Pick Joe Biden? What Are They Thinking?
By Betsy Newmark
High School Government and History Teacher/Blogger
The speculation on vice presidential choices reached a fever pitch yesterday as Howard Fineman went out on a limb in speculating that it would be Biden according to his sources. And then Biden faked reporters out by first telling them “I’m not the guy.” Analysts on TV gnawed over that for much of the evening, but then, oh the excitement!, he walked that back and said he didn’t know anything about whom Obama was picking. What fun for everyone to have something to talk about when actually the people who know anything aren’t talking and those who are probably don’t have any special insight.
Meanwhile, we’re being told that Biden would bring foreign policy expertise to the ticket. The New York Times talks up that aspect, as does The Wall Street Journal.
I’ve never bought into this idea that the vice presidential pick should balance out the presidential nominee on policy expertise. Does anyone think that a President Obama would lack for foreign policy advisers? Even as a candidate he’s supposed to have around 300 foreign policy advisers. What guarantee would there be that he’d listen to a Vice President Biden more than a Secretary of State or National Security Adviser?
Admittedly, Biden has been around the Senate for a long, long time but is his supposed expertise really that impressive?
He proudly pushed his big idea for Iraq which was to divide it up into three different ethnic territories. He trumpeted that idea in place of the concept behind the surge. How was the United States going to force such an ethnic division on the country? Were we supposed to start evacuating certain ethnic groups if they didn’t want to leave their homes and move to the majority region that Biden had picked out for them? Was that really such a better idea than General Petraeus’s plan? I’d like to see Biden explain that one.
Biden has been touting the value of his experience for 20 years. The Republicans are distributing this quote from 20 years ago when Biden ran for president:
“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation,” he said at the time, referring to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Has 20 more years taught him that inexperience is now optimal?
Biden is very popular among the Inside the Beltway crowd. He talks a lot which the reporters enjoy. But, his manic smile at inappropriate times never indicated to me that he was such a very friendly guy. I thought that Clarence Thomas’s autobiography really caught the two-faced aspect of Joe Biden during the high-profile nomination hearings when he tried to sandbag Thomas by hitting him with an obscure quote taken totally out of context as one of his first questions after having promised no surprise questions. Kathryn Jean Lopez reminds us of Thomas’s conclusion on Smiling Joe.
Throughout my life I’ve often found truth embedded in the lyrics of my favorite records. At Yale, for example, I’d listened often to “Smiling Faces Sometimes,” a song by the Undisputed Truth that warns of the dangers of trusting the hypocrites who “pretend to be your friend” while secretly planning to do you wrong. Now I knew I’d met one of them.
And then, of course, there is Biden’s lovely penchant for really putting his foot in his mouth. Gawker has conveniently compiled links to some of his greatest hits. Stroll down memory lane and recall Biden’s comments on the need to have an Indian accent to enter a Delaware 7-Eleven or his explanation that the difference between Washington, D.C. and Iowa schools is the number of black students. My favorite is how he’s bragged about coming from a slave state. He seemed to think that he would have a special link to Southern voters by reminding them that Delaware was a border state during the Civil War because of its 1000 slaves. Perhaps, he’s thinking of how Delaware’s obstinate refusal to allow Lincoln to use that state as a model for his compensated emancipation plan made the Emancipation Proclamation more likely.
Delaware, he noted, was a “slave state that fought beside the North. That’s only because we couldn’t figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way.”
And then in another interview on “FOX News Sunday:”
WALLACE: And, finally, Senator Biden — finally, we’ve got about 30 seconds left, but I can’t let you go without some politics. As we’ve mentioned, you’re in South Carolina right now, on the campaign trial. Thirty seconds or less, what kind of a chance would a Northeastern liberal like Joe Biden stand in the South if you were running in Democratic primaries against southerners like Mark Warner and John Edwards?
BIDEN: Better than anybody else. You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.
Is that an example of the great diplomatic skills that Biden would exercise as Designated Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to a President Obama? Would he then try to bond with African nations by sharing stories of the slave trade in American history? Would he go to the sub-continent and tell them about all the nice immigrants from India he’d met in Delaware 7-Elevens?
