Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (n.) is the general the West frowns at in public and phones in private.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (n.) is a coup that learned to hold elections.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (n.) is a president who built a new capital so the old one could not surround him.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (n.) is a man who calls for dialogue in every country except his own.
Abraham Lincoln (n.) is a man whom it never occurs to some politicians is worth imitating as well as quoting.
Abraham Lincoln (n.) is a filthy storyteller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.
Abraham Lincoln (n.) is a huckster in politics; a first-rate second-rate man.
Abraham Lincoln (n.) is the leanest, lankest, most ungainly mass of legs and arms and hatchet face ever strung on a single frame. He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege, which all politicians have, of being ugly.
Adam Hamilton (n.) is a candidate who sells centrism the way churches sell faith: come as you are, bring a check.
Adam Hamilton (n.) is the Methodist who discovered the swing voter sits in the back pew.
Adam Hamilton (n.) is a minister who left the pulpit for the one job with less security.
Adam Hamilton (n.) is what a sermon on the middle way looks like with a yard sign.
Aden Duale (n.) is the minister who answers the question he wishes he had been asked.
Aden Duale (n.) is a combative loyalist who can make a briefing sound like a rally.
Aden Duale (n.) speaks in the confident tense of a man who has not seen tomorrow's lab results.
Aden Duale (n.) is a politician who treats every portfolio as a stage with a different backdrop.