There’s been some discussion this morning about the fact that the major news networks announced Obama’s pick before the promised text messages and emails went out. The media was essentially stalking Biden and put 2 and 2 together (kind of remarkable they can still do that, actually) when Secret Service showed up. Obama didn’t make the announcement to the media first. They leaked it to get a scoop. To try to stay as good to his word as he could at that point, his campaign got the messages out as soon as they could. The networks seem to have called it on Biden at around 1 am. The text messages went out two hours later (a stretch of time, yes, but much earlier than the campaign intended on sending them). Which made them come in at around 3 am.

Because of that timing, some disenfranchised Clinton supporters thought it was a jab at her “3 am” ad (a theory that the McCain campaign is feeding, further suggesting that PUMAs are Republicans in straight jackets Democrat clothing). To which I say: believe it or not, some things aren’t about Hillary Clinton. I know, it is a shock that some things are coincidences rather than needless jabs at an openly mocked campaign ad most people stopped caring about months ago.