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The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the Republicans are considering delaying the start of their convention because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is expected to become a hurricane before making landfall on Tuesday. The White House is also debating whether Bush should cancel his speech or not.

Gustav is not the only problem Mother Nature is throwing at our country. Tropical Storm Hannah is out there strengthening also, and expected to become a hurricane in the next couple of days and could hit the U.S. towards the end of next week.

As if that isn't enough, there are two more potential storms growing.

(image from the National Hurricane Center)

The yellow area is a tropical wave that has less than a 20% chance of becoming a storm. It has been pretty unstable over the past 24 hours, but has reached a higher potential at times as it does try to organize.

The orange area is a little more serious. That contains a 20-50% chance of becoming a tropical storm. It just developed last night and has become more organized over the past 12 hours.

So we are looking at a very bumpy ride over the next couple of weeks. If the Republicans do delay their convention, I don't know when they will have a clear shot to hold it.

I just heard Joe Scarborough saying on MSNBC that a VP pick "isn't that important". That may be news to all of us after we just endured days on end of non-stop media coverage of who the VP pick might be. The media parked outside of Biden's (and others) house like a flock of paparazzi waiting for Brittney to do it again.

Yes the VP pick is important. I would say more so now than ever before with the rise of power the VP's office has had under Bush.

The administration has agreed to Iraq's timetable for withdrawal. Whenever a Democrat mentioned the word "timetable", they were termed as a "defeatist". So will the media call out Bush for the same thing now? The Republicans wanted this game of name-calling, now it's time to show them what it's like.

Bush must have been bored Presidenting at the Olympics, so he had to start fidgeting with the American flag:

Replace Bush with Obama and then imagine the 24/7 outrage we would hear and see from the right, as well as the media.

(h/t Jed Report)

Looks like Iraq is ready for us to get the hell out of dodge Iraq:

The proposed agreement calls for Americans to hand over parts of Baghdad's Green Zone — where the U.S. Embassy is located — to the Iraqis by the end of 2008. It would also remove U.S. forces from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, according to the two senior officials, both close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and familiar with the negotiations.

The officials, who spoke separately on condition of anonymity because the talks are ongoing, said all U.S. combat troops would leave Iraq by October 2010, with the remaining support personnel gone "around 2013." The schedule could be amended if both sides agree — a face-saving escape clause that would extend the presence of U.S. forces if security conditions warrant it.

Again it looks like Obama was correct all along and Bush and McCain were - well WRONG! I know that's a real shocker (yeah right).

The Jed Report pulls up an ad the McCain campaign put out in June of this year placing Obama's face on the $100 bill, as well as other national monuments that currently contain the faces of white people:

When Obama mentions it he is injecting race, yet McCain is the one who first brought this up? Again - McCain is crazy and he can't even remember what he did a couple of months ago. Can you imagine what a guy this unstable would be like in the White House? He makes Bush look sane!

He is giving the next President a record deficit. What a guy he is!

Bush is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling, put in place by his father. Does that mean that gas prices are cheaper now? If you listen to Republicans, they would have you believe that the instant more offshore drilling is allowed that prices will decline. Welcome to their fantasy land!