It’s Biden

| August 23, 2008

So Obama has announced…finally…that his VP choice is Biden. Lawhawk calls it the most bizarre rollout in history. Ed Morrissey says they had good reason to wait until Oh-dark-thirty;

So when did the Magic Text Message come? After last call in every time zone in the lower 48. The people in Hawaii were awake, though.

Of course, picking Joe Biden would be a fairly good reason to bury the news.

Michelle Malkin calls them “Smarmy and Smirky ’08” while Beth at Blue Star Chronicles calls them Smug & Plugs.

The CNN story on the pick says “Biden brings experience to Obama team” [Ed. Note – Ha! They changed it after I screen captured it!] – isn’t that nice? The Democrats picked as their number one choice to lead the country, someone they admit is so inexperienced that he needs someone with experience to fool the rest of the nation into voting for him. I guess it’s too much to ask of them to nominate someone who has their own experience…after all we’re electing a man based on his skin color here.

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And what kind of experience does Biden bring? Well, he’s been in the Senate since 1972 – that’s not executive experience. He brings the experience of being one voice in a hundred, just like Obama. Has he ever done anything else? The Associated Press claims that Biden’s only expertise is as a blowhard. Another AP story says that this goes against Obama’s “new politician” image;

In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.

Don Surber writes;

How do you run as an agent of change when you have a Senate lifer like Biden on the ticket?

And:

Net effect: Delaware is now solidly behind Obama. It won’t be a 40-state rout.

Vodkapundit;

Change you can believe in — because it’s been in Washington since 1973 already.

Don’t forget that Biden’s solution to the Iraq war was to divide the country up based on tribal affiliations…right out of the playbook of the old British Empire.

“There is no possibility in your lifetime or mine of having a strong central government in Iraq that is democratic and is viewed as being able to meet the needs of the Iraqi people,” he said.

Well, no possibility except…except NOW! Must be that Biden’s lifetime is over.

Yeah, the Democrats think they’ve won already, but that’s that echo chamber thing they’ve got goin’.

As DrewM at Ace of Spades wrote;

On behalf of Republicans and bloggers and co-bloggers everywhere, let me be the first to say…THANK YOU Barack!

Nice Deb calls them “a barrel of gaffes”

…the right-wing blogosphere is jumping for joy. This should be good, folks. Both guys are known for their arrogance, verbosity, and tendency towards gaffes, which will make for a very entertaining couple of months.

Gateway Pundit reminds us Biden is a Plagiarizer and Curt at Flopping Aces and Aunt Agatha remind us of the “clean guy” comment Biden made about Obama – the first of many charges of racism in this campaign.

From Cigar Mike at Babalu Blog, the latest ad from the McCain campaign;

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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics

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Marooned in Marin

Biden also worried about us looking like “high-tech bullies” a month after 9/11 and suggested he had something in common with Southern voters as his state was a slave state. I think Joe also knows alot about 7/11s and Dunkin Donuts in his state, if I remember.

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mychal e.g...

Slander slander smear. It’s the Republican way. As if the vice president has any real power anyway. Oh wait, forgot about the current administration…

All this reporting and nobody has figured out the REAL reason for Biden – he’s from Scranton, same place as that hit show The Office. You know how many people love The Office? Democrats just sealed up ALL those votes.

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Marooned in Marin

Leave it to liberals like you who can’t handle the truth, so you call it “slander.” One more bit of truth about Biden, he is a plagiarist.

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Frankly Opinionated

Mychal, (that sounds so gay), what slander? I’ve only read facts.
nuf sed

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Don Carl

So the way to be a “Post-racial candidate” is to pick a running mate who makes racist comments and is then given a pass on them because he is a democrat? The way to advocate CHANGE is to take a white guy who has been in the Senate for 35 years?
Frankly, it isn’t Mychal’s fault his parents weren’t smart enough to spell his name correctly.

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richard wheeler

Jonn “We’re electing a man based on his skin color here”Please explain.

Jonn wrote: Because if we were electing a leader based on his expertise, we wouldn’t have to choose a running mate that “brings experience” to his candidacy. The only reason you Leftists want Obama is because you’re in such a rush to elect a black man (so to speak) to please the Europeans. Obama brings nothing but his skin color to his candidacy – other than that, he’s just a guy who speaks well. That’s probably one of those things that you referred to when you said I was a racist the other day in your resignation email – but the truth is; anyone who votes for Obama is doing so based merely on his melanin levels. That’s racist.

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Don Carl

Let me take that one for Jonn.
Obama has run a campaign totally lacking in new ideas, and yet, has the audacity to call it CHANGE. He is the first Black guy to get this close to the presidency, and aside from his being a novelty, (Sort of like a talking dog), there isn’t much to vote for there. He has no (to take a campaign 2000 word) GRAVITAS. There is nothing to the man. He is a stuffed shirt, a do nothing. When people like Jacob Weisberg tell us that Racism is the only reason Obama might lose, intentionally overlooking his past associations with bigots,(Wright, et al) Criminals (Rezko, etc) then what other reason is there to vote for the man besides the color of his skin.
If we wanted a candidate who consorted with criminals, bigots, terrorists, etc, we could have had Hillary Clinton.

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mychal e.g...

Republican campaigns love to go buck wild with the character assassination and petty jabs – it’s been that way for a long time. Just as sure as Dems are in the ‘boo hoo’ game, the right is quick to label right off the bat. For example, just because I don’t jump with a bash on the left I’m automatically pegged as a liberal – a very very false assumption. Then (since I didn’t really even say much of anything), my name is poked fun at (another incorrect assumption that it’s just some hippified version of ‘Michael’). It’s hilarious to me you write ‘sounds gay’ over a name you haven’t actually heard. Then –>,(to top it off),<– you put a parenthetical between commas. But, Frankly, you are right…there isn’t any slander directed at Obama/Biden in this post.

To be clear, I am an Independent. On some things I’m conservative, on some things I’m liberal. Both parties rub me the wrong way and in my opinion (the Dem majority)Congress is screwing up. I guess in here since I’m not in the Red camp that makes me liberal by default? Kinda like how a half black person is considered black by default I guess.

I ONLY WANTED TO USE THAT SCRANTON JOKE and it totally got glossed over. Damn.

Jonn wrote: Well, if it makes you feel better, I got the Scranton joke and I almost warned the commenters off from you because I got the impression that you were just making fun. It’s just that we encounter a lot of crackpots here because of the open comments. Welcome, by the way.

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richard wheeler

Jonn I never called YOU a racist.Obama will win the Presidency in spite of his name and color not because of it.Majority of voters are tired of same ol same ol and that’s all ol Mac brings.

Jonn wrote: Well, when you call my blog racist, you call me a racist. But I’ve been called worse by better people than you.

You’re saying that Obama’s policies aren’t the same drab shit that Democrats have been pushing on us for years? You’re saying that Biden is a breath of fresh air? The only thing new about Obama is his skin color…there’s no change, there’s no hope. It’s the same failed policies of the last fifty years wrapped up in a new cover…that cover is blatant racism.

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mychal e.g...

Jonn touches upon an issue I have with Obama. I am sure he believes he can bring about change, but change for the good of the people always has a way of getting grinded between the gears of corporate influenced Washington and mangled into a nasty pulp that we end up having to eat. McCain says things that would work; Obama says things that would work. But what will they actually GET DONE for all of us?

Jonn wrote: I’d prefer they stop trying to do things for us and leave us alone.

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