Word: themeless
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...matter of style is obvious: he talks too much, and often imprudently. At the Durham house party, Biden wandered garrulously through a series of themeless anecdotes, which were often interrupted by other anecdotes, punctuated by gloppy attempts at folksiness ("As my mother used to say, 'No purgatory for you-it's straight to heaven!'") and the occasional condescending, syllabic pronunciation of a key word: "It's about di-PLO-ma-cee, folks...
...Schwarzenegger could revive their party the way another actor turned politician, Ronald Reagan, did when he got into the Governor's race 37 years ago. But now they fear that dream is slipping away. The campaign that got off to a brilliant start on the Tonight show is becoming themeless and error prone. "They're flubbing this thing big time," says a longtime G.O.P. strategist. Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who decided not to enter the race when Schwarzenegger got in, has urged him to be more open with the media. Even wife Maria Shriver has complained...