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McCain blog innocently wonders: How come Obama sent the text message at 3 a.m.?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... : They meant to send it out this morning, but the networks scooped them by confirming the pick around midnight so they had to push it out ahead of schedule to save as much face as possible. The politically useful explanation: So abiding is their hatred of Her Majesty that they couldn’t resist rubbing her face in one last pile of shinola by sending it out at the hour appointed in her famous ad. Unto you I say again — best convention evah. By all accounts, Hillary Clinton was not vetted for the second spot, nor was she consulted by the Obama campaign on who should be taken–not ...

Saturday reading: Biden Roundup
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Biden against saying too much "crazy s**t." K.C. Johnson attributes Biden's long tenure partially to losing a 1974 coin flip. Reuters finds that Iraqi lawmakers still look down at Biden for his partition plan. Giuliani spokeswoman Katie Levinson's response to "noun, verb, 9/11" lives again, and seems inaccurate. Three million text messages means the campaign reaped three million cellphone numbers. Goldfarb  plays up the 3 A.M. timing. Tasini says Biden has generally been good ...

The 3 A.M. Slap in the Face
Weekly Standard Blog — Over the weekend, Michael Goldfarb suggested that the 3 A.M. Saturday morning text message announcing Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate was a dig at Hillary and her 3 A.M. phone call ad. Jonah Goldberg and Allahpundit were skeptical that Obama would intentionally do something so stupid. But based on based on this report from the Washington Post's Trail blog, it seems that the 3 A.M. timing was intentional: The Obama campaign, which declined to say how many texts it sent around 3 a.m. today, said everything went according to plan. ... news organizations confirmed around 1 a.m. today ...