Couldn’t Barry find another kook who was against the liberation of Iraq?

I was hoping for Kucinich, but Biden’s going to work out for us just fine. Yesterday, he called Barak Obama three different names — I guess he just can’t remember what it is.

I believe that the latest McCain ads using Biden’s negative comments about Obama from the primaries show he’s decided against Romney. The Obama campaign could easily fashion an ad in similar vein vis-a-vis McCain v Romney.

As I said above, the nature of the disagreements between McCain and Romney is quite different from the Biden-Obama exchanges. McCain and Romney disagreed on policy etc; Biden said Obama isn’t ready to lead and praised McCain as recently as last year. The average voter might miss the subtle difference, though, so it may well be risky.

But I’ve been picking Biden and Romney as VPs for months, so I won’t change my selections now.

Any chance McCain announces his running mate a couple of hours before Obama’s coronation at Invesco Field?

Interestingly – the latest CNN poll (taken after the Dems Veep anouncement) is showing no uptick from the Biden pick (same with Gallup’s daily tracking poll) and, more significantly, CNN showing the number of Clinton supporters backing Obama dropping from 75% last month to 66% now and the numbers of Clintonites supporting McCain growing from 16% to 27%! These figures are very ominous news for the Obama camp (you listening philu). Morris highlights Obama’s incredible weakness with the women vote. The Dems normally counteract the GOP strength with the male vote with an almost equally large gender gap with women. The PUMAS are preventing this from happening.

Interesting also to note that if you combine all the EC maps from the 5 pollsters keeping track into a poll of polls of the EC Map pollsters, it shows McCain moving into a slight EC vote lead for the first time. Close polls in VA, NM and CO mean a very slight movement in favour of one candidate sees the EC advantage change. For a charismatic Hope and Change candidate like Obama, he should be crushing McCain. McCain will likely announce his veep pick the morning after Obama’s Invesco Field mega speech thus blunting the media coverage and eating into the Dems post-convention bounce. On recent experience, Obama’s negatives and McCain’s in-your-face ads have meant only small and temporary bounces from his nomination, his blanket coverage overseas tour and now his VP pick. If I were Axlerod and Pouffle, I’d be very worried. Watch for the Clinton’s to damn Obama with faint praise in Denver thanks to Obama’s foolish decision to listen to his wife and not even go through the motions of vetting Clinton.

before whenever I saw the word Obama, it didn’t really trigger anything, but now Obama + Biden, that just screams Osama bin Laden. Just watch their poll ratings…

Result: First black, woman President of the US is a REPUBLICAN – ha! Who’d have thought eh?

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published in The New York Post on August 24, 2008.

“It doesn’t take a political genius to realize that Barack Obama needed to nominate a woman for vice president.

Obama’s key problem is that there is no gender gap. In the most recent Zogby poll, he runs only two points better among women than among men. A Democrat should be running 10 to 15 points better among women.

If Obama is to have a hope of winning, he needs to improve his performance among female voters. A Fox News poll indicated that only about half of those who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries are voting for Obama and that fully one in five plans to support John McCain.

Attractive to women voters because of his maverick positions on issues and his willingness to defy the Republican orthodoxy, McCain is garnering votes from women who should be part of Obama’s core constituency.

So why didn’t Obama name a woman? He couldn’t nominate Hillary because she came with so much baggage that he’d be spending his entire campaign swatting away charges directed at the Clintons. It would have been priceless to see Obama trying to justify Bill’s refusal to publish the names of the donors to his library or to explain what Bill is doing in Dubai and Kazakhstan.

But what about Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius? While not a national figure, she is attractive, articulate and would have made a fine candidate.

However, Obama was terrified that the Clintons would wreak vengeance if he named a woman other than Hillary. Yet it was all a bluff. Hillary’s delegates would have celebrated the selection of a woman………

………..Obama did not choose a woman. He needed one.

Now, John McCain can take advantage of Obama’s blunder by coming back with a female nominee for vice president. Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would be an excellent choice. She’s been around for decades and is not going to start making mistakes now……..”

As I keep saying, what a pity Condi Rice won’t step forward…….

The universe and human stupidity.

Still not sure about the universe.

‘………Biden is in fact one of the most liberal members of the Senate, with the non-partisan National Journal raking him the third most liberal Senator (behind Barack Obama and Sheldon Whitehouse, and ahead of the self-avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders.) He ties several Senators as the most liberal on economic issues and has by far the most liberal voting record on foreign policy matters.

On the key domestic issues of the day, Biden’s positions are uniformly liberal: On energy, he wants to “prohibit price gouging, roll back market speculation, and take on OPEC”. And while he supports an “Apollo Project for energy” and such things as “green building codes”, “energy-efficient appliances”, and “requiring major gas stations to sell alternative fuels”, he opposes increasing offshore drilling and almost any other development of domestic gas and oil resources.

