Double Dip Of Double H

A little late night blogging (I know it's not late for some of you, but for me it is). I just finished perusing my weekly dose of Hugh Hewitt. To start, Hugh has a new book out. Despite what Amazon says, apparently the book is shipping now.

The first article I checked out was Hugh's article over at WorldNetDaily.com. All about John Edwards and how poorly qualified he is to be vice president.

So it is John Edwards, Sen. Lightweight. Kerry's slippage in the polls dictated that he pick someone with flash and energy, but this choice won't wear well because the country knows it is wartime, and it knows that John Edwards is no more prepared to run a war than he is to run a small state or a large corporation. He spent four years in the Senate positioning himself to run for president and two years running. That's it. Aside from a talent for persuading juries to award money to injured people, John Edwards brings nothing to the debate except an ability to debate.

Mike Erlandson is the chair of the Democratic Farm-Labor Party in Minnesota. He's very excited. He compares Edwards to Elvis. Great. Another serious American focusing on what it takes to be president when tens of thousands of Islamist fascists want to blow up the Americans they can't behead. Read John Mintz's assessment of the terror targets that the conventions provide in Monday's Washington Post after reading the stories on Edwards' selection. The anti-terror professionals have to be shaking their head. John Kerry could have picked anyone with any smattering of national-security credentials – even Hillary has more than Edwards – and there would be an argument that the veep was ready to step into the office if necessary.

Even Moore disturbing (oops, I mean more) is the Time Magazine piece, "The Making of John Kerry". Read this one in full.

The next dose of Hugh comes from The Weekly Standard. Highlighted in this article is Michael Moore/Tom Daschle coziness, the Argus Leader loosing all objectivity because it is in Daschle's pocket, and how the South Dakota blogs, Dashcle v. Thune, South Dakota Politics, and Sibby Online are going to give the people of South Dakota the real scoop on Daschle's liberal shenanigansns and help propel John Thune to victory in that state.

The influence of blogging on politics is nowhere more obvious than in South Dakota. Tom Daschle has long sold himself as a moderate to South Dakota voters, and has done so with the assistance of a very friendly local press. But now thelocals get the news via a stream of serious reporters trawling the national press and internet sites for the real news on the hyper-partisan Daschle. The result is that, for the first time in Daschle's political life, he will have to run on his record, not on what he presents as his record.