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Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Obligatory Obama/Biden Post
At 3am this morning, the text message finally went out. The Obama campaign thought it was so clever, sending out text messages to their "loyal supporters" first, letting them in on the little secret of who the lucky person was who gets to be The One's running mate, but the press knew hours before the message was sent. (I think the big hint was the Secret Service showing up at his house. Just a guess.)
My personal opinion? Obama didn't have much of a choice. He couldn't pick Hillary; Bayh or Paine would have probably really annoyed the PUMAs; no one knew who Chet Edwards was. Biden was safe, and he lends that air of experience that Obama definitely lacks. (I actually heard a talking head use the term "gravitas" yesterday... isn't that so... 2000??) That being said, Senator Biden is a typical Washington liberal. Hardly the hopey changy person Obama wants to appear to be. Biden also has plenty of baggage, and I'm sure someone has already has a file on him, ready to go. I can't wait to hear Rush's take on Monday.
That's my opinion (well, the starts of one). Here are other people's opinions:
My personal opinion? Obama didn't have much of a choice. He couldn't pick Hillary; Bayh or Paine would have probably really annoyed the PUMAs; no one knew who Chet Edwards was. Biden was safe, and he lends that air of experience that Obama definitely lacks. (I actually heard a talking head use the term "gravitas" yesterday... isn't that so... 2000??) That being said, Senator Biden is a typical Washington liberal. Hardly the hopey changy person Obama wants to appear to be. Biden also has plenty of baggage, and I'm sure someone has already has a file on him, ready to go. I can't wait to hear Rush's take on Monday.
That's my opinion (well, the starts of one). Here are other people's opinions:
- Power Line has a few posts about Senator Biden.
- Wizbang chimes in. Who's the winner? Biden's ego.
- Gateway Pundit starts diving into the baggage. Expect more as time goes on.
- Here's an illustrative quote about the ticket:
It's the Britney/Paris ticket.
- Here's a starter list of Biden gaffes/quotes.
- Based on this, I wonder what the Kos Kiddies are saying this morning.
- Here's the ticket's first billboard.
- HotAir has a few posts on Biden this morning that I'm just going to link dump. Just go read them.
- Who's Joe Biden? Interested Participant answers your question. Then The Jawa Report expands the theme. Here's the take home quote from The Jawa Report:
Somehow, hope and change seems to disappear when grandpa enters the room.
- Jack from Ace of Spades makes an interesting comparison of Obama/Biden to some characters from my childhood. Now that he mentions it...
- Finally, we have the McCain reaction to the announcement. Think they may have anticipated this a bit?
