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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I like Sen. Biden. I really do. However, Obama just lost the election. He picked someone with perennial foot in mouth disease who has stated publicly that Obama isn't ready and that John McCain is a great man. To backtrack on those comments will make him look like a two-faced fool.
This was the conventional pick. And it was a mistake. The Republicans are going to have a field day with this one. The only thing saving Joe Biden will be the last shreds of collegiality in the senate keeping his colleagues at bay.
After nearly 40 years of essentially Republican rule, (28 out of 40), the Democrats have a real shot at putting some genuinely gifted politicians in office. Not a flash-in-the-pan luckout like Clinton, (who never would have been elected without Ross Perots help), but real technicians at getting things done. These guys could do 2 terms and set the stage for another Dem term afterwards. It's time we shed all the baggage initiated by the original Republican evil-doer, Nixon, and all of his wretched successors. The politics of greed/"freemarket advocacy" have had their day, and it has been a miserable failure. Time for some common sense and I hope these two do the trick. The polls currently put Obabma behind McSame, but when Obama gets him one-on-one at the debates, I have a feeling Barack will eat McCain alive. When it happens, Obama will show the entire world how inept and hollow McCain is, bury him with his own partys record, and do it with style. McCain has got to be the most painfully clumsy orator since Ross Perots running mate, James Stockdale. If the republicans win this election, I will be leaving this country for good, because they will finish the job of turning this once great country into hell.
Obama lost my vote with his FISA flip-flop; I could have taken a lot from him, but not a flat-out screwing of the Constitution.
His VP pick merely confirms my belief that Obama is just more of the same, another calculating and sleazy liar (like McCain himself, come to think of it). This pick certainly does not bode well for the future of the Democratic Party. Say Obama wins and gets two terms: Biden will be 70 when he runs for President!
I see no hope for this country. We've let our future be sold to China and Russia, and face an increasingly bleak and hopeless 21st (and 22nd) century. We needed an FDR; instead we're stuck with a pack of sleazy opportunists.
It's a sad day for America.
He'll be a push over. He is an imbecile with a motor mouth. You boys and girls couldn't have picked an easier target other than of course that boy from South Side Chicago.
Biden plagerized twice that we know of. Out here it's called cheating and you go out into the barnyard to discuss it,but in the Democrat party who cares? After all it is the intentions of the liberal/socialist that counts not their dishonesty or the facts.
Folks get down on your knees and pray for out country while the socialists prey upon it.
First: Roy, that's one of the most well-written and well-thought-out posts I've read in a long time. Bravo for using the oft-neglected semicolon!
Biden not only compensates for Obama's lack of foreign-policy experience; he also brings a certain down-to-earth, "regular guy" spirit that is sorely needed. One of Obama's flaws, if you can call it that, is that he's so polished; even when he's in what would sound like a rant from anyone else, he seems a little rehearsed. It's like he was in Toastmasters or something.
Not so Joe. This is a guy who might stumble over his lines on occasion, but you can see the passion more obviously, and his colloquial delivery is more factory floor than Harvard Law.
Biden also, I think, takes something away from McCain just by being near his age but so much more passionate. The physical contrast between the hoary old McCain and fresh-faced upstart Obama is obvious when you look at them side by side. But this also has served to remind people that McCain is more experienced.
Now, with white-haired, feisty, sweat-rolling-from-the-brow Joe Biden on the ticket, McCain just looks like a tired, grumpy old man who's vaguely annoyed at something. I know that's a little unfair to McCain, whom I do respect for his exceptional bravery during Vietnam. But I think that the choice of Biden has usurped one of McCain's key advantages over Obama. He's made McCain go from being the experienced choice to the elderly choice.
And on the issue of racism:
I too have struggled to give Biden the benefit of the doubt about his unfortunate comments of yore. Obviously, saying that Obama is the first articulate, bright, clean, good looking black candidate is insensitive at best. But what is it most likely that Biden really meant? I think that by "clean" he must've meant "free from scandal." Obviously, there is no way he meant physical cleanliness. (Come on--do you really think he meant that Jesse Jackson didn't bathe? And if he was so racist as to think that, would he say it? To reporters?) Extremely bad choice of words, though.
Is Obama the first articulate African American candidate? I disagree. Jesse Jackson was articulate, but in the style of the black church. Obama is much *more* articulate when it comes to discussing ideas; he is the first African American candidate whose oratory appeals as much to non-black Americans as to black Americans. Nor is Obama, to my mind, the first bright black candidate--Jackson was no dummy, but I think Obama seems smarter than just about anybody who's run since Teddy Roosevelt. And I think it's fair to say both men are good-looking; maybe Biden just isn't into mustaches. (If you think about it, doesn't Jackson kind of look like a cross between Gene Shalit and Rodney Dangerfield?)
I think Biden probably thinks Jackson was kind of a joke--and maybe there was bad blood between those two back in '88 when they both ran.
At any rate, I think what all this means is that Biden is a guy who has been impulsive in his commentary and cringingly imprecise in his choice of words. Not a good trait. But hopefully he'll rein it in.
If Obama can live with that, so can I.
And Biden's kitchen-table line had me shouting and waving my fists at the TV. 'Nuff said.
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