The secret analyst at Time’s “The Page”, advises Obama on why it would be good to pick Biden.
“Biden may be a ridiculous, overbearing blowhard, and he’ll doubtless make foolish blunders and imprudent comments if he’s on the ticket, but he’d still be an excellent campaigner, surrogate, and debater. He’d be thrilled at the prospect of being vice president (his own aspirations aside), and grateful and proud to have been chosen–-he’d work hard to make Obama look good, and not deliberately outshine him–-plus the chemistry will be appealing, and they genuinely like and respect each other, which will be winningly apparent.”
“Also, America is no longer a place where citizens care about plagiarism or hair plugs. A Biden pick would immediately elevate Obama’s gravitas, give him a semblance of humility, delight the media, and reassure the nation that a grownup is involved. Democrats would be simultaneously relieved and apprehensive, but they’d be pleased with the choice overall. Plus, Biden is Catholic, is a Washington insider in a good way (a hardworking man of the people unchanged by three decades inside the Beltway), and has a tragic history with a happy ending.”
That may all be true. But is it worth the risk that he’ll have another foot-in-the-mouth moment? If what they want is a well-respected Democrat on foreign policy, why not Sam Nunn? Now, there’s a guy from a real slave state — can Joe Biden top that? Seriously, Nunn would be the sober version of Joe Biden without the manic mouth.
Get more Betsy click here:
Somebody tracked down Michael Phelps’ father …. though he obviously was lying low …. and though he did not want to be interviewed, got the interview …. Fabulous!
Now, where’s the interview of the year ? Obama’s Grandmother! ….. Why hasn’t anyone camped on her doorstep…. she’s the only one still alive that could possibly shine some light into the void that is Barack’s childhood and influences and no one has seen or heard from her ….. It is clear that any candidate is going to be urged to trot his aging, doting Grandmother before an adoring electorate….. UNLESS there’s some reason why he can’t.
Comment by Mary Fournier
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am
Betsy Newmark,
“Your entire article makes you sound like a snipy witch.
Enough said.”
Mary, Have you ever heard what the pot called the kettle? And the word is SNIPPY.
I would like to bring attention to real estate holdings Joe Biden has at the Delaware seashore.
This is besides the home he owns in Greenville, DE.
House Divided Speech: Joe Biden or Abraham Lincoln?
House Divided — Text of Entire Speech by President Lincoln, 1868
MONEY QUOTE FROM ABE WAS: “We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail.”
But Joe Biden’s speechwriter’s relayed it a bit differently:
JOE: INTRO: Well, it’s great to be here! On the steps of the old State House in the land of Lincoln. President Lincoln once instructed us to be sure to put your feet in the right place. Then stand firm. Today, Springfield, I know my feet are in the right place. And I am proud to stand firm for the next president of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
JOE: END OF HIS SPEECH : “And now it’s time for all of us, as Lincoln said, to put our feet in the right place and to stand firm.”
Only Lincoln never said it is time to put our feet in the right place. He said: “We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail.”
Speechwriter taking liberties? No biggie! But let the record show:
BUT ABE NEVER SAID IT EXACTLY THAT WAY……
Biden might have foreign policy insight but will obama humble himself to listen.
OBama O Biden Oh Brother!
Sneak Preview of Biden’s Convention Address:
Eleven score and twelve years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great war against terrorism, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2y8dYwq01g
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
think about this before you decide to vote mccain. and if you complain about bush, for gods sake, dont vote mccain, aka george w. bush 2.0
No matter what NObama does it won’t help everytime this marxest talks he goes down in the polls now this big jerk he picks for VP is a knee slappin laugh as most of us know but this Karl Mark left wing libs thinks this is there hero its amazing to me how these Obama supporters think Redistribute Wealth
is the way to go but let me remind you The rich earned this income and wealth, so they should be able to keep the same percentage of it as do others who were not as successful.
