Jack & Jill Politics

Obama is the Man. I voted for him and I am glad he won elections

"Why Biden’s Racist Behind Ain’t Gonna Be VP" A Black man and White man in the same Racist 'Pod'...this has got to be a first!

Google "Biden + Obama + Racism".

How bout we all google "Karmi + Obama + Stalker"

Probably take you here - Obama + Biden = Two Racists in the same ‘PeaPod’

voted this one up a point.

Nice one.

Oh boy...I meant "less kind." Where's my coffee...!!!

Biden at his best
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/23/vp-joe...

Per Jesse Jackson Sr. Obama hit olympic gold with this pick.
On CNN

Olympic gold, huh?

Nice.

Anyone listening to Richard Cramer on MSNBC? Great stuff on Joe Biden's rise and life with family.

Yeah, agreed.

3 thoughts:

When in doubt, go with the middle-aged white guy.

If Biden is so great, why hasn't ever made an impact as a nominee; he's run at least 3 times.

I guess it's true, book sense can't take the place of old fashion common sense. With Richardson, Sebrus, or Billary, he could rest assured about some safety issues and could complete his agenda if elected.

With Biden, Obama has someone everyone already knows. Most importantly, he has someone who fleshes out the "foreign policy" side of the coin. No one else who was a contender had any sort of foreign policy credentials. He's also well beyond "middle aged"-- he's 66.

To your second point, Biden was a strong candidate in the 80's until the plagiarism flap.

I'm not sure I understand your last thought.

Co-sign!

O-Bi WON '08 May the Force be with them

now that I love

Love it. Love it.

I never got my text, so I just found out here. I was pulling for Schweitzer myself, but I'm still all in.

In 2000, I would've voted for this ticket.

Throw the experience argument out the window. I disagree with Biden politically, but there's few people who could better guide Obama.

I see this as throwing down a gauntlet. Obama, as a relative newcomer, has shored up the one area he was questionable in-foreign policy. McCain now has to do the same. That means economics, and that means Romney.

Thing is, Romney's a numbers/stats guy. Biden's a fighter. The VP debate is not going to go well.

A respectable, formidable ticket. Obama got his Cheney. McCain's really gotta stop fucking up at this point, cause Biden will call him on it.

"McCain's really gotta stop fucking up at this point, cause Biden will call him on it."

-I thought about that this morning, thinking about what Biden said about Guiliani (noun, verb, 9-11).

D: Who do YOU think McCain should pick as his VP?

I'm for Romney still, just for his economic knowledge. Though I wouldn't let him near anything else.

His economic knowledge on how to increase profits for himself by laying off workers?Like McCain has said "Now that is change we can believe in"

D,
As someone who followed the Romney camp about as clos as a dem could, I dont think a pick of Romney is wise at all.

First off its forced... We all know the Consservative wing is totally separate from the moderate wing..
Second the evangelicals would have to be reassured all over again that Mitt isnt coming into this with 3 wives...(b4 you reply, bare in mind y wifes Mormon thus making me a nonpracticing one)
Third Does he even like the guy? I know Reagan didnt care much for 41, but they figured it out..Romney was the subject of a hitjob..Plain and simple. Hucks, Guls, and McCain made a point to force him out...

It's the best of the not-so-great options. They made their dislike clear, but how much of that was posturing remains to be seen.

The Mormon thing is an issue. But does that outweigh his economic expertise? No....or more accurately, it shouldn't.

If conservatives want to win, we're gonna have to overlook a few things that, any other time, we'd call into question.

D,

What do you think about a woman like Meg Whitman?

My general opinion is that the GOP running a minority or woman this year will be seen as a stunt. The ship's already sailed.

That said, I don't know enough her.

Mc Cain would make the PUMA's happy if he picked Meg Whitman.

Mc Cain should pick Mark Sanford...ok...HAHAHAHAHAHA!

The PUMAs are useless. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. They have-or should have no bearing on the VP for McCain.

Maybe McCain will pick Hillary! She admires him as much if not more than Obama and she would be poised to take over in 2012.

