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...elect him to another term of office before the general election returns a new legislature. But according to Pakistan's constitution, he can't run until he steps down from his role as head of the military - something he is showing no sign of doing. (Musharraf won a one-term waiver of this law five years ago, but that expires in November). The President has also been speaking with another exiled former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto - a fierce rival of Sharif - about sharing power after the election. Such a deal would win him more parliamentary support, but Bhutto faces outstanding...
...does the argument completely hold that unlimited re-election for Hugo would somehow create a destabilizing trend in Latin America. A chronic succession of caudillos, dictators and other strongmen in the region's history did lead it to embrace the one-term presidential limit for much of the latter 20th century. But in the past decade, five major South American countries, including the biggest, Brazil, have changed their constitutions to allow re-election; and one of them, Colombia, may even permit a third term...
...Illinois Governor George Ryan has become the focus of that state's current gubernatorial race in a quite different way. Both Democrat incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich and GOP challenger Judy Baar Topinka, the three-term state treasurer, are scrambling to show that their opponent most closely resembles the disgraced one-term Republican now facing six and a half years in federal prison for corruption and fraud...
...schmoozing is basically harmless if it doesn't affect what one writes - and if bloggers are re-inventing the journalist wheel, they're still getting around to that one. At the Q&A Warner held with bloggers after his speech, the questions were respectful and sincere. The first one was about whether Warner was correct in asserting that Iran is a greater threat to our national security than Pakistan. A better question might have been, how valuable is the opinion on such matters when it comes from a one-term governor of Virginia...
Following a lengthy New York Times Magazine profile of him in March that deemed him “the anti-Hillary,” political circles have been abuzz about the possibility that the one-term governor could emerge as a candidate in the Democratic primary...