So! Just a Reed Herring?

ahhh! cannot take pressure of guessing.

glad my intrade account didn’t go through and i put that $25 into my savings instead?

I think we should just disappear and regroup around the salmon spawn spring in the fall. Fuck no–Hillary and Bill would drain our bank accounts by then and rearrange everything.

Well this accelerates my plan to run for Senate. I was targeting Delaware due to only having to convince 200-300k people to vote for me in order to secure a 6-year power-mad reign of terror in the Senate (or 4 years plus a prez campaign).

Does it help that on Wednesday I referred to the State of Delaware as a ‘leach’ sucking its lifeblood from the great state of Pennsylvania?

[re=67284]thwanger[/re]: Intrade is the devil. I put $50 in, soon made it turn into $120 be betting against Giuliani and Mittens. Then bets on Huckabee as the nom or the veep took me all the way down to $0. I’m very bitter about this, and am in line with the Fed for a bailout.

[re=67291]Fear of a Black Reagan[/re]: hahahaha…. Wait, what?

[re=67292]jagorev[/re]: right on with the Fed bailout. if they can spare $50 billz for the bears or whoevers then they can spare 3 digits for folks like you and me!

why does the Fed hate America?

[re=67287]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: also, silver bullets? braver than i, m’lady. braver than i.

[re=67298]Darehead[/re]: I’d suggest you put down the brutally cold vodka, but you must be sober to come up with that after the day we’ve all had…

[re=67298]Darehead[/re]: You punned it!

@ topic: Stating the obvious . . . Whoever gets picked, they will be showered with peanuts across the internets and beyond, because hating on VPs is a very popular pass-time. Your VP candidates are always going to enrage people, because if they were really popular in the first place, they wouldn’t be a mere VP pick.

Some VPs deal with the hate by hating 100 times back (see Dick Cheney) or by being as bland and anonymous as possible (see Al Bore, back in the day). Which is better?

Also, to state the obvious again, some people drink an awful lot (me).

[re=67308]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Plus, Biden has a higher IQ than we do.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91F3CF931A1575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

[re=67308]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Look it up? Since when do commenters need to look shit up? Especially on Friday night during wild pointless VP speculation?

[re=67312]Serolf Divad[/re]: he’s da 100% white obama?

Larry King Live at Midnight Special.

I thought that was just an old campfire story.

[re=67312]Serolf Divad[/re]: When was the last time you had a white male VP candidate that’s articulate, dynamic, reasonable and trustworthy? It must be the first time in decades. That is why we must encourage white males to take up this challenging job. Sorry to come off patronizing, but I have no doubt that it would prove character-building for that whole white male community. Let’s give them a chance, I say.

[re=67308]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: oh yes i know he has a ton of cred. numerous thingies etc etc…

but would he change the mind of someone? maybe i’m a bitter. or an anti-bitter. or something.

i mean, picture your average texan, you know them better than i, i assume. can you think of someone he’d convince. someone who said ‘well, i was gonna vote for mccrappants, but now that old joe is involved that [insert racial epithet] has got my vote.

i guess, maybe, as long as we can vote for one old guy with white hair…

hey! didn’t obama say he didn’t look like the dude on the dollars? maybe that’s why he picked ol’ fancy french wig joe?

[re=67313]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Sorry, by the article you linked (which wasn’t terribly flattering to Joe B.), I can’t tell if you were being sarcastic. But, yeah, he probably does have a higher IQ than most of the bitters & those who are inebriated on the weekends, but I won’t hold it against him.

[re=67321]Street Organizer[/re]: not so bad

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/375043431_3a4fec82d7.jpg?v=0

However, biden’s mistress (behind him in this ‘nuzzle’ shot looks a little jealous

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/Biden-Iowa-1.jpg

[re=67330]thwanger[/re]: that was supposed to be an “oh”, not a check on your ph balance. for complaints write to: http://www.bellsbeer.com

I heard that Barry had made his pick, but then Michelle called him up short and said No to his choice, that he needed to pick someone he’s comfortable with.

So he probably picked Biden, thought about Michelle’s good advice, then chose Reed.

That would be my guess. *yawn*

[re=67342]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: yes, but, then again.

ah hell i don’t freakin know. who does? i only know like 4 people. and they don’t vote (they are all homeless drug addicts) so i’m a horrible horrible horrible guesser on such subjects.

HOWEVER! why don’t the bitters buy into the whole ‘raised by a single mother working on chicago’s south side” cred for BO? biden’s always seems like a sassy know-it-all to me, and i like sassy know-it-alls.

maybe ol’ joe just bugs me somehow.

maybe i’m not clean and articulate enough?

but thanks for the info on scranton. did he work for.,, oh i can’t even make that joke.

why can’t michelle be his running mate? she’s fantastic.

Delaware sent for Kerry. It has all of 3 EVs. Bonus: He was born in Scranton, PA, where Hillary spent her girlhood summers. So he’s a Bitter.

It seems like FIVE AND A HALF YEARS have passed since I have been waiting for my text message. Take that Walnuts…I have been a prisoner to my text messaging device.

