Well I think that it is the most important elctionfor a VP ever. The fact is that she would become president of the USA if he died, and as John CLeese put it, John McCain is a 72 year old cancer survivor!
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Sun 19 Oct 2008, 23:24,
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spose, if they were to concentrate purely on the president and not their running matethen the vp is essentially a non-elected bureaucrat like dick cheney, ie powerful but not really accountable?
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doph no time like the precedent,
Sun 19 Oct 2008, 23:29,
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