Thanks to the timing of this year's Olympic games, the Democrats and the Republicans will be holding their presidential nominating conventions back to back. So by the time their staged, silly goings-on are over, the voters will have less than two months to properly vet John McCain and Barack Obama.

There was a time when the political conventions meant something. Few recall that John Kennedy didn't arrive for the 1960 Democratic convention with his nomination locked up. And conventions ...

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