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Fred and Terri tar baby dailies...

No way will the LA Times let this go! I can only do a short excerpt, but the whole article is pithy, or some word like that.

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As often seems to happen in the public chaos of major political campaigns, it turns out there's much more to that apparent Fred Thompson memory loss story from a couple of weeks ago.

You may remember that the closely watched newest Republican candidate was asked about that highly controversial Terri Schiavo right-to-die case in which the husband of a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state wanted to remove her chemical feeding tube, but her parents went to court and then politicians from Gov. Jeb Bush and Congress got into the struggle two years ago...................

Turns out, Thompson knew about Schiavo only too well

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Fred and Terri tar baby dailies 2...

Twice in one day from LA Times!

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Fred Thompson didn't exactly assuage questions about his attention to detail when he seemed out of the loop late last month when his top communications director was let go.

Then, during a trip this month to all-important Florida, he appeared at sea when asked to comment on the Terri Schiavo end-of-life case that had so consumed first the state and then the nation. "That's going back in history," he said. "I don't remember the details of it."

Question on Tennessee trips up Fred Thompson

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