How the US views Darrell Dexter

[caption id="attachment_7878" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Nice guy, as socialists go"][/caption] When Darrell Dexter's New Democrats swept to power in 2009, it fell to Harold D. Foster, the US Consul General in Halifax, to profile the new premier for his State Department colleagues. His assessment, in a cable sent one week after Dexter's government took office, was among the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks Thursday. Moneyquote: Dexter is highly regarded by friends and political foes alike as a nice, down-to-earth kind of guy who has the interests of his constituents at heart. However, his victory came about primarily through his skill as a...