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Trouble

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The Failure of Normality: The unhappy lessons of the Thompson campaign.
The Weekly Standard ^ | Andrew Ferguson

The sermon today was from John 11 - the raising of Lazarus - and the emphasis was on the fact that Christ tarried two days after receiving the message that his friend was sick.

The point of the sermon was that we are bombarded by the "critical" and tempted by it to be distracted from the important. And that is the same sermon that Fred Thompson preached in his behavior during this campaign.

I agree that we are only too likely to look back in rue on the fact that Senator Thompson's normality was too good for the process which selected our candidate.

But then, the candidates allow journalists to set the terms of that process. And journalism is dedicated to the task of telling you something - anything, be it never so irrelevant or superficial - which you don't yet know.