Funny enough, I remember thinking right after the Iowa Caucses when I saw the report of both Biden and Dodd dropping out that if Obama made it through and won the primary season, as he has, that I really hope that he picks Biden as his running mate. I don't think it was all that much about Obama's so called foreign policy weakness- after all Obama's been right about just about every foreign policy issue for the last seven years or more. But there's just something about the combo of these two that really strikes me in the right place.

This GOP attack is really nothing. I think I remember at least one ad from every election I have been alive for with this kind of stuff, and it doesn't seem to really make much of an impact to anyone. You expect back and forth during a debate. Really, how can the GOP even say that Biden was the most critical of Obama during the primaries? Does anyone else remember it that way? It wasn't until I watched the ad that I even remembered Biden saying anything directly about Obama. And its really pretty tame. Are they really going to try to manufacture the narrative that back in January Biden was so vehemently against Obama that he was literally flinging crap at him on stage or something? I'm telling you all right now- Don't buy it. Call them on this little angle every chance you get.

The plagarism stuff could be a problem, but as I remember the story of what happened in '88, it was a standard part of his stump speech to riff on the English statesman's story. He had used several times before, as many as fourteen I think, and every time he cited the source very clearly. With the exception of just one time when it apparently slipped his mind. And that was the one time everyone picked up on. That's how I have always understood the story. That's even how my conservative father recounts it, and he's not a Biden fan.

The stuff in college I don't know anything about, but if its true or really as bad as some seem to want to make it sound its a wonder how the poor kid didn't get expelled. Rich kids can get away with doing something like that and not get expelled, seeing as how their last names often adorn a building or two on the campus, but not the kid on scholarship.

Perhaps these are things Biden might want to consider addressing himself even before the GOP has a chance to even mention them. If he can frame the two stories as instances of his human imperfection, maybe even a whole section of a speech on these two and the other prominent gaffes of his, it could actually help him and defuse the issues entirely. Or maybe he should wait to see if this is a tack that McCain even wants to take, considering he can be hit even harder on ancient history (ie the Keating Five). McCain might not want to touch this stuff at all.

All in all, a really good pick. I think the best choice he could have made.

And Biden and Obama will be the official candidates, and I will no longer have to hear about Clinton. I think Hillary will do the right thing, and get fully behind the ticket, as she has been very good at ever since she conceded the primary. She actually has been much better about this than I thought she would ever be, much to her credit. Once she accepted the fact that she will never be President, she seems to have become a much happier and at ease person.

Bill, on the other hand, is a walking ego. I really don't know what he's gonna say, but I'm not worried. If he comes out and swings for the fences, fantastic, great, unity all the way. If he comes out and intentionally flubs it, then even better because people will see it in contrast to the magnificent speech Obama will give the next night, and perhaps realize that Clinton really was not that good of a President, he just looks that way in comparison to Bush. But then again Franklin Pierce does too.

And then it'll be done. No more Clinton drama. They'll both still be around, and on the trail I'm sure, but no more prominent than Jimmy Carter. And what a relief, like when your crazy ex finally gets the last of their crap out of your apartment.

After that, then they and all their 'supporters' are put on notice. If she or her husband even dare to keep their drama rolling past the convention, and in any way is seen to be costing all of us President Obama, I say everyone here take a pledge to contact the Democratic reps and Howard Dean demanding she be thrown out of the party.

You seem to have a knack for baseless accusations about what Obama and Axelrod may or may have not done, that fly in the face of anyone else's perception or memory of what went down.

But you still, STILL, have never given even one single, solitary documented example in the public record, of Obama, Axelrod, or anyone else in a position of authority in the Obama campaign actually doing anything remotely close to what you accuse them of.

You never come up with anything like that because they don't exist. Because it never happened. You are either deludued or knowingly lying. I know its hard for you to be able to accept that Hillary lost and it was all her own fault for running such a horrible campaign, but that's the truth.

But hey, you got two more days to complain until your Hillary whine becomes completely moot. Have fun.