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Digesting an Obama-Biden Ticket
National Review ^ | Aug. 22, 2008 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 08/22/2008 11:41:22 PM PDT by FocusNexus

It's hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain.

His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a "slave state" again? Will he discuss who's behind the counter at 7-11s?

I'm reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him - "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."

That statement is true for both men on the Democratic ticket.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; biden; bigmouth; blowhard; cantstandhim; downthetubes; elections; givesmegas; obama; obamabiden; obamabinbiden; obamavp; oldwhiteguy; panderer; plagarizer; plugs
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To: FocusNexus
Perhaps Obama was more limited in his choice than is seemingly apparent...

Gov. Kaine and Sen. Bayh, and others, may have quietly indicated to Obama that they preferred not to run as VP - notably in view of Obama’s recent poor polling numbers, and the present security of the elected offices they now hold.

41 posted on 08/23/2008 2:16:50 AM PDT by mtntop3
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To: PhatHead

Excellent graphic and potential bumper-sticker. A superb summing up...


42 posted on 08/23/2008 2:20:53 AM PDT by mtntop3
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To: mtntop3

Yep, McCain is one lucky AHole to face Obama al Biden.
I also think Obama was more limited in his choice than is seemingly apparent, he kept floating names until he got himself into a corner and had no good options. This VP selection process has been a harbinger of just how badly an Obama Admin would react to any and all national emergencies. The BO ticket has got to make a lot of voters increasingly uneasy about the key responsibility of the Federal Gubs...National Security.


43 posted on 08/23/2008 2:46:26 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: Impy
“Disgusting, an Obama-Biden Ticket.”

The first thing that popped in my head. A Obama-bin-Biden ticket. Will make a great bumper sticker.
44 posted on 08/23/2008 2:57:19 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Oil is a natural, alternative energy source.)
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To: FreedomGuru

Obama bin Biden! HA!


45 posted on 08/23/2008 2:58:08 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we're still retarded.)
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To: FocusNexus
But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."

all biden has ever run is his mouth

46 posted on 08/23/2008 3:18:57 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: kingattax
all biden has ever run is his mouth

Not exactly true. You see, Joe Biden was caught plagurizing his speeches by lifting lines from other foreign leaders.......

47 posted on 08/23/2008 3:37:39 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: kingattax

A snotty, old, new england, ultra-liberal washington insider. Way to go for Change! Nice time winning Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, moron. Have fun with the young female vote. Two pompous jerks do not play well with the estrogen crowd.


48 posted on 08/23/2008 3:38:07 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: FocusNexus

At least mccain has better hair and teeth.


49 posted on 08/23/2008 3:56:44 AM PDT by GoMonster (GO)
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To: nathanbedford

Ping in re Biden Gaffes.


50 posted on 08/23/2008 3:58:54 AM PDT by Alia
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To: FocusNexus
Change We Can't Believe In

Here is what I've been posting over at DU.....

Obama's message is finally dead.

He flipped and voted for FISA

He flipped and voted against Iran

He flipped and spoke in favor of drilling

He flipped and supported the Second Amendment ruling

NOW, he picks a man who has been in the Senate longer than McCain, nullifying all the ads painting McCain as a "Washington Insider".

NOW, he picks a man who has said Obama is not ready, but that he would support McCain.

NOW, he picks a man who plagurized speeches, lifting lines from other foreign leaders.

NOW, he picks a man who is not Hillary, slapping every Clinton supporter right in the face.

I am done with this guy. He is a politician like all the others, no different, no change.

51 posted on 08/23/2008 4:03:05 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: FocusNexus
LOL, they released this at 3 in the morning???????

What a idiot. Not one of the major eastern newspapers got it on their front page, including the NYTimes.

52 posted on 08/23/2008 4:08:18 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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To: Gondring
It would be a ticket with no executive-branch experience, right?

Exactly.

After Mayor Newsom (San Francisco) appeared to be tilting "rightward" the powerbrokers of San Francisco Figured Massive "corrective" measures against Newsom: They contributed funds to have such notables as the "pot Smoking Dude", The Naked Man, and The chicken something, real individuals RUN against Newsom for Mayor; when in fact they were behind the GREEN PARTY candidate (SF County Republicans voted 80% for Newsom, and against the Green Party Candidate).

So unlike many here, whose valued opinions I've read, I'm of the mind that someone behind the scenes is trying to sink Obama's campaign with a Joe Biden for VP pick. But simultaneous to showing "respect" for the female vote.

53 posted on 08/23/2008 4:10:10 AM PDT by Alia
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To: FocusNexus
Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."

That statement is true for both men on the Democratic ticket.

But at least they are BOTH lawyers!!!.../s

54 posted on 08/23/2008 4:35:50 AM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: FocusNexus

“...he’s never run a city, he’s never run a state, he’s never run a business.”

That’s ok. He sure knows how to run his mouth!


55 posted on 08/23/2008 4:57:56 AM PDT by Catholic Iowan
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To: syriacus
BIDE NO BAMA
56 posted on 08/23/2008 5:41:04 AM PDT by syriacus (They often call me BARRY, but my real name is MISTER SCHMOOZE. [by B.O. + the Faddish Hacks])
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To: PhatHead

LOL! I love it.


57 posted on 08/23/2008 6:01:56 AM PDT by Pinta (lurker for years, but newbie poster)
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To: FocusNexus

Biden has always come across bad as far as I’m concerned. The man is a poser who tries to play macho man and he comes off as a fool. Considering the media footage in the last few days outside his home of him driving a big old truck, I’d like to see that be part of the discussion when global warming/gas prices comes up.


58 posted on 08/23/2008 6:26:13 AM PDT by bushfamfan (America's sunrise has turned into a sunset.)
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To: FocusNexus
". . . he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."

So, now the Democrats put forth candidates to run the Executive Branch of the United States government who, between them, have absolutely no executive experience.

Furthermore, these law-school trained candidates, both with only slight experience in the actual practice of law, come from the least representative branch of government, the Senate!

59 posted on 08/23/2008 6:50:47 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Sherman Logan
"Since he was speaking historically, this was actually accurate."

Maybe you do not know the history of this slave state comment. He was asked by an interviewer while running for President this year if he ran in the general election would he have a problem getting votes in the south. His reply was absolutely not and then to explain that Deleware was a slave state during the civil war.

He was practically bragging about it. I think this just goes to show his view of southerners. That they are all backwoods, hicks and hayseeds who wave the stars and bars every day with a gun in the back of their pickup truck driving around looking for a black man to lynch.
60 posted on 08/23/2008 7:29:08 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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