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From Wednesday's Globe and Mail:

The rumour mill is churning out some pretty big names as a possible replacement for American ambassador David Jacobson: Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor; Christine Gregoire, former governor of Washington state; Olympia Snowe, the recently retired Republican senator from Maine; and UN ambassador Susan Rice. Perhaps, but not likely.

As Brian Bow, a political scientist at Dalhousie University who specializes in Canada-U.S. relations, observes, we’re just not in that league.

“The fact that we even play this guessing game tells us something about our own exaggerated sense of our importance,” he said Tuesday in an interview. “…We have a hard time reconciling ourselves to the fact that we’re going to get a party bagman or woman.”

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