Why Biden Is a Lousy Choice
A McCain Republican is relieved it wasn't Hillary.
Well, my greatest fears were not realized: Hillary Clinton was not named vice presidential nominee by Barack Obama.
Instead, he chose the 35-year senator, Joe Biden, the ultimate insider. Like his grandmother and his church, the “change” meme was just thrown under the bus!
Not only did he not choose Hillary (as well as her 18 million voters and proven ability to get all those white, middle class votes in the states that will decide the election), Obama didn’t even vet her. What kind of decision-making ability, or lack thereof, does that show? If he loses one-fifth of Hillary’s voters, which the polls indicate is possible, that’s almost 4 million votes. Did he think Joe Biden was going to shore up all those votes?
Plus, the choice of the 65-year old Delaware senator takes away the issue that sticks to McCain the most: his age!
Biden will, considering his predilection for serious, embarrassing gaffes, hurt the ticket. Don’t be surprised if the Obama campaign keeps him out of sight at the first sign of his serial “gaffe-itis”. Being gaffe-prone is less a quirky trait with Biden, than it is a measure of his lack of intellectual discipline.
Have you seen the liberal pundits, like Eleanor Clift and Jonathon Alter, on outlets like MSNBC? They don’t look or sound happy. You can see that they sense that it all may snowball down for their man.
The choice of Biden is uninspiring. Moreover, the simple ads that the McCain campaign rolled out quickly (showing Biden saying that he thinks Obama’s NOT ready for the presidency), are devastatingly effective.
Evan Bayh would have been a terrific choice. He and Obama “felt” good together; they are both energetic and good-looking. Bayh was a bridge to Clinton voters (he avidly backed her campaign). He was highly qualified in his accomplishments, executive experience, and foreign policy chops.
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1. Cletus:I will laugh so very hard when Obama loses (and he will lose).
Aug 25, 2008 - 1:20 am 2. Lee:Biden is an idiot, with an idiot’s outlook. In all of his “service” to the nation, he has yet to back our military, even when we weren’t involved in a war. He has consistently voted against new weapons, better equipment, new vehicles, and tried his best to kill all aspects of Kevlar and armour for humvees. I should think that a good third of our dead can be laid at his door due to his desire for us to fail in every endeavor. He has whined consistently about our space research, our research in the medical field, and all improvements in education on all levels. If our kids still went to school in one-room school houses, he would be deliriously happy. Especially, if the money thereof found its way into his pocket.
He is one of the traitors in Congress, and should be eliminated.
Aug 25, 2008 - 2:00 am 3. Al from NJ:The reason many Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama is because they are embarrassed of him, his life, his unfair tactics and his beliefs. And they still don’t know all about him.
1. They don’t want a candidate that has been in a twenty year relationship with Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.
2. They don’t’ want a candidate that has a twenty year relationship with Father Pflaeger and refers to him as his compass in life
3. They don’t want a candidate that went to a church that supports Louis Farrakhan, an anti Semitic racist, that has led a rally of 20,000 Nation of Islam members to support Obama in Chicago
4. They don’t want to defend Black Liberation theology.
5. They don’t want a candidate that lies about his relationship with Tony Rezko, the Syrian Criminal that sold his property to Obama and supported his campaign.
6. They don’t want a candidate that could work with a domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
7. They don’t want a candidate that Hamas supports.
8. They don’t want a candidate that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam support
9. They don’t want a candidate that has a wife that has just now realized she was proud of our country.
10. They don’t want a candidate that denies Florida and Michigan their voices
11. They don’t want a candidate that mentions 57 states in his speeches. 50 states in the USA and 57 states in the Nation of Islam (IOC website)
12. They don’t want a candidate that fights unfair and hyjacks Michigan delegate votes from his opponent.
13. They don’t want a candidate that is inexperienced, especially dealing with military issues.
14. They don’t want a candidate that considers it a loss to not to be able to attend his anti American, racist Church.
15. They don’t want a candidate that has a “non practicing” Muslim father, but avoids the entire discussion of his father.
