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IBD Editorials ^ | August 25, 2008

Posted on 08/25/2008 5:25:40 PM PDT by Kaslin

Election '08: Barack Obama picks a loose-lipped running mate who voted for the Iraq War and questioned his readiness. Obama says he wants a veep who'll challenge him. Instead, he got one who'll need to tutor him.


It will be quite possibly the most verbose ticket in political history now that Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has accepted a vice presidential nomination he earlier said he wouldn't accept from Barack Obama, who Biden once described as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Obama, the outsider candidate of change and hope has picked one of the few people who has been in Washington longer than John McCain. This is hardly the "change" Obama promised.

Biden, 65, was first elected to represent Delaware in 1972. Obama was 11. John McCain was dwelling in one of his many homes, the Hanoi Hilton.

Biden was picked to provide Obama foreign policy expertise and Biden, for one, thinks Obama needs it. He's said so.

Of Obama's pledge to invade Pakistan if necessary to fight terror, Biden said, "It's a very naive way of thinking how you're going to conduct foreign policy." He added: "Having talking points on foreign policy doesn't get you there."

Biden is not a man of few words and occasionally feels the need to borrow some. In 1987, Biden was a credible presidential candidate until the moment he lifted passages from a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; ibd; obama

1 posted on 08/25/2008 5:25:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Obama has single-handedly solved the energy crisis without knowing it. Simply put a windmill in front of Biden’s mouth, wire it to the country’s grid and, voila!, no more energy shortage!


2 posted on 08/25/2008 5:28:46 PM PDT by paul in cape
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To: paul in cape

But keep it away from Michelle, they just discovered windmills give bats the bends.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067970/posts


3 posted on 08/25/2008 5:34:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Kaslin

Adding Biden to the ticket doesn’t in any way make up for Bambi’s lack of experience, because Bambi still lacks experience. Biden has it, but it doesn’t do squat for Bambi’s lack of it, except to prove how little the twit has.


4 posted on 08/25/2008 5:39:24 PM PDT by Stayfree (***************************************IF IT IS LEFT, IT CAN'T BE RIGHT!!)
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To: Kaslin


The sad thing is that if they win, it won't be a sitcom......
5 posted on 08/25/2008 5:42:16 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: Stayfree

Biden isn’t even in the top ten dimmest bulbs in the U.S. Senate. But he is probably in the top 20. This makes him a perfect tutor for Obama.


6 posted on 08/25/2008 5:43:40 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Stayfree

The empty suit believes that the Presidency is a on the job training and he wants Biden to train him


7 posted on 08/25/2008 5:45:57 PM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: paul in cape
Great reply, I love it.

Bwahahahahaha

8 posted on 08/25/2008 5:47:37 PM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: Kaslin
The article's closing paragraph:

Barack Obama is not ready for prime time and electing him president may be the biggest mistake of all. But that's not us speaking — it's Obama's running mate, Joe Biden.

9 posted on 08/25/2008 6:19:50 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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