News that a well-managed campaign drops between 5PM Friday and noon Sunday:

1. The campaign’s finance manager has skipped out to Brazil with six months of campaign contributions.
2. Your poll numbers have dropped so far you have to switch to the Kelvin scale. 
3. The candidate has been caught in bed with a sixteen-year-old prostitute.

News a well-managed, confident, in-control campaign does not  run between 5PM Friday and noon Sunday:

1. Ones’ Vice President pick.

Submitted without comment.

So why did “The One” wait until after 3AM on a Saturday morning to announce The Pick?

My suspicions:

1. Evan Bayh turned him down on Tuesday.
2. Bill Richardson told him on Wedesday he planned to wash his hair between 2008 and 2012.
3. Katie Sibelius dodge the phone call, and finally sent a one-line email begging off around dinner-time on Thursday.
4. Hillary Clinton laughed and hung up her phone without an answer on Friday around noon.
5. Biden accepted by late evening, allowing the message to go out around 3AM.
6. The campaign was reserving Sunday at 3AM in case Biden begged off, and they had to announce Robert Byrd as the Veep choice.

I could be wrong, of course.

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