LOL

...er ....I think...

I always thought there was no way on earth I'd vote for Obama.

You found one.

She likes McCain more.

the moment she lost McCain had a pic up of the two of them together as well..

plus she did say McCain would be ready on Day one

As an ex squid, im sure you can relate to this analogy..

The CO on the ship is the second most popular guy there(outside the one brotha who can cut hair) but its understood, everybody hated the overbearing XO...

No one ever got that the XO stayed on message, he just attacked while doing so..

Barack got his XO

McCain, cant find one at the moment thats an easy sale.
I'd say your best choice is a long shot as S mentioned.
Portman should be looking great now....

(though in a debate, he'll be tofu)

boy, the biden pick was a considerable check...

LOL!!! That's terribly accurate.

McCain's XO in that scenario would be Lieberman. Wouldn't THAT be an interesting debate.

Portman's okay; also Eric Cantor out of Richmond if we're gonna go long shot.

Liberman would be tarred and feathered..And im willing to bet you my shellback that the word traitor would come out more then once...

You guys might wanna hype up Sanford again..
that Pork and Barrel thing was worth its weight...

Still though, you guys need an XO not a dept. head..
your boy S is right..Expect it to be Pawlenty...

It will be Pawlenty or Mittens. Pawlenty is definitely able to hold his own, at least from what I've seen.

My one year old clapped when Biden called Obama the next president.

God help me.

hearing alot of Tom Ridge on some of your right leaning blogs...thought that guy was left 4 dead cuz of his pro choice views..

No one really knows.....everyone's in frenzy/guess mode.

Ridge is a losing ticket....especially for someone who the base isn't enthused about anyway

Haha! Your baby is very, very smart. He or she is going places!

Probably so. Doesn't completely motivate me, though....

My text message came at 3:00 AM. Symbolism anyone?

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Well, I'm not thrilled just yet, but I got my civilian ticket and I'm happy about that.

Got my text at exactly 3:12am!!

I'm good with Biden, the poorest member of the Senate...lol He's not in the tank for any-damn-body.

He's not in the tank for any-damn-body.

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That is probably his biggest asset.

"O'Biden". Jack, you're going to get a call from the Campaign--to but that one. I like it!

As I contended last week, Biden brings more than traditional experience, he brings the sense that he EARNED it in way that Hillary Clinton can not match. Outside of Hillary Clinton's craziest supporters, what Democrat is going to protest a man who has served the Party faithfully for more than 30 years, lost his entire family on one day and now has a son deploying to Iraq. If Hillary doesn't told those crazy Mo' Fos' to shut the hell up at the Convention, she risks truly hurting herself b/c it will look like she's going up against Joe.

NMP,

You are hilarious, but correct. I'm still at the point i didn't know: a White man, whose been a Senator for 30+ years, and STILL the poorest member of the Senate. That says something about him.

Hey Jack Regarding -- Update 2: netdoc66 on twitter has a problem with the VP’s name going first in JoBama. So I propose the more Irish-friendly O’Biden

In a marriage most women submit to the head and gives up their name and adopts the name of the head. In that concept - the marriage of Obama and Biden warrants the name JoBama. JoBama is best. Obama is the lead of this election and not the other way around. Please share this with netdoc66.

Look, I'm not exactly thrilled with Biden due to his recent revelation of his comments, and I was looking forward to the text message, but I've had some cheese with my whine and now I'm ready to go to WAR against McCain and The Rethuglicans.

I'M FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!

Sepia: Co-signing!!! :>) :>)

{I didn't get any email- I'm 5 hours ahead/i> of NY in London :-( } But Obama's campaign showed its superior strategy once again- collecting cell phone numbers from plp who may not have a land line- Great way to call/txt/remind them to actually go to the Polls and vote.

Foreign Policy may not matter this much to Joe six pack- but Biden as VP takes O's preceived weakness off the table. Besides it is indeed relevant. While McCain tells the Saddleback crowd that "evil must be defeated"evil moves to Pakistan where it's presumably safe from him.

