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Obama Picks Biden |
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The wait is over, thankfully, and it’s Joe Biden. I like the pick. Biden has enormous credibility on foreign policy–he’s the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is often descibed as a foreign policy expert and he just visited Georgia at the request of Georgia’s President. He’s Catholic and has ties to Pennsylvania (someone on CNN just said he’d once been referred to as “the 3rd Senator from Pennsylvania”).  Biden had probably the best line of the presidential campaign so far when he said every Giuliani sentence consists of “a noun, a verb, and 9/11″.
Biden has a great personal story. He commutes home to Wilmington every night (this will be the answer to charges he’s a Washington insider). He’s been ranked 99th of 100 senators in terms of personal wealth, so keep the McCain, man of many houses attacks coming. His son is going to be deployed to Iraq (I believe he’s in JAG Reserves).
McCain came out with an ad showing Biden saying he’d be homored to run with or against McCain. To quote Obama in a different context–is that they best they’ve got? Big deal–shows Biden can work with both parties, which is his reputation–everyone seems to like him. My guess is the first Obama-Biden response to McCain’s VP pick (especially if it’s Romney) will be a lot more damaging.
The one thing I don’t understand about this is why the text was sent out at 3 am–was this supposed to be Obama’s 3 am moment? Kind of weird–why do this Sat morning at 3 am?  I hope no one got woken up by a text msg.
I’m excited–and looking forward to Biden being used as an attack dog to bolster the mounting case against McCain.
Why?
1. Longer experience in government than McCain
2. He owns 1 house… and it’s in Delaware… and he commutes to and from it and doesn’t live in Washington DC
3. He is, after 3 decades in the Senate, not a wealthy man, ie: he lives on his Senate Salary and does not turn his political power into $$$
4. Tremendous foreign policy background
5. Relatively enemy free… people on both sides love him
Now some bring up his verbosity… I pulled this off YouTube from one of the earlier Presidential Primary Debates. This says it all:
Under The LobsterScope
I’ve always liked Biden. He’s not afraid to mix it up and call a spade a spade. I look forward to teg VP debate, not matter who McCain picks.
agreed Jim–but I hope it’s Romney as I think he’s the easiest one on take on (or maybe Lieberman!)
Also, that quote about running with or against McCain was on “The Daily Show.” It was a joke. Biden was joking that he should be the VP no matter what. Context: It matters.
is that right? didn’t know that…someone on MSNBC should point this out seeing as the McCain ad presents it as a serious statement
I think it was a serious comment even though it was on the daily show. I think he was saying that he respected McCain and the quality of the contest was a better one whith McCain in it. Which I have to say I agree with, you have to put McCain in the context of plentiful loonies of the Republican party, and of course, it shouldnt be an endorsement of McCain, he was after all applying to run against him.
I don’t think it’s terrible, even if it was a serious comment. Shows he can work with both parties. and if this is the worst the Rs can say about Biden, I wish them luck