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Once I gave up Richardson, then I wanted Webb. He could talk to White folks in Appalachia. Would have been a bulldog. He would not have been controllable, but he would have kicked ass all over this country dogging McAncient and the GOP.
After Webb, I wanted the Cowboy Governor of Montana. Smart, businessman, populist...he has a 70% rating in MONTANA AS A DEMOCRAT. And, he spoke Arabic. That whole reconfiguration of the electoral map thing with the Mountain and Plains States.
If it had to be a woman, I wanted Sebelius.
And, as far as Richardson is concerned, methinks he's bound for the Cabinet-- SecState, perhaps?
If It's Biden, There's a Consolation Prize for Dodd and Maybe for You, Too
On the other hand Biden is in bed with the banking industry and it is the lack of regulation of that sector which has resulted in the devastating mortage security backed sector meltdown. Hopefully, though by being VP Biden is no longer beholden to those interests and will be key in changing the consumer bankruptcy laws because he does know where all the pittfualls and weaknesses of the credit card and banking industry lie. In other words, he probably has the ammo to twist arms and get things done. He may turn out to be as good as LBJ was in that regard when it came to working with Congress and particularly the Senate.
I like that Biden is Irish Catholic as that may inspire Catholics to come on board despite his not being pro-life and being for civil unions. I think Biden knows how to talk to working class America's who believe they are entitled on the basis of race i.e. white working class. Biden has made remarks that are racially offensive, yet his deeds indicate that he his heart is in the right place even if his words sometimes belie that. The good part of this is that Biden actually speaks with the same racially biased working class sentiments he was raised with and therefore will be seen as genuine and as 'like us' to the working class. So, I am excited about this selection.
I do not doubt that there will be lots of vicissitudes in the next 100days but overall, my sense is that this is a winning ticket. Above all, I beleive Biden will be loyal to Obama and in some sense guard his administration against the betrayals that the Clintons have no problem in continuing to create.
Maybe the Irish Catholic will feel like African Americans and Latinos, this is a lifetime moment for them to have another Irish Catholic in the White House and for people of color to have their first President of color.
This is OUR moment...our time is NOW...Obama/Biden '08... Yes, We. CAN.
It's an American Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q
!O'le!
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I can understand some people's "meh" reactions, but I don't really see where Slant Truth is coming from (I don't read his/her blog, so I don't know him/her at all). How can any VP pick be a deal breaker? If he wanted Obama to find a person who has never said anything racially offensive, then he was bound to be sorely disappointed because there aren't very many mute people in politics. Obama is just not the type to get bent out of shape about every racially insensitive slight. If he did, he could not be president. He knows he has to let that stuff slide off his back and keep it moving.
I can barely take CNN. Just wondering if anyone's brave enough to watch Fox.
Well, close!!! :>) :>) :>)
And Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer! :>) :>) :>)
While we should look at his choices critically, we shouldn't assume he doesn't know what he's doing. In other words, while upholding the democratic process, we need to be confident in our candidate. There are certainly things going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, so when he and his team of advisors make a decision about winning the election, I give them the benefit of the doubt.
Obama-Biden '08
T.
Thank God it's not Bayh...I would have had to shoot myself...
Who best can go up against John McCain than a fellow senator who has been his friend and fellow senate member for 35 years? Who? Who can be a better attack dog for Barack?
But given that this won't be a problem for 8 years and assumes two Democratic victories (and equally nice two Republican defeats) I'm not overly concerned - but I would have preferred to see a VP who after 8 years in the White House would have been a very strong and logical candidate. Perhaps we'll see a change of VP in the second term (but again I'm perfectly happy to focus on winning this round first)
Overall I think Biden does offer some good balance, especially strong international experience, but I do worry about whether he does open up the campaign to new vectors of attack and/or minimizes some of the strength of having a very clear difference and a very stark choice (i.e. smart, younger vs old and not as with it).
Guess I'll be learning more about Biden and his positions, past etc in the coming months. My personal hope had been also that Obama might have gone with a female Governor which would have also given us a nice non-Washington voice on the ticket (and I suspect cemented a lot of Hillary's voters who may have been still on the fence).
