What about this Joe Biden guy as a running-mate?
Actually, both me and my wife were kind of hoping Obama would pick Hillary at the last moment because that would be “monumental” but we knew deep down that he could not because she is not vice-president material and would not sit still for the boring VP job.
Biden is not exiting but he brings a few things to the ticket. He is older (65) so he can add a voice of experience and wisdom. He is white or non-any-minority (European). He has proven international experience where Obama has none. He is a Catholic which may or may not be a plus since that will not influence other Catholics, may turn off Baptist and other evangelicals (anti-papal) and raise the abortion issue (may be excommunicated by the Vatican?) or at least denounced by the more radical American higher clergy.
Biden is known to talk too much and stick his foot in his mouth often. Can he be trained (can’t teach an old dog new tricks?). He is a good attack dog but is he a smart attack dog?
I think the reason this ticket does not excite me right away is that it is strange. Usually you have an older candidate for president and a younger candidate for VP where the VP is in a kind of OJT – training for the office of president and not visa versa. This may be a problem for some people especially if McCain picks a younger man for VP which he basically has too since there is no one older than McCain; the McCain ticket will feel more natural, more normal.
The best weapon Biden will have against McCain is tying McCain to Bush; in fact making McCain appear to be another Bush and repeating the slogan “four more years of Bush…”.
We will see if Biden was a wise choice or not…
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