Taxing the wealthy at lower rates allows them to reinvest in their and other companies, and in the stock market, which leads to economic growth (jobs, higher incomes for workers, better benefits). Oh i would also like to remind the libs that from his radical stance on abortion to his prominence in the corruption scandals that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media, Barack Obama is not fit to be Senator — not to mention the next President of the United States.
I wrote about this last night at tableofwisdom. This afternoon Barack Obama will stand before the Springfield State House to campaign with his Vice Presidential nominee where Abraham Lincoln once served.. I expect that he will stand in front of a picture of Lincoln and try to imply a correlation between himself and the venerable FIRST Republican President. He could only get away with such an abominable act of desecration due to the deficiency of American History curriculum in public education.
Without the ignorance of history upon which Obama greatly depends, people would easily recognize the glaring hypocrisy he displays by committing such an act.
Once upon a time in America, a majority of Whigs and a diminutive number of Democrats - disgusted with both of their party’s approbation toward slavery - founded a NEW party upon the principal that A HUMAN BEING CANNOT BE THE THE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
These great men recognized the contradiction between their present reality and the proposition put forward in the Declaration of Independence that asserted all men are CREATED equal and that their rights and value as human beings come not by how much money they acquired or from what bloodline they came but rather by God.
The party of Lincoln has not changed much in its stance; neither has the Democrat Party changed since then. The Republican Party still stands vehemently for a defenseless minority of human beings who are being denied their God given rights, whose lives are being taken for the sake of convenience for those who claim OWNERSHIP over them. The Democrats are still the party fighting to protect a multi-billion dollar industry akin to the slave trade - except extermination of the of the victims is the ultimate goal in the case of the abortion trade (rather than subjugation).
What a national tragedy it would be for the first black President of the United States to be a man who rejects the very proposition on that proverbial “check” that Dr. Martin Luther King brought to Washington D.C. to “cash” , that proposition from our Declaration of Independence, the brilliance of which Dr. King lauded in his great speech. Beware of Senator Obama’s check, which under closer scrutiny may just prove to be a forgery.
For Obama to have the AUDACITY to imply some type of moral equivalence between himself and the great Abraham Lincoln would be an act of desecration. This is the man who has no compunction about partial birth abortion or leaving a “botched abortion” baby to die alone in a utility closet because the mother’s “intent” was to abort it.
If he has the audacity in which he seems to pride himself and he stands there claiming the mantle of Lincoln, how long would it take him to sit down on a throne in the Holy of Holies and demand to be worshiped?
I guess the answer would just be a question of how long it would take to first rebuild the Temple?
Being 70 years old, I have followed politics, especially presidential campaigns, for a long time. Mr. Obama’s choice for VP, while understandable, was unwise. I can remember sometime back in the late 80’s when Mr. Biden was guilty of flagrant plagiarism. It was a huge news item. As a writer, I feel that this was tantamount to a theft. That is, stealing another’s words without giving appropriate reference. In my opinion — a very serious issue, which affects credibility.
“Dudes… this is the opinion page. You have Ratner to provide balance to Newmark. Bias, reminder…. this is the opinion page. Fair and Balanced is the news coverage. In opinions fair and balanced is providing space to both sides. ”
Ellen Ratner doesn’t provide any balance whatsoever. You’re a complete tool. Ellen Ratner spends most of her blog posts attacking Democrats and supporting Republicans. Fox News Democrats aren’t serious Democrats.
Did you check out one of her latest posts condemning the FBI for indicting Republican Senator Steven (AL), while admitting that he’s guilty, because quote “he’s so old”.
Yeah, there’s a serious LIBERAL. It’s ok for Republicans to break the law because they’re so cute and old! Democrat my ass. She’s a Republican kiss-ass.
Thanks Obama,
Gee it seems like only yesterday that Biden was lecturing Scott Ritter in regard to his opinion on the Iran Contra scandal. Ritter as I remember was asked by congress to give an opinion to which Biden stated that he (Ritter), did not hold a labor grade that entitled him to any opinion at all.
Now, as a Republican and moreover, a decent American, I want to thank Obama for choosing this neo nazi moron as a running mate. I would challenge other responsible citizens to think before voting for someone like Biden who is so full of himself that there is no room for the good of the people.
