2008: Maybe we should adopt the WSJ's trick of picking stocks by throwing darts

So it looks like we are going to have to choose, at a minimum, from among John Edwards, Hilary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Hussein Obama (as he will be known to Faux News and the GOP), Al Sharpton (if he can find some Republicans fatcats to pay his bills again), Tom "Look, I'm termed out, okay?" Vilsack, Bill Richardson (well, maybe), and, as of this week, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden (gratifying that Evan Bayh and Mark Warner hold themselves in the same esteem that I do and pulled out of the race; too bad Russ Feingold did likewise).

The entertainment value of a Biden candidacy is not to be undervalued. To take one example -- and there will be many more in the months to come, during former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter's Senate testimony in the run-up to Iraq, small "d" democrat Biden opined, "The decision of whether or not the country should go to war is slightly above your pay grade" (to his credit, Sen. John McCain later replied that he "wished that the administration had consulted with somebody of Ritter's pay grade during the Vietnam war") (source: <Wikipedia>).

Keep 'em coming, Joe.