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For those more interested in the issues that will face a future American president than in the minute discussion of Michigan and Florida etc, is worth a look. I cannot imagine a similar sentiment from any responsible person in the US.

I am in Missoula, Montana - a long flight with a change in Minneapolis, but sadly no time to use the famous men's bathrooms - to see the governor; I can't see him biting on the idea of talks with bin Laden but it might be an ice-breaker. It would certainly give him some dinner party conversation, "had these crazies in from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - wanted to know if I'd talk to Bin Laden... !"

All the talk about Scott McClellan (was he in the loop; has he gone loopy; etc etc) has distracted people from the simple, devastating fact that a man whose entire professional life was built around President George W Bush now finds the man deeply unattractive.

As usual, Peggy Noonan hits the nail on the head when she says of McClellan: "The implication of his assertions and anecdotes is that Mr Bush is vain, narrow, out of his depth and coldly dismissive of doubt, of criticism and of critics." The .

The president has been misunderestimated many times in the past but the McClellan attack is wounding. McCain will be looking to point out that the Iraq war he wants to win will be his war, fought in his manner - not the leftovers of a disaster disowned by many of its keenest protagonists.

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