Betsy Newmark,
Your entire article makes you sound like a snipy witch.
Enough said.
“Comment by mike t.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Biden’s plan was never to seperate the country into 3…..”
Yes. It was. You, Mike T., should do YOUR homework.
I suggest, if you haven’t already, read what Donna Hughes on this blog has said. She makes good since. We have to knock off the trash talk and take a real good look around. Rather it’s Senator Obama or Senator McCain, WE THE PEOPLE, here are the ones that are hurting. WE need to take a real good look at our own environments and study the issues and then decide.
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The Obama game playing with the Vice President announcement is STUPID. It shows more of the childish celebrity play.
I would suggest he talk to Mark Burnett about the following concept after the convention:
* a Congressional Game Show for “To Drill or Not to Drill” with speeches, signage, and graphs
* a Reality Show for “Save the Fetus-Thumbs Up or Down”
* Mile High Stadium Gladiator competition called “3rd World Tyrant Negotiation”
* Democratic “Shell Game” Game - “Which War should be fight?” Not Iraq, Yes Afghan, Now Pakistan
* “What’s My Line-Name that Radical” Ayers, Farrikhan, Rezko, Wright
* “Environmental Dunk Tank” Game for getting Carbon Credits for Hollywood jets - rights to dunk Gore, Pelosi, andReid
To Tom, who retorted:
(5) Larry
“Gee, if Biden gives a speech at the Democratic Convention, who will he plagiarize? Does he have time to throw something together?”
Good one, Larry! When’s the last time the president of Georgia called you to discuss foreign relations?
Too bad you can’t come up with something real to discuss. When is the last time he called up Obama?
Biden is all talk, no walk. And so are you.
BTW - ha ha ha ha ha ha……………..etc.
I sure hope Obama picks Biden. That would be super! That would make a sure win for McCain. Biden has to be one of the biggest idiots ever to set foot in Washington.
Joe Biden is the best bet for VP, He doesn’t drag behind him junk, like Clinton, Doesn’t stutter and doesn’t have a back ground of Drugs, Doesn’t have a wacky preacher, and doesn’t associate with all the people that hate this wonderful country. Dems what were you thinking voting in Obama? The Choice you made only makes you stand out as people who are against all of the good this Country stands for! Guess you didn’t learn your lesson when Clinton took all the integrity of the White House down with him.
Joe Biden should have been your presidential Choice!
Good Luck Joe! Your party needs you!
Biden’s a moron.
Pelosi’s a moron.
Reid’s a moron.
Obama’s a moron.
…nuff said.
I’m from Delaware too and I am not voting for Obama so I don’t really care who he picks.
(To the tune of “Jambalaya”)
Good bye Joe, you gotta go, me-o-my-o.
Stealin’ speeches from the British is a no-no.
Your star is gone from the political horizon,
Jus’ because you had to do some plagiarizin’!
O plagiarizin’ and Joe Biden never thought,
From across that big ‘ol ocean he’d get caught!
My song is done, remember son, I’m surmizin’,
You can blow your whole career by plagiarizin’!
(apologies to Hank Williams, Sr.)
1988
Joe Biden? Oh, yeah, when running for president, he put out a bio sketch with too many college degrees listed on it. He blamed it on a clerical mistake, but no one believed him. Then, he put the word out that he was a member of Mensa, the organization for people who have an IQ of 175 (genius) or higher. Of course that was also a lie. Then, he finally dropped out of the campaign when he was caught making a speech, which was word-for-word the speech of an Irish politician.
Yeah, put Joe on the ticket. One good liar deserves another.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1
May i offer a little insanity- the democratic convention will be a wide open free for all. Obama will not get the required votes on the first ballot & neither will Clinton. So we will go ballot # 2, 3, or higher. I dark horse will emerge to take the monination & all this speculating as to who the VP will be will be for naught. Fun times ahead?????
Biden is an Idiot like Obama and if either one of them had an original thought it would die of loneliness.
Joe Biden is one of the biggest father and male bashers in the country. He has no care whatsoever about giving the feminist vote whatever they want including destroying families, fathers, and violating constitutional rights of men. Yes, make him VP so he gets his a** out of the Senate!
