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A VP candidate is supposed to help the presidential candidate but both VP-wannabes have stumbled recently. Yesterday, Joe Biden talked about Barack Obama's brilliance and how the world would definitely test him, "Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." Say it ain't so, Joe--and never say "gird your loins" again, either! Naturally, John McCain seized on that, but Sarah Palin said to fundraisers in Greensboro, NC last week, "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America. Being here with all of you hard-working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation," which prompted the Obama campaign to ask, "What part of the country isn't pro-America?"

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