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Biden

August 19th, 2008
By ROBERT STEIN

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If Barack Obama was not already inclined toward him as a running mate, John McCain and Vladimir Putin in the past week should have helped make up his mind to choose Joe Biden.

His trip to Georgia as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee underscored his credentials to complement Obama’s idealism with the experience and know-how to navigate through a world of treacherous policy decisions.

“We must help Georgia rebuild what has been destroyed,” Obama said today in a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. “That is why I’m proud to join my friend, Senator Joe Biden, in calling for an additional $1 billion in reconstruction assistance for the people of Georgia.”

In the bitter campaign ahead, Republicans would have a harder time persuading voters of their candidate’s superiority on national security against a ticket anchored by Biden’s five-year record of attempting to resolve the political knots in Iraq rather than pushing on with McCain’s mindless flag-waving about victory that is still costing American lives and billions of dollars.

The surest way now for Obama to answer attacks on his good judgment and doubts about his political maturity is to announce his choice of Joe Biden and get on with ending the Bush-McCain era in November.

Cross-posted from my blog.



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    The surest way now for Obama to answer attacks on his good judgment and doubts about his political maturity is to announce his choice of Joe Biden and get on with ending the Bush-McCain era in November.

    Picking Biden does the exact opposite. Obama and Biden picked opposite sides on Iraq. So if he picks Biden, Obama needs him to admit he made a grave mistake on the invasion. Otherwise Obama will be tacitly turning his back on what has so far been a much smarter vision for our foreign policy.
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    Biden turned him down.

    Like I said, democrats "in the know" know a sinking ship when they see one. Who wants to jump on board when it's a certain career-wrecker?

    Answer: nobody.

    Obama may have to grab an intern on the way into the Convention and wave them around as his VP choice. He's got to be getting a little nervous by now..
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    Biden turned nobody down. Everybody's going crazy over his "I'm not the guy" comment, which he later said meant nothing.

    Biden's Iraq vote is not too problematic because he's been such a critic of Bush for so long.

    He's a great attack dog. He has tons of foreign policy experience (and a son soon to be deployed to Iraq). And he has appeal to blue collar voters (despite his credit card vote).

    The downside is that he talks too much and he had that plagiarism issue 20 years ago.

    Overall, I think he's a great pick.
 
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