Biden heh?!

I'm (so far!) kinda ambivalent on Biden. Pro: he's GOT experience! Con: Delaware is already a BLUE state! Pro: He is one hell of an attack dog, McCain's weaknesses he knows! Also, he went through seriously horrid shit with his first wife DYING in a car wreck; he rode AMTRAK back to Wilmington, DE, from Washington, DC, EVERY DAY, TO RAISE HIS FAMILY. STOP, HOLD ON A SECOND, I THOUGHT THE REPUKELICONS HAD THE MONOPOLY ON 'FAMILY VALUES'?!?! LIKE, McKKKAIN DUMPING HIS FIRST WIFE, WHO WAS DISFIGURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, FOR CINDY THE RICH BITCH!!! Con: Does anyone outside of Delaware KNOW WHO JOE BIDEN IS?! Ok, plenty more than Tim whatever his face is, the Virgina gov'r! Still beats 4 years of McKKKain and whatever shithead Nazi he picks!!! DailyKos.com & Rude Pundit also makes some good points, some of which I've already cannibalized!

Clinton supporters have nothing to complain about in Biden nomination

by smintheus

Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 02:05:15 PM PDT

Last November, as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton said that she'd be happy to have Joe Biden as her running mate.

I would consider Joe Biden for anything," Clinton said. "He's a friend of mine, he's a wonderful senator. I'm one of Joe's biggest fans."

Today Clinton praised Barack Obama's VP choice, saying Biden is "an exceptionally strong, experienced leader and devoted public servant". If there's any sense at all in political debate in this country, the nomination of Biden ought to put an end effectively to complaints that Obama is short on experience. It's the only consistent criticism of Obama that I've heard this year from truly persuadable voters.

Biden's nomination also will make it difficult for Clinton's supporters to feel aggrieved that she wasn't chosen instead. All along her candidacy was based on claims of (a) experience, and (b) expertise. Joe Biden has more of both than Hillary Clinton does, as even her more ardent supporters would have to admit. If you believe that the choice of a vice president should just be a question of merit, as many Clinton supporters have been arguing, then the selection of Joe Biden is highly merited.

That won't preclude a few PUMAs from continuing to nurse their grudges. Extremists aren't amenable to reason. But Biden's nomination will show their complaints to be ridiculous, in the extreme.

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8/23/2008

A Word or Two Regarding Joe Biden:
Still in an ouzo haze (thanks, Talia), but here's a couple of observations from when the phone vibrated at 3 a.m.:

1. Biden's son is heading to Iraq. That's the kind of political street cred it takes something like five and a half years in a prison camp to earn.

2. Biden is a tough motherfucker. God tried to take him out with a double brain aneurysm, and Biden kicked God in the nuts. Don't you want a Vice President who can kick God in the nuts and not be allied with Satan?

3. Ron Fournier of the AP is a little bitch. Biden must have pissed him off somewhere down the road.

4. Yeah, he ain't perfect (see the Clarence Thomas hearings and his anti-Obama comments that are already being used against him). But if you're complaining, would you seriously have wanted the media talking about the tension between Obama and Clinton(s) for the next four to eight years? And would you have wanted to explain to every non-Virginian just who the fuck Tim Kaine is?

(An earlier version of this post said that Biden had brain cancer. It has been corrected to accurately reflect exactly how hard God tried to smite him. God's still gotta put an icepack on his balls whenever he thinks about Biden.)

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