By Steve Clemons

This 3 minute clip has some pretty darned good stuff from Joe Biden.

(Wasilla Public Library in 1950s) I’m about the last in the blogosphere to paste this balanced and sober historiography of Sarah Palin’s life and views — as told by a fellow resident of Wasilla, Alaska.

A friend from CNN just sent me this video clip from Tuesday, 26 August in Denver. I liked it as it reminded me how incredibly exciting the opening days of the Dem convention were.

I just received notice that the next International Atomic Energy Agency report to its board of governors on Iran will be Monday. Hopefully, I’ll get this report soon after distribution to the board from embedded sources and will have the findings here.

I’ve always been intrigued with political franchises. I used to study the crime bosses of Chicago and the political/criminal bosses of Japan.

I’ve had a couple of weeks now of travel and have enjoyed most of it — to Denver for the DNC, Boston for APSA, and Minneapolis/St. Paul for the RNC.

Thanks to TWN reader “ces” who professes not to be a photo shop expert, but he has fixed the two typos in posters being waved around at the Republican National Convention the last two nights. TWN reader Julianne sent the original two pics in this morning.

Reader of The Washington Note — Julianne — also caught this pic while watching the Republican National Convention last night. This follows her other “get” of Keeping Ameirca Strong. Do you think that these are really accidents — or was this done on purpose? (. . .

(link to AP photo) At the Democratic National Convention, I was on the floor at the Pepsi Center when Massachusetts Senator John Kerry was giving his speech.

I’m an imperfect typist, to play on Senator McCain’s self-description as an “imperfect servant” of the American people. I make mistakes in spelling and grammar on an embarrassingly frequent basis, but have some great eagle eye readers who are good at alerts.