Watching Olympic basketball. U.S. vs. Spain. Go Spain. Open thread.
Crow
Contra my earlier prediction, Beijing’s smog cleared up on the last day of the Olympics and Kenyan Samuel Kamau Wanjiru promptly broke the Olympic record by 3 minutes. It’s nice to see that the Chinese got some return from the car bans and shut down factories.
What I Like About Joe Biden
He doesn’t pose for the camera. He’s just Joe Biden. He runs his mouth. He screws up. He’s just human. He has a second wife, not because he screwed up his first marriage, but because he fell in love with someone after a tragedy in his life.
He gets on a train every day to go home to his family. I.e., “I love working for American. But at the end of the day, I know where the priorities are…”
He’s an attack dog, but he’s an attack dog who can do it with a smile on his face.
Joe Biden has been in Washington for many years. But he is a senator who is interested in you. YOU.
Basically, I trust a guy who is human. Biden doesn’t try to be anything other than that.
Update: And, by the way, I think Joe Biden is the epitome of a man who is good for women. He just is. It’s a wonderful obsession for him, and I love him for it.
Slap In The Face
SNL is not on tonight, and that is a slap in the face. In fact, come to think of it, everything I don’t like is a slap in the face.
This, however, is a kick in the face. Consider this an open thread.
*** Update ***
I see our boy Goldfarb and Slick Billy Kristol have both read their Nixonland, and are doing their best to stir shit up with the Hillary dead-enders. The Weekly Standard/McCain campaign collusion continues in earnest, with the same predictable ham-handedness. Although, if you have read Hillaryis44 or any of the other cult websites, I am sure they are dumb enough to get played the fool.
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t Jonah Goldberg Is A Blithering Idiot
This is kind of awesome. Jonah Goldberg, 12:15 PM:
All I have to say is that if it was deliberate — and I really, really doubt it was — then that is the most substantive proof so far that Obama’s youthful arrogance is getting the better of him. The text message ploy on its own was kind of dumb. But if it was a way to tweak Clinton, it was beyond self-indulgent. And the fact that the message went out at 3:00 AM at all is a sign the whole thing was too clever by half.
Jonah Goldberg, 1:29 PM:
You know what? Even if it was a mistake, some grownup over there should have said “3:00 AM? You know what they’ll say, right? Don’t do it at 3:00 AM, it’ll seem like a juvenile jab at Hillary.” Instead, it seems that it didn’t occur to anyone or someone said, “3:00 AM, hah! Take that Hillary!”
So let’s recap. If the text was deliberately sent at 3:00 AM, Obama sucks. If it wasn’t deliberately sent at 3:00 AM, Obama sucks.
It is almost like there is nothing Obama can do to make Jonah happy!
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The Introduction
They look good together, and Biden looks like he is having the time of his life. I sort of ignored all the babble about the happy warrior last night, but there really might be something to it. they look good together. The other thing is that Biden is a good enough of a speaker that he doesn’t seem completely over-shadowed after hearing Obama. I doubt Kaine and others could have accomplished that.
And I really do not think it can be underestimated how much the beltway boys love Biden. The Matthews/Russert/Imus axis of loudmouth love the guy, and that isn’t a knock on Biden.
*** Update ***
“Which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at…”- Biden is already sticking it to them. The other thing that is great about this is that Biden may be just the right guy to goad the wingnuts and McCain into a volcanic eruption, which will be fun simply for the sheer entertainment value.
*** Update #2 ***
Not sure when this happened, but Chris Matthews and John McCain broke up. Matthews is all pissed off about McCain’s campaign tactics the last few months. He is making Olbermann look positively… non-partisan. From a talking head perspective, Biden is a great choice, it appears.
*** Update #3 ***
Harold Ford, who has not once paused from stepping on the neck of his own party for the past six months, is positively GUSHING about Biden as VP.
This Has To Be Spoof
Alright, the gig is up, you comedians at Hillary is 44:
Big Media tool Barack Obama has finally made a decision and chosen Big Media favorite Joe Biden to join the Chicago circus. Biden is an experience patch on the flat tire of experience which is Barack Obama. This deflated tire won’t roll.
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Celestial choirs sang this morning because Hillary Clinton was spared the pestilence of even being considered seriously by the Chicago thugs for membership in their circus. Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton supporters were insulted once again. But we are happy about this latest insult. This latest Obama insult confirms once again our view of Obama and makes our opposition much easier. NObama. NOvember.
That has got to be spoof. DougJ, are you responsible?
*** Update ***
LMAO.