I'll take Biden anyday

In my last post I stated my desire for Obama to select Wesley Clark as his running mate. That was not to be. I was at first unsure about Biden. Part of me is still unsure if he will put the ticket over the top, but I am not shedding any tears about Clark being left out. Biden is certainly more charismatic.

One thing that has been in the news over and over is how so many Hillary supporters are ticked off that he did not pick Hillary. Even to the point where many said they would vote for McCain instead of Obama. That is ridiculous. If you would vote for a Republican just because your democrat was not chosen, then you are obviously out of touch with the issues and are participating in the process for the wrong reasons.

In addition, Hillary did absolutely nothing to make it seem as though she wanted the VP job or to convince her supporters to back Obama. It was just like the primaries where she seemed to think it was a given and made no effort to seal the deal. As though Obama would say, 'I can't win without Hillary', and pick her by default.

While I usually cannot stand listening to her, I was very impressed with her speech at the convention. I can see that the role call vote was just an opportunity for her to get some good press during the convention. I am fine with that. I have to wonder if she would have been the VP choice if she had been giving speeches like her convention speech ever since she dropped out. She just dropped off the planet for 2 months without saying a single word of support for Obama and people are surprised she is not the VP choice?

Now on the Republican side all I can say is they continue to give me reasons I am glad I am a Democrat. Pailn? Seriously? Obama's 8 years in the state Senate and 4 years in the US Senate is not enough experience to be President, but a few years as mayor of town of 6700 in Alaska and 2 years as Governor of Alaska is? If there is logic there, then I do not know what it is.

It is painfully obvious that McCain was trying to pull in the female voters that were so infatuated with Hillary. But is this woman the best he could find? And perhaps a background check would have been in order. This has all the makings of a typical Bush Whitehouse personnel decision. Hire some unqualified buddy to fill and important position and then accuse everyone else of being crazy for questioning it. Oh yeah. McCain is all about change.

Obama/Biden 2008