84% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% Chris Dodd
78% Barack Obama
77% Joe Biden
74% John Edwards
73% Hillary Clinton
73% Bill Richardson
39% Rudy Giuliani
35% John McCain
32% Ron Paul
25% Mike Huckabee
25% Mitt Romney
15% Fred Thompson
14% Tom Tancredo
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Not a huge surprise; though I’m actually furthest from Kucinich on his foreign policy positions, where he is (as far as I can tell) pretty isolationist.
Myself, I’ve been very much influenced by the Washington Post piece in October about who is advising the front-runners on foreign policy. Clinton and McCain have easily the most heavyweight lists of experts, but Obama’s list includes my former colleague Rob Malley and several others with whom I feel instinctively in sympathy – Samantha Power, Dick Clarke, Ivo Daalder. (The Edwards team seems surprisingly mil rather than pol in balance; perhaps they have been updated since?) It is of course wrong to assume that because X is advised by Y that X will share Y’s views; but if Y is someone whose judgement I respect, and has chosen to support X, that counts for something too.
It’s a long time since I flew Air France, but my experience of them in economy on a long haul flight (to Chile) was not good. I suspect their business class is much nicer, the same way it is with BA, but ESO won’t pay for that.
I may get to try Air New Zealand in a year or so, which will be interesting.
PS Which is the Korean airline that’s in the Star Alliance?