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My wife and I both said, after listening to Joe Biden speak, that it was patently clear that the roles should be reversed. Namely, that Obama should be the VP candidate, not the other way around. It is Joe Biden who got 36 years experience in the Senate, ONE DAY AT A TIME, not Barack Obama. Nothing in the world or known Universe can confer upon Barack Obama 36 years experience and the gravitas that Joe Biden carries with him. In fact, there are probably years when Joe Biden got more than the 146 actual days of service in and on the Senate that Obama has ... doing his job as a Senator.
Biden carries the weight of 36 years in the Senate, and that is what makes him Joe Biden.
Sorry, but no cigar for picking Biden. It should have been Biden as the Presidential candidate, not Obama.
The Democrats can huff and they can puff and they can try and bloooowwwww the house down, but Barack Obama is still just who he is: a guy who claims credit for things, but hasn't earned it. With the Cold War heating up we don't need every decision run through Joe Biden. We need it run through the President, and for that, I won't trust my behind to Barack Obama. I will write in Senator Clinton's name, trust in a Democrat Congress to throttle every move of John McCain, and wait for Senator Clinton to get her shot. With a Democrat Congress monitoring every move McCain makes he will be boxed in, and that is good enough for me for now.
Even if, God forbid, we have to do something that takes us close to war with Russia, I'd rather have one or two experienced men in the White House until the woman with the experience arrives there.
