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Over the course of the last 34 hours any couch-potato with a Remote in his/her hand will take note in what the non-alligned, fair & balanced media has to offer regarding Joe Biden .....
That Joe Biden "was raised in PENNSYLVANIA"
That Biden is a "native of PENNSYLVANIA"
That Senator Biden's "birthplace and hometown is the blue-collar, hard-scrapple community of Scranton, PENNSYLVANIA."
That Joe is "a PENNSYLVANIA, by birth"
That Joe Biden and Chris Mathews were practically next-door neighbors in PENNSYLVANIA's Delaware Valley"
.... and so on, ... and so on ....
Question ??
How many of us here that "moved around" as little kids regard their "homestate" in terms of where me might have attended elementary school ?? -- or -- junior high school ?? -- or -- graduated from high school ? -- or -- married our sweetheart ?? -- or -- spend Thanksgivings & Xmas Turkeys at our parents' homes ?? -- or -- practiced law -- or represented their friends, neighbors & constituencies in Congress for more than 35 years -- or -- drove home to dine with his wife & kids EACH & EVERY NITE for decades -- or -- .... Well, you get where I'm going with this ....
Next Question ??
How Many ELECTORAL VOTES does PENNSYLVANIA carry for the "most important election" in recent times this Fall ??
Next Question ??
How Many ELECTORAL VOTES does DELAWARE have ??
Next Question ??
Now which PENNSYLVANIA-FRIENDLY Candidate would one imagine that Candy Crowley fantasizes as being the more favored heart-throb to win in November ??
Next Question ??
Why don't Candy Crowley, et al ... & all colleagues just fess up to the American Boob-Tubers as they are covering these conventions by wearing the campaign buttons of their personal choices ?? ..... "OBAMA IN 2008" .... "McCAIN'S MY MAN" ... "RON PAUL or DIE" ... "NADER IS GREATER" ...
2008 is the 40th Anniversary Year of the publishing of one of the most important political books in American history .... "THE SELLING OF A PRESIDENT : 1968"
So much Water has passed under the Bridge since that book hit the stands ....
Yet ...
How fitting it is that here we are ... so much older & wiser ... looking at a first term ZERO with absolutely nothing to speak of in the sudden 'pop' & 'blip' of the sliver of half-completed Congressional service ... save ...
... some volunteer work ...
AND ...
.... heading his college newspaper -- or magazine ...
AND ...
... basing the legitimacy of his entire presidential worthiness upon
... a HALF DOZEN SIMPLISTIC CLICHES ...
AND ...
.. a DAYTIME TV show host's rousing up a bunch of unemployed women with nothing better to do than do time as an army of Couch Potatos ...
THE TRUTH IS ....
BIDEN is the better man .... and ... he oughta be heading the ticket ...
Last year I understood that he was the only practical choice to head the Party among the other Windbags who were running because of his part played in a myriad of decades in Congression hearings ... his Catholic Vote constituencies ....
AND ... most importantly ... that he alone could secure the nervous middle ground of Fencesitters in the Electorate ... that is ... the Very Ones who have decided nearly EVERY ELECTION in recent history in a nation nearly evenly split between CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS ... the few middling PROGRESSIVES notwithstanding.
OBAMA has a voting record that is far to the Left of Joe Schmoe & Sally Schmuck's Richter Scale ....
THE SELLING OF A PRESIDENT : 2008 ....
Who knows when it comes to Election Day and Joe & Sally shut the curtains of the Booth whether "CLICHES" will do it ??