FYI: Swing State of Mind has a great interview with plagiarism expert John Lesko about Biden and whether he should be forgiven for his plagiarism.
Swing State of Mind
McCain should pick Michael Phelps.
I was previously aloof to all of the Olympic hype, but now I really admire this young man. The left wing junk food Nazis are aghast due to his Frosted Flakes endorsement - and that’s a good thing. Michael Phelps better take out an extra insurance policy to protect his new fortune from the predatory trial lawyers who will soon look to blame him for all America’s obesity (as soon as his net worth crosses their threshold).
Maybe Phelps would be a good VP candidate for McCain. He’s young, energetic, cosmopolitan and his “stock” has never been higher. Otherwise, I suppose he could serve as Surgeon General. It’s not like the Surgeon General has to operate on anybody. I mean, if Maxine Waters could do it…
Anyway, I don’t know if Phelps has any political affiliation but he should be a Republican because he actually had to work harder and longer than everyone else - and if liberals made the rules, that gentleman he beat out for his 7th Gold Medal probably would have been given the Gold by “handicap” since “Phelps had already won enough” and he only won by a fraction of an inch.
Nevertheless, I hope Phelps continues to surprise us with these types of endorsements deals. It’s worth it to get those “politically correct” frauds all riled up. I think Phelps would make an EXCELLENT Marlboro Man.
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Best regards,
Scott a/k/a MrArbitrage
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
HOORAY Betsy !!!
I couldn’t agree more at what a LUNATIC Joe Biden is and I sent Obama an e mail indicating that very same thing, plus informed him that he will lose my vote (and I’m sure thousands more) if he picks Biden for VP.
It’s my personal opinon that the foremost choice for Obama’s VP would be Nancy Pelosi !
I sure wish someone would put a bug in his ear about that idea, because I truly believe they would win hands down with that ticket.
Thanks
I would encourage Sen Obama to consider Dick Durbin, it would be great to have two new senators from the state of Illinois. But alas they would surly lose.
This article is just another example of the worthless media in this country trying to create reality. The whole plagiarism episode was nothing more than a media-created event. Joe didn’t plagiarize anything, he just forgot one time to accredit Kinnock as the author of the material he used in a speech - a speech that he had used a dozen times before and had always accredited Kinnock. This time it happened to be taped by John Sasso, a Dukakis operative who gleefully sent it wherever it could do the most damage. Dukakis later fired Sasso and apologized to Joe, but damage is always done on the front page in LARGE PRINT, while apologies show up in the back somewhere in little print.
As I said before: IF YOU WANT TO DIG UP OLD HISTORY THEN LETS TALK ABOUT THE SAVINGS & LOAN DEBACLE AND THE KEATING FIVE - SOMETHING THAT REALLY HAPPENED AND A REAL SERIOUS SCREW-UP!!!!!!
While I am not a supporter of Obama, Biden is at least a grown up on foreign policy and would make an Obama presidency feel a little bit safer. I don’t know what else Biden gives in regards to politically helping a ticket that is fatally flawed at the top.
Obama blackness obviously more of a disadvantage than an advantage in a still very racists xenophobic and ethnocentric America.
Obama leads because he inspires millions of people. In addition, anyone had better than John McCain even Bush. I promise you McCain more of a riks then Bush he has less common sense and more secretive and extreme. How can you people be fooled three times in a row?
So, Betsy,
Maybe when he said is state is a slave state, he meant that his state is dealing with many of the issues that other past slave states have dealt with, post-reconstruction. Ever think of that???
Take off your blinders long enough to use your brain a bit.
If he is the VP candidate, he will welcome any attacks along that line and rip an new one in whoever asks such questions.
Oh, and McCain was 5th from last in class at the Naval Academy. 894 of 899. Hmmm. That’s really lame.
He just doesn’t seem smart enough to think things through on his own. That’s his biggest problem.
