Posted by
Nerdus Maximus on Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:25:27 AM
The old saw that you can tell a Democrat is lying because his lips are moving isn't entirely true. While I haven't found a way to tell when a Dem is telling the truth on the fly, sometimes you can after the fact. A clear case is illustrated in a Washington Post story detailing how the McCain campaign is using a rare truth telling incident by Joe "The Plagiarizer" Biden when he was talking trash about Obama when he was running against his now running mate during the primaries. I wouldn't be surprised if it is later found that he was only repeating something Hillary said first!
The mystery to me is how Obama, running as a Washington outsider and reformer, could pick a running mate who hasn't had a job other than U.S. Senator since the early seventies. Coincidentally, the Seventies is also the decade in which Biden had his most recent original thought. That isn't a problem, though, as so many other people have ideas that can be "borrowed".