Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:05:26 PM
Articulate, Bright, Clean One Chooses Serial Plagiarist
John Miller
wanted to see that headline, so there you go. 3 p.m. ET around the
dial; if you’re tuned in, comment below. We’ll be taping so look for
video here later in case Biden cracks a fried chicken joke or pats Obama on the head or does something else refreshingly politically incorrect for the left to coo over. Your exit question while you wait: Where does this leave McCain with his own VP pick? Stephen Hayes and Tom Bevan
offer unconvincing answers (Lieberman and, er, John Kasich,
respectively), but Bevan’s analysis is otherwise spot on. If Obama had
named Hillary, Maverick might have been forced to throw a Hail Mary
with Joementum or Palin or Carly Fiorina. As it is, one safe pick permits another,
which means Mitt or Pawlenty. The latter’s safer than the former among
the base, but I can’t see undecideds handing the keys to the country to
a guy no one outside of Minnesota has ever heard of. I have to think
it’s Mitt.
When does Biden apologize to the Haditha Marines?
Maybe Biden was right about Rumsfeld. I’m not on the Foreign
Relations Committee nor do I profess any special knowledge about the
tactics of war or strategic blunders of rebuilding a nation. I leave
Biden to pretend to know about those areas. But shouldn’t a veteran
senator, supposedly renowned for his gravitas and understanding of the
world stage, at the very least, caution us to wait for an investigation
and trial of the Haditha Marines before jumping to a politically
expedient conclusion?
So will Biden take his own advice and apologize to those eight marines?