There's never a whiff of authenticity, except maybe when Harry Dean Stanton appears for a cruelly brief bit part as a cranky local farmer.

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Mr Dean's partisanship has already forced all his rivals, except Mr Lieberman, to step up their own attacks on Mr Bush's foreign policy.

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That's what this bill will do -- except, as I said yesterday, there's two differences in what Dr. Dean was doing in 2004 and what President Obama is doing in 2009.

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