But in politics appearances count, and this sort of thing spells danger for a president who is reaching out to voters of the middle ground.

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And I suppose in adversity we have to draw as much as a sort of milk of that positive human goodwill as we can and really count on that.

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Both are frontiersmen of a sort, both wear clothes that make them easy to identify and now they both count lassos among their essential tools.

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He is also seen as a good-hearted bumbler, whose administration fell because he couldn't count, and whose later attempt (as minister for constitutional affairs) to sort out the Quebec issue with the 1992 Charlottetown Accord failed in a referendum.

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