Correction: McCain will said he would pursue Al Qaeda /Bin Laden="evil" "to the gates of hell", but not into Pakistan 'cause its a Soverign country. [Unlike Iraq ?]

"the gates of hell"............so Bin Laden's in Mississippi?

LOL!

He was a POW. He can't be expected to make sense.

Hey, where's my text message?

Now I'm starting to wonder if I signed up for it. Did I go to the page, enter my info, and forget to click "submit" or something? I've done crazier.

But, Biden, YEA!! Biden is off the chain. He skewers Republicans on the Sunday morning talk shows on the regular all while wearing the slightest little smirk. He's been in Congress so long, you KNOW he's got dirt on McCain (and McCain on him, but so be it). He is an smart and ruthless as Hillary, but doesn't carry nearly as much anti-Obama baggage as she does, and he's witty.

This is going to be FUN.

I've been thinking about his racial gaffes (raCIAL, not necessarily raCIST). All he needs to say is this: "Wow, I certainly can put my foot in my mouth, can't I? In March, Barack Obama talked about how we as a nation have a difficult time talking about race, and just like other Americans, I am still learning how to speak as intelligently on the subject as Barack. I have worked my entire career on matters of civil rights, I represent a small, but diverse state where its my duty to represent the issues of people who were oppressed for centuries. But, I have a lot of learning to do, obviously." or something like that. His gaffes may be a story, but not much of one.

Not Mr. "Clean & Articulate/" oh brother. But if this will help B-Rocka win, I'm on board with it. At least it's not Hillary, that's all that matters to a sista like me...

I got my text about nineeen minutes ago.

I got suckered by the "It's not me, guys." of a few days ago, but I'm glad it is not Hillary Clinton (if that happened, I would now have a broken cell phone after throwing it across the room).

Well, it is on barackobama.com. Joe Biden it is.

You're on the East Coast, right? Because Kossacks are saying that they started getting theirs at 3 AM!

I ain't got no text message yet - but I'm on the Left Coast and it is only approximately 1 AM here.

3 AM text messages- that is so cool.

99%: I got mine @ 1:45 a.m. :>)

As long as it didn't say billary!!!! Whooo hoo!!! :>) :>)

"You're on the East Coast, right?"

-Yep.

Yes, I am on the East Coast. Someone posted on Kos right around 3am that the Obama website had been updated to include Joe Biden.

I gotta say I'm loving the 3 AM roll out. That is too cool and a talk to the hand in Billary's faces.

"It's 3 AM . . . "

loving that myself 99% sure. I received my email about 5:00 and it was all good for me.

I gotta co-sign wtth this...rollin this out at 3am just confirmed to me how barack stays 2 stps ahead..

I hated that stupid 3am ad, and now Barack has skillfully used it against them....perfect..

Got my text 10 minutes ago!!!

Someone would have to educate me on why Biden has housekeeping issues as far as Black folks are concerned. His gaffe earlier this election just gives Obama another theme song, old-school courtesy of Outcast.

He has a pro-civil rights, pro-affirmative action voting record and was clear in his defense of affirmative action back during the U of Michigan case. On Hardball with Chris Matthews in January 2003, Biden was adamant:

"If you want to do away with preferences, Chris, do away with all of them... don’t give any advantage for being economically disadvantaged, don’t give any advantage for being from a rural area, don’t give any advantage if your father went to the school. Fair is fair."

Well, consider Joe Biden in his own words to Republicans at the Columbia Rotary Club in South Carolina in Dec. 2006. Here are some excerpts from the Lee Bandy's article, "Biden charms local GOP," in The State.com:

The senator pounced on a member's announcement that the club would hold its annual Christmas party at the state Department of Archives and History where members could view the original copy of the state's Articles of Secession.

Biden asked, "Where else could I go to a Rotary Club where (for a) Christmas party the highlight is looking at the Articles?"

Biden was on a roll.

Delaware he noted, was a "slave state that fought beside the North. That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way."

The crowd loved it.

"America needs, and I need, for the Republican Party to get back up," he said.

