...at 3 o'clock in the morning... will Barack Obama fall over the night table and
break a leg?
Everybody knows that the very first rule in picking a vice president is to do no harm. Really, you can choose anybody. How dumb would you feel if it turned into an embarrassment? This is why the careful, modern candidate sets up a screening system.
Now ask yourself: how dumb would you feel if you got in trouble over your selection for the vice-presidential screener.
Talk about unnecessary disasters. It’s like having your career ruined because you invited the wrong person to host a party in honor of your nephew’s godparents.
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