Presidential campaigns often spawn gossip unrelated to candidates' job-qualifications. Consider family members of Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson (who isn't a candidate but seems to play one on TV).
Case in point: Giuliani's daughter indicated at Facebook that she was a member of Barack Obama's Facebook group (Slate). Despite the serpent-tooth reputation of teenagers, she considerately left Obama's group yesterday. Giuliani's spokesperson said that being a member of Obama's group doesn't mean that the child supported Obama (Fox). Hmmm.
Moving onto Thompson: some people labeled his spouse Jeri a "trophy wife." Given that millions of beautiful women have married older men, is the Thompson's situation at all remarkable? For months, major media and bloggers thought it was -- rising to Jeri's defense by pointing to her lawyer-status as evidence of her brainpower (WaPo).
Yesterday's National Review and Washington Post countered the counter-point: Jeri does not have a law degree (ergo, she's not a lawyer). What's interesting is that the falsehood spread for months before being corrected.
Now let's move onto some real issues:
1. U.S. Officials Lost 190,000 Weapons in Iraq, Some may Be in Enemy Hands (BN-Politics).
2. President Bush & Some Republicans Shouted Soft-on-Terrorism to Bully Dems into Expanding Bush's Domestic-Spying Power (Washington Post).
3. Most Dems Didn't Fall for #2 (BN-Politics).
4. The Bill Passed Anyway, and Washington Post Blamed Ds but Didn't Boo Rs' over their Reprehensible Tactics (Washington Post).
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