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Wlady, the whole point of a vice president is to be ready if something bad happens to the president. Not to be morbid, but something bad is far more likely to happen to a 72-year-old double-cancer survivor and 5 1/2-year torture survivor than it is to most other people. His body has already taken a terrible beating. And it could happen just as easily on Jan. 22, 2009 as it could on, say, July of 2012. It worries me slam to death. If the veep isn't ready, in this dangerous world, we're scr**ed. Then again, if the president isn't ready on Jan. 20, we're even more scr**ed, which is one reason why the thought of Obama as commander in chief is even scarier than any scenario on the GOP side....