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Week of August 3, 2008 - August 9, 2008

Obama/Bayh v McCain/Romney


Bill Browning predicted yesterday that Barack Obama will announce his VP choice on Wednesday.  It will be, according to Browning, Evan Bayh.

Browning makes a good argument why Bayh will be chosen on Wednesday. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bil-browning/obama-will-name-bayh-his_b_116752.html

If Browning's prediction is true, then I predict that McCain will announce his VP choice on Thursday.

It will be Mitt Romney.

Here's my reasoning:

1. McCain has been paranoid about any media attention that Obama receives, thus not to be outdone he will once again follow Obama's lead.

2.  McCain and his campaign have decided that their only winning strategy is to go negative.  Surprisingly, some republicans have shown that they don't have the stomach to follow on McCain's bogus attacks on Obama.  Romney on the other hand has shown to have no problem with following this line of attack, as he lacks any amount of character.

Olbermann on Milbank


<blockquote>"Number 3; best timing. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, who notified us today that after four years of appearing with us he had accepted another television offer.

This saved your crack Countdown staff an increasingly difficult decision. For nearly a week we have been waiting for him to offer a correction or an explanation for his column from last week in which he apparently reported an Obama quote without the full context that turned the meaning of the quote inside-out. Then he called criticisms of his column 'whines', even though the dispute was over whether Obama had said the self-deprecating, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions..." or if he had just said the part about, "I have just become a symbol..."

We had decided not to have Dana on this news hour again until this was cleared up, and sadly after some very happy years, he has chosen apparently to make that cloud permanant. Good luck, Dana."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26015724

</blockquote>

During a commercial break on Countdown, I just happened to flip over to CNN. To my surprise, there was Dana Milbank on CNN Election Center with Campbell Brown. Yuck. After years of appearing on Countdown, Milbank shows up on CNN the same day that he notifies Olbermann and the Countdown staff that he's accepted another television offer.


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