Obama’s Three Wise Men

By Jennifer J. Foster

... or women:

Rick Warren’s first question is about the three wisest people in Barack Obama’s life.

Wisely, Obama listed his wife.

Politically, he says he would incorporate the opinions of people from Ted Kennedy to Tom Coburn in his administration, but he said he wouldn’t limit himself to noting just three.

That’s quite the political swing.

But Obama didn’t answer the question about who are the wisest people he knows whom he would use in his administration.

And by the way—did you catch it?—Obama listed Sam Nunn right off the bat.

Bad idea of the day

By Jennifer J. Foster

While we await the start of the Saddleback forum, I’ll share with you the bad idea of the day:

Obama-Kerry.

Yes, as in, John Kerry.

I promise, I didn’t make it up. WBZTV’s Jon Keller is reporting on it.

Let’s see: A presidential nominee who’s criticized for being out-of-touch, too elitist, and too liberal ... picking a vice presidential nominee who lost his own presidential contest partially because he was described as being ... out-of-touch, too elitist and too liberal??

Yesterday I told you about one historian’s list of best and worst VP choices in modern history.

Obama-Kerry would make the latter list.

Good grief, Barack ... come on and make your decision public, already, before all us pundits drive each other crazy with these increasingly disturbing hypothetical scenarios. We’re getting a little punch drunk out here.