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  • As much as I think Paul Martin is a grandstander and a gladhander - not quite Clintonesque, but aspiring - I do agree with much of what he says.

    debate 2005

  • Not a gladhander and backslapper like Paul, nor a comfortable speaker before the assembled -- I think Paul could have given a speech anywhere, anytime, without preamble or preparation -- Mark needed to draw on his deepest reserves of resolve and his considerable intellect and sensibilities of human need to make up the difference.

    A Quiet Excellence: an A+ 2006

  • Jonathan remembers him as a gladhander, somebody with lots of friends.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Don’t Cry for Me, New Republic 2006

  • But if it were “just” illegal for Catholics to vote, I would rather have a politician saying “your loyalty is divided so no vote for you, Papist loser” than some gladhander taking my money but secretly believing the same damn thing.

    Homo-Hating On The Left And On The Right 2006

  • This was the gladhander who hated the EPA so much she had "endangered-salmon bakes," in which she served canned salmon and ripped the EPA ban on fishing Idaho's wild salmon.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • This was the gladhander who hated the EPA so much she had "endangered-salmon bakes," in which she served canned salmon and ripped the EPA ban on fishing Idaho's wild salmon.

    Environment Hater Killed by Environment Killer Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • As much as I think Paul Martin is a grandstander and a gladhander - not quite Clintonesque, but aspiring - I do agree with much of what he says.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • In a videotaped interview from three days after the shooting, Rogers was the charismatic gladhander Stoen would later describe him as -- even while detailing his loathing for Alan Simon.

    North Coast Journal Comments 2010

  • Weathers, 67, is an affable gladhander who comfortably segues in and out of topics ranging from his connections to big-name boxers such as Evander Holyfield, top-rated televised bouts he's arranged, a personal legal battle with Don King, and his own underground career in the

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • Weathers, 67, is an affable gladhander who comfortably segues in and out of topics ranging from his connections to big-name boxers such as Evander Holyfield, top-rated televised bouts he's arranged, a personal legal battle with Don King, and his own underground career in the

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

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