News has broken that Sen. Joe Biden will be Barak Obama's running mate.
It's an interesting pick considering that Biden adamantly stated at the beginning of the campaign many months ago that he would absolutely not accept an offer to be anyone's VP candidate.
It's also interesting considering Biden's controversial remarks not too long ago when he referred to Obama as "nice and clean and a good-looking guy."
Lastly, Biden voted for the war in Iraq and has called for a three-way partitioning of Iraq.
Clearly Biden was picked for his experience as head of the senate Foreign Relations Committee to add some foreign relations heft to the ticket. Obama has no experience in foreign policy and has made numerous gaffs during the campaign that can still come back to trouble him. Biden was picked in part to deflect from those attacks.
The funny think is when you look at both men's resume's and compare their experience in both politics and life, it makes you think this ticket is backwards and should be Biden-Obama, not the other way around.
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written by Jay Golub , August 23, 2008
http://dailykos.com/
The Left reacts and, effectively, starts to backtrack on what they think of Biden today as VP selection...
"The jury is in, resoundingly, Democrats are Happy, Kossacks Approve (see poll below), pundits are pleased, the media is excited (when has a Veep pick ever gotten 24 hour around the clock coverage?) and the GOP is "disappointed silence" while they hope to pimp prior Biden comments against Obama."
...And what they thought of him before his selection...
"we really, really don't want to pick someone who plugs a supposed gap in Obama's armor. You pick Wes Clark, and people won't see "phew, national security is covered!". Nope, they'll see, "Obama is trying to compensate for his lack of national security creds!" And whether it's Sam Nunn, or Joe Biden, or anyone else who supposedly patches up a weakness, the end result would be what Gore had to endure in 2000 -- "He picked Joe Lieberman to compensate for Gore's 'Bill Clinton' problem."
So sad how the establishment Left cowers in the face of tough choices.
The NY Times wrote...
"...Mr. Obama’s choice of Mr. Biden suggested some of the weaknesses the Obama campaign is trying to address at a time when at a time when national polls suggest that his race with Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is tightening."
...which is exactly what the problem with the Biden selection is: An admission of liablity on the issue of foreign policy and, generally, "experience." This is not the type of point that the Obama campaign wanted to admit at this point in the race - with international conflict erupting around the globe.
Are we to believe that Biden will be making the decisions on what to do with Russia? Israel? China?
If Obama would have announced this weeks ago, we might not see it as such an admission of weakness. But with some big decisions on the way for the next commander in chief, Obama looks weak. He will have to recover over the next few weeks in the debates if he wants anyone to believe he could lead this nation.
Seems to me, that even though he seemed to be "different" than the previous few losers on the Democratic side, it appears that Obama's problems are the same ones the Dem's faced in 2004.
Thier primary process only enables a radical domestic-policy-oriented Lefty to get through, yet they know that those issues will lose in November.
And we think WE have problems...
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written by Dorothy Loughran , August 25, 2008
I believe this is a stange choice of a VP candidate.
By that I mean that Obama can no longer promote himself as the candidate of change.
Change?
Joe Bidin has been in the senate for six terms.
The Obama camp can no longer riducule McCain for being an old, gray, wrinked man.
Biden is only six years younger than McCain and he is also old, gray and wrinkled.
Go figure!
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written by Jim Kely , August 25, 2008
What vote percentage did Biden get in the primary races, something like 1% (One per cent?)
And he is from the State of Delaware?
Another win for the Republicans on the horizon.
Jim Kelly - NY Conservative Campaigns
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written by Jay Golub , August 25, 2008
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08...125971.htm
Carter=Obama
I love the spin and think it's quiet accurate. The best line of Taheri's piece is...
"Biden's misreading of the situation in Iraq shows that experience is no substitute for judgement."
Oh how true...
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written by Jay Golub , August 25, 2008
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary....speech.pdf
just read the above acceptance speech given by Carter in 1976. Obama's speeches are almost identical. Carter even mentioned univeral healthcare.
Yet the most telling phrase in the speech in comparing the two is this...
"The foremost responsibility of any President, above all else, is to guarantee the security of our nation—a guarantee of freedom from the threat of successful attack or blackmail, and the ability with our allies to maintain peace.
But peace is not the mere absence of war. Peace is action to stamp out international terrorism. Peace is the unceasing effort to preserve human rights. Peace is a combined demonstration of strength and good will."
Essentially, not even Jimmy Carter is as much of a dove as Obama.
We should be scared....very scared....
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