The southeastern United States is drying up and the Bush administration and FEMA don't want to consider what happens if a major city's faucets run dry.
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McCain and Palin go to Dobsonville Fresh from the GOP convention, John McCain brings his Christian fundamentalist running mate to Christian fundamentalist headquarters -- but doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage. By Jeralyn Merritt
John McCain, Republican top gun at last The "imperfect" war hero steered clear of George W. Bush as he took aim at Barack Obama and tried to marshal his tarnished party. By Walter Shapiro
Kwame Kilpatrick exits, with Barack Obama holding the door With the presidential race in Michigan too close for comfort, it can only help Obama that Detroit's racially divisive and felonious mayor has finally lost his job. By Edward McClelland
McCain's big running-mate rollout Romney and Giuliani helped supply Wednesday night's "paranoid" conservative politics, while Sarah Palin showed she's no Dick Cheney. By Walter Shapiro
