Veeps 2008

And then there was one. I crawled out on a very wispy limb today to the ears of 150,000 drivetime listeners when I went on Portland’s Air America affiliate, KPOJ 620 AM, and declared that I was going back on my 10:00 PM lock from last night that Joe Biden was going to be Obama’s [...]

Well, I gave it a solid eight hours and a good night’s sleep, and I really have to reconsider my dead-on, rock-solid, take-it-to-the-bank-and-lock-it-up-in-a-96-month CD prediction–you know, when I said that Joe Biden would be Barack Obama’s VP choice, and I said it with such certainty that I just as well be identifying the location of [...]

Oh, so much to catch up and so little time. But first, The Hour is upon us. Senator Obama is going to make his choice tomorrow and by this time tomorrow evening the losers will be having a tall libation with their wives, thinking about what could have been and weighing the possible consolation of [...]

We’re getting down to the wire, and the GOP Veepstakes is as clear as John McCain’s latest economic policy, which he posited today at 3:00 PM EST, unless I missed a 6:00 PM news release defining a new fiscal direction that forged a new course from the reconsidered policies of his earlier economic policy statement. [...]

The Dems’ are a mere seven weeks before they drop that gavel on their so-far very poorly organized convention in Denver, and their best hope is that they have enough of their crew dispatched to the Mile High City to get things under control so that the party’s nominee doesn’t have to spend time ordering [...]

Jesus, July already? With just eight weeks before the first gavel falls in Denver, and both candidates hinting that they’ll be making their choices sometime in the dead of summer, this could be the beginning of the end of Veepstake Monday. Toss your sawbucks down now tell them you heard it here first. Remember, we’re [...]

It’s been a bumpy few weeks for the Golden Child since he sealed the nomination. Is he exposing himself as a true politician and an Agent of Same, or is he just taking advantage of the ideological LSD trip that is his opponent, and counting on the fact that a flip here and a flop [...]

So, who’s on John McCain’s short list this week? It doesn’t really matter, because he’ll be assailing their patriotism and their position on taxes next week, unless Joe Lieberman is there to hand him the crib notes. Nonetheless, the music is going to stop one of these weeks soon, and he’s going to have to [...]

It’s over and then there were two. This week we’re prognosticating on the Democrat’s VP picks, but we’ll get there in a moment after…
TRUE CONCESSIONS: Between a combination of campaign fatigue, a full social calendar, and the free pass that Hillary Clinton afforded all of us by bowing out of the race and giving Barack [...]

The shadow-boxing is almost over and John McCain is about to have his chance to face a real and anointed enemy, other than himself. Who’s going to ride shotgun with him as he makes his race for the White House in the culmination of several decades of public service? The courtship began at his Memorial [...]