Posted on 08/25/2008 8:59:30 AM PDT by theothercheek
With Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) running mate, you have a two-senator ticket - all talk, no executive action; no “favorite son” advantage in a key swing state with a huge chunk of votes in the electoral college, and a man whom voters resoundingly rejected when he was running for the top spot against Obama.
So what does Biden do for Obama? Many Dems and Repubs, political operatives, and Senators who have served with both men were remarkably similar in their verdicts: Obama is clearly unqualified for the presidency, and Biden will help him close the deal with leery voters. Obama cannot compete against John McCain’s (R-AZ) experience – and voters are just not buying his claim that has the judgment to be the leader of the free world without having put in his time – so he had to get his own McCain.. A sampling of the reax ...
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No. None of them, startig with President (”We are not at war with Islam”) Bush. That’s why it scares the bejeezus out of me to have to foreign policy dummies in a row occupying the White House.
Great that Biden is the pick as Obama said he would not take PAC and Lobbyist money ....
Watch this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8eJT9oEHI&feature=related
Yup.
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