Obama Picks Biden for V.P.
The more decisions Barack Obama makes, the better I feel about the Republicans’ chances in November. Now, that Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate (in the dead of night, no less), I’m feeling even better about it.
Joe Biden? Joe Biden? Even the nuts are having a hard time working up any enthusiasm over this pick. Of course, when you have the Obamessiah for your candidate, it was probably hard to come up with a suitable V.P. Maybe Moses wasn’t available.
Here’s a comment that made me laugh:
I was slightly annoyed by the fact that the word got out before the text message, but seriously - if someone tries to make that the media narrative for the next two days they need to get a life. Iraq War? Shitty Economy? A guy so out of touch he doesn’t know how many houses he owns? Let’s talk about what actually matters.
Emphasis mine. So, let me see if I have this straight. The fact that a rich guy doesn’t know or worry about how many houses his rich wife owns is the Democrat talking point now? That’s something that “actually matters”? How does that matter, exactly? If you know how many houses your family owns, does that make you more prepared to deal with Russia (whom Obama equates with the allied invasion of Iraq)? How about Iran? Does owning only one million-dollar home mean that you aren’t going to tax the hell out of everybody? Or that your abortion policies won’t sound as ghoulish?
I think Biden is probably as good a V.P. pick as Obama was likely to make. I can just see the commercials now…
Even Obama’s running mate likes John McCain
Joe Biden really likes Obama, for a clean and articulate black guy.
Joe Biden: He only plagiarizes the best.
Obama/Biden: One’s a celebrity. One’s not terribly bright.
Wow, this should be a contest!
Cross-posted at Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels.
UPDATE: Flopping Aces has several videos up of Joe’s better moments. Is Obama just trying to give the McCain campaign fodder for ads? This is too easy.
Yorkshire:
The ads are already out about Biden saying BO isn’t ready to be Prez, and Biden liking John McCain. As they would say in the military, they have a target rich environment.
23 August 2008, 8:15 amSharon:
I was listening to NPR this morning and there seems to be some uneasiness in the chattering class about this pick. They had a Hillary Clinton delagate on who kept saying she was “absolutely thrilled” with the choice, but couldn’t really recommend much about Biden except his devotion to his kids when they were young.
Thinking about the choices Obama had, I suppose Biden was no worse than the others. It just seems like he’s a gaffe machine that’s been put into play.
23 August 2008, 8:40 amDPN:
I’m confused. In the beginning of your post you slam Obama about the “non-issue” of McCain’s houses and then at the end of your post you bring up several potential “non-issue” advertisements for McCain.
23 August 2008, 9:22 amRovin:
Joe Biden says it all in an earlier debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8
While Biden and Obama stood on the same debate stage, Stephanpoulos asked: “You said, ‘I think he can be ready, but right now, I don’t of that think he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training.’”
Biden responded at the time, “I think I stand by that statement.”
And the ad closes with a remark Biden once made about the now Republican nominee and his longtime Senate colleague:
“I would be honored to run with or against John McCain because I think the country would be better for it.”
Thanks for the memories Joe…….
23 August 2008, 12:05 pmArt Downs:
What does Biden bring to the table? Name recognition? Arrogance? A big mouth?
Howard Stern might be better in all respects, but he is down on Democrats at the moment.
John Edwards has probably demonstrated more political integrity than we can expect from Time Server Joe.
23 August 2008, 12:25 pmSadie:
Interesting…
23 August 2008, 6:11 pmDana Pico:
If John McCain forgot his running mate’s name, the Kos kids would be all over it!
Barack America? Barack America?
23 August 2008, 6:23 pmSharon:
I think that video deserves a post of its own! Biden’s very first gaffe came minutes after the V.P. pick announcement.
BTW, DPN, the point I made was about potential ads the McCain campaign can run using Biden’s own words and actions in this campaign and others. This isn’t simply an attack cuz the guy owns funny shoes or something. The links are all examples of Biden’s actual words concerning Barack Obama (or Barack America, as he’s now known) or his bad behavior in previous campaigns. I think plagiarism and lying about your resume are far more important in a presidential campaign than how many houses one of the two rich guys running has. Don’t you?
23 August 2008, 7:34 pmYorkshire:
Good match, the number One Liberal voter in the Senate with the Number Three Liberal Voter. I’m glad the event was outdoors. No room is big enough to hold these two egos.
BO said he wanted Change. He didn’t want business as usual. He didn’t want to be the Washington Insider. So, he picked all of the above in Biden. DC insider, and status quo. No We Can’t.
