From the Moderate Voice

I really thought all of the previous chatter about Biden was a head-fake, designed to throw the press off the scent of the real pick. At this point, Obama is fast-becoming the only convincing argument I’ve seen in favor of gun control. He shoots himself in the foot so often that I’m shocked the man has any toes left.

"Change you can believe in," my ass. Clarence Thomas on Joe Biden:

Throughout my life I’ve often found truth embedded in the lyrics of my favorite records. At Yale, for example, I’d listened often to “Smiling Faces Sometimes,” a song by the Undisputed Truth that warns of the dangers of trusting the hypocrites who “pretend to be your friend” while secretly planning to do you wrong. Now I knew I’d met one of them: Senator Biden’s smooth, insincere promises that he would treat me fairly were nothing but talk. Instead of relaxing, I’d have to keep my guard up.

Great choice there, Barry.

Probably, because two really windy guys have paired up to run for president:

Sen. Barack Obama has selected Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, according to his official Web site and a text message the campaign sent to supporters on Saturday.

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden is Sen. Barack Obama's choice to be his vice-presidential running mate.

"Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee," the text message, sent at around 3 a.m. ET, said.

Goodness. Joe Biden? Is there anyone in Washington more in love with his own voice? Didn't Biden, just over a year ago, refer to Obama as a "clean, articulate" black man?

Wow.

Just... wow.

More: Jonah Goldberg on Biden from a while back:

He says interesting things, from time to time. I think he makes a fair point here and there. He was correct, for example, that Congress needed to have a real deabte over the war. I think he has some obvious verbal intelligence. But, again, what's fascinating — and what might be distracting some folks from seeing his underlying-yet-occassional smarts — is that he lets his ego and vanity get in the way. The man loves his voice so much, you'd expect him to be following it around in a grey Buick, in defiance of restraining order, as it walks home from school. He seems to think his teeth are some kind of hypnotic punctuation marks which can momentarily disorient the listener and absolve him from any of Western civilization's usual imperatives to stop talking. Listening to him speechify is like playing an intellectual game of whack-a-mole where every now and then the fuzzy head of a good point pops up from the tundra but before you can pin it down, he starts talking about how he went to the store and saw a squirrel on the way and it was brown which brings to mind Brown V. Board of Ed which most people don't understand because [TEETH FLASH] he taught Brown in his law school course and [TEETH FLASH] Mr. Chairman I'm going to get right to it and besides these aren't the droids you're looking for..

So it was just after 10 when I realized that I still has to get some stuff off the table on the deck from dinner. I walk out, notice a few slices of cucumber still sitting on a plate, so i chucked them out into the yard (I'm mowing the lawn tomorrow anyway), and one of them goes into the rose bushes.

And it hit something. Which moved.

So I'm peering out into the darkness, trying to see which of the neighborhood cats was in my yard.

But it wasn't a cat.

I always wanted a pony!

Barack Obama is in my hometown tonight, joined by special guest John Edwards! How freakin' exciting. That explains the extra sense of disingenuousness I felt driving past the Van Andel Arena on the way home tonight.

Ed Morrissey notes that aside from some Democrat inside baseball, the Silky Pony's endorsement of Obama means precisely nothing.

The following image ran with Willamette Week's endorsement of Barack Obama for President:



There. Are. No. Words.

More creepy obama at NRO.

Clinton lying now about things he said literally yesterday

NOT from The Onion. But could be. If only it was...

Cliff May explains:

Not only do Hamas members oppose a “two-state solution,” they believe that nation-states are un-Islamic. Instead, an Islamic caliphate is to be re-established, an empire that is to expand until the Dar al-Islam, the world ruled by righteous Muslims, consumes the Dar al-Harb, the world in which infidels and apostates currently hold sway. “Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our prophet Muhammad,” Hamas member and Palestinian parliamentarian Yunis al-Asal pledged this month on a Hamas television program.

Does Carter sincerely think he can convince Meshaal to reject such ideas and embrace the Carter Center’s kumbaya mission of “waging peace and building hope”? Does he really believe he can change Mashaal’s mind, much less open his heart?

Carter can't go away soon enough as far as I'm concerned.

Wow I hate the red sox.

This was a bad week.



By the way, I'm going to steal the picture in this post and add it to my (small) rotation of Tiger disaster images. I have it on good authority that the man pictured is actually Jason Grilli.

What the heck is going on?

New Kids On The Block to reunite, release new material.

Allahpundit is too good not to quote:

The most rewarding thing about a day like today, when some liberal’s in trouble and anxious to save his own ass, is watching the worst, most predictable, most embarrassing hacks on the other side go face-first into the tank, exactly as you’d expect they would. Sullivan? Check. Matthews? Check. The New York Times College of Cardinals? Checkity check check.