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- TODAY’S POLITICAL GOSSIP RENDERED USELESS: Just up on First Read: “As Delaware Sen. Joe Biden left his home a few minutes ago, golf clubs in tow, he was asked where he was going to be on Saturday. Biden replied, ‘Here’ and pointed down to his driveway. As he pulled out of the driveway in the driver’s seat of his car he then said to the press gathered near his gate, ‘You guys have better things to do. I’m not the guy.’” We really don’t have better things to do, Joe. [Sigh]. It’s totally gonna be that boring Sebelius gal, isn’t it? [First Read]
No way. It’s gonna be Geraldine Ferraro.
Can I get a refund on my “Hopey/Plugs ‘08″ T-shirts? Aww damn.
He just got a death-threat on his voicemail from Hillary.
4tehlulz: We already have one cunty mctrollop in this race, and that’s quite enough.
We’re done with you. Go to the golf course and work on your putz.
loudmouthredhead: Hopey crushed my dreams of a Huckabee-Biden debate, so I’m not thinking straight right now.
I’m still holding out for Tommy Chong.
Well at least he admitted it’s not gonna be Hillary.
Semantics. He’s not the guy. He’s the man.
How is Sebelius boring? Just watching the Hillary fans explode en masse at the announcement will be fantastic.
Bayh? Kaine? Boooooooooooooooring. I don’t mind Bill Richardson, but that’s probably too much brown for the Morans.
dang! I was so looking forward to The Hope/Sarcasm ticket
Please not Bayh. He just has this look in his eyes that says “You haven’t found any skeletons because you AREN’T LOOKING HARD ENOUGH.”
Dear God, I think it might be Hillz.
…the fact that Joe Biden doesnt have some self promoting snarky comment proves that he WILL be VP! I hope.
SuperRounder: “I’m not the guy.’”
Not Hillz. She doesn’t not have no penis.
shortsshortsshorts: I. Disagree.
NoWireHangers: Actually, he’d be too much for the liberals. All the geeky teenagers on Hopey’s side might think Richardson’s beard makes him the evil universe version of the one they remember.
kellygrrrl: Me too! I was getting all excited about Joe doing some debate bitch-slapping. He is a snarky bitch for all of his bank-fondling and it would have been fun to watch. But alas it seems to be a battle of the boringest–Bayh v. Sebelius, which Bayh will win because his penis is even more boring than her vagina, historically speaking.
WhatTheHeck: werd
Maybe the *Clark* Bar lobby is flexing its muscle? I mean, Obama’s campaign finance reform bill said no sit down meals, but what about a tasty chocolate bar?
Just a ruse I say. I always carry my golf clubs when I want to throw off the press waiting in my driveway.
Fuck
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: True. What else was he going to say? “yeah, you got me! It’s meeee! It’s meeee!”
Schwarzenegger.
If it’s Sebeliblisueus, or whoever she is, or that Klinton woman, then everyone can just say hello to:
President John McCain.
The best choice is Bill Richardson, and who on earth doesn’t know that. Why Obamamamaa isn’t picking Bill Richardson–the most experienced and most well-respected of the 2008 candidates–is a huge mystery.
Anyone other than Richardson is a mistake, and it will hand the campaign directly over to John McCain.
thefrontpage: I shudder to think about what Obama’s vetters have found in Richardson’s closet. Their dossier probably reads like a sexual harrassment complaint.
SayItWithWookies: Tommy Chong is too good for America. He should rule the planet.
Notice Biden says he’ll be in in his driveway on Saturday.
Because he’ll still be fucking talking.
sezme: I think it was his cat that got the death-threat. That’s more Clintony.
I’m just going to say: Anyone except Bayh.
I’m still holding out for Sebelius or Biden. He’s supposed to throw off the scent, right? And Sebelius has been awfully quiet as of late.
SwanSwanH: WIN.
thefrontpage: Oh please. The VP choice isn’t going to swing this election in either way. It’s mostly a sideshow. People vote for candidates, and the only thing that is required of a VP is that he not steal the limelight from the candidate.