It will be interesting as well to see what happens post-Olympics and conventions.
But, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Obama has the "Kerry States" but still needs a few more electoral votes. He's tied/leading in IA, VA, MT, NV, NM, CO, AK...I predict a landslide 300+ EVs. But it will take grassroots focus on key states.
You need to come on out and vote for this ticket but it truly does represent change. Obama is the President, not Biden.
Also, I was impressed with Biden in the debates and really liked him after his apperence on the View. I can get past his stupid comments because we all make stupid comments. I have less trust in those that are always politicaly correct because that is not natural or real.
I think Biden is an asset to the ticket and look forward to voting for Obama-Biden. (I have found myself calling them Obama-O'Biden today. Is it just me?)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Not...
As for Jill, I kind of have to disagree with you on Biden. I want Obama in the White House sooooo bad that I am willing to put up with Joe to get there.
LETS ALL HOPE OUR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FRIENDS ALSO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS POSSIBLE FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA'S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ????
***WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL HORROR CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ??????
*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED ***
THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges!!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice!
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayers $$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World!
***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY!
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO AND 2) GOOGLE
MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com (424-247-2013)
Pretzel Logic.
"All of which points back to the animating tenet in “liberal” ideology — namely, that, simply by virtue of adopting the left-liberal agenda, one is good, and so his “mistakes” are but minor slip-ups, hiccups in a life of sublime goodliness. Whereas any kind of minor slip-up by those on the “right” (classical liberals included, these days) are to be seen as brief inadvertent flashes revealing their grubby souls — even when those flashes are either admittedly unintended, or else have to be run through a special code book to prove visible to the watchdogs of all that is good and righteous."
Most folks of their same cultural ethnicity IDENTIFIED with them...and it is the same for Biden...Farrakhan and Jessie are not full of hate..but they speak from the racially biased perspective fo the society they have experienced. White folks may still be talking about 'hymietown' or 'jews are devils' but black people are not and most black folks disregarded the remarks as GAFFES.
Well, I submit you need to have the same view about Bidens' racially insensitive remarks, white people underSTAND Biden and many of them do not HATE blacks they just are products of the racially biased society we live in and they give Biden a pass on those gaffes just like we would give Farrakhan, Wright and Jesse.
Biden speaks the lingo Obama needs to win..working class stiffs get Biden, and they appreciate and value his views because they feel he knows where they are coming from. Just as many blacks feel that Sharpton, Wright and Jesse speak to their lifestyles and issues even if the larger society finds it offensive.
Think about it, Obama said that his own grandmother who loves him dearly was afraid of black men! That hurt him badly, but he understood and said in his speech in Philly she is a 'typical white person' and that meant she has all the fears and concerns about race that folks in her generation were raised with. Biden can speak to that, he resonates with people of that ilk.
Obama is lucky to have someone on the ticket who looks like his grandmother speaking to hearts like hers...Obama understands her heart too..but he doesn't look like those folks and many of them can't hear what is in his heart because they can't get beyond the color of his skin, no matter that his mother is white.
Biden reaches those people, and just like Barack's grandparents vouched for him many a time...Biden is going to be the friendly 'white' face that introduces Obama to those wary folks and who vouches for him ..because he has a working class background those people are going to give Obama a chance and come to the ballot box and vote for change because Biden is going to tell them it is in their economic interest.
He speaks kitchen table politics.
When a stranger comes to our door alone, we seldom open the door or listen, but if that same stranger approaches with a face we know, we are far more likely to listen and even invite them in.
C'mon PEOPLE!!
This is a winning ticket. Let's get behind these two and WIN!!!
IOW, does President O need an old white guy to validate him? I'm rather disappointed. I was hoping for change.
But still not voting for McSame.
( http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/why-... ), I see.
And people wonder why the Democrats keep doing this to African-American voters.
PS: Yup: white, Republican, neo-conservative. Also: not dumb enough to slap around members of *my* Party's other factions.