Biden’s Dead Cat Bounce Confirmed

I remarked the other night about how Biden didn’t provide any lift at all for Obama’s polling numbers, and how if we were talking about a republican getting an equally tepid response, we’d be hearing about a ‘dead cat bounce’.

The BO campaign is in panic mode:   Here is a link the American Issue Project ad.   A link to the BO campaign response.

Here the text of the core of BO’s response:

Obama: I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this

I spent most of last night watching the convention.  Between all ego tripping, the pure nonsense, and the political positioning going on, there wasn’t really much to report. Trust me, the only way that anyone should be forced into watching

• Been spending a great deal of time over the weekend, detailing my Rainier. I’m been jokingly talking about this black truck as my new exersize program, but really only half joking… it’s a lot of physical work… more than I

A few ascute commentators have noticed something rather strange about this official BO poster. Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, and Doug Ross, Journal.   Even Richard  Nixon had the common courtesty to treat Spiro Agnew in public as an equal.  

The New York Times, in a little noticed article on Natural Gas:

American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic

Alex Knapp, who has been sceraming about Electronic voting systems all along, apparently sees some vindication on the idea that the systems themselves are problematic.

Voting Machine manufacturer Diebold admitted earlier this week that there is an error in its

Interesting note from The Politico, yesterday:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer

Yesterday I wrote about the selection of Biden by Obama. One of the things I wrote about that between the internal contradictions of the Obama-Biden ticket, the capability of Biden to open his mouth and insert his foot, the ‘safe’

In digging into Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s chosen VP, I have found some rather interesting history.

About two years ago, now, (June, 2006) Joe Biden did a  Meet The Press. On that program, Biden said the following: (As quoted by

James Joyner at OTB, this morning notes a new Ad from the McCain camp.

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James notes there’s a pattern of wrting going on and cites a couple examples:

The campaign also quickly emailed around a CNN Political Ticker

There are lots of places, including other posts on this blog, that will talk about the Biden choice for VP. I will only add three things to consider.

First, try to come up with an endorsement of one half of

In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, there is a report of an investment made by Nancy Pelosi and her husband.

They put somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 into T. Boone Picken’s company, Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

At first blush,

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You know, there is an argument in the idea that Biden may well have been the worst possible choice for Obama to make.

I mentioned that the right -siders were drooling at the prospect of having Joe Biden to kick around. As you can imagine, the feast has already begun. Here’s a few gems I found while doing my morning rounds.

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