Saturday, August 23, 2008

Obama Biden 2008


To me, it seems obvious that Barack Obama is well qualified to be president -- foreign policy awareness included -- but it's still good to reassure the general populace with a veteran choice for VP in the person of Joe Biden, a Catholic white man familiar with the working classes and personal tragedy, and old enough to be Obama's father.

With the polls about even these days, what do y'all think?

John McCain will pick his VP choice soon, no question. Then we can really get down to the final brutal weeks of campaigning.

Today's Rune: Breakthrough.

9 comments:

the walking man said...

I was pleased with Obama's pick. I think it rounds the ticket out well, politically and in a social conscience way that mccain will never be able to touch. On the other hand I hoe mccain resurrects Dan Quayle from the political graveyard.

Lana Gramlich said...

I agree with walking man.

Charles Gramlich said...

It was a fairly obvious choice. You know he needed a white male as a running mate.

McCain will chose a black person, or perhaps a woman.

Anonymous said...

I don't have much faith in the american public. They are dumb, easily manipulated by "religious" no alls, slick talking political power makers, a gullible press that parrots news rather than gets the facts, entertains instead of delves to where truth is hidden. Too many are racist but will never admit it. McCain would just be a continuation of the Bush doctrine. Our country is being destroyed, as Lincoln said, not from without but from within, by those who lust for power, riches, the public be damned.

JR's Thumbprints said...

I think McCain would do well to surprise the public by picking Jeb Bush. Lets go for the trifecta when picking shrubs to line the White House.

Sidney said...

I think he's a good choice in the political realm. He won't end discussion about foreign policy but it certainly goes a long way in quelling those accusations.

Jacob Weisberg on Slate notes:

At this hinge moment in human history, McCain's approach to our gravest problems is hawkish denial. I like and respect the man, but the maverick has become an ostrich: He wants to deal with the global energy crisis by drilling and our debt crisis by cutting taxes, and he responds to security challenges from Georgia to Iran with Bush-like belligerence and pique.

You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change. To the rest of the world, a rejection of the promise he represents wouldn't just be an odd choice by the United States. It would be taken for what it would be: sign and symptom of a nation's historical decline.

Erik Donald France said...

I do hope for the sake of the USA, a plurality or majority chooses Obama, and the vote counts correctly.

If Obama "loses" he'll be set for life as far as $ deals -- no worries there. But the US and the world need him to lead us out of the Valley of Imbecility . . .

God help us all!

Anonymous said...

Forget about vice presidents. The election boils down to Uncle Sam v. Uncle Tom.--Patton

Johnny Yen said...

I think that Biden is a good choice for a lot of reasons-- experience, for one. He's been a Senator since Obama (and I-- I'm also 47) were about 11 years old. Also, he's a bit of a pit bull poltically. He'll be a good "bad cop" to Obama's "good cop."

I just saw a headline a while ago that said McCain is trying to push the fact that he's a hardliner internationally. Isn't trying to be, as Phil Ochs sand "The Cops of the World" what got us into this mess to begin with?

Personally, I'm praying for McCain to pick Quisling, er, I mean, Lieberman, or maybe Mitt Romney to add to his unelectability.