Biden also says the Democrats don't want to assume the presidency saddled with a war and have to be responsible for pulling the plug. "We can choose to hang together or choose to hang separately on Iraq. There is every incentive for us to hang together." he said.

Biden is an old school, good ol' boy antithesis of Obama's "Change" message.

It's like Lincoln. Lincoln freed the slaves and fought for abolition but has anyone ever read what he actually said about the slaves.

However as I said before, I think he is a good choice. Moving on...

Wow. you hit us with the Lincoln argument?!? Touche.

Hey Rhonda!

I read what Lincoln said. Lincoln maybe like Biden see/saw minorities as humans, probably just humans they don't want to live next door to.

lol ms.martin !

Thats what I am thinking.

Nquest, I hear you and I am with you but this is the problem. It is obvious that many are misinformed about a pattern that he had that bothered me a bit. I always put actions over words but what bothered me was not the "clean/articulate" statement which was offensive all jokes aside but the D.C vs. Iowa school comments, he sounded like an ignorant racist white conservative not a man who is progressive on civil rights issues etc...

It threw me off because prior to this week, I didn't even know he said that.

Moving on.

Okay, I've found the D.C. vs. Iowa schools stuff from Biden... One thing that has to be noted is that the whole comparison was prefaced and prompted, actually, by Biden saying as his father used to, "show me your budget and I'll show you what you value." That's a markedly different viewpoint than "ignorant racist white conservatives" who try to change the subject the way the questioner did to focus not on the systematic inequalities but on dubious issues of "accountability" and personal responsibility.

There is a link to an audio clip here which at least adds context to Biden's statement that was every bit of whatever you want to call it (racist, etc.) but I don't live by the soundbite.

Again, the very thing that prompted the D.C. vs. Iowa school comparison was Biden's "progressive" idea of more/equal funding and/or attention to D.C. or urban schools. But now that I think about it, it makes sense why Obama chose Biden: apparently they think alike.

So, unless people are fully ready to dismiss Obama (who has made his share of questionable, "racist" anti-black statements) as someone who "sounds like ignorant racist white conservatives" and act accordingly, no matter what Obama's record is, then and only then can I fully understand this view on Biden. But I can be wrong or convinced otherwise. Which is the very reason why I asked to be educated.

Umm....what "questionable, 'racist' anti-black statements has Obama uttered? Did I miss this memo?

I was serious and sincere when I said someone would have to educate me. So could you give me a link to the D.C. vs. Iowa school comments you're talking about?

This campaign the Clintons have constantly been held out as "progressive on civil rights" and they've done more than sounded like ignorant racist white conservatives: they've given McCain and Co. new talking points, etc.

Not trying to trivialize this but I don't think it would be hard to find something you could hold against most/all White politicians and I'm definitely under no illusions that being a Democrat makes a White person/politician someone who is not racist.

Like Obama himself and like Obama suggested in his Philadelphia race speech... people are a mix of 'good' and 'bad' (for the lack of better words).

Thank you Nquest. Excellent points. I was just so angry at the "clean and bright and articulate" remarks from Biden that I disregarded what really counts: his voting record.

The Billary Campaign's

"Well Jesse Jackson won in '88"

"Bill Clinton is blacker than Barack Obama"

"Bill Clinton has dated more black women than Barack Obama"

"Well ya know the GOP is gonna say he's a drug dealer"

"He's only up there because he's black and everybody's caught up in the concept."

"He's not a Muslim...as far as I know."

"He should be proud to wear the clothes of his country"


and so many other statements are far worse than Joe Biden's "He's clean and articulate" bit. I'm SO glad Hillary didn't get it. PUMA needs to be euthanized.

LOL Obama and Biden should come out to "So Fresh So Clean" tomorrow and make a joke out of it.

THAT. WOULD. MAKE. MY. WEEK.

I am not so sensitive to every little word or comment made about minorities. Shoot, I have made a few jokes myself in my lifetime about everybody. I couldn't care less. His voting record is what matters to me.

Now lets get to gettin' and take out the trash.

Go Obama/Biden 08

Preach.

