This is just a quick comment on something I heard in Barack Obama’s victory remarks last night.

George Bush won’t be on the ballot this November.

George Bush won’t be on this ballot. My cousin, Dick Cheney, won’t be on this ballot.

But the Bush-Cheney war and the Bush-Cheney tax cuts for the wealthy, those will be on the ballot. When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won’t be able to say that I ever supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the start.

Of course I haven’t asked Senator McCain, but I can make a pretty educated guess that he never would claim that Obama supported the war in Iraq. In fact, I would be willing to guess that should the two of them be meeting in November that John McCain will be quite clear that his opponent never supported the war.

This isn’t a discussion of how the war in Iraq will play a part in the general election. It just struck me as quite the odd thing for him to say.