Look, if we're going to tap a VP nominee who will be NO NET HELP WHATSOEVER, can't we have Chris Dodd? His head looks like a snow leopard sleeps on it at night!
(Am I nursing a shiny ball of hate in my chest because Wes Clark should've been dubbed President-For-Life for saying being shot down in a war doesn't qualify McCain to be President? 'course I am. However. BIDEN?)
(And a blanket warning until next January or so, for the new and wrongheaded: The five or six of you right-winglets who wandered over here from some football site or other and enjoy interjecting your point of view into these threads can stow it and stay that way. This is not a political blog; you don't get equal time here. There's a war on and you're all on the wrong side of it and I don't care why, but sell it someplace else. Not one word about your slithery, bigoted war "hero". Go on, now.)
Why is it when somebody speaks clear and concise truth it's grounds for vilification? Clark was dead-on when he said that.
Posted by: Big Daddy at August 23, 2008 09:02 AMI'm actually way more excited about Biden than I would've been a few months ago. He's kind of an inside-DC pick, but that's not so bad when viewed as a balance to Obama's "outsider" status, and he's tough, good on foreign policy, and not afraid to rain down the harsh truth on the GOP. I'm really looking forward to seeing Biden eviscerate Romney or whichever other empty suit they toss up against him in the VP debate.
Sure, I wish it would've been Clark, but I have a feeling there's a Cabinet post waiting somewhere for him if Obama wins.
Posted by: Doug at August 23, 2008 09:56 AMAll I can say for Biden is that he will verbally tear the GOP veep a new one in the debates. Maybe this is all that matters.
That's about it. I don't have much else nice to say about him.
Posted by: Signal to Noise at August 23, 2008 10:00 AMTo be rational for a second, I think his ties to Big Credit could counteract some of the perceived positives that come with Obama's outsider status, but it's early and I'm fussy, so I'd rather just say JOE BIDEN IS NOT MY NEW BICYCLE and begin praying for Lieberman to take the other VP slot for sheer entertainment value.
Posted by: Holly at August 23, 2008 10:21 AMIt's a sop to his critics. "Afraid of voting for a young black man? Well, here's an old white dude. Now shut the hell up." I was hoping for Bill Richardson, but I guess a Hispanic with a rational drug policy was a liiiittle too much change to risk it.
Posted by: Harris at August 23, 2008 11:44 AMBiden vs. Lieberman at the debates would consist of Biden bitching Holy Joe out righteously.
It's the only part of the ticket I'd enjoy now. Biden vs. Romney would be entertaining too, but we all know the GOP would take a follower of Abraham any day over one of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Posted by: Signal to Noise at August 23, 2008 01:28 PMTrue story: I am getting all these e-mails from the Democratic Party, and today I received my first one from Joe Biden. The advertisement Google chose to accompany this e-mail read "The Fool Looks Ahead". Priceless.
Posted by: j at August 24, 2008 06:48 PMAm I the only person who would have taken the adulterer over the plagiarist?
Posted by: The Gurgling Cod at August 25, 2008 04:42 AMI'm one of the right-winglets you referred to. Has there been any indication on who was Senator Obama's second choice? Governor Kaine and Senator Bayh were two individuals that seriously concerned me.
Especially Kaine - since Virgina hasn't been blue in quite some time and he almost certainly turns it over to the Dems.
5 days till football!
Posted by: Ryno at August 25, 2008 08:12 AMThis right winglet was hoping for Kaine - the unbearable lightness of the ticket was truly appealing. Biden seemed the more sensible choice. (Must confess something of a weakness for Biden since Middle School - Yikes!- the man's ability to speak for unlimited periods of time and the sheer pleasure he takes in the sound of his own voice are truly something to admire - seriously, they really are).
It does seem the the selection isn't going as well as one might have hoped. To be sure, a bounce for Barry must perforce be in the offing but things are heading in the wrong direction at the moment and given the EV considerations in Virginia li'll Timmy might have been the better choice after all.
Oh, and Ryno only 2 days till football - or at least some fairly unimpressive but still authentic samples thereof.
Posted by: marcillac at August 26, 2008 12:48 PM