Barack Cuts Through Partisanship

...or at least that's the refrain of the chorus, recently joined by Joey Come Lately.

Look, I'm just as happy as the next guy that Biden is on the ticket. He brings great potential both for entertainment and possibly raising the bar a little bit in the debates. He's smarter than the other folks publicly mentioned as having been on Barry's short list.

But I don't understand who they think they're fooling with these persistent, so-far-unsubstantiated claims of post-partisanship. Barack's a shrewd guy, and god bless him if he continues to get away with it, but shame on anyone who doesn't sit back and wonder just what he's done that's so "post partisan."

To continue the ramble, I do love how they make these campaign speeches and videos more about the listener than the speaker. It's quite clever how Joe tells me that he's happy to be joining my little club, here...and he wants to pitch in just like I do.

One suspects that the telegram I get from Team McCain will try and mimic this to the best of their ability.

Odd Photo Editing

I think Barry's folks could have done a little better job at editing the photo of Joe they put on the homepage this morning...doesn't his head look a little bit too large (har har har...)?

A Tale of Two Joes

I saw a funny post somewhere, although their pic was deleted, so I had to recreate it, noting the slight resemblance of Joe Biden to another famous person of the same first name...Joe Walsh!

Oh, how I'd love to see him stroll up on the stage in Springfield this afternoon and just belt out a quality, "How ya dooooinnnn?!"

Theme Song on O-Force Two?

So the pick came out last night. I wonder how bitter the Obammies are going to feel about getting jipped and not being the first to know by their text message.

Surely in this pre-convention weekend of press coverage, part of the narrative about Joe Biden is going to be what a class-act family guy he is (which I have no reason to doubt, mind you) and that, rather than living the Washington high life, where he's been since 29 years old, he takes the 2-hour train ride to and from Delaware each day.

Let's just enjoy a little bit of Sheena Eason, shall we?

He's So Clean and Articulate

Joe Biden Says the Darndest Things...Vol II

Well, I have to hand it to old Joe for saving the best for last during the CNN/YouTube debate tonight from South Carolina.

While I can't find a posted video of the response yet, the question is below.

After the man was done asking about his gun, Biden said (paraphrasing):

• If that's his baby, he needs help.
  
• I don't know if he's mentally qualified to own a gun
• I hope he doesn't come looking for me!
  

Now I don't really disagree with anything the Senator from Delaware said, but ... it was just so Biden.

And we love him for that.

Joe Biden Says the Darndest Things!

Poor Joe Biden just can't catch a break. Check out what he told the audience last night at the Democratic debate out at Howard University.

"I got tested for AIDS, I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in
being tested for AIDS. It's an important thing."

US Senator Joe Biden (D-DE)

Even though he surely knows what a total nutbag Biden is, this seems to have thrown Obama for a loop. He felt compelled, justifiably, to confirm to the audience that he gets tested with his wife Michelle.

Agreement with Handsome John and Big Mouth Biden

While it's by no means the first time we've had a semantics debate on what exactly the "war on terror" is, perhaps its resurgence is another benefit of the early Presidential cycle this time around.

Joe Biden and John Edwards get a write-up on this topic in the Politico today.

At issue is whether there actually is a "war on terror" going on and if we are, what exactly that means. The two Democrats would like to see the term go the way of the Edsel.

I, for one, agree with them.

It's no more intellecually honest to say we are at war with terror now than it would have been for FDR to declare a war on surprise attacks in December 1941.

"Terror is a tactic. Terror is not a philosophy."

Joe Biden, probably quoting someone else ;-)

If you happen to believe that we're at war with a bunch of backward-thining theocrats who are frustrated with how the world has passed them and their antiquated way of life by, then be a man and say it. Don't hide behind this insulting term that both allows you to not really say who you are at war with, but also allows you to do just about anything you want to any group or idea that can be broadly classified as "terrorist."