More hope! Plus, we always have the OTHER Joe (Biden, that is)

The National Review Online points to this Battleground Poll: Obama, 48, McCain, 47.

I don't hear the fat lady yet, do you?

But I do hear Joe Biden running his mouth, saying wonderful things to help McCain.

"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking," Biden said.

"Remember I said it standing here. if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen," Biden continued.

Thank you, Senator Biden, for subtly reminding everyone that if that happens, and if Obama wins, we'll have a guy in the Oval Office who is completely inexperienced and naive.