Yep, because that is such a non-issue. Loquacious Joe misspoke and tht happens; I didn't see it as a bigoted statement.

I remember him from the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings. He was effective and hilarious.

Biden is very popular with the "regular" democrats. I liked him from seeing him on the Daily Show. I was wounded by his remark about Obama early in the campaign but I thought it was more about not thinking rather than racism.
By choosing Biden, Obama may prove to some fence sitters that he is not one to play "the race card" and it may take the wind out of a lot those sails. This is the strongest ticket duo for winning in my mind. I do like to think that Michelle had a sit down conversation with Joe, heh

Some of Biden's comments regarding racial issues, can certainly be interpreted as insensitive, but I don't get the big hub bub about the "clean and articulate" comment.

I don't think he was trying to be offensive at all. When he said clean, I thought he meant fresh, and when he said articulate, I thought he was pointing out the obvious.

"I thought it was more about not thinking rather than racism. "

Exactly

He could have done worse than Senator "Hairplugs".

Sorry, I couldn't resist, LOL.

However, as Jack rightfully said, my only concern was that he didn't pick Hillary. Or Evan Bayh, who is ReThug-lite.

Joe Biden represents yet another in a series of acquiescences to white voters that have defined the Obama campaign almost from the outset. Biden is a Washington insider and the racist subtext of so many of his statements are too much for me to stomach - despite my (admittedly reserved) support for the Obama campaign up to this point. I will be casting my ballot for Cynthia McKinney. I cannot endorse Biden on the ticket in good conscience. I cannot handle this level of appeasement to appeal to covert white racists. On the other hand, at least it wasn't Hillary.

I hope you reconsider...we have to be a united front. McCain is not the person that we should want in office because he would absolutely choose to worsen the mess that the Bush administration has created with our economy and our foreign policy. McCain is a hothead with proven history of not choosing to think before he acts. We desperately need someone in office that actually THINKS!

I agree. John McCain is already eyeing his next war. He is the heir apparent of the military industrial complex. He has already started to threaten Russia and he hasn't been elected yet. He has also said publically that your employer shouldn't contribute to your health insurance or provide women with birthcontrol pills. He wants to over turn Roe v Wade. He also voted AGAINST equal pay for equal work for women, if you care. Please be reminded that this IS the 21st century. He will definitely be another puppet leader and continue GW Bush's track record of international humiliation. On the positive side, it may force the global community to finally denounce and repudiate US imperialism.

I really feel you on this decision. Had O selected Clinton, I would be sitting out (I think), But when I think about McCain rolling back the gains and freedoms we have as women, I get killer upset. I don't want my son to be drafted and I don't want my daughter to receive less $ on her job because she is female. Both propositions are insane. Please keep an open mind until closer to voting day.

well LucyC - do what you do have to do and move on.

Go Obama/Biden 08

despite my (admittedly reserved) support for the Obama campaign up to this point.

Seems like you were looking for an excuse not to vote for Obama.

LucyC I fear your observations may be on target even though people do not want to agree. No one can tell you whom to vote for, however if you live in a Swing State I'd urge you to reconsider. I do know if the Greens get 5% of the vote they will have Congressional representation. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. And honestly we need a bust-up of the monopoly - though with the way this country operates the money people behind the curtain would try to co-opt them all the same. Obama is running a campaign to win and honestly Black people may have helped him secure the nomination but some are still under the impression our votes are in the bag. This is the time to put pressure on those that would deny us our due. We do have to be focused at this time about what our overall goal will be. We cannot under ANY circumstance have McCain in office. We cannot have a weakened agenda in an Obama administration either. So might I suggest that we all make every effort past our comfort zones to effect real progress. It's more than Obama. We need to take ownership of what happens in this country. I think this is the first time people realize how sitting on the sidelines is equivalent to slitting not only our throats but literally killing millions of people around the world. And let's face it, we know what has happened to the few people in leadership positions who were prescribed as being the heart and soul of a movement. WE have to be the movement, not a figurehead. How many people are REALLY willing to cut back and give up things they want BY CHOICE if it means others will have more, not more than they need but just enough to get by?

