Biden
CNN sez it’s so.
I’m not a big fan of him for a variety of reasons, but for a variety of other reasons I think he’s a pretty good VP choice. Not my fantasy VP choice or close to it, but nonetheless pretty good. Better than many of the other floated names.
And if CNN’s wrong I can make fun of them tomorrow
I tried to post this last night and something went awry.
disappointing! We waited for this? What was BHO thinking? Biden will not benefit the ticket at all. Deleware was not a swing state. Same old crowd that you can’t trust–connections to Scruggs will attest to this.
Hillary would have been a much better choice as well as Sam Nunn. Nunn would have solidified the South.
Is this an example of BHO decison making? Disappointing!
Point of order redneckerbubbams, I think the Obama camp prefers BO, as to BHO. And BO does sound more appropriate.
Biden wouldn’t have been my choice, I’da preferred somebody from Virginia; spouse wanted Daschle. But still, he’s smart, and very very nimble. The copying thing doesn’t bother me so much. He’s reads and studies A LOT (a nice improvement over what we got), and I think one way folks like him retain all that information is by plugging it into their own experiences and understanding of those experiences. Sometimes that kind of neural organization manifests as something less (or more) than memory of actual fact.
Don’t be so quick to discount Biden. After all, he did garner a grand total of 9,000 votes in the presidential primary race, before he pulled out. That is pretty stout.
It’ll be interesting to hear how Biden, who favored invasion of Iraq and now having a US sponsored division of the country along lines drawn by the US and without regard to the impact in Turkey and other nations (hey, maybe we should invade and redraw those borders too??) —
be interesting to hear him explain why Russia shouldn’t be able to go and redraw Georgian lines (that they drew to start) to carve out South Ossetia.
He’s been ok on some issues (education funding, some typical Democratic lobby special interest positions). He’s been deplorable on judgment calls; awful on the war. He’s definitely an improvement over Bayh and Kaine, the way dysentary is an improvement over colon cancer. The Senator from the “Deleware Corporation” state, though, is as far from “change” as they could have picked and, despite the corporatism of Deleware’s interests, he brings not one thing to the economic front.
But between them, Biden and Obama (as was Clinton) are massively gung ho to increase the military out the wazoo, so they will have some agenda overlap.
Not many who are caught in the grips of dysentery will be able to gratefully chant “at least it’s not colon cancer” but Democrats are made of much sterner stuff than Dysentarians. They’ll be able to chant, “at least it’s not Bayh” and actually be happy to have Biden.
I’m not sure I understand pulling another warmongerer military expansionist, from the ranks of the “we can’t do anything unless we have at least 80 or so Democrats” Senate, but one additional silver lining is that it will be hard to mourn the loss of Biden, who, with his compatriots, have done so little for so many and so much for so few.
Now that I’m thinking about it, is there any rule that says you can only have ONE vice president? How about a “Gang of 14?”
It will also be interesting to see if anyone ties him to Scruggs, Patterson and Balducci
Tears of (ruing) laughter running down my cheeks, I rise in a standing O for Mary’s 5 [now linked at Pith & Vinegar]. Girl, you need your own show — I’d turn on the teevy for that!
That’s really saying ‘sumin Mary…lotus doesn’t even watch the teevee!
Email from im[n]b (love the subject line: “encore une fois une autre fois”):
B-i-d-e-n i-s b-o-r-i-n-g.
Oh rog, I disagree. I think he’s very quick witted (remember “a noun, verb and 9/11″?) and smart ( I look forward seeing that mind at work). I think we can count on a little bit of entertainment from him as he goes after McCain and TBA. Besides, when that smile lights up his face, he ain’t bad to look at :>).
OH yeah, GG. Comme ça:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Y8AFctpjo
I tell ya, if I stick around here long enough I might get pretty good at conversational French…y’all keep sending me over to my online translator.
Here’s a good example of Biden being thoughtful. Shows the depth of his knowledge and experience. It was prophetic at the time and particularly relevant to events unfolding in Pakistan now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ZyZCsRJyM&feature=user
I’m listening to obama introduce obama. Major incongruencies talking about how out of touch washington is with America now joe biden I’d my running mat who’s been in Washington for 30 years. But he’s not out of touch. Yeah right.
If, and I am saying if, you are one of those who wants change, one who wants to see us go in a direction different from the past 8 years; then I would say to you, give Obama the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he believes Biden is the best person to help him affect that change.