Even with Iowa so near, the candidates will likely take it easy on each other today in light of Bhutto's assassination. Or maybe not.

Anyway, over at Commentary, John Podhoretz has some thoughts on how this might change the presidential race:

American politics would dearly love to take a holiday from history, just as it did in the 1990s. But our enemies are not going to allow us to do so. The murder of Bhutto moves foreign policy, the war on terror, and the threat of Islamofascism back into the center of the 2008 campaign. How candidates respond to it, and issues like it that will come up in the next 10 months, will determine whether they are fit for the presidency.

It will be interesting to see if the tone of the campaign changes at all. Bhutto's assassination is a big deal, but does it touch Americans close enough? How many even knew who Bhutto was and what she represented? That's not meant to be snide, but an actual question.

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