cbs 20080901 REPCONV1
This continues to be the weirdest convention season I've ever seen.   This is DR, this week from the Republican convention.
For example we had a correspondent for a Christian network joke about praying for a rainout of Barack Obama's big speech, and now it's the Republican convention being delayed by the weather.
Then John McCain upstages the democrats with his surprise vice presidential pick, only to to find himself forced off the front page by an even bigger surprise, that being the second -- or is it the third -- hundred year storm to head for the Gulf Coast in the last three years.
He had no choice but to cancel the the first day of the convention so he could head to Mississippi to make sure everything was running smoothly:
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OK, but wait a second -- is he in charge already?  Shouldn't President Bush get another crack at it?
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He's still just the Senator from Arizona, right?  I believe the actual guy in charge is FEMA director David Paulison.  
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If the idea is to to away with party politics, maybe the candidates ought to just defer to the guy actually in charge.

Now this.