It's certainly a surprise.  That's quite a large list of VP nominees on one night.  Remember.  It's just Tuesday.

Theme of the Night:  Renewing America's Promise

Kansas Gov. Sebelius and Arizona Gov. Napolitano will outline Obama’s economic agenda.

Ohio Gov. Strickland and Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell will talk about how they believe the past 8 years hav weaked the economy.

Pennsylvania Sen. Casey and Massachusetts Gov. Patrick will discuss how voters’ ideas, stories have influenced Obama’s economic policy.

Montana Gov. Schweitzer, former Denver Mayor Federico Peña will discuss energy and the economy.

In the evening Mark Warner will keynote, Hillary Clinton will give a headliner speech on the working class.

The question I have for Joe is which country?  Israel?

Well, then "Yes", he's an American citizen after all.  This is a pretty damning statement, but why am I not surprised?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/lieberman-obama-has-not-always-put-country-first/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/us/politics/10mccain.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

This is encouraging for any future world leader:

"Senator John McCain is so quick to pick up his gold-colored cellphone to solicit advice — from senators, campaign consultants, even the stray former deputy press secretary — that aides, concerned about his tendency to adopt the last opinion he has heard, have tried to cut back on the time he has to make calls."

He may be one of the few journalists out there that truly understands what kind of election this is becoming:

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/08/edwards.html

The last quote in parentheses just cinches the current media environment:

"(If tearing down Obama is the only way he can win--and this should be obvious, but apparently it isn't--McCain doesn't deserve to win.)"

Please Please Please let it be so......

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4af34942-65a1-11dd-a352-0000779fd18c,dwp_uuid=729ab242-9cb1-11db-8ec6-0000779e2340.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/07/dems-praise-mccain-in-new_n_117457.html

Thank you Hillary!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/07/dems-praise-mccain-in-new_n_117457.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_Original.html?showall

Hardhitting is an understatement!

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/04/1246524.aspx#comments

Color me surprised, I didn't see this coming!

Now, I wasn't completely against Bayh in the past, but wow, I'm surprised he went so hard against Joe. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzr9BCttZ6M

Despite my original article leading to the presumption that Bayh could be the VP.  After reading the article below, I'm not so sure. I'm thinking he could be picking up a VP choice with ties to IN but not necessarily Evan Bayh.  Of course, this is presupposing that Obama is going to pick a VP this week.  But so far the only other person who has ties to IN, again, other than Bayh, is Mark Warner.  Mark Warner was born in the state of IN.

Are there any other VPs out there with those kind of ties?

http://www.howeypolitics.com/2008/08/01/an-obama-bayh-ticket-wednesday/

Firstread thinks it's suspicious.  I don't know if it's a good idea, but Bayh could guarantee Indiana.  I don't like Bayh personally and as a VP choice (due to being on the Iraq Commission) but if he guarantees Indiana, that would be okay. 

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

This is going to go over REAL well.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tomasic/clinton-calls-for-cathart_b_116482.html

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2008/08/01/0801obama1.html


This may be the smartest thing I've seen him do.  I understand people have qualms about it, but with 75% of the electorate for offshore drilling in one form or another, this could have killed his campaign.  The key is reading SPECIFICALLY what he said.  I've read through his energy plan, and he's been calling for something similar along these lines for a while. 

There are several things to note:

1.  He is for offshore drilling ONLY in a comprehensive plan (which the republicans would never allow)
2.  This is classic "Bill Clinton" triangulation, and that was surprising. 
3.  Remember, he's not giving the profits from this to the oil companies.  He's planning on taxing the windfall profits and giving 1000 to families and 500 dollars to individuals.  This is going to prevent that issue from lining up. 
4.  He just massively negated McCain's stranglehold on the issue.  McCain can't call him a flip-flopper because he did the exact same thing.
5.  Folks, this is the only thing holding McCain's campaign afloat.  This is not a good day from the Senator from AZ. 

Thoughts? 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/01/mccain-camp-happy-to-inje_n_116360.html
What is he insinuating?  Is it obvious?