I like Joe Biden. He'd make a great president. But if I were a Republican, I know how I'd caption this image: "Wow, that Neil Kinnock sure can write!"Seriously, you know those rides at Disneyland where a sign at the entrance tells you that you must have adult supervision unless you're over a certain height? I'm thinking that.
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MSNBC - McCain urged to join Kerry ticket
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McCain urged to join Kerry ticket
Biden says a joint ticket would help heal ‘vicious rift’ dividing U.S.
Updated: 8:48 p.m. ET May 16, 2004
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Biden, a senior Democrat, on Sunday urged Republican Sen. John McCain to run for vice president with the Democratic hopeful, Sen. John Kerry, in order to heal the “vicious rift” dividing America.
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McCain, of Arizona, “categorically” ruled out standing with Kerry, but Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he had no second choice.
“I’m sticking with McCain,” Biden said.
“I think John McCain would be a great candidate for vice president,” Biden, from Delaware, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where the two senators appeared together to take questions on Iraq and other subjects.
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Sens. John McCain and Joe Biden on 'Meet the Press'
“Do I think it’s going to happen? No,” he said. “But I think it is a reflection of the desire of this country and the desire of people in both parties to want to see this God-awful, vicious rift that exists in the nation healed, and John and John could go a long way to heal in that rift.”
McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and in line to take over the Senate Armed Services panel in two years, endorsed Biden’s call for bridging the political gap between Democrats and Republicans.
“There’s too much partisanship in America, and there’s too much partisanship in the Senate,” he said. “And we’re not doing our job as our constituents expect us to do.”
“I will always take anyone’s phone calls,” McCain said of any call he might get from Kerry, a fellow decorated Vietnam War veteran. “But I will not, I categorically will not do it.”
Kerry said Wednesday that McCain, a frequent critic of President Bush, would be his first choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense now wrestling with the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.
“I have any number of people that I would make secretary of Defense, beginning with our good friend John McCain,” Kerry said last week.
But on "Meet the Press" Sunday, McCain also indicated he was not interested in becoming secretary of defense in the event of a Kerry victory in November.
I too, am a fan of Biden; he seems to be that rare breed of politician with down to earth honesty and integrity. I am more than a little disappointed that he has aligned himself with the Obama cult,I can't see what he can gain from this. I hope I am wrong but he probably will pull enough real Dems back to give Obama the win.Never thought I would vote for a Republican but we must.I would prefer to vote for Cynthia Mckinney but every third party vote will hurt McCain and help Obama.
What can Biden gain? Perhaps the presidency. If Obama wins in November, I, for one, will do everything I can to work for his impeachment.
For President I'm writing in George Carlin's name, and Joseph Cannon's for VP.
Mitzi
I hate Joe Biden. I find him to be a crass, graceless imbecile. Obama could not have made a worse choice in my eyes, with the possible exception of Joe Lieberman. And it's not like I have a lot of sympathy for Obama, but I can't picture Biden as being particularly supportive of him once the worm turns.
What was the logic behind this choice? I suspect it was the belief that Biden was the person Obama had pissed off the least during the primaries. And that there's no way Biden is going to look more glamorous than Obama in any forum. But STILL...bad call. And Obama may really have to struggle to pull in the Latino vote now.
That being posted...Biden's campaign had the only healthcare proposal I found even remotely acceptable. So I guess that's something.
I would have liked to see BIden on the top of the ticket too- Obama as VP, well, maybe he(Joe) would have been forced to accept him.
I'm thinking BO was forced to accept Biden as a Hillary surrogate-and I think Hillary is behind this in some part.
Sort of likes brakes on the fiasco. But does it translate into real power for Biden (and Clinton)?
No way to tell yet that I can see.
Right after the 9/11 sneak attacks, someone famously said it's the end of irony now. Hello? I don't think so. Any first pick will be forced to withdraw his or her name. (The fokken bloggers took over the election campaign process so much so that the campaigns have been campaigning only about one issue: the campaign.) Who'll stand up to blog scrutiny? It's the reverse of the presidential pardoning of a Thanksgiving turkey. Biden's the stalking horse they'll have to put down. I think the bloggers want to have their day. They can force a VP candidate onto the ticket, without leaving any trace of irony. Biden is Obama's meat he's tossing to the blogger dogs. He deserves the dirty and inarticulate gantlet. Would I like it if McCain chose Anita Hill for his VP? Come to think of it, the issues are (1) too obvious to even mention, and (2) much too horrifying to think about; so the campaign itself is the funnest thing left and just about all you can digest on an empty attention span. Meanwhile Biden gets to say some mad shit all Spartan like.
Abbey
Puts the current Larry Sinclair saga in fresh light. . .
But maybe Biden has drawn the short straw. He's the man assigned to take the Obamarama Cavalcade down from the inside.
I find ladypuma2's comment above insightful.
As to translating into real power... well, that will come with the paradigm shift the country is experiencing, in large part due to mortgage foreclosures, joblessness, bank crashes and inflation.
The landscape is going to change more than we can imagine between now and November.
Relatively speaking, even the most active among us is just watching; try to imagine what it would be like to be President!
Clinton stands out as the candidate with the stamina and experience for the job. The convention's not over yet. Let's take this a step at a time.
And then there is the clip of Senator Obama introducing Senator Biden as "the next President of the United States... the next Vice President of the United States..." A little Freudian slip, perhaps? I think Georgia was a wake up call to Senator Obama - the Presidency is not all about making pretty speeches.
Biden has done good things (Violence against woman act) and bad (Bankruptcy bill, Anita Hill hearings, foot in mouth disease) a real mixed bag. He is knowledgeable and bright, but with no executive experience. Senator Obama could have done worse, of course. But I do keep hoping, in the most unreasonable fashion, that the Delegates will come to their senses and select the candidate who was chosen by the majority of the Party members (Senator Clinton). But I never underestimate the power of the Democratic Party to shoot itself in the foot and I fear we have done it again.
djmm
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