> > Bob, > > Biden wasn't picked to make the Republicans quake in their boots.
I was responding to MSNBC's absurd insistence that Republicans most feared Biden as a VP pick. > > I think he is an excellent choice to assist Obama with the connections > and > experience to cause the changes Obama talks about to actually happen. Yawn. > > I was worried about Obama's lack of deep connections. Funny, I have exactly the opposite concern. > But now Biden can > play > an LBJ role and get stuff through congress in the same way LBJ did it > for > Kennedy. The same Kennedy who got us into Vietnam, and the same LBJ that turned it into a quagmire, and nearly bankrupted? > > Biden is a great choice for being able to actually govern. Cheney was hailed as a great choice too. Gravitas and all that. Biden has never governed anything. He's shot his mouth off for 30 years (often in the direction of his own foot), and has participated in the very good ol' boy, eternal-re-election system you profess to despise uber alles. He has been on the wrong side of most issues over the last 30 years: - Against first Gulf War (which now most people say was Righteous) - For "regime change" when Clinton was saber-rattling over Iraq's WMDs - Voted FOR The Iraq War, and made the case for it more forcefully than Dubya did in fact - Voted FOR the surge (actually I like his vote on the last three points) - Voted against the Reagan military build-up that bankrupted the Soviets and hastened their collapse - Expressed in no uncertain terms his conviction, from which he did not waver in the debates, that Barack was simply not experienced enough to be President, period. (ok, another rare moment of good judgment) - Recently he has insanely suggested that Iraq be divided up into three autonomous regions, a mistake that has been repeated in the ME so many times by foreign powers that one wonders whether the guy has any clue about the region. Indeed he is not very popular in Iraq today for that very reason. - He's voted for most legislation that has made it harder and harder to start a new business in this country, leading Barry to bemoan just yesterday that now China is a better country to do business in, because they're infrastructure is vastly superior to ours now, or so he claims. The guy is a megalomaniac and has a real nasty streak that I have full confidence will rear its ugly head before the election. Obama picked him to be his attack dog and hopefully win over enough Catholics in Pennsylvania to make the difference. That said, I'd take him over Obama any day at the top of the ticket. Obama has no business being anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, under any circumstances, given his friends and life influences, which bother me greatly, and are basically all we have to go on of substance about the man. The guy seems like a blank, but he is not. He is just polished. We are so hungry for form over substance right now in this country that we're on the verge of electing someone even more inexperienced, radical/idealist, irresponsible, and reckless than the infamous George W. Bush. - Bob > > Kristyne McDaniel > http://www.shamrocktrails.com/legal/ > http://www.mcstyles.com/ > > Whether you think you can, or you think you can't.... you are right. > -- Henry Ford > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