Damn, I’m having a semi-serious thought (and another glass of red something). An early knock against Biden (besides having a name that’s short for “Bin Laden”) was that his partition plan for Iraq was at odds with Obama’s position. But doesn’t that help Barry brand himself (THERE’S an auto-erotic masochism image) as someone who can take the advice of a formidable ally/interlocutor with whom he occasionally disagrees, and yet ultimately make the final (3 AM) call himself (i.e., make the formidable ally his bitch)? What the fuck am I talking about?

I got my text message!

But it was from CNN.

Fuck you, Obama.

CNN has “confirmed” that Biden is the VEEP.

[re=67358]itgetter[/re]: Far from it. I’m trying to think of which comedian Joey reminds me of. The guy from Night Stand and My Name is Earl??

[re=67359]Grouchy Marxist[/re]: I was having a serious thought too. On CNN they were raving about Biden’s everyman status, including the fact that he’s actually in debt like many Americans. This was a plus in their book. But how long until the Repubs put out an ad asking voters how they can expect a pathetic debtor to help America’s economy?

Also, are you thinking of Timothy Stack? He’s been on both shows, but I don’t see it.

I’m so proud of myself. The first time Obama complimented Biden in a debate I thought he’d make a good VP. He should have saved himself the trouble and made me his vetter instead of Caroline Kennedy.

[re=67375]eatsshootsleaves[/re]: Last I heard it was eleventy billion dollars. But yay! I did not know this. Why didn’t I know this?

NBC 10 in Philly reported at 1 AM that Biden has accepted.

[re=67321]Street Organizer[/re]: Um.

Osama/Bin Laden 2008!

[re=67381]Grouchy Marxist[/re]: Hmm… I still don’t. But I like thinking about anybody in a Biden wig.

[re=67382]Outstando[/re]: I thought the same thing, but he remarried.

August suckS Biden balls.

[re=67392]Outstando[/re]: What the hell are those and are they contagious??

AP just called it too. *sigh*

How about that fucking text message now, Barry? I’M WAITING FOR MY TEXT.

STILL WAITING FOR MY GD TEXT.

Thanks for wasting my twenty cents because just think I could have donated that to you but now you get nothing teh end. FUCK YOU BARRY.

Barry, why have you forsaken me? I thought we were BFF! And still, the AP knows before I do. *sniff* *snuffle* I’m totally taking back my letter jacket.

10:45 PM PST: MSNBC is chattin’ it up crazy time…poor Keith Olbermann dragged from bed (?) to comment via phone….any truth to the fact that Secret Service is making a midnight dump run?

[re=67312]Serolf Divad[/re]: a sweetheart if not quite a pin up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joe_Biden,_official_photo_portrait_2-cropped.jpg

I bet McCain’s asleep in his jewel-ladened bed under gold silk sheets and doesn’t know about this shit.

Isn’t his wife Katie Couric’s sister or something? Hot. Very hot.

Barry had better not wake me up with a god damn “OMG ITZ JOE” text.

Good night, my friends.

Howard Dean and his Fifty State Strategy means they won’t necessarily pick someone who can carry just ONE state. They want someone who will have mass appeal. A compelling backstory. A kind face. Someone they can relate to.

That ain’t Joe Biden. Biden’s always reminded me of a used car salesman who moonlights as a funeral director on the weekends.

should’ve started drinking earlier. now i can’t sleep.

Obama/Biden reminds me of that old cartoon about a huge mean bulldog adopting an adorable black kitten.

[re=67420]AxmxZ[/re]: …you too AxmxZ!!!

“In February 1988, Biden was hospitalized for two brain aneurysms ….”

Guess we have to cut the jokes about Cheney’s heart.

[re=67417]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: At first I was like, yeah, okay, and Gephart is the vice president — but really, who else was Obama going to pick? I’m wholly convinced Biden was the best choice out of his horrible top four.

WTF? David fucking Brooks is a Biden fan?? And for reasons that actually seem to make some sense??
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
[Registration possibly required. Sorry.]

Can we start making headline puns for all those poor copy editors rushing to fit the breaking news in?

“Biden: his time” (too easy)
“Obam’ a’Biden’ his foreign policy skeptics” (too difficult)
“Bye, Bayh: Obama’s got someone else doing his ‘Biden.’” (too suggestive)

(I should stop making comments on Wonkette at 2:30 in the morning.)

[re=67422]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Yep. Then again Biden, like Barry, looks more feline than canine to me. It’s mostly a temperament issue. Even when Barry lets his claws out, it’s hard to be either scared or intimidated by him. Even if he draws blood.

[re=67433]Darehead[/re]: Yeah, but Biden for State I’d be okay with. Biden for VP? He’ll have to be on his really best behavior.

BIIIIII DENNNN!

[re=67314]Street Organizer[/re]: My sentiments exactly.
(Let me take this opportunity to tell you how much I like your avatar/user name combo. Excellent!)

Ken Layne,

That’s how ABC figured it out. Biden’s extended family was still arriving at his home in Delaware and Obama sends the Secret Service detail. Well, so much for text messaging. “You’ll be the first to know.” Yeah, right. I don’t see the “Change” yet. Am I alone on this? Politics as usual with plenty of room for a big backlash.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Mr-Clark