On taxes, Biden wants to “direct tax cuts away from the very rich to the middle class” and “expand the Earned Income Tax Credit”. In other words, he supports raising taxes on those who already pay almost all the income taxes collected in order to transfer money to those who pay little or no income tax.

Biden is a strong supporter of unions (and they are a strong supporter of him), including supporting “Card Check”, the unions’ attempt to eliminate the secret ballot requirement to unionize a company’s workers. In case Biden’s anti-business credentials weren’t clear, Biden has said that he “will make sure that pro-union officials play senior roles at the Departments of Commerce, State, Agriculture, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services.”

Senator Obama knew that he needed an old white guy with foreign policy credentials to fill in his electoral gaps. Joe Biden is the perfect fit on that score, and his being Catholic was an added bonus for Obama. However, with economics surpassing foreign policy, even in these obviously dangerous times, as the subject voters are most concerned with, Biden’s selection is at best a neutral for the Democrats’ election prospects. (Obama’s choice of a running mate with no economic credentials may make Mitt Romney that much more compelling a selection for John McCain as Romney would be the only person on either tickets with a strong reputation for understanding business and economics.)

A potentially important piece of news near the end of the Veepstakes was that Hillary Clinton was never vetted. According to a Democratic official quoted at politico.com, “She was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never had a single conversation about it.” Given the raw nerves among Hillary supporters who feel that their history-making first-woman-president has been badly treated by Obama, one wonders why the Obama campaign wouldn’t have made a least a show of considering Hillary.

A July poll by CNN showed that nearly a third of Clinton supporters will not vote in November, and an August Wall Street Journal/NBC poll said that 21% of Clinton supporters will vote for McCain. Both of these results were worse for Obama than in recent prior polls. And that was before the news of Hillary being “dissed” in the VP selection process. The wounds may be ripped open again, rather than healed, at the Democratic National Convention because of the decision to allow a roll call vote to include Hillary, reminding many how close she came to being the nominee……..”

Sure, if McCain picks Romney (which I predict), people will correctly say that they said a lot of negative things about each other. But Romney (to the best of my knowledge) never said McCain wasn’t fit to be president and he certainly wouldn’t have praised Obama.

I agree with s.russell that Whitman would be a game-changing pick, but having a political rookie “one heartbeat away from the presidency” might offset her huge upside. Palin would be a good choice too, but another long shot. Picking Lieberman, Ridge or Giuliani would be disastrous.

I also agree that Pawlenty is the most likely pick for McCain – though for much the same reason as Obama has picked Biden: he is the “safe” choice. He will upset no-one, but despite all his good qualities, he is just another obscure politician to most people (even most Americans).

The really exciting (and game-changing) pick would be Meg Whitman. As a woman and a non-politician she could help McCain steal Obama’s change mantle. She would also help with McCain’s perceived weakness on teh economy. Rather a long shot though!

And you not being able to see my sarcasm shows just how dumb you are… Retard.

Biden is actually from Delaware.

and in picking a Yankee from a small New England State

Delaware isn’t a New England state – most of it lies south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Biden is not a game changing pick like Clinton would’ve been (or Sibelius – KS Governor). His foreign policy credentials are not stellar but certainly outshine Obama’s, he’s a notorious serial gaffe maker (as is Obama) and is a quintessential Washington insider with numerous embarrassing lobbying connections. He brings no state to the table (Deleware being only 3 EC votes and reliably Democratic) whereas Bayh would’ve likely delivered Indiana (won by Bush in 04) – similarly Kaine would likely deliver another Bush 04 state – Virginia.

Obama’s stumbles over the Georgian crisis exposed his very real foreign policy weakness and the need to blunt McCain’s effective recent attacks with a rottweiller type like Biden I believe are the primary reasons for his Biden pick.

Any long standing senator is a pretty target rich environment due to all the votes cast on comtroversial measures – Biden offers a vast treasure trove of gaffes and blues that the McCain campaign will be pouring over. Most GOP insiders I’ve spoken to believe Obama could’ve made their life more difficult electorally with a Kaine (VA), Bayh (IN), Sebellius or Clinton (women) pick.

Much as I am a great Romney fan I believe McCain will pick Pawlenty. Lieberman, Rudy and Ridge are out because they are pro-choice. Palin is an outside chance but perhaps too risky when Obama did not make a risky pick. Jindal is still talked about but too young and inexperienced. Its definitely a two horse race between Pawlenty and Romney. The Republicans have the luxury of timing their announcement more carefully and I believe McCain will do it the day after Obama’s likely Messianic style speech at Invesco field to blunt the post-convention bounce.