Thank God It’s Over!
It’s over! We finally know. Plenty has been blogged/reported/tweeted, Birch’s boy, I’m sure, shed many a tear (though the coif remained resilient as ever) over not getting picked and for some reason, Republicans and Democrats rejoiced at the choice of Senator Joe Biden at Barack’s running mate.
Why could a liberal Democrat senator from Delaware bring these two groups together? It’s because we each got what we wanted.
Obama and the nutroots got their attack dog (rather than the lapdog Bayh would have been) who has the experience in foreign policy that Obama sorely lacks, he’s a vocal critic of the war even though he initially supported it, plus he brings more experience in general to the ticket. Yay, for Democrats.
What did Republicans get that makes us almost giddy over the choice of Joe Biden?
Fellow contributor Scott Fluhr notes over at Hoosier Pundit (via the Campaign Spot)
It’s hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain.
The candidate of hope and change selected a running mate who was first elected to public office when Obama was 9 years old. He was elected to the Senate when Obama was 11.
The bottom of the ticket running on change has been in Washington forever.
He voted for the Iraq War — which Obama touted as the most important decision since the end of the Cold War.
Biden supports a ban on partial-birth abortion. He supports deploying U.S. troops to Darfur in Sudan.
His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a “slave state” again?
And of course, there’s this:
(H/T - Hoosier Pundit)
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Where’s Apu when you need him?
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Here’s what Senator Lugar had to say about it:
“I congratulate Senator Barack Obama on his selection of my friend, Senator Joe Biden, to be his vice-presidential running mate. I have enjoyed for many years the opportunity to work with Joe Biden to bring strong bipartisan support to United States foreign policy.
“I share the disappointment of many Hoosiers that my partner in the Senate, Evan Bayh, was not selected on this occasion…” Wow, a gracious and dignified Republican. What a rare and beautiful thing. All the hacks in the party could learn something from Senator Lugar.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
That is a gracious comment…that he’s had to give two other times after bitter disappointments for Evan Bayh in 2000 and 2004.