Yeah, but he’s always WRONG… lol.

“I told you guys to go get me the guy who had the most experience with foreign policy… I thought you’d have sense enough to know I meant the guy who had the most experience being right, dammit!”

Which is ironic given that the Dems have been saying for eight years that Cheney was running the country with the imbecile Bush as his puppet. You know, as if it was a bad thing.

So, where’s The Change?

In fact, that in general makes it hard for Obama to pick a candidate. To really fit with him he would need a Washington outsider with name recognition that had just enough “experience” in government to help with the “no experience” problem he had yet not enough over shadow him. Further he needed said candidate to appeal to a different demographic than he does as he is pretty much and “all or nothing” in each demographic.

That person doesn’t exist. He *has* to have someone with experience so they have to be a Washington insider. Further he has to be real careful that he doesn’t pick someone that will greatly overshadow him – real hard to do. Those two are a main priority and there are some out there that fit that. In fact there are some Governors out there that would also bring in a few fairly large demographics (Bill Richardson comes to mind here).

but then I can’t really see them attaching themselves to Obama. They are amongst the democrats that realize that he has no where to go but down and you don’t attach your anchor to a sinking ship.

So yes, I am fairly sure that Biden wasn’t remotely his first choice – Biden brings *nothing* positive to the table and only negatives (if Obama hadn’t been pushing the “different candidate” so hard the attack dog mentality would have helped, now it just makes him look even more hypocritical than ever). Even his biggest supporters know this – it’s been *more* than enough time to figure out how to spin even a remotely decent pick and they still haven’t found one yet.

I guess at least Biden isn’t going to overshadow him, even amongst the general democrats he is seen as something of a crank.

Now, lets see who McCain is going to pick. As I have said for ages Obama can not win the election but McCain is perfectly capable of loosing it. McCain has enough neutral to good choices it *should* be hard to pick, but I have all the faith in the world he could pick a pro-abortion, anti-gun, big government vice president in an attempt to “bridge the gap” and loose too many reluctant supporters.

I have thought for many years (60 or so) that elections are determined more by negatives than positives. Obama was right in rejecting Hillary. He’s in a world of hurt and his best strategy is to not present more targets. Apparently he didn’t realize that Biden is a pretty big target himself.

Regards,
Roy

This may be Obama’s Eagleton moment.

Even if BO could be assured that Bill and Hill would behave themselves, and not publicly wrong-foot Obama (and that’s a very big “if”), it still wouldn’t work. Given the bad blood between them, anything that worked to the detriment of one over the other would be interpreted as treachery, rightly or wrongly. That’s no way to work.