For the first time in decades, the U.S. is in uncharted waters in the proverbial boat without a paddle.

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The architect of his country's United Nations diplomacy, he was left up the creek without a paddle by Jacques Chirac.

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And the grand plan of shoehorning Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall into office looks like going down the river without a paddle.

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Winston Price, president-elect of the National Medical Association, an African-American physicians group, said that the current system--where patients might go to the doctor but then cannot afford drugs--is akin to sending people upstream in a canoe without a paddle.

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