So says one of the musicians that plays with him.

No word yet what night or what event. Will he be the intro at Obama's acceptance speech?

More music: Lifetime Networks and Rock the Vote will feature Ashanti at an Every Woman Counts event Tuesday night at the Cowboy Lounge.

The big Rock the Vote ballot bash is Monday night, followed by a private party. FALL OUT BOY, N*E*R*D and Jakob Dylan will headline the main event at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, while the official afterparty will feature D.J. Nick Cannon.

Look, it's Biden. Ok. It just is. I know, Obama has not said so, but it is Biden.

I can't take it anymore -

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

I've been offline running around doing convention things all day and all they say on TV is "any moment now." What's the hold-up?

And, it may or may not be Joe Biden. There are other serious contenders and until it's announced, keep in mind that everything you are reading is opinion only.

Okay, can someone explain to me why Biden has not been announced already? Seriously.

What's the point of the timing on this?

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Will you roll Biden out already? Sheesh.

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On CNN, a video clip is played of Hillary being asked who Obama should pick, her answer "I'm not in that arena." Then she was asked about whether she is doing enough for Obama. She said "I've done more than anyone who has ever been in my position." Hillary is out.

The pick (Joe Biden) has been told says Gloria Borger.

So the VP announcement is now officially a Friday night news dump.

Even as John McCain claims to be questioning Barack Obama's judgment, not his patriotism, when he asserts that Obama would rather lose the war than lose the election, the smears from the McCain camp continue.

The attack machine is sharpest with surrogates like Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent who seems gripped by a somewhat understandable cathartic need to stick it to the party that all but abandoned him in 2006. This race is "between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put his country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate that has not," Joltin' Joe declared recently.

Susan Demas asks whether McCain is actually "putting his country first" by indulging in and refusing to condemn unscrupulous campaign tactics. [more ...]

As Atrios says, BORED NOW.

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Joseph Tydings is a former U.S. senator from Maryland. As a former U.S. attorney and as a private lawyer, he has prosecuted and defended death penalty cases. Tydings therefore has credibility when he argues that the risk of executing the innocent is simply too great.

As pro bono counsel, I unsuccessfully litigated a Virginia appeal of a mentally retarded minor who had been convicted and sentenced to death for a crime that I firmly believe he didn't commit, because his court-appointed attorney didn't want to represent him and was basically worthless as his lawyer. After seven years, the Virginia governor ultimately lacked the courage to stay the sentence, and my client was executed.

Given the 129 people who were sentenced to death and who managed to establish their innocence before being executed, death penalty supporters are fooling themselves if they believe the criminal justice system is so flawless that the innocent will never be executed. [more ...]

Apparently "anybody's short list" does not include Barack Obama's:

Obama has often said, most recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on July 27, that Clinton “would be on anybody’s short list.” But apparently not his.

“She was never vetted,” a Democratic official reported. “She was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never had a single conversation about it. How would he know if she’d take it?” The official also said Clinton never met with Obama’s vetting team of Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy. . . . “This would be the biggest leap of faith ever,” the official said. “She’s waiting for the text message like everyone else.”

By Big Tent Democrat, Speaking for me only.

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The good news about the house hunting story is Obama demonstrated that he is willing to use silly stuff to attack McCain. Yep, politics is stupid. The other good news is that we have a new definition of "the new politics":

The new politics is about competent governance, not getting elected, and taking accurate statements made by your opponent (in this case, their own admission they do not know how many houses they own) and highlighting them is not ceding the high ground. It is politics.

(Emphasis supplied.) Glad we finally got that straight. So much for the "say or do anything to win" attack line and the clinging to the attendant outrage about taking "accurate statements made by your opponent and highlighting them." That silly stuff really annoyed me. I am glad we are over that now.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

It's 10:30 am. Do you know where the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee is?

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Post Script - Kevin Drum has moved to Mother Jones. As readers here know, I take an especial delight in disagreeing with Kevin, but he is a must read for all of us. Kevin has the quality of being able to intelligently discuss an issue without suffering from what I call "take out the cork syndrome." It comes from one of my favorite books, Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum":

For anyone who did not know that the Piedmontese expression, he would occasionally explain: "Me gavte la nata. Take out the cork." You say it to someone who is full of himself, the idea being that what causes him to swell and strut is the pressure of a cork stuck in his behind. Remove it and, phssssh, he returns to the human condition.

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As we await Sen. Obama's choice of a running mate, I'm humming the Shirelles and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"

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