If the democrats don’t win this election they should just pack it up, call it a century and collectively retire with the knowledge that they couldn’t win against one of the most unpopular presidents in American history with a candidate who has been ahead since the beginning. But that doesn’t mean that we should make it easy for them. It annoys the hell out of me when the media and people in general don’t jump on Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden for the stupid things they say. Stupid things like during the vice presidential debate when Sen. Biden said of the election of Hamas to leadership of the Palestinian Authority in 2006: “Bush insisted on elections in the West Bank when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, ‘Big mistake.’ Hamas will win and you’ll legitimize them. And what happened? Hamas won.”

Let me say this very clearly and slowly so that there is no confusion. No one knew that Hamas would win the election. The CIA didn’t know, Condoleeza Rice, the secretary of state didn’t know, the Mossad didn’t know, the minister of foreign affairs in Israel, Tzipi Livni, didn’t know. No one except for the highest levels of the Hamas leadership knew that Fatah would lose to the terror group. On the eve before the election the chief of staff of the Israeli army, Lt. General Dan Halutz, testified before the Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that he fully expected Fatah to win by a small margin. After the election Condoleeza Rice jetted off to London to discuss the consequences of the unforeseen development. If Biden knew that Hamas would win then he should have warned us about the subprime crisis, the Wall Street meltdown and whether the world is really going to end in 2012 — and he must be clairvoyant. That no one called him out on this error is baffling. It makes sense that President Bush and Condoleeza Rice don’t feel like reminding everyone of their failure to predict the election, but there must be at least one person on one news network or at a reporting desk that would find this apparent omniscience concerning. But no, they just let it slide and focus on how Palin mispronounced someone’s name. Like no one else has ever misspoken in front of a live national audience.

If this had been a one-time misstep, I wouldn’t care as much, but it wasn’t. Soon after in an interview Biden couldn’t even demonstrate a command of basic U.S. history. He said to Katie Couric in an interview, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’” Excuse me, um Mr. Senator? But just a few questions: first, when was FDR president? Second, who was president during the Depression and third, when was the TV invented? Not only did he get the president during the stock market crash wrong, but he also claimed that the president who wasn’t president was on TV before it existed. Here’s a brief history lesson for you, senator: FDR was president from 1933 till 1945. It was in fact President Hoover who presided over the opening act of the Great Depression. And finally the television did not become popular until the early sixties, and even then it was still expensive. So no, Mr. Biden, you are not smarter than a fifth grader.

I know, I know, the media can only harass one candidate at a time and everyone is so busy watching Palin that they missed it. It is hard to mercilessly mock more than one candidate at a time. But everyone deserves an equal opportunity to be called out. Don’t cheat the democrats out of their moment for public idiocy. At least one positive thing comes out of this whole mess — stand-up comedians and impersonators alike can breathe easy knowing that on Jan. 20 they’ll have someone else to mine for cheap laughs. Bush has been comedic gold for the last eight years and we can only be so lucky as to look forward to another four years of entertainment from our leaders.