issues catch voters' eyes and which ones leave them cold. The environment has always been one of those no-sale issues. In 2000, Al Gore couldn't even get heard on the subject--and his advisers told him to stop trying...
...careful not to betray any partiality (his U.S. meetings with the candidates are scheduled, with studied neutrality, to last 45 minutes apiece). Though instinctively a supporter of the Democrats, his free-trade instincts clash with the populist protectionism that both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are voicing on the stump. He recently welcomed John McCain to Downing Street. Brown's verdict on the Arizona Senator and Republican candidate for the White House: "He's good company...
...Brown betraying anxiety over his luggage? According to FBI agent Kelly Boaz's affidavit in federal court, Brown variously told the FBI that he planned to bomb a tree stump back home in Jamaica and that he wanted to show friends how to build explosive devices like the ones he saw while he says he was in the U.S. military in Iraq. Initial record checks by the FBI indicate Brown was in the U.S. legally, but have not yet confirmed that he was a military veteran. Brown has been charged with knowingly and willfully attempting to place or attempt...
...Lady. On a variety of domestic and international issues, information has emerged that calls into question the extent of Clinton's policy involvement in the 1990s. And she was recently embarrassed by revelations that a 1996 trip to Bosnia was far less dangerous and dramatic than in her campaign-stump retelling...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy among all American candidates to the White House, he certainly should be now. In comments to the press following their meeting at the Elysée Friday, McCain spoke in such high praise of Sarkozy that it seemed as though he was on the stump for the Frenchman's re-election rather than acting on his own political ambitions. Indeed, McCain was so laudatory of Sarkozy's actions and role in improving the ties between the two nations that he predicted "our relationship with France will continue improving now no matter who becomes President...