[snugs]

Yep that my fear as well. The press have had a field day with Cheney and his health but compared to Thompson Cheney looks robust and healthy.

It is also interesting and worrying that it has been rumoured that after several days campaigning etc that Thompson has taken time off. How true this is or if it is just MSM spin I do not but if it is true he could not do this as President.

At this juncture to me he has not given the impression that he could keep up with the VP’s schedule let alone the President’s schedule.

This is 2007 and people expect their leader to jump on a plane at a minute notice and go to the other side of the world, give a speech, meet a few people come straight back and resume their normal daily schedule of meetings, touring the country photo ops etc. I worry that Thompson is giving the impression he would not be able to do this.

[Shortstop7]

I worry that you’re listening to much to the talking points of the MSM. ;-)

[jmyrlefuller]

Meanwhile on FTN...

They just had a pretty good interview with Benazir Bhutto.

And then they go to Biden. It’s all doomed, the extremists are going to power. Blames the Bush administration... predictable.

[kabar]

At this juncture to me he has not given the impression that he could keep up with the VP’s schedule let alone the President’s schedule

You are drinking the MSM Kool-aid about Thompson, i.e., "lazy," "no fire in the belly," etc. He is not the one giving that "impression," it is the MSM and his opponents who are trying to create that impression. Yet, Thompson remains the second ranked candidate and I believe will become stronger the closer we get to the primaries while Giuliani's support has crested.

More than likely, we are going to have a brokered convention with no candidate having enough delegates to be elected on the first ballot. That favors Thompson who is going to be the consensus candidate.

[aroundabout]

You may think they had a field day with Cheney and his health but it gained them no traction. It never became more then a 1 paragraph, 1 day story whenever they ran anything about his health.

[JennysCool]

it has been rumoured that after several days campaigning etc that Thompson has taken time off.

I don't see this as a problem at all. It's the media that wants us to believe Presidents have to be as frenetic as day-traders, always whooshing around and constantly making pronouncements, as if all that rushing is a good thing.

This is the illusion they crafted around Bill Clinton, like he was some sort of superhuman working machine. I'm sure the reality is that Bill was just as leisurely as anyone else without the image-making apparatus going for him.

I'm guessing Americans could easily adapt to -- and even decide they like -- a steadier, more relaxed hand at the wheel. In fact, I think we need that.

[Freee-dame]

This is 2007 and people expect their leader to jump on a plane at a minute notice and go to the other side of the world, give a speech, meet a few people come straight back and resume their normal daily schedule of meetings, touring the country photo ops etc. I worry that Thompson is giving the impression he would not be able to do this.

This is what President Bush has done. Unfortunately, he also has a reputation of being lazy, going to bed early, etc., except with us who read the dose and know better. The MSM is still a gatekeeper for most people.