Bithead: Why should it play much if any role in media coverage? Do you know something about Soomro that the rest of us do not?

Irrelevant to the point, which is a negative connotation, at at least an instinctive level among voters, for such relationships. Obama has spent his entire campaign trying to play such things down.

Doesn't help the mantra, doesn't get printed, regardless of other factors.

Bithead: Why should it play much if any role in media coverage? Do you know something about Soomro that the rest of us do not?

I had a friend in State who, when he was in college, used to bang Benazir. Didn't have any effect on his work.

The interim president is Muhammad Mian Soomro, whose son is an old college chum of Sen. Barack Obama’s,

I wonder how much attention the Dinosaur media will pay to that one. (Chuckle)