16. They don’t’ want a candidate that won’t debate
17. They don’t’ want a candidate that misleads the youth with an ‘Obama girl and her behind in their face”
18. They don’t want a candidate that says he’s an African American and missed the MLK Remembrance Day and the Louisiana Black Caucus meeting
19. They don’t want a candidate that enjoys laughing at sexism.
20. They don’t want a candidate that switches his position on gun control, FISA, the war in Iraq and abortion issues.
21. They don’t want a candidate that showcases his daughters on TV shows.
22. They don’t’ want a candidate that has poor judgment..
23. They don’t’ want a candidate named; Barack Hussein Obama
24. He is embarrassing.
25. He scares them to death.
Aug 25, 2008 - 3:24 am 4. Dodgeblogium » 25 reasons against Obama for Clinton fans…:[...] Al from NJ on [...]
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:32 am 5. TomP:Oboma made a great choice. Sen. Foghorn Leghorn is going to be fun to watch. I guess being referred to as an ‘articulate black’ really impressed Barrack.
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:35 am 6. Tom:Now if John McCain picks Carly Fiorina as VP, we can just take a vacation til Nov.
Thanks Rachel…
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:44 am 7. mickey lane:BO doen’t know who he is and Biden is a three
Aug 25, 2008 - 6:59 am 8. rocketeer:time presidential wanna-be presidential loser. This doesn’t bode well for our democratic party; but then again we deserve to lose. Al from NJ stated all/almost reasons why BO is the wrong candidate for us. This is one LIBERAL DEMOCRAT who will NOT vote democratic this time!
Al from NJ – Wow, that’s quite a list. I’m going to print it and put it on my desk for future reference.
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:04 am 9. LukeSsyfg:You people are just so wrong!
When Barack won the nomination that was sooo cool! I decided to vote for him two or three times!
Now he picked Joe Biden and that’s just so totally awesome! I think I’ll vote ten or twelve times, or maybe even a dozen!!!
I don’t know what to think about you people, you’re just so totally not helping.
LukeS
ps: i hope you loose
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:38 am 10. SEW:LukeS, are you from Philly or Chicago?
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:45 am 11. LukeSsyfg:You just don’t talk to me. I don’t go out with republicans anyway.
Aug 25, 2008 - 8:46 am 12. glc:McCain’s got to win.
I think Biden is a lightweight. Good. McCain and his VP choice will chew Bide up and spit him out.
I do not believe Obama will win.
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:18 am 13. Dave II:I think LukeSsyfg must be from a “caucus” state!
Anyway, I think Obama’s “liberal-leftist” views just got the best of him with Biden. He just could not help himself when it came to picking the worst possible VP choice to hope to win. It was a mental “brain-cramp” that clouded his judgement and forced his decision to the obvious “default” mode.
A boneheaded “NO-change” pick with the #3 Senate liberal from a northeastern state not even in play, gaffe-prone at that, and a dinosaur of the Senate with a record to pick apart that is HIGHLY detrimental to America’s middle-class, is about as stupid a decision as there is…and on top of that…didn’t anybody tell him about the joke of the YEAR for this ticket??? “OBAMA BIN BIDEN”??? Duh….
As such, it is a PRIME EXAMPLE of what we can expect to see of Obambi’s decision making ability as a the CIC and POTUS. Frightening to say the least and panic-inducing at the most, if he was ever to reach the highest office in the land.
But he won’t! This decision PROVES he is totally unqualified and the most ill-prepared major party candidate in the last 100 years to be nominated.
The DEFEAT is sealed with this pick! America now KNOWS what a complete doofus Obambi is when he actually has to make a decision…
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:22 am 14. Kevin:Want to know how this election will turn out? Look at CT in ‘06 at the Lieberman/Lamont race. Lamont won the Dem nomination for Senate by pandering to the extreme Left. When he realized he couldn’t win without the middle, he tried to shift his positions there. Lieberman has always been moderate Left and he ended up winning by huge margins. The GOP candidate was a joke.
The Obama phenom is going to deflate because he has virtually zero experience, picked a poor VP and can’t win by only pandering to the extreme Left. He tries to move to the middle but gets hammered as people see the shallowness of his efforts.
