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[barking_iguana]

For those who haven't heard, McCain's suspending his campaign and calling for a postponement of the debate. There are several reasons why he might do that.

1. It might compress the debate schedule enough to eliminate the VP debate.
2. His campaign is short of money.
3. With the economy now the primary issue, the longer the active campaign period, the worse McCain will do.

But I doubt any of those are worth the predictable flack he will take for this. More likely, he needs to get away from TV cameras, pronto. Maybe it's just for nose surgery to treat skin cancer. But it could easily be something more serious.

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[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

It's really remarkable how weak their field was. They were hurt by many of their potential leaders having been part of a deeply unpopular administration. But surely there were folks outside the administration with a stronger pulse than Thompson who could have run. Even Gingrich would have been at least as strong as McCain, I think. But everyone figured this would be Hillary's year and stayed away.

[chemoelectric.livejournal.com]

When I say ‘stunning’, I mean it. I still fondly the remember the day that Randi Rhodes couldn’t stop laughing. I think it was after one of the comedy bits that the Randi Rhodes show people do; I think Randi gets to hear it for the first time when you do. So there was this bit, and it was about Giuliani, and it got her started belly laughing, and she just couldn’t stop, as she struggled to speak into the microphone, going through the lengthy tally of Rudolph Giuliani surpassing loserhood; stuff like the Kerik disaster, putting his emergency center in exactly the wrong spot, etc.