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Mr. Obama had been forthright on the campaign trail about Detroit's past, its dependence on gas-guzzling trucks and its reluctance to change.

And it has even won over Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American everyman who won brief celebrity in the presidential campaign for his forthright views as "Joe the Plumber".

Bill de Blasio, the city's ombudsman, campaigned as a forthright leftist; he trounced his Republican rival by 73% to 24%.

Her congressional campaign slogan was as forthright as she was: "Unbossed and Unbought".

Similarly, Mr. Lieberman was and is a major advocate of campaign finance reform who was forthright in criticizing Democratic fund-raising abuses in 1996.

Indeed, Mitt has been evading and retreating from just about any direct or forthright statements or positions during his entire campaign.

"It always makes my heart sink when a woman speaks out against women bishops," says Christina Rees, a forthright and formidable Anglican who has been campaigning for equality in the Church of England since the 1980s.

The biggest failing of both parties in this presidential campaign has been the unwillingness to be forthright with the public about the true extent of the crises facing the country.

Asked if he regretted supporting the president, he said, "I regret that some of the answers to important questions weren't more forthright and that there wasn't more adherence to campaign rhetoric".

For the Hearts manager Robbie Neilson, the display was perplexing, since the team was not as forthright as it has so often been in this campaign.

Days after Al Gore conceded on Dec. 13, he and Bill Clinton had what aides described today as a tense and forthright White House conversation about what went wrong in the presidential campaign and who was to blame.