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HIs wife would never have made it through a political campaign

Of course she would have. The adrenelin flows and you put one foot in front of the other. She was young, and there's no doubt in my mind she had the stamina to face life on the campaign trail.

Campaigns at the federal level are so very very different that what you and I know about campaigning E. A federal candidate has 'handlers', drivers, schedulers, whateverers. A candidate and spouse just go where they're told to go, everything is taken care of for them.

The more I hear about this Kerry-meets-foreign-leaders flap, I think there's more to it than appears on the surface. (Warning: Long Post!)

The media are treating this as Kerry getting caught in an algore-type exaggeration. But I believe it's likely that Kerry HAS been getting feedback from foreign leaders. For over a year now, the Dems' major foreign policy platform has been "repairing relations with our allies".

I've been harping on this for months, but remember the October 23rd article in Aftenposten, Norway's leading newspaper?

Norway's Labour Party is joining other European social democrats in linking up with the Democrats in the US. The goal is to be prepared with common strategies if a majority of them on both sides of the Atlantic come back to power.
A group of European social democrats, led by former British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, met last week with several top Democratic politicians and party officials. They included US senators Hilary Clinton and Joseph Biden.
They also had meetings with Ron Klain of presidential candidate Wesley Clark's campaign, and Stan Greenberg, former US President Bill Clinton's campaign strategist in 1992.
On the agenda was European concern over current US foreign policy and the effects of globalization.

I was listening to the news about Kerry's "gaffe" this morning when...up pops Biden...and I instantly thought of this article. Is Biden the conduit to foreign leaders? I honestly believe the Dems are coordinating strategy with Euro leaders to undermine U.S. policy. (Twice since that Norway meeting the Euros have placed tarrifs on products from ELECTORALLY IMPORTANT STATES, Florida and Pennsylvania.) I'm beginning to think the White House also has its suspicions.