Over the weekend, Obama announced that he had chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. Biden is an experienced, six term senator from Delaware, currently serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. You’d think that’d be a good thing, right?
No, apparently in politics it underscores the fact that Obama isn’t ready to be president. Why else would he have chosen somebody who had so much more experience than him? Oh, it also shows that Obama can’t deal with other countries. That’s why he needed somebody with Biden’s experience in foreign relations. Mmmhmm. That’s how it works.
Obama’s selection couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that he believed Biden might be the right person for the job. No, of course not. Realistically, he probably could have picked somebody who would deliver more votes (ala Edwards). Instead, it looks like he focused on choosing somebody that deserved to be vice-president (that should not be taken as a shot against Edwards).
This is why politics is stupid. Rather than focusing on who Biden is and what he brings to the table, everybody’s analyzing the choice and coming to dumbass conclusions. What a waste.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
You have always been a big Joe Biden fan, right? I thought that when his name got back in the news, but I couldn’t remember.
Oh, and I think Edwards political career is over for the near future, with the adultery and lies and all… That would have been a hard sell. I like the Biden pick very much.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Yeah, from everything I’ve ever seen, I really like Biden. I’m definitely happy with the pick.
You definitely make a good point about Edwards, too. I wasn’t even thinking about that. Maybe he would have helped bring in the adulterer votes.