1.0 link 122761 <![CDATA[Bush, Cheney Will Not Attend GOP Convention]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/bush-unlikely-to-attend-g_n_122761.html ST. PAUL, Minn. &mdash; John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday, casting himself as above politics as Hurricane Gustav churned toward New Orleans. "We will act as Americans," not partisans, he declared.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney scrapped plans to address the convention Monday night, and McCain's aides chartered a jet to fly delegates back to their hurricane-threatened states along the Gulf Coast. Campaign manager Rick Davis said the first-night program was being...

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