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I’m cranking down one more cup of coffee in lovely, unusually cool Charleston, SC before today’s string of debate activities and enjoying my hotel’s free WiFi (why isn’t this everywhere?). Last night, my local tour guide took me and some of the Biden boys* to a great dive bar that flew a beautiful Polish flag over the bar and, in Charleston’s somewhat sketchier Citadel neighborhood (reminds me of South Bend), sports the slogan “having a good time on the bad side of town.”

While there, the Biden team pointed out that even as the Democrats gear up for tonight’s “historic” YouTube debate, Rudy Giuliani is taking his terrible time in the YouTube spotlight and driving it even further into the ground by keeping all the responses locked down and moderated to reflect nothing but people blowing up one of Rudy’s undoubtedly numerous skirts. This is in stark contrast to the Brownback spotlight video, which let all kinds of booty-shaking honeys post video replies.

Not to be dissuaded by hostile internet policies, Joe Biden decided to post his own response to Rudy’s video, getting in on this whole empowered voter business. Cue the smackdown:

(Interesting sidenote: over bad biscuits ‘n’ gravy this morning I read in the local alt weekly, the Charleston City Paper, that in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek online poll, Joe Biden is actually in third place with a sub-0.1 point edge over Hillary, at 9.2 percent, behind dominating Obama and Edwards.) Today, we’ve got a tour of the MRAPV manufacturer followed by a quick press conference, then a one-whistle-stop trolley tour of downtown Charleston before the Senator heads over to the Citadel for a final walk-through and who knows what else they do to get “in the zone.” I’ll have a couple hours for last-minute gear tests before I head to the media center and spin room to start my live-streaming madness. Be sure to tell all your friends to tune in, because YouTube is soooo 2006; the new cutting edge is all about streaming, baby. I’ve turned off my Twitter SMS alerts to avoid distraction from the infinite popcorn of Harry Potter updates, good mornings, and hellos, so if you want to give me a heads-up about video problems or urge me to go make an ass of myself in front of ______, text directly to my cell phone or email a short one to shelbinator at vtext dot com.

* Not like Hunter and Beau, but staffers.