“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” ~President John F. Kennedy

Obama appears to have selected Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate.  According to ABC News, the Secret Service has been dispatched to Biden’s house.  This, in addition to the growing list of people confirmed not to be the pick, makes it all but certain.

If Joe Biden isn’t the pick, then give some major credit to the Obama Campaign for pulling off quite a stunt….

UPDATE: CNN is also reporting that they have confirmed that the pick is Joe Biden.

Just a thought, but perhaps the Obama campaign overplayed their hand by letting the hype build so much on the Vice President pick?  It seems that Bayh and Kaine are out (or so Andrea Mitchell claims), so Joe Biden looks like the probable guy.  But after a week or two of the media talking about Biden nonstop, won’t it just be a major let down if it’s him?

OH MY GOD IT’S… oh, it’s the guy they said it was.  That’s kind of boring… lame…

Which is why I’m going to go out on the line and say it’s not Biden (or Bayh or Kaine).  It’s gotta be someone no one is expecting (Hillary!), or this big build-up was kind of dumb.

Mark Halperin writes that two sources are saying that McCain will pick Mitt Romney as his Vice President:

Two Republicans close to the situation say McCain has apparently settled on Mitt Romney as his running mate.

Two additional GOP sources say McCain had not offered the slot to anyone as of Thursday night, and that he could still change his mind

I hope so.  Romney simply reinforces the rich and out of touch image, and he doesn’t really appeal all that much to the voters in the middle.  Will he energize the conservative base?  I doubt it.  Half the conservative base isn’t comfortable with his religion, and the rest just wanted him during the primary because he was the only guy left that might have stopped John McCain.

Adding credibility to the Romney rumor, the NYTimes says that McCain will pick a pro-life VP:

Senator John McCain has narrowed his list of potential running mates to a handful of candidates and appears unlikely to select anyone who supports abortion rights, several advisers close to his campaign said on Thursday.

Makes sense after the very unhappy reaction from conservatives when Ridge and Lieberman were floated as possibilities.

But Mitt Romney is a lame pick.  McCain needs someone interesting (and surprising) if he’s going to expect his VP pick to help him.

If you vote for John McCain, don’t complain when he drafts you:

As President, John McCain will reinstate the draft.  He will force you (or your loved ones) to go to war against your will.

Either John McCain is an elitist or he is senile.  I really can’t see how there could be any other explanation to the fact that he does not even know how many houses he owns.  Is this really the guy we want running the government?  He can’t remember how many houses he owns!  That’s so incredibly absurd…

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. 

“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M.

Like I said, either that’s the epitome of elitism, or McCain is going so senile that he can’t even remember how many houses he owns.  Either way, it’s pretty sad.  This man should never be elected to anything.

CNN has Obama’s reaction:

“Somebody asked John McCain, ‘how many houses do you have?’ and he said, ‘I’m not sure, I’ll have to check with my staff,’” said Obama at a Thursday morning campaign stop. “True quote! ‘I’m not sure, I’ll have to check with my staff.’ So they asked his staff and he said, ‘at least four.’ ‘At least four.’”

“Now think about that — I guess if you think that being rich means you gotta make five million dollars, and if you don’t know how many houses you have, then it’s not surprising that you might think the economy is fundamentally strong,” he continued. “But if you’re like me and you’ve got one house — or you were like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so that they don’t lose their home — you might have a different perspective.”