He says he has nothing against McCain, but he sees a kindred spirit in Obama.

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Enter Sam (Johnny Depp), a hopeless case with a taste for clowning and magic who finds a kindred spirit in Joon.

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Yet they embrace Obama and see him as a kindred spirit, as much as do the dynamists in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

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Perhaps Pope John Paul II, who faced down Communism in Poland, saw a kindred spirit in Bishop Bergoglio when he made him a cardinal.

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Mr James was captain of Glamorgan when Mr Fletcher coached the team, and as a young player he spent winters in Zimbabwe where he discovered Mr Flower to be a kindred spirit.

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Notwithstanding the fact that the Chinese recognised a kindred spirit in the media mogul his opaque, family-run News Corporation reminded them of one of their own state firms Mr Murdoch has found China tough going.

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Early in the book, Kavenna describes her meeting with a kindred spirit, the philosopher and mountaineer Arne Naess, who mourns the loss of the personal relationship to nature once offered by living in the far north under the heaven of stars.

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In October 1991, she married for the eighth time - to construction worker Larry Fortensky - in an opulent ceremony in the grounds of the ranch owned by pop megastar Michael Jackson - a close confidante and kindred spirit.

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Aged in 25-year Irish whiskey barrels from Teeling Whiskey Company, Kindred Spirit was a smokey black beer with a subtle hint of oak and whiskey.

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In response, the FBI in mid-1996 opened a criminal investigation at Los Alamos under the code name Kindred Spirit.

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