By telephone from Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort, to White House transcriptionist on duty:
Dear Diary: Another day of purgatory, shut in a suite debatin' John Kerry who's standin' in for errr...Romney while I can see golfers playin' outside. I have, on the best advice, decided to play it cool in errr... Denver. I'll be eye-candy for the errr...ladies and an icon of cool for the men. I'll disarm them with smiles, flashin' my
Dear Diary: Another day of purgatory, shut in a suite debatin' John Kerry who's standin' in for errr...Romney while I can see golfers playin' outside. I have, on the best advice, decided to play it cool in errr... Denver. I'll be eye-candy for the errr...ladies and an icon of cool for the men. I'll disarm them with smiles, flashin' my
gnashers as often as possible and buyin' time in my usual way with extended um... errr...pauses. And always soundin' folksy by droppin' my Rs. That will make Mittman sound remote and elitist in contrast. I still need some great zingers. Joe Biden has tried to come up with a few, but telling Mittman that "ya'll want to put us" in chains" don't cut it no more.