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The Kerry plan looks dangerously complicated and dirigiste -- no small thing when the Republicans spend half their time claiming he is really French.

Absent, still, from Mr Kerry's economic thinking is any sense of an overarching, unifying theme.

This pudding has no theme.

The candidate's backers promise that, over the coming weeks, with more economic utterances, such a theme will somehow emerge.

For now, though, Mr Kerry is no Bill Clinton.

You can say that again.

For now, though, Mr Kerry is no Bill Clinton.