I rather hope he felt the same way about me.

Osama bin Laden to al-Qaeda: ‘Don’t bother assassinating Joe Biden’

US officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden’s diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that he didn’t think Vice President Joe Biden was worth bumping off.

“Him or that TrogloPundit guy,” Osama was often heard to say. “Just leave ‘em living. That’s best.”

According to ProPublica, the Obama administration is briefing that Barack Obama was bin Laden’s the “top target” (no surprise there) while “military chiefs like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary” were also major scalps.

But Joe Biden’s scalp (hair plugs and all)? Apparently, not so much. A counterterrorism official said: “There is a note indicating that the vice president is not an important target because that position has less weight.”

Well, sure, the position has a lot less weight now than when Al Gore was in it.

Cheap shot? Heh. Yeah.

If this is true, it only lends weight (see what I did there?) to the theory that Osama bin Laden was an idiot. Whacking the U.S. Vice President wouldn’t be an incredible boost for a terrorist organization? Please.

Via Memeorandum.

UPDATE – ED-sta-lanche!