Well She Sure Doesn’t Look Like Bill Kristol

Well look who landed at the Weekly Standard:

Obama Reinforces McCain Campaign Talking Points

The campaign should really start sending out carbon-offset and organic soap gift baskets because every time a Democrat talks, things seem to get a little

Classy Cassy Fiano links maybe the most classless, and for sure the most clueless, political ad of the season:

I think, with the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Obama may have inherited foot-in-mouth disease. Here we have

• By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY

It looks like Nedra Pickler is another reporterette sho spent too much time in gender study classes and no time studying military tactics.  If Pickler had the military sense of a PFC she would realize that she is reporting that

An outright suburb article in the Asia Times last week… Apparently Limbaugh read it on his show yesterday… and a reader sent it along to me here.

Just a taste:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why

Lots of ground to cover, today, but too little time to do it in..

• Interesting news; apparently that brilliant speech from Palin last night was genuine… the teleprompter for at least part of the speech was broken…. as David has

Breaking news from Erick Erckson, Red State,

Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling

• Rumor has it that Amy Winehouse is dain bramaged after a 36 hours pot marathon. Of course that was the rumor BEFORE that, too. And look, I know, OK, so don’t start with me. But when someone is that determined

It’s true… it must be, I saw it on the web.

The vast majority of Americans do not know that it is rumored that Sen. Joe Biden is able to keep his hair thicker than it would otherwise be thanks

• 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

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’.

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.  

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

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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.