At least Joe Biden drives a truck and isn’t concerned about the environment. Mr. Biden would bring the CHANGE that Sen. Obama talks so much about- he would gives us 2 former Senators-Washington insiders to the ticket. Naming Sen. Biden or anyother Washington insider may be good for the American people because the government would be stagnant for the rest of the year. It would be bad because the American people will be paying the salaries of people who are looking for a job while not working on the job they hold now(something the AVERAGE AMERICAN cannot do). Such reform is awe inspiring. Sen. Biden was the one who in the beginning( a little religious lingo) had some tough things to say about Sen. Obama. Does Sen. Biden think that using slavery talking points help him?
As I see it, the press has been VERY nice to Obama while virtually ignoring McCain. The 2000 election is a perfect example as to what the press can do to an election. I believe that Gore’s hammering in the press was part of the reason he lost while Bush was enjoying the “good ol boy” image in the press. Although Obama has enjoyed “good press” these many months, the press IS fickle. The question should be whether or not the press will run with Biden’s many “scandals” and misspeak. Once both VPs are announced, the press will weight and measure each candidate once more and then decide what will sell papers most. If, say, McCain chooses Lieberman (a man with little dirt), will the press then hammer Biden in order to make a buck?
Bob texas if you don’t like what fox news says then why are you on here? I know the truth hurts darling so deal with it!
oh my! another good choice for VP! Just like Kathleen arrogant and lie straight to your face. Please Obama I can’t wait till Sat. pick him or Kathleen today why wait ,let the race jump into high gear now!!!
Dudes… this is the opinion page. You have Ratner to provide balance to Newmark. Bias, reminder…. this is the opinion page. Fair and Balanced is the news coverage. In opinions fair and balanced is providing space to both sides.
Oh by the way, Fox comes in 1st or 2nd consistently in Cable news…. somebody other than republicans must be watching.
Funny how the left consisitently goes for the ad hominem attack as opposed to reason and logic…
P.S - Biden’s plan : http://www.washingtonpost.com 8/24/06
“First, the plan calls for maintaining a unified Iraq by decentralizing it and giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis their own regions. The central government would be left in charge of common interests, such as border security and the distribution of oil revenue”
Sounds like splitting it up into ethnic regions to me.
It’s terrible to have facts…
I went to HS with Joe Biden who seemed like a nice guy at the time. However, after 36 years in the Senate, the real Joe Biden has emerged: an arrogant, nasty blowhard who “never worked for anybody else”. Every day he thanks God Barbara Boxer is in the Senate so he won’t be the dumbest U.S. Senator.
If Obama chooses Biden, I don’t want to ever hear Obama or the Democrats harp about McCains age. Biden is a half-step behind McCain agewise. And about Obama and his theme of “CHANGE”??? Biden is “old Washington politics” himself, and another ‘do-nothing’ Democrat besides. If the DNC had half a brain (ha!) they would throw this loser Obama under the bus and reinstate Hillary.
McCain 08
This has to be the most ludicrous piece of garbage I have ever read on the blogosphere. It is filled with events and quotes taken out of context, as well as exaggeration of facts and rhetoric. It’s not had to go through this piece of trash and clean it up sentence by sentence, but it would be a complete waste of my time. I would only advise the following: get a real job.
Gossip news like Perezhilton.com is contains more integrity and honor than this so-called blog. Pure non-sense!
Biden is perfect. He will appeal to Republicans with his ham-shaped, white cranium. Obama is a real person and excellent presidential material. Perfect duo to get us out of this mess and back on the same team.
Get on board!
Obama/Biden ‘08
Obama is going with Bill Bradley, he likes his 3 point jump shot, thinks it incredible that the guy is white and can jump, Michelle did not turn her nose up at his Princeton diploma, and he don’t carry the baggage of foot and mouth disease of Biden.
I got the inside scoop, remember you got it here first, no need to stand by your Blackberry, plus he has gravitatas, and while he is not an exciting speaker, to spell bind the masses, he was on the Intel committee, and is an expert on Soviet matters, which by the way is popping up, again, driving this selection.
Intel, don’t accuse me of bugging the DEM hotel rooms, I just know things.
Greg FL,
Could you expand a bit on why “..the US is ranked so low in education amongst industialized nations.” ?
