When you look at Trump, there are three things going on: policies; character and temperament; and executive or administrative functioning.
By and large, they achieved all three, thanks partly to those veterans.Because presidential elections are decided less on policy than character, it was necessary in Boston to link some part of Mr Kerry's personal experience with what he stands for.
Benoit also looked at whether Obama and Romney's acclaims and attacks had focused on policy or character issues.
Although Kim manages to parry questions of policy, his character is held up to ridicule, which is no news around the world but a shock to his subjects.
What started as a laudable if ambitious simplification of the welfare system has since been undermined by a toxic mix of hyperbole about what it will achieve, predictable IT bungling and, crucially, a series of stealth cuts that are changing the policy's character in advance of it coming to fruition.
"This is a below-the-belt trashing of a president of the United States -- not on policy, but character assassination".
As the presidential race heats up, all candidates will be judged on questions of policy and character.
All Democrats should worry because her major policy and character flaws could leave us with a Republican president this fall.
The Independent on Sunday is not going to advise you, the reader, how to vote, but we hope that people will decide how to cast their votes on the basis of policies and character rather than insults, cheap shots and scare-mongering.
Despite his eloquent testimonials to the need for a free press, Jefferson was outraged by the persistent attacks on his policies and character from those quarters, and he instructed the attorneys general in the recalcitrant states to seek indictments, in clear violation of his principled commitment to freedom of expression.
