Just when you thought we had eclipsed Scalito and Billary, you get your choice of Joebama or Obiden. Whichever it is, the two seem like good complements in more than name.

Joe Biden is the Vice Presidential running mate of Barack Obama. Huge congratulations Joe — this is one of the great moves of the Obama campaign, one that could have gone wrong — and they got it very right.

A couple days ago an prominent though irate Kenyan journalist wrote a piece a the Washington Post bemoaning the Russian response to Georgian maneuvers in South Ossetia and suggested that Russia’s “international standing [was] in tatters.

Check out what Marc Ambinder has dug up. . . Here is another interesting link.

I am standing by my hunch that it’s Biden, but need to note this odd news that some company in Kansas City has printed some Obama/Bayh bumper stickers. Let’s hope that this is a mistake, or misprint. . .

From my point of view, Senator Joe Biden is an inspiring, experienced, over-the-top smart, fast-running boss who is a handful. He wrestles with ideas. He wrestles with his team. They knock him back. He knocks them back. He gives great zinger speeches and occasionally zinger gaffes. And they all laugh it off and move forward….

I had the opportunity a few years ago to enjoy a rolling set of events with Senator Joe Biden, Wes Clark and other national notables. My partner was with me and normally hates these kinds of things. But he bonded with Jill Biden.

Pawlenty is down. Kaine and Bayh are falling in the Intrade prediction markets. But Joe Biden and Mitt Romney are surging.

The one concern that many in the VP prediction games have had is that there was a “sleeper candidate.” One of Joe Biden’s close allies who kept telling me that they have heard nothing from the Obama camp and that there had been full “radio silence” pondered whether there was a sleeper candidate.

Imagine if you were OpenLeft‘s Matt Stoller — and he woke up one day and he decided he couldn’t take the drift in the Democratic Party any longer — and he quit. Stoller became an independent or even a McCain-supporting Republican.