OK, I Guess I Was Wrong. Palin IS the Pick

I said a short while ago, I wasn’t buying Palin as the VP choice until it came out officially. Apparently, it just did. Fox News Channel:

DAYTON, Ohio — A senior campaign official in the John McCain campaign confirmed to

The latest chatter I’m hearing is on Palin.

Sister Toldjah seems to have this stuff down, though;

Instead of breathlessly reporting on every news report that comes out, I’m gonna wait until it’s actually confirmed before I blog about it

Yes, I saw the speech last night. Let me be brief, because frankly, his dog and pony show deserves no more effort than that.

Obama, in the end, did and said nothing new. His speech was grandiose, certainly, but

For all us who have either eat or drive, or both, and feed up with paying more at the pump for diluted gasoline and more for food, Henry Payne,  Climate Change Fraud:

The ethanol mandate: Raising your food prices

• Bad news for the Democrats. Better put the ‘resession on hold. How can they keep selling gloom and doom when these little bits of reality keep sneaking through?
• McCain has decided on a running mate. But of course we

Jim Geraghty’s Law, National Review

:All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Barack Obama, as attributed by Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

You know, I am a believer in … in knowing what you’re doing

Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.

My reaction:

The Obama campaign is now smearing, Stanley Kurtz, for having the audacity to investigate BO’s long relationship with the terrorist Bill Ayers.

The key take, from the mind of former federal prosecutor, Andy McCarthy, National Review:

Obama and

The McCain campaign is sending this one around:

Today, workers at Invesco Field are putting the final touches on the newest wonder of the modern political world — The Temple of Obama (“The Barackopolis”). It is upon this pulpit that

See the video Barack Obama wants to bury:

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The Obama Campaign has not disputed single word in the video. Yet they want the Department of Justice to investigate both the organization and the individual donors behind the ad.  Michelle

• Been thinking about this one most of the day, Billy, and I must say,I can’t say I disagree with any of it. The Dinosaur media is sinking because of one major factor: Their bias. McClatchy is just one more in

By way of James Joyner, this morning, I note Kevin Drum trying to spin his way through the truth:

Bush expansion is over, and Brad DeLong describes it as “the first business cycle during which median household income in

If you want the honest truth, I never figured this to go down any other way.

Hillary Clinton gets up and makes her speech last night, introduces herself as a ‘proud Obama Supporter’. She makes a plea for unity.  And

So I wrote about the Biden pick by Obama and opined that it was so poorly done in execution and substance that any bounce would be gone by Sunday. When Sunday arrived, the first post-Biden pick poll confirmed my suspicion.

• YetAnotherJohn gets a first place, and I get an Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. It must be said, John has a nice touch for that kind of thing.
• I’ve noted a shift in the readership of BitsBlog the