Overnight Developments
The text message went out at 3:08 am according to my phone, three hours after the news broke on CNN. Some newscasters on CNN and MSNBC stated it somehow means Obama broke his word to text us first with the news. So let me get this straight: they criticized him for their own reporting. Obama did not break his word, those anonymous sources who gave John King the news did.
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America is going to love Jill Biden; mother, English Teacher, campaigner.
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Big day for Delaware and the Bidens.
That said, when Barack Obama had to make a difficult choice between change (Sebelius, Kaine) and experience (Clinton, Biden, Bayh), he chose experience.
So should the voters in November.
Today is a big and dynamic day for Delaware, one that brings hope to all Delawareans regardless of the political leanings.
Come November 5th, the political landscape of the Diamond State will be permanently changed. Over the next few months, Christinee O’Donnell will be dreaming that her campaign could to to Biden what Biden did to Senator Caleb Boggs in 1972. I think it highly unlikely, but let’s let the candidate dream shall we.
The governor’s race will take a decidedly morbid turn today as the Democratic Primary loser could actually become the biggest winner with an appointment as the next US Senator from Delaware in the 111th Congress.
Republicans will say I am counting the proverbial chickens before the eggs hatch, but Obama’s campaign has shown over its history a remarkable hand in manipulating the MSM. This last week of VP speculation is a case in point. This is not Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore or Kerry. This is Obama.
LOL. The voters have a choice: A third Bush term, or a move into the right direction after 8 long years of incompetence, lies, and failure.
Dave, you and McCain are defenders and embracers of Bush, and you will be tainted with his mistakes for the rest of your lives.
me sssscared of alll dem teeth!
Looks like a Jimmy Carter convention.
Thank you, God, for giving conservatives this exquisite gift. The next few months shall pass like an extended 70-day orgasm. Hands free and full of blue gaffes.
Clean as a whistle and sharp as a tack…..oooohhhhh, there’s the first one!
I’ll have to nap before the next wave.
DD — I hate to tell you this, but Bush is leaving office. I know it is crushing to you lazy Dems who have used Bush as a crutch in every argument instead of actually having to DO anything.
The idea of a Bush third term is ridiculous to McCain, who fought Bush in 2000, fought him to implement the successful surge and fought him on countless other initiatives.
No, I’m sorry. This election is for the first McCain term or the first Obama term. Maybe that’s why McCain is winning. Obama admitted he didn’t have the necessary experience when he chose Biden.
Do we want 4 more years of an unprepared President?
“A third Bush term, or a move into the right direction after 8 long years of incompetence, lies, and failure.”
By the way, you need to take the “Bush” out of that sentence and insert “Minner.”
It is a great day for Delawareans. Congratulations to the Biden family.
From this morning’s web edition of the NY Times provides McCain’s campaigns response to the Obama-Biden ticket:
“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden. Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be President,” said Ben Porritt, a spokesman for Mr. McCain.
Now before you Republicans go hog wild over this, remember when Romney is selected as McCain’s running mate next week, there is a rather extensive record of animosity between the two.
The US has had an extensive history of Presidential candidates picking a Primary opponent as his running mate. The fact that they’ve had disagreements in the past has never washed in the general election.
This is a non-issue.
The idea of a Bush third term is ridiculous to McCain, who fought Bush in 2000, fought him to implement the successful surge and fought him on countless other initiatives.
Countless? COUNTLESS? COUNTLESS?
McCain has voted with George Bush as high as 95% of the time. As Bush’s popularity has declined, McCain’s agreement with Bush has only increased.
Bottom Obama Passes First Test With Flying Colors
Well, considering about 90% of the bills that came through this year in the do-nothing Congress were to re-name post offices, you could see where your statistic is a bit skewed.
Unless it is a character flaw to support the President in renaming the East Podunk post office.
Ha! Good luck running away from Bush this year.
(Remember to consult your physician prior to undertaking a course to rigorous exercise.)
So when it was 67% support in 2001, was that number skewed? Or was that when the “countless” McCain opposition initiatives occurred?
33% is a pretty high number.
“Ha! Good luck running away from Bush this year.”
You mean Joanne Christian, right? Because, if I remember correctly from about 10 months ago, she IS George Bush.
Whatever will you do when there’s no more George Bush to blame?
I’m moving on to Rick Jensen as the font of all things bad. Haven’t you heard?
Whatever will you do when there’s no more George Bush to blame?
Aren’t you guys still blaming Bill Clinton? 🙂
once again Burris, puts party above all…
The Dems shoot, we score, we win:
Congratulations to Senators’ Obama and Biden!
(although Biden/Obama roll off the tongue better we’ll stick w/what we’ve got).
I guess Biden was as good as Obama was going to get, but you’re going to have a hard time running away from “clean and articulate” Joe Biden.
BTW, I don’t like Romney, either. I was a McCain backer from the start, so, believe me, I know what a Romney-criticism-laced Obama ad could look like. But when did Romney say that he would be proud to run with Barack Obama?
