Crookline

Here's a mildly amusing article recounting McCain's "five oldest moments" during the most recent debate.  

I like this one:

4. Leaving the floor. After the debate finished, both McCain and Obama worked the crowd to shake hands with members of the audience. But McCain departed after a few minutes, leaving the entire place to Obama, who continued to meet and take photos for what seemed like another half hour. Why would McCain allow Obama to soak up the TV coverage of that scene — much of which continued on cable news long after the debate was over — all by himself? Our guess is that he was just pooped after standing and walking for most of the debate.

Mostly because it reminded me of Michael Dukakis in 1988, when he finished one of his debates with H.W. and got the hell outta the auditorium in a hurry.  I remember my mom remarking that that wasn't probably the wisest thing to have done, to leave the cameras with nothing else to film except H.W. shaking people's hands and, while breathing through his mouth like he was in a porta-john, pretending their pedestrian body odor didn't bother him.  

And I also like it because it gives me cause to reprint the following greatest picture from 1988:

And, please, whatever you do today, note the "Mike Dukakis" label on the helmet.  I can see the careful deliberation that went into this by his campaign higher-ups.   "We've got to assure that he has some way of identifying which helmet is his--otherwise those hooligan army boys could run off with his helmet!  But if we put a 'Michael Dukakis' label on his helmet, well, that sounds too stilted and he could get de-pantsed.  So we'll go with the laid back, 'with it' variant 'Mike Dukakis.'  Win/win!"  

Mike Dukakis: I'm gonna shoot your Soviet ass with my label gun!!!

Whatever, the guy lives in Brookline.