With Joe Biden you can add to the list of themes that have gone by the wayside for Barack Obama: “experience doesn’t matter.”

A sampling of all the fun things ahead with a Biden VP pick. The most effective part of the new McCain ad? That chin-in-the-air, arrogant Obama expression. That’s plain luck to get it on the same shot as the Biden comment.

Things like this give the Congressional Republicans hope that they can keep the losses to a minimum.

“Celebrity news” — the Obama purse. Pretty sure this isn’t a clever McCain ad. Not yet.

Michael Kinsley must be out to build Republicans’ self-esteem, accusing them of “genius, courage, creativity and utter ruthlessness” in presidential politics. The real secret? Luck — the Democrats seem to have a knack for finding the worst candidate. Really a 1.4% lead in this political year?

Not everyone thinks George W. Bush is responsible for every bad thing in the world: “I know that many folk will prefer to point fingers at Bush — this mistake and that — but the fact is that Moscow has acted in the last two weeks in a continuous and logical extension from its aggressive politics over the last few years.”

Obama’s so-called money advantage not only doesn’t seem to matter, it’s not real. And the DNC is reduced to fibbing about their fundraising. And apparently it is time to stop wasting some of that money on some faux battleground states.

Playing the Rezko card: Lynn Sweet asks why John McCain would succeed when Hillary Clinton did not. Aside from the Clintons being defective messengers on any ethics issue and the press never really spending much time on it during the primary (too busy defending The One), voters have a funny way of getting serious when they vote for the President as opposed to a nominee.

Victor Davis Hanson gives Obama advice he’ll never (but should) receive: “Barack! You are running for the top job in America, so when you mention the U.S., or its history, just dispense with the Harvard qualifiers, the howevers and buts, the oppression studies talking points, the morally equivalent cute examples, the tangled legal nuances, and professorial huffing, and simply say nice things about your country, and if you can’t, don’t say anything at all about it. The voters know that you believe America is not perfect, but they don’t know whether you believe it is good.”

Former prosecutor Andy McCarthy delivers the closing argument on Obama’s record on the Born Alive Infants legislation: “So he has lied about what he did. He has offered various conflicting explanations, ranging from the assertion that he didn’t oppose the anti-infanticide legislation (he did), to the assertion that he opposed it because it didn’t contain a superfluous clause reaffirming abortion rights (it did), to the assertion that it was unnecessary because Illinois law already protected the children of botched abortions (it didn’t — and even if it arguably did, why oppose a clarification?).” Read what Obama said at the time. Chilling.

Were pundits’ expectations too high or is Obama just a terribly flawed candidate? I vote for the latter.

Huffington Post has a point: the “santuary manison” really was one of Rudy Giuliani’s better lines.