Replay of Lieberman and Lamont. The voters will pick the candidate that is closer to center with experience.
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:36 am 15. always right:McCain’s election to lose.
Frankly I have no confidence in McCain’s ability not to piss off a goodly chunk of the conservative votes yet.
Depends on his calculation: would he rather gain the centrists’ votes or the conservatives’ votes?
Aug 25, 2008 - 11:16 am 16. Rachel Peepers:I think the choice of Biden is a slap in the face of women everywhere.
To begin with, he’s sexist which, to me, is highly offensive. Biden: “My wife is gorgeous, but her PhD is a problem”.
He’s homophobic. Biden:”I wouldn’t make gay marriage legal if my election depended on it”
And he’s honesty challenged. Biden: “Under no circumstances will I be somebody’s Vice Presidential apointee”, (July 6, 2008).
Barack, on the other hand, wants gay marriage, thinks African American women are the only real deservers of Reparations. And is the worst judge of people in the history of Presidential Politics. “That Reverend Wright is not the man I knew.” That Father Fletcher is not the man I knew.” “That John Rezko is not the close friend I had.”That Bill Ayers is not the man that used to come over to my home.”
“That Lou Farrakhan is not the man I knew.”
“That surge, the one that’s working in Iraq, is not the surge that I denounced”
Really, that’s sad. Barack seems to have the judgment of a child who puts his hand up to a dog’s nose to be sniffed, then is bitten. Then pulls its tail. And his gaffes are starting to embarass people. Like in Springfield Saturday, introducing Biden as the next President. As I observe Barack’s behavior, he seems to be becoming unclued. (not a typo, a new word I made up).
Just my opinion, but anybody who has the lack of judgment where they’re seriously considering voting for Barack I believe has a “Death Wish” for this country.
To me, it’s ludicrous and dangerous to the extreme.
Sort of like putting your five year old daughter to bed at night, slipping a sewer rat under her pillow. Then kissing her goodnight and locking the door.
The Repulican bumper stickers say, NoBama.
Rachel says, NoBama, a thousand times no.
Aug 25, 2008 - 11:37 am 17. Michigan George:Barry is toast. His pick of Biden for VP is a true gift to McCain…a gift that will keep on giving as the race continues to unfold. It continues to amaze me that so many libs can be so blind…this guy is truly an “Empty Suit”…he has ZERO qualifications to be running for President…he shouldn’t even be a Senator. Watch for the wheels to really come off the band wagon when the Ayers connection comes out…Barry is a stealth commie..about to be fully exposed.
Aug 25, 2008 - 11:48 am 18. Dave B:Hey Rachel Peepers,
I don’t think BO is becoming “unclued”. I think you are now getting enough clues to BO’s history, questionable associations, bad judgement and Misogynist behavior, that you are no longer clueless.
Vote McCain ‘08, He sucks least!
Aug 25, 2008 - 12:17 pm 19. OLDPUPPYMAX:I have to wonder why the Obamessiah chose Biden? He frankly does nothing for the ticket, except perhaps harm. His “experience” is both phoney and purely inside the beltway. He is far from a Chaney sort of adult, having none of the life success. Biden can lay claim to little more than denigrating on camera people much smarter than himself. Why is he the choice? And assuming Obama is a cardboard cutout frontman for some sort of big-power, big-money Soros type consortium, why in the hell would they pick an empty head to back up an empty suit?
Aug 25, 2008 - 12:36 pm 20. lee:“Vote McCain ‘08, He sucks least!”
That’s actullay a good way to put it.
Honestly, Barrack Obama is such a polarizing figure that a good amount of Americans disillusioned with Bush and the GOP will still vote for Mccain. Americans have a disdain for the Al Sharpton crowd that transcends party lines.
I just don’t understand why the Dems insist on rolling out candidates who continue to offer the GOP fodder. The swift boat allegations damaged Kerry’s campaign, and Obama’s affiliation with questionable figures are chipping away at his momentum.
