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Last month, Joe Biden got some practical campaign advice from a maestro: Keep speeches, interviews, and tweets short and crisp, former president Barack Obama told the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to The New York Times. With President Trump imploding daily, there’s little else to add except stay cool, drink plenty of water, and avoid mistakes like saying 120 million Americans have died from COVID-19, as Biden recently did, before quickly correcting himself. **SNIP** So now it’s time for the Trump campaign to hit Biden with accusations of dementia. An ad run by a pro-Trump PAC raises the question: “Does Joe...

This time it's Joan Vennochi, one of the Boring Broadsheet's "paralyzing snoremongers," to use Tom Wolfe's phrase. The wrinkly longtime pom-pom gal for the Democrat party has been suspended for two weeks for "use of material without attribution (which) was inconsistent with Globe policies and the Globe regrets the error." In other words, plagiarism, or, to continue the Globe's groveling apology, for "some similarities in phrasing and structure." On Aug. 15, GOP political columnist Todd Domke wrote on a WBUR blog that Vice President Joe Biden should apologize for his "chains" remarks. Two days later, in an unsigned editorial, Vennochi...

CAN SARAH PALIN pick up where Hillary Clinton left off? Palin wowed delegates with a confident, cutting speech aimed at hockey moms with a chip on their shoulder. She could have been singing along to Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman" - "Some people look down on me, but I don't give a rip. I'll stand barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip." It was great theater. But to John McCain, all that really matters is whether his running mate can pick up where Clinton left off and expand the GOP voter base.

CAN SARAH PALIN pick up where Hillary Clinton left off? Palin wowed delegates with a confident, cutting speech aimed at hockey moms with a chip on their shoulder. She could have been singing along to Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman" - "Some people look down on me, but I don't give a rip. I'll stand barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip." It was great theater. But to John McCain, all that really matters is whether his running mate can pick up where Clinton left off and expand the GOP voter base.

During an interview yesterday with Globe editorial writers and columnists, the former Democratic presidential nominee was asked if had signed Form SF 180, authorizing the Department of Defense to grant access to all his military records. ''I have signed it," Kerry said. Then, he added that his staff was ''still going through it" and ''very, very shortly, you will have a chance to see it."