It's the ultimate 24/7 job, and presidential history will tell you that there is no way of getting relief. It's a four-year root canal of pressure and problems.

We all wish that it was 24/7, that it was all year long that black history was discussed.

They were awesome. The tech support is there, 24-7.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Bluntly, there are still too many areas of substantial difference. It will be a long 24 hours.

This is not a matter of: When the gates open -- let's say, April 24, 2006 -- consumers will have this thing and that thing and sit there and be puzzled. It's a question of which one is there first and how compelling a proposition it is.