>>>Don't you see the distinction between what one has done him/herself and what people they know have done or said?
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>>>The "no resume" and "inexperieced" labels have stuck with a lot of voters but again I disagree. 10 years of legislative experience (in a big state, not a lightly populated remote one) is far from no experience.
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>>Remoteness is in the eye of the beholder. Would you believe that all those remote Balkan issues were very local to me?
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>Oh, are you from around there? ;-) HOW COULD WE EVER FORGET?! lol
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>I meant Alaska is remote from the rest of the U.S., silly. I'm sure there's quite a story in how it became a state.

And I meant that when you're Alaskan, there are some 49 remote states :). It's all in the eye of the beholder.

...and, btw... Nicholas, a question regarding this. When there's a heavy fog on the Channel, do the British newspapers still report that "the continent is cut off"?