I was at the ralley in Springfield yesterday. Biden was inspirational and I talked to my Mom on my cell from the ralley who said, she is now comfortable with the ticket. I think Obama/Biden just got Florida (which Springfield felt like, by the way.)

Onward, we are winning this thing keep it up!

We Conservatives were hoping for Biden. I am betting the Obamaniacs haven't even considered the huge conflict with the Catholic Church that is now coming. Heh, heh. Serious business...there's been major conflict with the American bishops and Rome about the fact that these baby killers who are wearing their Catholicism on their sleeves be denied communion. No one's got the guts to do it and the DC Bishop has been dodging the bullet Rome keeps firing...he likes the golf courses of Va and the DC cocktail parties too much. Well Biden goes to mass in Delaware and his Bishop down there is now going under the gun. How freakin' naive is Obama??? THis was a major distraction for John Kerry 4 yrs ago and Obama needs to alienate Catholics even less than Kerry did. He just shot himself in the foot.

As for the slip of the lip? Of course it was simply that. Biden's attraction is his perfect age....65. If McCain is too old now, as the Dimocrats say, well Biden will be older than McCain is now when a hypothetical Obama administration ends in 8yrs. Biden brings the experience and maturity without the ambition. For the Dimocrats (party of the radical feminists, homosexuals, Marxists, athiests, uneducated, lazy, illegals) Biden is a solid pick. And Obama (and McCain, and Hillary, etc) is entitled to make them all day long. Campaigning is an inhuman activity.

What selecting Biden really says about Obama is he will do what is right, not politically expedient. It also shows that Obama can make decisions that other men might avoid to protect their own egos. Biden is probably one of the sharpest minds on Capital Hill. His experience and independence will help keep Obama true to his message of meaningful change, and also help push that change through congress. Obama understands that Biden will be his partner not his lap dog, but unlike Cheney, Biden also understands he will be a sage adviser to Obama, not a puppet master.

Biden, an independent minded populist, has managed to stay in office for 35 years without selling out. His experience, candor and intelligence would threaten many young men running for office, but not Barack Obama. Just as he married an intelligent, driven woman, Obama has chosen and intelligent and independent running mate. It shows Barack values strength over his own ego. That is indeed a rarity among men seeking high office.

Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama's speech announcing his running mate Joe Biden singled out the Delaware senator's son who is headed for Iraq. Obama didn't mention the profession of Biden's other son, who lobbied for two drug companies and five universities.

Hunter Biden's work for Oldaker, Biden & Belair on behalf of biotech clients Achaogen, Inc., of South San Francisco and Pulmatrix, Inc., of Lexington, Massachusetts, illustrates the quandary posed when legislators have lobbyists within the family.

``It's always something to watch out for when you have a high-ranking member of Congress or an important senator whose child goes into the influence business,'' said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington nonprofit that advocates transparency.

Influential Connection

``It's not necessarily that the father's going to do favors for the child's clients, but that every other member knows who his father is and what the connection is and that can carry a lot of influence as well,'' Allison said in an interview.

...America has a large, unresolved racial problem. Claiming it isn't so - or calling those of us that recognize it racist - doesn't make it go away. Obama cannot, and will not, win. Would that it weren't so - but it is. Of course, he's a horrible choice for a nominee for other reasons but the point here was to win the general. He can't.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080824/pl_bloomberg/a6qrvqdtzkv4;_ylt=AiAoUbooaTVMMR9C1vjD5mas0NUE

1) How much are they going to raise our taxes?

2) Will they abandon Iraq?

3) Will global warming continue to be an issue that "we must act upon now, before it's too late"?, or will it be forgotten, since it's served its purpose?

...or will the serious journalists at salon be discussing Cindy McCain's wealth?

SINCE THE YEAR 2000 THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAVE HAPPENED:

1. FOOD PRICES HAVE INCREASED

2. HEALTHCARE PRICES HAVE INCREASED

3. GASOLINE PRICES HAVE INCREASED

4. HOME HEATING PRICES HAVE INCREASED

5. PERSONAL ANXIETY LEVELS HAVE INCREASED

6. HOME FORECLOSURE NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED

7. OUR MANUFACTURING JOB LOSS HAS INCREASED

8. OUR AVERAGE INCOME HAS DECREASED

9. OUR INTERNATIONAL PRESITGE HAS DECREASED

10. OUR CURRENCY VALUE HAS DECREASED

11. OUR BROADCAST COMMERCIALS HAVE INCREASED IN LOUDNESS

12. OUR CITIZENS WITHOUT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE HAS INCREASED

AS INDIVIDUALS WE HAVE DIFFERENT THRESHOLDS OF PAIN BUT THE ABOVE THINGS DO NOT HAPPEN UNLESS THE POWERS-THAT-BE WANT THEM TO HAPPEN . SOME MAY NOT FEEL THE DIFFERENCE AND ARE ENJOYING THE PRESENT SITUATION BUT MOST OF OUR CITIZENS ARE IN A STATE OF TERROR AND ANXIETY 24/7 . THE CORPORATE MEDIA OBVIOUSLY ENJOYS THE PRESENT SITUATION OR MAYBE THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO TAKE OUR MINDS OFF THE PAIN BECAUSE THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT ANY OF THE ABOVE ITEMS TO ANY EXTENT .

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.