#1:  Upon the selection of Joseph Biden as running mate, the McCain campaign and RNC fashioned a “Biden Gaffe Clock” widget.  I suppose in the definition of “gaffe” — which I guess includes the sin of political commentary by people running for the highest of offices — the clock has stopped.  The remarks in question are minutiae inducements, leading me to the a great “meh” of such ferocity that I have not experienced since Biden was selected in the first place.

#2:  From a piece in the New Republic regarding “cult” claims,  Jonathan Chait posited:  “Call me a literalist, but I think Obama was referring to his plan to curtail global warming, which is causing sea levels to rise at a rate of approximately three millimeters a year, rather than boasting supernatural domininion of the elements.”

The problem is a bit subtle — the word “began”.  Why did this “moment” begin with Obama?  Why not one of any number of scientific studies raising the alarm bells, why not Al Gore’s Environmental Activism, why not “Silent Garden”?  But that would be my problem.  THEIR problem is their problem, and they would have it however this was phrased.

#3:  Mike Gravel pops up in South Carolina, where:  Two years ago, Gravel was a colorful fringe candidate for the Democratic nomination for president; then he switched to the Libertarian Party. He came to Charleston to promote Jesse Jackson, the Mountain Party nominee for governor in the Nov. 4 election.  Do we have any member of the “Mountain Party” out there?  How about the “Ocean Party”?

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