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12 Hot Button Thoughts On Joe Biden
(12.) Anyone scratching the surface of Joe Biden’s financial history will become acquainted with Delaware’s growth industry — usury in the form of credit card-bank-friendly state laws written for some of his biggest contributors.
(11.) Too much will be made in the coming weeks of Biden’s humble roots, but he can connect with blue collar Americans and help shore up Obama with Catholic and elderly voters.
(10.) His wife Jill’s first marriage, like millions of Americans, ended in divorce. Should that be fair game? I certainly hope not.
(9.) Jill Biden’s own story is affirming: She has taught school for 27 years and deals with real life every day.
(8.) Jill and Joe have only one kitchen table.
(7.) Biden has earned the admiration and respect of Republican foreign-policy powerhouses like Senators Lugar, Hagel and Warner. All have a common enemy: Dick Cheney.
(6.) The fall campaign will be a street brawl and, when Biden connects, you’ll know that you’ve been hit. He just needs to remember that he gets a smaller microphone than Barack Obama.
(5.) Biden has said some stupid and intemperate things over the years. There is no room for new stupid and intemperate things.
(4.) One of the more inane claims to emerge following the selection of Biden was that it demonstrated that Obama lacks confidence. How silly. These guys bristle with confidence.
(3.) Biden hedges Obama’s change bet. As weary as most voters are of Bush-Cheney, that doesn’t mean they embrace sweeping change, and his 36 years of experience is a huge asset.
(2.) Fuggedabout the initial wave of right wingnutterous applause over Biden being a weak choice. These clowns are quaking in their boots because they know that he is a force. And makes Obama look good.
(1.) As extraordinary as it may seem for a politician, what you see with Biden is what you get. The real deal. Nothing more and nothing less.
14 Responses to “12 Hot Button Thoughts On Joe Biden”
(5.) Biden has said some stupid and intemperate things over the years. There is no room for new stupid and intemperate things.
One would think that having a Decider in Chief going on for nigh 8 years this way we would have become inured.
What was that gripe of yours, Shaun, about expensive convention tickets and my remark about sky boxes?
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/best-poli…
(2.) Fuggedabout the initial wave of right wingnutterous applause over Biden being a weak choice. These clowns are quaking in their boots because they know that he is a force. And makes Obama look good.
Time to change the name of this site.
PWT,
How original of you!
Sorry for the lame comment but all of my original content has been banned. But let's flash forward to August 30th, the day following the announcemnt of McCain's VP: do you really expect to see this sort of post on this site:
Fuggedabout the initial wave of left-wing netroots glee over Romney being a weak choice. These salad-tossers are quaking in their loafers because they know that he is a force. And makes McCain look good.
[...] for Biden the man, the WaPo’s Cohen has this to say: [I]f anyone – including, of course, Barack Obama – thinks that [...]
PWT,
Well no, but then again your hypothetical quote is offensive and Shaun's quote is just run of the mill invective.
Its really only offensive if you would position yourself on the left side of the political spectrum isn't it?
Perhaps, you see my point now? Am I a 'wingnut' or am I just a person who has differing political views from those of Mr. Mullen? In the context of his post, I must be a wingnut because I agree with the rest of my ilk that Mr. Biden is indeed a VERY weak choice. Mr. Mullen has left no room for disagreement, so, it is impossible to consider his viewpoint as 'moderate' and thus, the name of the site should be changed.
PWT:
No one is calling you a wingnut unless you have a right-of-center blog or website and have written that Biden is manna from heaven for McCain. Then you fully qualify on naivete alone. And in any event need to get a grip.
McCain has an even more difficult balancing act with his veep choice. Is it going to be another old white guy from a party that has worked hard to become a bunch of old white guys? Will it be a woman? Only if it is a woman who knows her place is at her husband's feet, because we know what the Republican Party thinks of women who can think on their own. Will it be a pro-lifer? Only if McCain wants to lose the race in September and not wait until November.
Who, by the way, do you think he should choose and why?
Carly Fiorina. She has a compelling biography and the executive experience necessary to take over on day one that should be expected of a vice-presidential nominee. Furthur, with her background (business/finance), she has the chops to address any concerns about McCain's grasp of economic issues.
I expect to be disappointed, by the way.
“Carly Fiorina .. her background (business/finance)”
She oversaw the Compaq merger, loss of market share, loss of many jobs.
That, and her current organization's dedication to “global economic development and grassroots individual empowerment” also sounds nice to GOP ears, but it's not enough to impress most Americans, particularly the fraction (far from all, despite the gloomy claims) that is in poor shape today and would welcome old-fashioned Democratic heavy federal government interventionism.
Um, did Ms. Fiorina leave Hewlett-Packard in better shape than she found it? My husband, a computer engineer (and a Republican) is profoundly disappointed in the job she did there.
Also, I hate to say it but I think her Viagra/birth control comments made her radioactive to the “extra-chromosome” wing of the GOP.
PWT:
Thank you for your response. I kinda like Fiorina, but she is DOA. The Republican Party remains in the thrall of right-wingers who view women as being only slightly above farm animals. Fiorina is outspokenly feminist in many of her views. She is, quite simply, the demon spawn in a skirt to McCain's base.
Please remember, PWT, that Shaun does not equal this blog. Probably all readers have authors on this site they like, authors that bore them, and perhaps one or two they actively dislike.
If McCain were to choose a moderate Republican as VP, I would actually be surprised if no co-bloggers here praised the decision. I'd be surprised if Romney got this nod, because he received little support even in the primary campaign, but Pawlenty and a few others are supported by some here.