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Gil Troy Quoted in Macleans

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Macleans, Megapundit, July 23, 2003
“There’s a fine line between pragmatism and cynicism,” L. Ian MacDonald writes in the Montreal Gazette, and Barack Obama “runs a risk of crossing it” with his pronounced lurch to the centre of the political spectrum—particularly since he has so many gosh-darned earnest supporters on the leftmost flanks of the Democratic [...]

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Obama’s World Tour: Seeking Nuance and Passion

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HNN, July 23, 2003
Historians are trained to bristle at the term “unprecedented.” We watch journalists hyperventilate and hype stories as we acknowledge we have seen it all before with a world-weary sigh. But Barack Obama’s whirlwind world tour is certainly un… usual. True, senators travel all the time, jetting around the world with more zeal [...]

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On Obama in The Montreal Gazette

Posted in Moderates, Presidents, US Presidential Campaign, tagged , , , , , on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Barack Obama’s mad rush toward the middle
The Democrat is following a well-trod path to moderation on the political stage
L. IAN MACDONALD, The Montreal Gazette, Wednesday, July 23, 2008
…There’s a fine line between pragmatism and cynicism, and Obama runs a risk of crossing it, especially since he started out as the candidate of hope and change.
But [...]

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