AP: Obama’s Biden Pick Shows Lack Of Confidence
“A senior Obama adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said his boss has expressed impatience with what he calls a “reverence” inside his campaign for his message of change and new politics. In other words, Obama is willing — even eager — to risk what got him this far if it gets him to the White House.”
Ohhhh….the Left keeps getting more and more upset as they discover what we on the right have known for a long time, that Obama is a phony who, though a Marxist, is first and foremost an Obamist, who will do and say whatever it takes to gain and hold elected office. I don’t even know that its power, he just has an addiction to winning, and to being the first black President. Everything else is just work, and we haven’t seen any evidence of him actually working on anything other than his image and getting that image elected. Watch this vid for more evidence, and it comes from England. The Left is just SHOCKED as Obama reneges on every promise he’s made to them, abandons every Leftist position he feels he has to in order to get elected. Now they’re crying because Biden doesn’t represent the Magical Mystery Change waiting to take them away to live with the Walrus where they can all take some Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and chant Ob La Di, Ob La Da at each other all day. And worst of all, Biden was an early and long-time hawk on Iraq, and defended our attack on it, saying even after the intel was supposedly faulty, that we had to move on it, and that it wasn’t “some Cheney invention.” Yeah, he said that, years into the war. Welcome to the real world, suckers, where the Helter Skelter Hussein is miles above you and coming down fast and just might break you. But don’t cry too much, because like any pathologically lying sociopath, Obama is only playing to the Right right now. Once in, he’s going to shift right back into radical Marxist mode. Y’all on the Left are just too naive, too caught up in the spell, to consider that the lily white Messiah might even be capable of such outright public duplicity to get what he wants. See, he didn’t lie to you, he’s just lying to the Right and the moderates, the Hillary folks, to get as many of their votes as he can, before he switches back to y’all’s radical dumb-ass agenda once in office. Man you folks are deaf, dumb and blind kids that can’t play pinball at all.
Associated Press, by Ron Fornier
DENVER - The candidate of change went with the status quo.
In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.
He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate — the ultimate insider — rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t even make his short list.
The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn’t beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden selection is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative — a strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his image.
Democratic strategists, fretting over polls that showed McCain erasing Obama’s lead this summer, welcomed the move. They, too, worried that Obama needed a more conventional — read: tougher — approach to McCain.
“You’ve got to hand it to the candidate and the campaign. They have a great sense of timing and tone and appropriateness. Six months ago, people said he wasn’t tough enough on Hillary Clinton — he was being too passive — but he got it right at the right time,” said Democratic strategist Jim Jordan. “He’ll get it right again.”
Indeed, Obama has begun to aggressively counter McCain’s criticism with negative television ads and sharp retorts from the campaign trail.
A senior Obama adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said his boss has expressed impatience with what he calls a “reverence” inside his campaign for his message of change and new politics. In other words, Obama is willing — even eager — to risk what got him this far if it gets him to the White House.
Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since become a vocal critic of the conflict. He won praise for a plan for peace in Iraq that would divide the country along ethnic lines.
Chief sponsor of a sweeping anti-crime bill that passed in 1994, Biden could help inoculate Obama from GOP criticism that he’s soft on crime — a charge his campaign fears will drive a wedge between white voters and the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House.
So the question is whether Biden’s depth counters Obama’s inexperience — or highlights it?
After all, Biden is anything but a change agent, having been in office longer than half of all Americans have been alive. Longer than McCain.
And he talks too much.
On the same day he announced his second bid for the presidency, Biden found himself explaining why he had described Obama as “clean.”
And there’s the 2007 ABC interview in which Biden said he would stand by an earlier statement that Obama was not ready to serve as president.
It seems Obama is worried that some voters are starting to agree.
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