Bloodthirsty Liberal

Many weeks ago, Bill Clinton offered to campaign for Barack Obama “anytime, anywhere”.

Uh-huh. I must have missed those massive rallies and whistle-stop tours.

Unless he meant this:

Sitting on a couch shmoozing the ladies of The View on Monday, Bill Clinton said Hillary didn’t want to be Barack Obama’s running mate, but that she would have taken the job if she was asked.

“She would have been the best politically, at least in the short run, because of her enormous support [in] the country,“ Clinton said. “She said ‘If he asks, I’ll do it because it’s my duty.’”

Inspiring.

I wonder if Bill checked with Al Gore before he described serving in the second highest office in the land as no different from having to finish your vegetables.

On September 11th, Bill summoned Barack Obama to lunch, and they agreed that Obama would “put him to work”.

Uh-huh. Again, I missed all those town hall meetings.

Unless he meant this:

Bill Clinton said Monday the Democratic ticket should steer clear of launching personal attacks on Sarah Palin over her relatively thin resume, and instead acknowledge she was a “good choice” for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket.

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“I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there,” Clinton told reporters in New York, according to the Associated Press. “Why she’s doing well.”

Wow, Bill Clinton gets why she’s hot—talk about going against type!

So goes South Dakota?

Okay, I was only half right when I said it might be Bayh:

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.

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

“Joe and I will appear for the first time as running mates this afternoon in Springfield, Illinois — the same place this campaign began more than 19 months ago,” Obama said in an e-mail sent to supporters Saturday morning.

“I’m excited about hitting the campaign trail with Joe, but the two of us can’t do this alone,” he wrote. ” We need your help to keep building this movement for change.”

For once, I am buying the whole change business: it is certainly a change to announce the biggest decision of your campaign on the graveyard shift of the news cycle—a time usually reserved for burying embarrassing stories and revelations.

It’s also change to pick a running mate who doesn’t help you win a state (at least a state worth winning—sorry Delaware, but three electoral votes, and a state already solidly Obama) or a demographic. It’s also change to call it “change” when you picked someone who’s been in Washington for over 35 years, who’s been rejected pretty soundly in his own national campaigns, and who doesn’t think much of your qualifications:

“Who among us is going to be able on day one to step in an end the war? Who among us understands what to do about Pakistan? Who among us is going to pick up the phone and immediately interface with Putin and tell him to lay off Georgia because Saakashvili is in real trouble. Who among us knows what they’re doing? I have 35 years of experience,” Biden said.

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“You were asked, ‘Is he ready?’ You said, ‘I think he can be ready, but right now, I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training,’” Stephanopoulos said.

“I think I stand by that statement,” Biden replied.

It’s also change to pick somebody who evidently thinks more of your opponent than he thinks of you:

“John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain.”

Well, here’s your chance.

I said that a choice of Bayh would be safe, bland, and unfunny, so I have to give Obama credit for this choice. Biden is—sometimes intentionally, sometimes not—one of the funniest characters in Washington. What he lacks as a running mate he more than makes up for as a figure of ridicule.

Don’t like the slogan? You would prefer maybe “A Couple of Zeros for ‘08″?

He coulda had a woman, he coulda had a Latino—he coulda had a V8, for crying out loud.

But no, Barack Obama instead secured the white Hoosier vote (reportedly) with the selection of Evan Bayh. Safe, bland, unexciting—unfunny.

A fitting choice for an office once described as not being worth a bucket of warm spit.

In addition the bumper sticker buzz, I received this e-mail from a reader:

“A good friend of mine just informed me that his good friend in IL has his hands deep into selling political T-shirts and he got word that Evan Bayh from Indiana will be his running mate for VP.”

Not exactly definitive, is it?

Hot Air has the “bumper sticker buzz”:

A Lenexa, Kansas printing company has started producing Obama-Bayh bumper stickers, according to a Kansas City television news report. KMBC-9 has three sources and an example of the bumper sticker for its proof that Barack Obama has selected Evan Bayh as his running mate.

A feint? Not that he wouldn’t pick Bayh, and not that I’d care if he did. But it smells fishy.

I don’t know if this means she definitely is not the VP but that might be what it means. They didn’t even bother to pretend.

There’s one Democrat who would seem to have little or no chance of being picked by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be his running mate – his former opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

But it’s not for the reason you think.

Obama has often said, most recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on July 27, that Clinton “would be on anybody’s short list.”

But apparently not his.

“She was never vetted,” a Democratic official reported. “She was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never had a single conversation about it. How would he know if she’d take it?”

The official also said Clinton never met with Obama’s vetting team of Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy.

This is hard for me to believe. Why infuriate 18 million Clinton voters, people Obama really needs to win in November? It just seems too stupid.

- Aggie