Soundbites from Inkless Wells

[bcholmes]

"Remember when Paul Martin was charismatic? I may be wrong about his other flaws (that's false modesty, by the way: I'm not wrong about his other flaws), but this much is certain: his charismatic days are gone and they are never coming back."

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"Now, I bow to nobody except perhaps Stéphane Dion in my admiration for Stéphane Dion [...]

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"This post was a long prelude to tonight's events, when John Edwards will deploy a patently exaggerated Carolina drawl and extend the week's ridiculous Democratic line — the world is divided into dividers and uniters, and the Republicans are the dividers — in the near-certainty he will be judged charismatic when it's over."

-- Inkless Wells is more hesitant than most to label Barack Obama "charismatic"