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The wait is over! Just hours ago, Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his vice president.Now, we’re offering FREE Obama/Biden stickers—and we want to give away half a million of them as quickly as possible. Want one?

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P.S. If you’d like to learn a little more about Joe Biden, check out his Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

And here’s a page specifically on his issue positions:

https://www.moveon.org/r?r=4085&id=13561-9273601-W2M0Wux&t=6

Because of that timing, some disenfranchised Clinton supporters thought it was a jab at her “3 am” ad (a theory that the McCain campaign is feeding, further suggesting that PUMAs are Republicans in straight jackets Democrat clothing). To which I say: believe it or not, some things aren’t about Hillary Clinton. I know, it is a shock that some things are coincidences rather than needless jabs at an openly mocked campaign ad most people stopped caring about months ago.

Maybe I should be a wee bit more specific: so far as I can tell at this point, it is merely Ron Fournier himself who is an idiot:

In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.

As did George W. Bush in 2000, who was roundly praised by a salivating press corps for having the wisdom to complement his own deficiencies. There were, as I recall, hosannahs all around for this “outside reformer’s” choice of a “grownup” who “understood how Washington worked.” Such was the love for the backslapper who gave everyone in the press corps a nickname.

But somehow this time seems different. I don’t think we’re going to have a VP who’s basically a Bond villain.

More codswollop Fournier:

So the question is whether Biden’s depth counters Obama’s inexperience — or highlights it?

Counters it, unless you’re an idiot political writer looking for a salvageable spin. This choice plays precisely into Obama’s mantra of “no more yes-men or Armageddon-instigators in the Executive branch”.

One of the signs of a good leader is to hire someone who’ll call you on your bullshit. Biden will do that for Obama.

One of the signs of a weak leader is to hire someone who convinces you that your bullshit smells of delightfully fresh spring roses. We’ve had eight years of that. It has been less that pleasant.

The American public is, I hope, done with it. Pity the Associated Press isn’t.

/heatstroke.

Sometimes.

Dear Lord, Adrian Wojnarowski makes me want to vomit. This is the absolute worst kind of fanboyish, the-league-above-everything mentality that makes me NOT be a sports fan.

Here he is on Olympic basketball:

As the worst nightmare for an NBA dynasty unfolded on the floor – San Antonio Spur Manu Ginobili crumbling with the agony of an ankle hurt all over again – the world witnessed one more window into how an Olympic basketball war of attrition threatens to deepen the gap between the United States and its reeling rivals.

Ginobili is from Argentina, and plays for his national team, as do a number of other NBA stars. Wojnarowski’s basic beef here is that these NBA stars are hurting themsleves playing for their national teams in the Olympics, and therefore wasting their value as NBA stars. Because, by allowing them to compete for their national teams,

the NBA is slowly, surely decaying multi-million dollar assets.

…which, of course, every human being in the world should want to be, right? An asset? That’s what we all aspire to, I’m sure.

Make no mistake, here: Wojnarowski does indeed express some heartwarming concern for the players themselves, and conjures up the right amount of OMG-is-that-really-happening-to-these-poor-people anecdotes of injuries. But his agenda becomes a little bit too clear a little bit too soon:

Whatever you want to say about national pride, your responsibility is to the team that signs your check.

No, your responsibility is to yourself. If your own heart and soul dicatate that you serve the interests of the nation of your birth rather than the people who have bought you as a show pony to make some cash, then so be it.

Professional athletes know all too well that the mere specter of an injury is all that separates them from the top ranks and oblivion. Yet they choose to compete for their home countries in the Olympics anyway. Are they really the hapless pawns Wojnarowski portrays them as? Seriously, walk up to Ginobili and ask him whether he’d rather have the remainder of his contract money from the Spurs or another Olympic gold medal for the country he’s from.

My God, sports freaks like Wojnarowski really disgust me. He feigns interest in the players, but his real interest, poorly hidden, is in the massive-dollar agenda of the NBA — and, not coincidentally, his own gravy train as a sports writer.

I really have enjoyed what I’ve seen of the USA basketball team this time around — not the brash, in-your-face “dream teams” of years past, but a bunch of guys who seem genuinely interested in the experience of being Olympians and, as corny as it may sound, not just interested in winning but also interested in representing their country well. That’s kind of what the Olympics is supposed to be about, right?

But leave it to hacks like Wojnarowski to reduce it to the profit margin.

Yes, I’ve been digging through the Moue archives lately. Sue me.

Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse. As we’ve said, Biden has his baggage, but he’s definitely got his advantages.

And he’ll look properly dignified at funerals.

Update: For those joining us just for the Michael Phelps pictures, let me clarify that it looks like Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his Vice-Presidential candidate.

Update #2: Yep, it’s official.