Ego Thy Name is Barack

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.  

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’

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

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.

Powerline Blog

Jim Geraghty has said that all of BO’s statements come with exparations dates.  Well I quess that applies to campaign slogans as well.   Now Obama is set throw his promise of change under the campaign bus, Ron Fournier:

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Jim Gerhaghty, National Review:

All statements by Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them.(emphis orginal)

As attributed by, A.J Strata, Strata-Sphere,  BO on MTP, 27 July, on Mrs. Clinton as Veep:

“[she] would be

Potemkin village.

If voters pay attention instead to the things Obama is saying, the case against an Obama presidency will be clear. 

Lorie Byrd, Townhall.

As attributed to Barack Obama by Hugh Hewitt, Townhall,  via Dale Franks,

I said last night that Obama was revealing himself as an anti-private -property, anti-capitalist socialist. From that thought, a couple of fantasy scenarios occur to my mind to help ilustrate this::

* What would have happened, had Obama been asked

So now, we see Barack Obama trying to make something out of the number of houses McCain does or does not own, and because he didn’t know the exact answer…(Seven, by the way, including investment property) this is supposed to

I note this morning a press release floating around from the McCain camp, posted by Rich Lowry this morning:

Please see comment from me on Barack Obama’s new ad supposedly running in Georgia:

“Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of

The experts are now starting to wonder if the tide isn’t shifting toward McCain:

Alexander Mooney at CNN:

In what could be an ominous sign for Barack Obama just days before he is formally named the Democratic presidential nominee, a

Racism is simply making an assumption based on race.  Race hucksters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson practice a sophisticated form of raciall bigotry, false equality.  That is thay demand equal outcomes without evidence of equal ability

Barack Obama has

Given the nature of this message I tend to doubt that NRO and Stanley Kurtz will mind my extensive quote here from his post, at all. Obviously, the intent is to get the message out, my intent is to help