More to come for sure but what is your initial reaction? Why the middle of the night annoucement?

UPDATE: By the way, I never got the text message or the email announcing the choice, at least not yet. I guess the new technology thing that Obama has embraced still has a few bugs to be worked out.

Also, after a few minutes thinking this over I am not sure this choice does much for me. Does Obama, the so called candidate of change, need a 30 year Washington insider with a penchant for saying stupid things as a running mate?. Don’t we already have that on the Republican ticket?

At least now Obama can probably put Delaware in the win column…

ROBERTS: — does not make any sense whatsoever. I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he’s going to take a vacation at this time.

Though I guess that I would have to agree with her on one point. Why is he taking vacation now when he can take all he wants if he wins the White House. George W set the precidence as he is on pace to take almost 500 days during his 8 tears in office. I am sure Obama can use a similar vacation schedule to keep his batteries recharged.

Stone’s latest stars Josh Brolin as George W. and is scheduled to hit theaters in October just in time to see before the November elections. Raw Story reports that the movie appears to focus “on George W. Bush’s transition from youthful drunken lout to President of the United States“.

Of course this is all based on a 2 minute trailer but there has to be a reason that Stone rushed this to completion so that it would air before the election right? And I’ll bet it isn’t to help the GOP’s chances either but that’s just me talkin’…

(h/t - Madfloridian)

An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will “boost our economy and encourage job creation,” has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.

Not what the conservatives including President Bush planned but at least something is being “stimulated” by the program…

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the
regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San
Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a
prize-winning water-treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W.
Bush Sewage Plant.

Well at least it is a prize winner.

(h/t - Americablog)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court’s liberal justices were in the majority.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”

What is surprising is that 4 justices actually thought otherwise. I guess it is too bad for Bush that he didn’t have the opportunity to stack the court before getting his hand slapped for the 3rd straight time and hopefully he won’t have the chance before the Democrats take over in January.

First came former Bush puppet master and current McCain advisor Karl Marx Rove who compared McClellan to a left-wing blogger on Hannity and Colmes. He was followed soon thereafter by former Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend (aka pot) whom called McClellan “self-serving” and “disingenuous.” (kettle). Closing things out today (so far), Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino put the proverbial “smear icing on the cake” when she labeled him simply, a “disgruntled” employee.

As Think Progress points out, McClellan isn’t alone in his criticism of the administration or in the backlash that resulted from the blind follower’s brigade. He joins the likes of Alan Greenspan, Matthew Dowd, and Richard Clarke among others whom have left the administration and afterwards been crucified for speaking ill of our fearless leader.

While the Bush machine’s response is to be expected based on their history, one might start to wonder if this is only a precursor to what will come out starting in January 2009 when the smear machine leaves the Bush nest and has to start looking back on their legacies. Do they want to continue to be associated with the worst President in our history whom has done more to circumvent the Constitution than anyone in our lifetime or will they start burning the bridge connecting them with the last 8 years of Mr “Miserable Failure”?

Reserve some quiet time in the years to come. I predict there will be some interesting reading in our future that won’t have the smear machine waiting to greet it when it comes out.

UPDATE: I meant to mention this but forgot but Denise Ross didn’t. All through the smear campaign to this point, no one has come out to deny anything that McClellan wrote. I guess they figure it is easier to discredit him than to try and explain away (i.e. lie) what he documents.

I guess we all need to make some sort of sacrifice because of the war in Iraq.

US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.

“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”

Does he have even the smallest clue as to how that sounds?

UPDATE: Not only does Bush seem clueless about how this sounds, it appears he lied about it as well. And finally, Keith Olbermann puts the whole Bush Yahoo/Politico interview in perspective.