Biden was talking about the 2000 version of McCain.
As you know from being a long time McCain backer, the current McCain has nothing in common with the 2000 version.
Sorry Republicans, but give me judgment over “experience” any day. All those “experienced” people in Bush’s team gave us the disasters of the war in Iraq and two recessions. I think we’ve had enough of that. Yes, “experienced” John McCain who doesn’t know the difference between Iran and Iraq, which countries border Pakistan and that Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for at least 15 yrs.
As far as Biden criticizing Obama – he must believe that Obama has what it takes to be President or he wouldn’t have agreed to be his VP.
at least Barack and Joe know how many houses they own
and besides has John McCain or Romney ever gotten thier hands dirty doing nay kind of hard work
Joe has it was on National TV when he was going to the dump
At Last we will have some life pumped into this dull race
Dead ender. 😉
Biden was my third choice, but since Ben Franklin and James Madison are dead I`m delighted.
I can forgive Joe for his support of the war in Iraq, he was working with the same lies and misinformation every one else was, but overall Joe has been a real friend of the middle class and has voted that way most of the time.
Here is my point of view. My full post is here
http://battlegroundstates08.blogspot.com/
In today’s world, he has tended to obstruct and criticize. He no longer favors fiscal restraint. He was a leading force in weakening the military which has given us problems today. He filibustered the Homeland Security Department’s formation even though he supported it because the unions wanted a better deal. He tried to force a partition on Iraq even though that sovereign nation didn’t want it.
Senator Biden is a mixed bag. I am not sure that he will do much more than help solidify the base. According to Rasmussen most Americans who know him think he is a liberal (41%) and 43% have a favorable view vs. 38% with an unfavorable view. Nationally of the names being floated he had more support than anyone but Senator Clinton and fewer negatives than she has.
I view the Biden pick as a reasonable one. His opposition to partial birth abortion and abortion funding may take a little of the edge off of Senator Obama with Catholics that lean Democratic. America could do a lot worse in terms of foreign policy experience and knowledge. Most importantly, it assures America that an Obama administration will have a mix of qualified people and won’t be a bunch of inexperienced ideologues. His first pick was one which showed reasonable judgement even though pundits will talk about what this does to his message of change. The truth is we need both change and stability. Senator Obama showed that he is not a prisoner to marketing, but thinking about governing. Unfortunately, the experience he added is just a lot more experience in the broken Liberal view of the world.
Good post David.
Thanks. We come from a different POV as you know, but even though I am obviously not a Biden fan, he brings some positives to the mix. He is a smart, solid individual. If you are a liberal, you will like him. If you are a conservative, he will irate you, but you have to admit that he does bring something to the table.
I am already hearing the change is dead song, that is nonsense. Kennedy needed a Johnson to show him how to implement change. That actually shows good judgement on Senator Obama’s part. He isn’t a prisoner of sound bytes and marketing. Thank God.
Not to be a wet blanket, but he really will be a liability if he can not shut up.
Was just reading a few articles…
On Obama in 2007:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
On Immigration in 2006:
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
I can personally attest to his verbosity, as can anyone who attended UD’s graduation ceremony in 2004… the man who voted to authorize force (because he, like Clinton, was making sure they took the hawk stance so they would not get their presidential chances hurt her on – ironic, huh?) gave a 1 hour foreign policy speech. He went on forever in through boos and groans from people – not over the content as much as how in appropriate and long it was. (Text of the speech) He was talking about bodies coming into Dover in a commencement speech. Huge disappointment.
One of his sons is a lobbyist for a firm that works a lot of pork barrel spending projects. He has taken $5MM from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003 (Obama will not take any contributions from those sources).
He brings a lot of baggage and bad habits to the ticket (and no electoral votes unless the dems expect to lose PA and biden has any effect there)… it will be interesting to see how it goes down…
“Sorry Republicans, but give me judgment over “experience” any day.”
Isotope – Other than voting against the Iraq War, what “judgment” has Obama shown?
I like how Biden passed off over $50000 to his son’s lobbyist firm from his Prez campaign. A little more nepotism for profit and power from the Biden gang. What else to expect from shameless hucksters genetically engineered with their snouts in the public trough.
I expect that’ll come out in the next few days……..unless the MSM buries it.
This has to be the biggest day in Delaware politics in a long long time.
The Iraq War is a huge one. He’s also done a lot of work on nuclear deterrence. If you want examples of how Obama approaches problems, look at the way he ran his primary campaign. He studied the system, and broke the race into 435 separate races. He realized early one that he could get delegates even when losing. Clinton dismissed states as not important and didn’t change tactics even when they weren’t winning.
I think the election shows how Obama will govern – by really studying the issues to help make his decisions.
I think, FSP, voters should look at experience but rely on judgment too, if not more so.
republicans don’t have much experience in Delaware VC…that is the problem with FSP’s comment
So, if I have a low-level political job in DC for 20 years, I’ll have more experience than Obama. Is this really their rationale?
Oy vey!