23 August 2008, 8:26 pmDana Pico:
I was watching WPVI this morning, and saw a clip of Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) telling the crowd that John McCain didn’t understand how the American people could be concerned about how to pay the bills when his concern was to figure out at which of his seven dining room tables to eat.
It was a good laugh line, but it rings kind of hollow, coming from a man who has treated his Senate seat like a family fief, and whose son was elected Attorney General because the people of Delaware saw only the name “Biden,” and that’s all that matters. Joe Biden, the working class roots guy, who went to Archmere Academy, the toniest private school in the state, and whose tuition is today $18,000 a year.
Tell me another one.
24 August 2008, 7:47 amSharon:
I really am curious as to whether the American people are gonna buy the “just plain folks” jargon of this campaign. I realize Obama’s camp has to hit back for the celebrity stuff, but trying to argue that this rich guy just isn’t as rich as that one doesn’t really compare to hero worship, does it? I give the voters more credit than this: they know who John McCain is. It’s not like he suddenly became a rich guy. But Obama has offered himself as “Change,” and people are leary of the “change” he’s offering due to his inexperience and lefty past.
24 August 2008, 9:43 amBitter Scribe:
…they know who John McCain is. It’s not like he suddenly became a rich guy.
Or like he suddenly started to lie to people. (See: Keating, Charles)
24 August 2008, 11:32 amSharon:
Those supporting a friend of terrorists shouldn’t complain about 25 year old lies.
24 August 2008, 4:06 pmBitter Scribe:
Actually, it’s not the lying that bothers me, it’s the taking money from crooks.
Not to mention the asinine pandering. (Offshore drilling!)
But it’s fun watching people like Sharon flounder around, trying desperately to achieve even the tiniest level of guilt by association.
24 August 2008, 5:15 pmSharon:
Seriously? Taking money from crooks bothers you? Odd, considering Obama got a sweetheart deal on his house by taking it from a crook (Tony Rezko).
Pandering? It wasn’t pandering when Obama has promised that he’s going to offer everyone everything but isn’t going to raise taxes on anyone except “the rich”?
What’s fun to watch is people like you try to make excuses for your candidate, who is floundering and flopping around, desperately trying to convince people he isn’t an inexperienced, naive flake with nothing to offer except “just words, just speeches.” I’m enjoying watching you try to slime John McCain with a 25-year-old accusation, when your candidate has supported killing babies even outside the womb. Your candidate, who tries to take credit for the success in Iraq. Your candidate, who wants to raise taxes on everyone so he can pander to unions and other useful idiots. Your candidate, BS, who lies constantly, when he isn’t saying “uh” and “um.”
24 August 2008, 8:19 pmSharon:
And let me see, giving Americans what they say they want (offshore drilling) is pandering? Funny, you don’t seem to consider it pandering when Barack Obama has promised to get our troops out of Iraq.
And Democrats want us to pay for alternative energy sources, none of which are even close to replacing petroleum in any meaningful way. We’re supposed to sweat in the summer and freeze in the winter so you guys can argue we’re saving the planet? Puh-lease.
24 August 2008, 8:23 pmBitter Scribe:
He’s going to flounder and flop his way right into the White House. Then the real work will begin: undoing eight years of untrammeled Republican incompetence, at the hands of the worst two-term president in U.S. history.
24 August 2008, 11:05 pmSharon:
Nah, Obama can’t win, BS. He’s not been able to break the 50% barrier and it’s nearly Labor Day. Dems usually start out wayyyy ahead in the summer then, at best, squeak through to the finish. Of course, they usually lose.
No northern liberal has won the presidency in Obama’s lifetime. There’s a reason for that. Americans don’t like them.
24 August 2008, 11:13 pmDana Pico:
The last real Yankee to win the presidency was John F Kennedy, and he ran to the right of Richard Nixon on defense and foreign policy. (I guess that the elder George Bush could have been called a transplanted Yankee!) Before that, you have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt.
25 August 2008, 6:26 amArt Downs:
In the course of the Keating investigation, two of the Senators were exonerated and did not see their careers imperilled. These were Democrat Glenn and Republican McCain.
Senator McCain married rather well, perhaps not as well (in terms of money) as the last Democrat to be nominated for the presidency. There are some rather binding pre-nuptual agreements in force.
What is the net worth of Joe Biden and how did he acquire it? There seems to be a lot of money shifting from campaign treasury to lobbyist and who knows where….
Where would Obama be without swindler and slumlord Tony Rezko? Would his wife’s salary as a lobbyist have doubled had not BO been able to turn on the pork faucet through election to the Senate?
25 August 2008, 12:39 pm