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  • Post-charismatic leadership: Can Olmert follow in the footsteps of Eshkol, Truman and Johnson?

    04/01/2006 11:10:33 PM PST · by anotherview · 4 replies · 320+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | 1 April 2006 | SHLOMO AVINERI
    Apr. 1, 2006 23:25 | Updated Apr. 2, 2006 8:18 Post-charismatic leadershipBy SHLOMO AVINERI Ehud Olmert is no Ariel Sharon. He lacks his military experience, his charismatic presence, his brutality and his frightening cunning. And Olmert's image as a sharp-tongued polemicist and wheeler-dealer has not exactly endeared him to the Israeli public. Yet he managed to step, albeit gingerly, into Sharon's shoes in the three months since the latter's incapacitation. Except for boasting, once, that the campaign had already been won - a statement that must have cost Kadima dearly - he did not make any mistakes in the difficult...