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Thompson trips againFred Thompson didn't exactly assuage questions about his attention to detail when, during a trip to all-important Florida, he appeared at sea when asked to comment on the Terri Schiavo end-of-life case that so consumed first the state and then the nation in 2005. "That's going back in history," he said. "I don't remember the details of it."
Clinton gets most talking time in Democratic debates
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Phone makes a nice marital prop What makes sense for Thompson right now is not to answer any more questions. That's why he needs a handy cellphone. Another candidate, Rudy Giuliani, has learned that a properly timed cellphone call in the middle of a speech can do wonders. Giuliani has taken a couple of calls during speeches, most recently in front of a lukewarm National Rifle Association group. The call allowed Giuliani to say "I love you" a couple times to his wife, or somebody playing his wife. It's a good crowd softener, even when it's Wife No. 3. And Thompson's only on No. 2. So it works even better for him. Recently, Thompson was asked if he would have intervened to keep Terri Schiavo alive. He sounded as if he were being asked to discuss the Stamp Act of 1765. "That's going back in history," he said of the Schiavo case. "I don't know the details of it." If one of his handlers had been in cellphone emergency mode, he might not have looked so tragically uninformed again about a national issue that dominated the news only two years ago. "That's going back in ... oh, excuse me, my phone. Oh, hi honey. Yes, I love you, too. ... Say hello to the nice people of Florida, dear."
Thompson ought to run on speed dial
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