With Bush’s approval rating swimming in the 30% range and Mccain fully supporting such an unpopular war, it’s incredible that Obama hasn’t ran away with it.
Who is Joe Biden? I didn’t know who he was until I read about him. Hillary Clinton is as visible in American politics as her husband. A major missed opportunity.
Aug 25, 2008 - 3:17 pm 21. Believer:I’m learning more about Joe all the time.
I’ve known BO is the #1 liberal in the Senate. But I just heard Joe is the #3!
Though they sure looked odd together the other day, I had no idea their liberal voting records (95% and 94%) put so little distance between them.
And have you also learned that about 60% of Americans have historically called themselves Strong Conservative and Conservative?
They’re both out of the mainstream. America just has to be informed of it.
Aug 25, 2008 - 4:39 pm 22. Chaz:I can tell you why Obama Hasn’t run away with it yet even with Bush’s Dismal numbers
Aug 25, 2008 - 4:45 pm 23. JBiden:1) Bush Sucks (30%) but congress is worse (17%)
2) At least Bush wants to drill. Can’t get the time of day from Pelosi.
3) McCain wants to drill
4) Obama’s spinning like a top
5) PUMAs
6) Biden
OBAMA BIN BIDEN
Iraq – Barack
Saddam – Hussein
Osama – Obama
Bin Laden – Biden
I have administered the ‘billion monkeys on typewriters’ test to the above correlations and have eliminated random chance as the driving factor. That leads me to the following hypothesis:
The Democrats Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) has caused them to support his arch-nemesis. Since they can’t consciously acknowledge Saddam or Osama Bin Laden as the carrier of their flag, their collective subconscious has arranged the closest possible fit in American politics today.
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:10 pm 24. Concerned Citizen:Rachel, I’m still LOL…
Obama lost the election the second he passed over Hillary and announced Joe B.
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:49 pm 25. BC:Biden never cheated on then divorced his wife like McCain did. Biden never associated and helped crooks the way McCain did with Charles Keating (McCain was one of the “Keating Five” lest you forget.) By all accounts Biden is a nice, chatty, modest guy who commutes to his home in Delaware by train every day (although the Secret Service is likely not going to tolerate any more of this), whereas McCain is known for his foul mouthed temper tantrums, and God knows where he commutes to because he apparently doesn’t remember where he lives. Since 1991 Biden taught a seminar on constitutional law at the Widener University School of Law as an adjunct professor, whereas McCain still can’t grasp that all of the excuses and “evidence” Bush gave for invading Iraq have turned out to deliberate and bogus nonsense.
So with the Democrats you already have two much better guys than McCain, and McCain doesn’t exactly have many good pickings to choose from for his VP.
Aug 26, 2008 - 6:25 am 26. T:“By all accounts Biden is a . . . modest guy. . .”
Modest guys do not attempt to wear their IQ on their shirtsleeve. To paraphrase Mark Twain: Better to be thought a fool than to send an e-comment and remove all doubt!
Aug 26, 2008 - 10:23 am 27. Thom:BC, would you please offer some proof of McCain’s temper? I hear the left call it out, but I haven’t seen anything that backs up that claim. And don’t bother pointing out stuff over five years old, okay? As a person who is overcoming anger issues, I know a person can change quite a bit in just a few years. Give me something recent.
Aug 26, 2008 - 1:16 pm 28. Anonymous:To Thom:
It isn’t exactly “the left” who have been the only ones to “call it out”:
Aug 26, 2008 - 3:20 pm 29. BC:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976739/posts
To Thom:
It isn’t exactly “the left” who have been the only ones to “call it out”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976739/posts
To “T”:
Aug 26, 2008 - 3:40 pm 30. Ed Wallis:I suggest that if you’re going to yank quotes off the Internet, you try to get one that’s actually relevant. That “IQ” comment came from a moment back in 1987 when Biden lost his temper with some questioning of his law school grades. I don’t think this is quite as bad as screaming “F*ck You!” and calling someone an “A**hole” as McCain has done when he loses his temper.
Deval Patrick/Neil Kinnock ‘08!
Oh, these frauds….
Aug 26, 2008 - 3:54 pm