10-20-08

An Army of Joes: …and the slaves stood up one at a time and said, “I am Joe!”

Biden Babbles: “There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision’,” Biden continued. “Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”

John McCormick: “I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you.” I don’t think anyone has ever accused Joe Biden of being “fasely humble”, but at least he has a high enough IQ to realize he ought to shut up after he saw a reporter in the back of the room: “I probably shouldn’t have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here.”

Mark Steyn: The heart of the American Dream is aspiration. That’s why people came here from all over the world. Back in eastern Europe, the Joe Bidens and Diane Sawyers of the day were telling Joe the Peasant: “Hey, look, man. You’re a peasant in the 19th century, just like your forebears were peasants in the 12th century and your descendants will be peasants in the 26th century. So you’re never gonna be earning 250 groats a year. Don’t worry about it. Leave it to us. We know better.”

Ed Morrissey: The editorial board of the Washington Post corrects the record today at the expense of Democrats in Congress desperately spinning the financial crisis as a failure of deregulation. 

Rob Port: New York Times Reporter Trolling 16-Year-Olds on Facebook for Dirt on Cindy McCain

Richard Fernandez on the Colin Powell endorsement of “The One”: America isn’t color blind at all; no sirree. But the relevant color is green.

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