Fineman: Biden the Clear Frontrunner for VP

MSDNC ^ | 8/18/08 | Howard Fineman

[denydenydeny]

I have the old James Brown song, “Please, Please, Please” running through my head.

[Eroteme]

That would make sense if Obama were a party man. Or even someone with some sense of loyalty or duty to anyone or anything but himself. If Obama thinks he can win with Bayh, then he’ll pick Bayh. There’s still plenty of room under that bus of his for a measly senate seat. Besides, they’re all convinced they have the senate majority firmly locked up, with or without Bayh’s seat.

[easternsky]

I say it will be Clinton. She has been to quite lately.

[Enchante]

Obama is not going to let his VP pick hinge on any considerations about the Senate, IMHO. Especially not when the Demagogues are very confident about picking up Senate seats anyway (hope they’re wrong).

But Obama (or just about any candidate) cannot let a decision about best VP pick to hinge upon one Senate seat. I’m not sure Bayh would help Obambi’s chances, but if Obambi THINKS that Bayh is his best option then he’ll surely go for it.

[Enchante]

"gives them no geographical boost"

Oh, c'mon, don't you know that the Obamacons are worried about winning Delaware??!!??

:^)

They don't want to lose against a 50-state landslide and they know that Illinois in in play, so they really want to be sure they hold Delaware to go along with the District of Columbia. [I can dream, too]

[Rummyfan]

He is a lively and feisty if unpredictable campaigner with working-class roots

Working class roots? He's been in the Senate, what, forty years?

Please please B Hussein Obama - choose Joe Biden! Your campaign will accelerate it's descent into ridiculousness.

[Rummyfan]

No that was another Dem, Harkin of Iowa....

[throwback]

Really somebody is just trying to cheer us up. What was Biden’s line about those crazy Indian dough nut shopkeepers?

[WOSG]

“The man can’t make up his mind about what ice cream he wants”

That would make for an interesting VP slot, an ice cream flavor:

McCain/Pistachio
over
Obama/Cookies-n-Creme

works for me!

[soxfan]

The real Biden quote that would haunt Obama would not be the one about Obama being “clean and articulate”. It would be what Senator Biden said to George Stephanopoulos at the first Iowa debate, when asked point-blank if he thought Senator Obama was ready to be President: “I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”

Couple that with a montage of Hillary Clinton (”I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”)

Then throw in Senator Obama himself: “I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job, and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket I would essentially have to start now - before having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who might be comfortable doing that, but I am not one of those people”

Makes for an interesting campaign ad.

[april15Bendovr]

He is an very angry spiteful liberal man

[Uncle Hal]

Excerpt from Joe Biden- Wikipedia:
Then in September 1987, the campaign ran into serious trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party.[25] Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video.[26] Within days, it was also discovered that, while at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote. Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course.[27] Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the “top half” of his class, when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85.[28]

Faced with these revelations, Biden withdrew from the nomination race on September 23, 1987, saying his candidacy had been overrun by “the exaggerated shadow” of his mistakes.[29] After Biden withdrew from the race it was learned that the Dukakis campaign had secretly made a video showcasing the Biden/Kinnock comparison and distributed it to news outlets. Dukakis fired John Sasso, his campaign manager and long-time Chief of Staff.[30][31]

[maro]

I agree. His vanity won’t let him pick anyone who is obviously a more plausible President than he.