Did Obama Mean to Call Sarah Palin a Pig? You Tell Me.

Well, look, we have one of two choices with this story.

1. No. Obama didn’t mean to connect the dots, and simply fell into using a phrase. If this is the case,  his extreme insensitivity disqualifies him from any presidential duties,

The polling trends continue. Rasmussen this monring, looks at their most recent polling in the five battleground states, and says:

· McCain is trusted more than Obama in all five states.

· In all five states, McCain is viewed

USA Today:

In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3

The good news, the bad news, John McCain was well McCain.   He is not changing who he is.

Funny thing, McCain is seventy-two and his biography has no blank chapters.   BO is but forty-seven, but his bio is full of

Bit is on top of the BO;s campaign attempt to smear Sarah Palin.  The MSM simply can not be trusted to report the news.  Brian Ross, and Len Tepper, reporting this as if it were legitimate straight news:

“It’s

Never let it be said that a blogger’s ego is a function of his hit rate.   While BItsblog is but small but maybe no so humble blog, I suggest to his Bitness that we promote William Kristol to the rank

Jake Tapper has the tale of two takes, ABC News: 

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Obama spox Bill Burton. “Gov.

The official Democrat Party Veep Hit list: 

Bobby Jindal
Mitt Romney
John Thune
Tom Ridge
Tim Pawlenty
Carly Fiorina
Charlie Crist
Fred Smith
Eric Cantor

Blind-sided baby!

Sarah Palin gives the McCain-Palin campaign some leverage to attack Obama a several

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.

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

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