Word: statesmanly
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Ventura says he thinks differently about politics and makes a point of calling himself a statesman, not a politician...
...terms in the Senate, he seems to be friends with all of Massachusetts’ six million residents. Over the course of his 42 year Senate career, Kennedy has become a prominent liberal legislator—fighting for civil rights and affordable health care—and a senior statesman in the Democratic Party. He inherited the role from his two older brothers, President John F. Kennedy ’40 and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy ’48, after they were both assassinated...
...leader in Iraq, according to the ICRSS survey, was the country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Also high up: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a leader of the Shiite Dawa party named as one of two vice-presidents in the new administration, and Adnan Pachachi, the Sunni elder statesman and preferred presidential candidate of the U.S. who was offered the post but turned it down in the face of objections from some the Iraqi Governing Council...
...Iraq he seems to be making a political calculation about a profound moral issue (stay silent while Bush is hanging himself ). A basic rule for Kerry should be: Anything that makes him seem like a politician is bad, no matter how efficacious; anything that makes him seem like a statesman is good, no matter how risky...
...reasonable person would wager that the last place Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would ever want to revisit would be North Korea. The first time he went, in September 2002, Koizumi intended to show his skill and stature as an international statesman. That backfired spectacularly when Kim Jong Il confessed unrepentantly that North Korea had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s?and had no intention of allowing the five survivors to return home. The Japanese public was outraged, the fate of the kidnap victims became Koizumi's biggest headache, and the issue cramped Japan's ability...