The point is substance. MzBill is famously pork-ignorant of economics, Barack a Marxian Statist even if one grants him good intentions. (Given his murky history and exclusively radical connections, we do not.)
Regardless of gender or race, “identity,” does anyone pretend that either would discover force and wisdom to defend or even constructively govern the U.S.?

Our most “experienced” Chief Executive was James Buchanan. Lincoln, his immediate successor, as a circuit-riding lawyer had virtually none. So character and conviction both are key: The right kind of character, well-founded Constitutional convictions.
Only blind partisans attribute leadership to MzBill or BHO, political trimmers to the core. By sheer default, if not active sabotage, either would happily trash the First Amendment, collectivize free markets, expose America to assault by vicious enemies.

Past Election 2008, the Boomer Generation begins to fall away. By 2012 – 2016, this spoiled-brat cohort will be a spent force. Can’t occur too soon.

The guy who was so sure that Obama was so “smart and shrewd” to choose Sam Nunn as his VP. Meanwhile, Obama chose Biden and did not even vet Nunn.

Biden is Obama’s James Stockdale.

“And if you can’t, tough luck. Poor clueless Joe, he’s so proud of Pappy’s alleged wisdom.”

Ron said that, NOT bin Biden.

Ron, you are totally clueless about the meaning of that old saw.
To keep it simple, so simple minds understand. It’s about not quiting. Trying again. AND again if that is what it takes. Getting help is PART of trying again. So your statement just demonstrates that you are the clueless one.
Maybe this will help;

” Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 – 1933)

“Anti-New Deal rugged individualism with contempt for those who need help. It basically says in times of misfortune you’re on your own.”
NO IT DOES NOT!!!! You are reading this in because you don’t understand what is happening here. Getting help to try again IS STILL TRYING AGAIN.
And the real lesson is as long as you walk with god, you are NEVER alone.
I am an atheist and I understand that point, even if I think it’s BS.
Methinks you are projecting.

Ironically this statement flunks Martin Luther King’s dream.

Or are we to think that the measure of the man is the color of his skin rather than the content of his character?

I will not vote for Barack because his slickly packaged message of change is hollow, and his formative political upbringing involves leftists, terrorists, America haters, and those that would rather see the country torn along racial lines rather than find real solutions.

The sad state of the American two party system is that we are more often than not forced to choose the lesser of two evils, and this time around that is McCain. Though there is cause for hope in that even if Obama is elected, it is unlikely he can completely tear asunder the fabric of the nation in four to eight years.

What is being “black”? Does it make you better, smarter, a criminal, worthy of being praised or damned? None of the above. Each individual must be judged on who they are, what they say and how they act. There is no such thing as “black values”. Ethnic Americans…are all Hispanics the same? Norwegian-Americans? What values do all Asian-Americans share?

For that matter, do all women agree on all issues? Nope.

Sex, race, family origins…there are no intrinsic “values” inherent in any group, and that is why identity politics is such a wrong way to look at the world, and a horrible way to pick politicians.

Vote for the individual.

I can’t vote for Obama because I think he is a Marxist and a supporter of bad people, and I believe that if he has the opportunity, he will bring down this country. I don’t care about his skin color, his place-of-birth, his parents. I care about what he has done with his life (associated with a lot of hateful and hate-filled people), he appears to me to be another corrupt Chicago politician, I believe he is a pathologic liar.

And that’s all I really need to know.

They left yet? 16 days and counting

Nice job, Ron.

This time you did it, unintentionally, of course. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that you did what no one else, not even Misanthro who posts in Pajamas Media has been able to do.

You put me, Rachel Peepers, into a (you pick the adjective), muddled, bewildered, perplexed, distressed, vexed, betwixed and bemused mental state.

SIDEBAR (forgive the caps, I hate them, too)

(In fact, I just returned from WalMart where I found the Rasberry Diet Rite in stock so I was feeling like a prom queen whose thirst had just been slaked by those heavenly though tiny, raspberry colored, baby sized bubbles tickling my throat, like a…oh, never mind. It was just an overall nice feeling).

So I get home, open a soda and run like a breathless school girl to my fav website, Pajamas Media, where I find (he’s such a good writer I say his name twice) Ron Ron Rosenbaum’s article, which upsets me to the point that I start feeling like a girl on a fuzzy tree. (footnote to “All Shook up” sung, of course, by Elvis and written by who I think is the greatest rock song writer of all time, Otis Blackwell, who, incidentally deserves a movie about his life I might add.) Whewwww. I’m out of breath.

Anyway, (transitional phrases are writers’ life support system), anyway my friend, Ron, puts me into the almost untenable position of feeling I have to defend, Presidential, OOOPS, MISTAKE, Vice Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, who’s one half of the ticket I’ve named, “The BJ Boys.” Is that too insensitive?

I ramble.

So, yesterday, in Springfield, Barack totally makes a mess of introducing Biden.

Then Biden ( was he befuddled, too?) forgets Barack’s last name and calls him, “Barack America.” Am I the only one reporting on these too-funny gaffes? The only thing worse would have been if Joe had called Obama, “Captain America.”

Then Joe begins his speech, the Biden money shot, the one he’s been waiting to give for decades; that he can say backwards and forwards.

For bloviater king Joe, the time is now. The cosmic Biden tumblers have all clicked into place. He’s been nominated.

Biden knows he’ll hit this speech out of the park. It’s the bootstraps speech. The “I remember my father saying to me” speech.

Ron Rosenbaum, this speech wasn’t going to be about strategy; wasn’t about Obama’s Democratic party philosophy. It was about Joe Biden. Thirty six years in the making. It came from his heart, not some talking point paper.

Sure, I’ve hammered Joe a little these last 24 hours, but he’s a big boy. He can take it.

It’s just that I get to a partisan point, and I try to rein myself in and try to understand that these politicians are still human beings. Americans who in many cases have done the best they can. Who bleed real blood. And feel real feelings. And maybe deserve a little more slack than most of us are willing to give them.

It was hot, 90 degrees in Springfield, and Joe Biden’s time in the sun. He’s given his country enough of himself that we can at least give him this, a little benefit of the doubt.

This 65 year old American Senator was speaking from deep inside. Unlike his running mate who’ll run it up the flag pole to see if anybody salutes, I believe that Senator Joesph Biden meant every word.

What I’m trying to say is this: there comes a time and place when it’s time to give someone his due. As I said, a little slack. Do I feel bad about how I’ve ridiculed Joe in the last 24 hours. Yes. Of course, maybe a little, but I do it because I feel far worse about the possibility of Obama, who I believe is a liar’s liar, definitely unfit for command, being elected President. Which is why every night in Rachel’s own way, she tries to hammer away at Obama’s credibility and his integrity.

But, please, look at it for a moment, if you will, from this perspective.

If Obama is elected, Rosenbaum’s “clueless Joe” just may be the only thing standing between the insane HateAmericanism of Obama and his henchmen.

And sanity.

Not to mention the safety of our children, our moms and dads, friends and family.

Heaven knows, I don’t admire Obama. I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him.

But in many ways I admire Joe Biden. If Obama had to pick somebody, I’m glad it was he.