Bhutto Primary Winners and Losers

Bhutto's horrible demise sets up an audition of sorts for commander in chief as contenders compete for the most presidential on-camera reaction.
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There is nothing like an assassination in one of the world's most dangerous hot spots to urge voters to take another hard look at presidential candidates with the most foreign policy experience. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's horrible demise sets up an audition of sorts for commander in chief as contenders compete for the most presidential on-camera reaction.

On the losing side of this equation? Rudy Giuliani overplayed 9/11. Mitt Romney rambled incoherently. Joe Biden and Bill Richardson were too quck with hot-headed action plans. And Barack Obama haltingly read a prepared statement that sounded like boilerplate for a vice president attending the funeral of someone he barely knows.

Winners of the Bhutto primary include Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards, who effectively devoted their first on-air comments to descriptions of their personal relationships with the downed leader. John McCain also got a chance to display his international credentials, but undercut himself by nervously wandering around the stage like a homeless person talking to himself.

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