I couldn’t find “inDUSTialized” in Webster’s. You MENSA people, always showing off.
My favorite Biden-ism of the year was that “clean and articulate” remark, right before his campaign ended.
Wow, the comments on here are amazing.
(1) J.N. Deich
“Biden always wasl, is, and always be a sarcastic jerk!”
Although you weren’t able to form a complete sentence J.N., you did come awfully close. Better luck next time.
(2) Rob Braswell
“Joe Biden is a talentless hack. A true America-hating liberal…”
Rob, you obviously have a keen mind for what it takes to be a talented non-hack politician. I find it interesting that your litmus test for being a good politician is whether he/she has initiated illegal immigration reform. Wow.
(3) Conor Eastman
“Pick Biden. I dare you.”
Heaven forbid that Barack Obama suffer the wrath of Conor Eastman. Barack, if you’re reading this, please rethink your decision.
(4) Carlos
“Please pick him, Oh please Pick him. This guy is an idiot. Oh Please Biden.”
Another enlightened argument from one of the lemmings… Oh please Betsy Newmark, please tell Carlos what he should think next.
(5) Larry
“Gee, if Biden gives a speech at the Democratic Convention, who will he plagiarize? Does he have time to throw something together?”
Good one, Larry! When’s the last time the president of Georgia called you to discuss foreign relations?
(6) Darrell
“Exactly, they are not thinking. We are talking about liberals here who make instinctive knee jerk reactionary decisions based on feeling.”
Too true, Darrell. Clearly the conservative arguments listed on this blog are not knee jerk reactions based on feeling, but rather stem from deep, insightful thinking. By the way, say hi for me to your brother Darrell and your other brother Darrell.
*:grin:* Boy, you Repubs. are really lapping up Saddleback, aren’t you? Haven’t you figured our strategy out by now?
I’ll put it in simple, easy to understand terms: “We have more money than you and we’re running down the clock.” Same strategy Team O used to punch Hillary’s clock, with a minor variation. If you still don’t get it, I’m afraid I can’t help you.
“10….9….8…..7….6…..5…..4…..3…..2…..$300,000,000 media saturation…..1….” Ding!
Chicken’s done.
Obama08
The plagiarism accusations against Biden hold about as much water as the Keating Five allegations against McCain… read your history a bit more carefully, people. of course I’m posting this in the talkback for a second rate Fox News blogger so maybe I’m asking a bit much.
Why would America reward the GOP for complete failure ?
Piss-Poor state-craft…
Bungled economy…
Hurray ! Let’s have another 4 years of incompetence.
Hip - Hip - Hurray !
It’s amazing the way the democrats can screw up a campaign. This should have been easy but they chose an absolute tyro of a candidate who isn’t qualified for the job he already has, much less the Presidency. The democrats have a nominating process that is rigged to select the most liberal candidate possible. This makes the far left happy but nets a candidate that usually doesn’t have a chance to win the general. Thank you , DNC.
There’s really not much to add to Ms. Newmark’s comments, except that it would give the people of Delaware the opportunity to again remind the nation what simpletons they are in continuing to elect an incompetent boob to the U.S. Senate.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Obama, take Joe as your Veep. As a Delawarean, I would be so happy to have him out of our hair. The Republicans here have never had the nerve to put anyone viable to run against him. It would be GREAT if he moved to Washington…..
Awesome!!!!
Joe Biden: “I made it clear to him (Obama) and everybody else, I never worked for anybody in my life,” he told reporters last month. “I got here when I was 29. I never had a boss. I don’t know how I’d handle it.” Precisely the reason he shouldn’t represent ANYbody. You work for us Joe. Or were supposed to.
Another partisan Republican hack writing for Fox News.com? Shocking! This is the reason that Fox isn’t taken serious by anyone other than diehard Republican crackpots in this country, and why 87% of Fox’s audience is committed to voting to McCain, according to the latest polls.
You’re whining to the choir, Betsy. Find something better to do.
Biden would be the perfect choice for Obama. Joe is such an arrogant jerk that he’d make Obama look like a saint.
