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September 30, 2004

With a bow to David Letterman, Campaign Desk offers our Top Ten list of topics we do not want to hear discussed in the post-debate bloviations and spinfest:

10. Height or hair or clothing
9. Facial color (orange or otherwise)
8. Sweating or breathing (heavy or otherwise)
7. Command of English (or lack of same)
6. Hurricane or football analogies
5. Swift boats
4. Missing National Guardsmen
3. Dan Rather
2. Wind-surfing or brush-cutting
1. Plastic shower shoes (red or blue)

–Susan Q. Stranahan

Susan Q. Stranahan wrote for CJR.