Back in June, during a flurry of telephonic press conferences by both campaigns on national defense issues featuring John Kerry (Dem-MA) for Obama and Joe Lieberman (Vichy-CT) for McCain, one of us (Bellows) wondered: is it possible that Obama already has chosen Kerry to be his running mate?

Impossible. Absurd. Except that yesterday another OffTheBus writer, Mayhill Fowler, voiced the same crazy prediction, which she'd reached privately over the course of several weeks,...