His Yemeni roots (he was the leader of the Azd in Khurasan), however, made him unpalatable to the Caliph.
Presumably, Brennan's involvement in high-profile misdeeds like torture, extrajudicial imprisonment, and intellectually dishonest analysis ultimately made him unpalatable to the Obama transition team.
This might make him unpalatable to either side, but if he can thread the needle he could appeal to both sides.
His isolationist foreign-policy and radical view of civil liberties (he believes civil-rights legislation is an unwarranted government intrusion, for example) make him unpalatable to most Republicans.
Mr. Tsongas had kind words for a fellow Massachusetts resident, Gov. William F. Weld, but said Mr. Weld's moderate stands on social issues would make him unpalatable to some of his fellow Republicans.
That's Roemer's other problem, aside from the lack of exposure: free from the confines of money, he's crafted a platform that's largely appealing to most people but contains enough apostasies to make him unpalatable to base voters from either party.
Patrice Nganang, a professor of cultural theory in the U.S. who has championed Mr. Meyomesse's cause, speculates that the government deliberately filed criminal charges because it had learned from the Teyou affair that libel charges invited international pressure, while criminal charges would dirty Mr. Meyomesse's name and make him unpalatable for advocacy.
But when McCain said, "I'm not President Bush," I couldn't help but think that he was wrestling with the inescapable fact that his Faustian bargain -- moving to the right and backing Bush for most of the last eight years so he could win the GOP nomination for the presidency -- was now exacting its toll, making him unpalatable to too many voters in the general election.
Most universities, which actually might have a strong case if they claimed faculty works as "works made for hire," long since decided that the obvious ill-will and hassle that would attend such claims made them unpalatable.
For instance, plants that were not treated with insecticide had increases in the frequencies of genotypes associated with higher levels of toxic chemicals in the fruits, which made them unpalatable to seed predator moths.
NEWS Despite widespread suspicions that the BBC host Jimmy Savile was a prolific pedophile, police forces were unable to connect the dots, and his powerful connections made pursuing allegations against him unpalatable.
