Obama's First Crime Against The Nation

"When Barack Obama named his vice presidential candidate a few days before the Democratic National Convention in August, he probably wasn’t thinking about the first time he’d listened to Joe Biden preside over a Senate hearing. But back in 2005, when Obama had just started out as the junior senator from Illinois, he could take only so much of Biden’s notoriously verbose public-speaking style. He scribbled a message to an aide, who read one of Obama’s first handwritten notes as a U.S. senator: 'Shoot. Me. Now.'”

— Paul Beston, catching a not-so-proud Obama/Biden moment that we may, all, have to re-live a few times, with New York's City Journal