11.   Skeptics see only uncertainty.

12.   Skeptics may see American politics as one reason for the interest in Africa.

13.   Skeptics see his speech on secularizing Israel as populist rhetoric for short-term political gain.

14.   Skeptics also see ethanol as a clever excuse for spending hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize one agribusiness conglomerate, Archer Daniels Midland Co. of Decatur, Ill.

15.   Skeptics see him as overrated and overhyped.

16.   Such steps could blunt support for Republican proposals, which skeptics already see as having consequences businesses might not like.

17.   To be sure, local skeptics may see it as a long shot, but so what?