Betsy, you’re ridiculous. This is one of the most one-sided, unfair essays I’ve ever read. Fair & Balanced my ass.
Joe Biden, wow, I hope so. If sen Obama picks anyone but sen Clinton, he is dead meat. He has already dropped behind McCain in some polling and no matter whom he picks other than Mrs Clinton, he has problem, even within his own party. It is a simply a matter of leadership, Obama has none. He has nothing to stand on other than his blackness. He has nothing to run on other than change. Change to a socialistic government to prepare us for full blown communism.
Sen. Obama wishes to weaken the nation. Quite simply put, any organization as large as the United States that is run completely from one mass government buraucracy will eventually fall completely apert due to bad leadership. To be blunt, we are approaching this problem already. We can see from the silly parlaimentary rules in the house and senate that those rules are set up to stop the peoples wishes frm ever coming to a vote. Our constitution never asked for all those rules. The constant call for a czar for this and a czar for that is explained away as making sure that one man/woman is responsible for that section of government. This places the responsibility even further away from the president and the lawmakers. Gives them a cusion, as it were, and also gives the socialistic system another foothold in our government. Anytime one man is responsible, he can be controlled better by just one man. Whole sections of our government are now under control of just one man and he reports directly to the president.
Oh, yeah, the opposing party can sit there and rake him over the coals at hearings. Just imagine the whole system with no or little opposition. Right there is the communistic form of government. The stage is set for Obama and his running mate.
Let’s just make sure that a true leader that envisions the country as free and independent thinking can be elcted. Biden is not one of those and certainly Mr Obama is not. Neither of them has any potatoes in his pants to face anything with true starch. They are both gutless and neither accepts reponsibility for anything.
Joe Biden? It makes sense in that he’s about as far left as Obama. Obama says the USA is the greatest country in the world and then runs on a campaign of “change”. Biden does nothing but complain. Together they’d make a fine democratic ticket. Both are empty suits.
Obama and Biden? Wasn’t there a movie about them? Yes, Send In the Clowns.
I think someone is a little scared of Joe Biden.
Yes, Obama has the foreign policy around him to the point where he doesn’t need a V.P. to make up for that, but it helps in the general election is what people are saying. Many people won’t vote for Obama because they are uneasy about his lack of experience and knowledge of foreign policy. So, what better way to make those voters comfortable than putting Joe Biden on the ticket? He’s a blue collar, down-to-earth, Catholic, rural, non-elitist politician. He appeals to the everyday American - better known as those who voted for George Bush because they’d “like to share a beer with him”. He can’t deliver one single state - but no running mate has for decades.
Why else is he good? He doesn’t take an insult lightly, like Barack does. He’s not afraid to voice his opinion and attack right back. He has my respect in the Democratic primary when he was attacking Rudy Giuliani & George Bush rather than his fellow Democrats. He also doesn’t base his attacks on childish, inaccurate remarks like John McCain does (he’s a little more mature than that).
Betsy, how are you honestly calling Joe Biden’s credentials “supposed expertise”? He is Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. They don’t really come more experienced than that. There is a reason he is so highly regarded by everyone in the Senate - from John Warner to Chuck Hagel to Hillary Clinton. There’s a reason the president of Georgia asked him to come visit over the weekend. There’s a reason he was involved in the START Treaty with Breshnev. There’s a reason he was on the phone with Musharraf during the crisis before Bush was. There’s a reason most world leaders are highly familiar with him. Because his foreign policy experience is unmatched in the Senate.
He provides reassurance to those that are uneasy about Obama’s lack of experience, his ability to attack is unmatched, he appeals to the everyday American, and he is one of the most highly respected Americans in the world.
Obama / Biden 2008.
Betsy;
Your comments would carry significantly more credibility if you spewed the facts instead of your own random citations. Biden’s plan, is already called for in the Iraqi constitution, and so it’s obviously doable from their standpoint. It was never to be imposed but promoted with them and their neighbors, who are obviously involved. The divisions were to be along ethno-religious lines, so actually could be many more than three. Additionally, due to the war and in fighting