Pretty sweet: Stewart lays waste to punditry*

* - but the joke about Lincoln in a theater was infinitely less than funny. Especially on the eve of RFK's assassination anniversary, which I'll talk about in a bit. No one has ever accused me of not being able to take a joke, but I just never think it's funny to joke about a presidential assassination, ever. Anyway, on with the piece above...

I loved the round-up of so-called pundits predicting Hillary Clinton was going to run away with the nomination, and a few of them go all the way back to the spring of 2007. Unbelievable. I especially enjoyed hearing Joe Scarborough's dismissal of Barack Obama, too. What a clown. Stewart wraps the pundit round-up pretty nicely: "News pundits, they are like the doppler-less weathermen of our time." Pretty fitting, since the pundits who predicted her victory over a year ago might just as well have been predicting the daily weather, a year ahead of time.

By the way, I loved Stewart's "Baba Booey" reference. (If you don't listen to Howard Stern, never mind.)

One particular lowlight of the McCain speech: "[Obama] doesn't trust us to make decisions for ourselves, and wants to the government to make them for us." That kind of Reagan b.s., i.e. - "government IS the problem," isn't going to fly this year, McSame. But, you keep pounding that drum, and all of the Reagan fetishists will ride that plane right into the ground with you.

After watching it several times again, it really is apparent that McCain is going to get the stuffing kicked out of him this fall. This year, being the GOP nominee means being the best of the worst. It really is going to be Bob Dole '96 all over again. And if I pull a Scarborough and McCain somehow miraculously wins, I'll offer a full-blown mea culpa on these very pages.

McCain's co-opting Obama's slogan is about as original as Glenn Beck saying "Inconvenient (fill in the blank)" every two seconds. And it's as witty, too.

I also found it sort of sad watching the handful of people surrounding McCain while he made his speech. McCain should fire the aide who decided on a green background - it was about as unflattering as possible. He couldn't have possibly looked any more frail and old. Here's hoping his campaign's wonderful decision making continues.

Just like the Democratic Nomination was Hillary's to lose, the general election is Obama's to lose. Here's hoping he doesn't Pull a Hillary. Maybe that could even be a new electoral term, like Swiftboating entered our political lexicon following the '04 election.