The sad truth? Biden is the guy and he just doesn’t understand why Obama keeps leaving all those messages on his cell-phone.
Senator Jean Sibelius from Finland?!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
or do you mean the Italian senator from New Jersey, also part Latino?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari
Hopefully we won’t be Bayhing at the moon on Friday….meh
floraway: agreed. Bayh is to Biden as Cyncs Partee is to Wonkette.
According to Andrea Mitchell on Hardball right now, the fact that he says he is not the guy, means he is probably is the guy.
As it goes with Popes and Vice Presidents, that makes as much sense as anything.
Sebelius. I’m hoping someone has a “reaction camera” trained on Ferraro. Obama’s strategy may well involve riling the PUMAs. I know my Hillary-supporting mother became a convinced Obama supporter partially because she was mortified to be associated with the Harriet Christian crew at the Rules Committee.
Drive em crazy, and drive the sane Clintonites to Obama. And, if he loses, history will mark it down to the crazy PUMAs (who Hillary has zero control over), and Hillary doesn’t come back in 2012.
TGY: I know. Goddamnit! I can think of a worse president or better Veep than Biden.
thefrontpage: El Bombastico: Yeah, the fat Mexican dude is my favorite too, but but yes, his penchant for womanizing and sexual harassment would be just too much for many voters; once fully exposed to the voters and overblown in the tawdriest ways that can be imagined by conservative 527s. Stuff that gets shrugged off in laid-back New Mexico would destroy the man in the national race.
I’m still hoping Biden’s ‘the guy.’ All his indiscretions have been aired ad nauseum, and none of them are sex related, so American voters don’t give a shit about ‘em anyway.
Lascauxcaveman: Yes but quite literally, “that’s not change we can believe in.” Biden’s been around since the second punic wars.
A lot of things are worse than “boring” in veepstakes.
Is Obama ready to Reed?
uh, why would anyone want biden? he was the one who was all like “and the thing about obama is that even though he’s teh black, he like bathes and speaks smart and stuff”. obama’s such a good speaker, why would we want biden to go crapping it up, except maybe for laffs?
i will keep flogging my wesley clark dead horse. he’s old and white and veteran-y, and sassy and sexy. why not? the morans should like him. he used to be in charge of arkansas!
at least it won’t be lieberman this time. phew!
I’m hoping that it’s Hillary. Cuz Scanners is my favorite movie.
aw shit. maybe with Bayh, Barry can get Indiana. then all they need is Kentucky and they have a monopoly.
Joe Biden says it’s not him, so that leaves the impression that Obama wants to raise a KAINE from Virginia:
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/08/breaking-news-barack-obama-to-campaign.html#links
what happened to the idea of Wesley Clark?
SwanSwanH: Haw haw!
You heard it here first:
Chuck Hagel for that hard jerk to the middle.
If it’s Kaine, I swear to god I will vote for McCain, just to register my displeasure. Seriously, I know nobodies are becoming cool but running the country is not like producing Napolean Dynamite or Pineapple Express.
It just better not be fucking Kaine.
Michael Moore has it right, again: Obama-Kennedy.
Caroline.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=226
Oscar Folsom Cleveland: Ha! That’s good. I wish it were Maria, however.
lawnchair:
Oh yeah, a reaction cam on Ferraro would be precious. I’d make a animated gif out of it and fill a geocities webpage with it hcsfjm.com-style….just fer da bitters.
Oscar Folsom Cleveland: Ted FTW!
jagorev: The veep choice may not have a big impact for Obama, but it’s critical for McCain. He’s a guy who could die of old age before he even takes office, and 4 years as President is like 12 years as a normal human.
I was kind of warming to Biden. No telling what kind of crazy things he’d say, but he could take apart an opponent too, especially in foreign policy, and do it easily. The folks at TNR found the video Ezra Klein had mentioned. Delivered as he’s walking to his car. Nicely done.
Camping out in his driveway must be as exciting as watching hair plugs grow. Besides, should Biden even be considered a real senator when you can drive across his state on a single gallon of gas?