August 23, 2008
Biden?
Pretty funny, really. The guy who has never DONE anything, just talked talked talked talked............picks a running-mate who has...........yes, exactly.
And also he picks the closest thing the Dems have to a "neo-con" hawk. Someone who voted for the Iraq Campaign! Well, I told you that it doesn't matter who's president, George W Bush has set the template of the Global War on Terror, much like Truman did for the Cold War, and that's the way we will proceed from here on out....
Mostly I think this is just so revealing of the empty souls of the "Left." To accomplish anything one must, at least in some obscure way, believe in something. For a person to possess the awesome power available to a member of the United States Senate, and to do nothing of note with it—that's just stupefying!
It says as clear as day that you have nothing inside. You are hollowed out.
And if a large segment of society thinks these hollow men are fit to be President and Vice-President........what does that say about them?
You read it here first...
Posted by John Weidner at August 23, 2008 10:12 AMActually, I think the Democrats deliberately chose Sen. Biden for his hawkish credentials, such as they are... to provide 'balance' to the ticket. I don't fault them for this, any more than I would fault Sen. McCain for choosing a Republican-style hawk as HIS running mate.
It's unfortunate -- for the Democrats, that is -- that they picked such a self-centered narcissist. THAT is a characteristic of Sen. Obama that could really use some 'balance'. But instead of countering it, they are reinforcing it.
What they should have done instead, in my humble opinion, is to choose an 'elder statesman' type, one who could be seen as seasoning the inexperienced candidate. A Democrat Dick Cheney, in other words. Perhaps that's how they see Biden. (I don't think that's how average Americans see him, though.)
I have to wonder -- if they wanted someone who voted for the Iraq War, why Biden and not Lieberman? Now THAT is a ticket I'd almost be tempted to vote for.
But of course, they don't want someone for his support of the war; they want someone with the CREDENTIALS of having once supported the war. In short, they don't want balance; they want the appearance of balance.
It's going to be an interesting campaign.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
