Posted on 08/26/2008 2:32:47 PM PDT by nuconvert
BACK TO JIMMY - What Biden Pick Really Signals
BY choosing Sen. Joseph Biden as his vice-presiden tial running mate, Barack Obama sent three messages. The first two are implicit admissions that Hillary Clinton had a point in the primaries. The third tells us more of what Obama means by "change."
Biden is supposed to make up for Obama's lack of the knowledge and experience needed to leader on national security and international affairs. And the Delaware senator, with his humble working-class origins, is also meant to reassure the "simple folk" that Obama seems to be losing.
But the third message is that "change" means a return not to the Camelot of President John Kennedy, but to the foreign policies of Jimmy Carter. For Biden, an early supporter of Carter in his quest for the presidency in 1976, shares the former president's view of the world and the United States' place in it.
In 2004, I was astonished to hear Biden doing his own bit of America-bashing in front of an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The US, he claimed, had no moral authority to preach democracy in the Middle East. "We don' have much of a democracy ourselves, " he said mockingly. "Remember our own presidential election; remember Florida!"
Biden has the experience of more than three decades in the US senate, at least two of them dealing with foreign affairs and defense. But experience is no guarantee of good judgment. And Biden has been wrong on almost every key issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I think McCain, Obama and Biden all ought to quit the senate and concentrate on the presidential race. That would solve many problems at once.
He is a mere six years younger than McCain. He was in law school when McCain became a P.O.W. He spent less than three years in the private sector practicing law before election to the U.S. Senate.
He was already a sitting U.S. Senator when McCain was released on 14 March 1973. Putting it into perspective, McCain actually spent twice as long as a P.O.W. as Biden spent working in the private sector, and two of those three years he was drawing a paycheck as a New Castle city councilman.
Now I have my problems with McCain, but Biden's experience cannot even begin to compare with his.
That would be interesting to see them resign from the Senate and campaign for office. How many times were all the senators who were presidential candidates absent from the Senate, absent from the job the taxpayers are already paying them to do?
In 1996 Bob Dole resigned from the Senate when he became the Republican presumptive nominee for president. You figure they don’t resign because they want to hedge their bets, and still have an elective office to return to if they don’t get elected to the higher office.
And remember Joe Lieberman really hedged his bets in 2000 by running simultaneously for Vice-President and re-election to his Senate seat.
Maybe Biden will secretly work for his good friend McCain.
What the Biden pick REALLY signals is that Obama couldn’t get anybody more charismatic/electable to agree to be his running mate.
Wow! Is there video? Needs to go up on youtube.
This is exactly accurate. Biden would advise SnObama to return to the Jimmy Carter policies.
I believe that is about the worst path for America that I can imaginable.
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Thanks for the ping.
Joe Bite-em make up for O’s lack of experience? All Joe has is a big mouth.
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