LucyC's observations are not on target. Framing this decision as acquiescing to white people is cynical and narrow minded.

Your observations, on the other hand, are on point.

Carry on.

I agree Craig. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but why must people's knee jerk reaction to almost every decision Obama makes be that he is trying to "appease" White voters? Why can't people just give the man the benefit of the doubt that he made the best decision based on advice from people that he trusted? I'm not doing back flips over Biden, but the more I thought about it, the more that I realized I didn't have more than lukewarm feelings about the other options anyway.

Actually, the one person that I wanted him to pick, Colin Powell, presented his own set of problems (i.e. Iraq, lack of time in the Senate).

And with all the other viable options, he still faced obstacles: Richardson, Clinton, Sebelius, Kaine, Bayh, Reed. For any person that he picked there were going to be many people that were not happy because of that person's voting record, that person's perceived weaknesses, and possibly that person's gender.

Goodness, maybe some Obama supporters do expect him to walk on water.

TRW: "Why can't people just give the man the benefit of the doubt . . . ."

O.K. I'' take a stab at this multiple choice question:

A. Because he's Black

B. Because he's African-American[father=African; mother=American]

C. Because he's Black

D. Because he's Black

E. ALL of the ABOVE

I'm going with E!!

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!!! :>) :>) :>)

Your statement sums up why Democrats lose. We're not playing to make statements;we're playing to win.

With this level of acquiescence, what exactly are we winning at this point?

I'm not sure why you only see it as acquiescence. But even still, you can't make political decisions in a vacuum.

Kaine was clearly Barack's first choice.

How successful a ticket do you think that would've been as the nation has once again been duped by the wag the dog of Georgia and Russia's threats to start another cold war?

United we stand, divided we fall

It would be funny if all of us got our text/email at 3am and it's NOT Biden.

Town, U got it right!...they are sending text messages at 3AM. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm an Obama-Lover...but this (atleast for me) is the first big fuggUp of the whole dayum campaign.

I don't know.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about Joe Biden. So I'll have to research it. He seems like a "kick ass, worry about hurt feelings later" type of person. I just need for Biden to shut down whoever is McNopoly's running mate like he shut down Guiliani. If he does that, I'm happy.

Town - that is what Biden will do.

it = him. lol

Yeah I'm sure a lot of people would be relieved.

I am praying...Delaware is pretty close to PA right? I sure as shyt hope that jet is picking up Senator Casey from PA.

If Richardson didn't have low level womanizing issues that would SURELY blow up in his face the moment he landed on a bumper sticker he would have been the easy choice.

Biden is a lot of things, but he aint phony.

You have to respect the gangsta of a cat who rides the train back and forth to Wilmington rather than shack up in DC.

The text message bit really wasnt for the political junkies like us, it was for regular folk like my wife, who only knows now because I woke her up with my pitter pattering on the laptop.


MOST people will wake up to the text.


Once they dispatch secret service detail, it is a wrap.


It is a testament to the campaign that no major media outlet would break the story until after the 11 oclock news on Friday.

Biden is going to have to do some housekeeping with regards to black folk, but as long as he plays the good soldier, I think he will be a good fit.


I know McCain cannot be pleased.

Richardson also had a CV padding problem back in the day.

McCain is probably pleased as "punch," and ready to select Romney.

If it is Biden...If the ticket is Obama-Biden, then it's too liberal (and I'm an ultra-liberal saying this...).

Shyt, he could've chosen Clark or Kaine--someone with southern-quasi-conservative heritage to help balance the ticket.

There will be much second-guessing if things do not work out on 11/4. The Clintonistas (such as Carville) are already setting up 2012.

We are no longer in the primary elections...We are in the general election campaign. If Joe Biden was so ***kin successful with working-class voters, then why did he come in 19th place in the Iowa Caucuses??? Uninspired. Biden on the ticket will not make me (or anyone else) feel more comfortable when Osama Bin Laden shows up with his endorsement on 11/3.

Biden came in 19th place because Clinton and Obama sucked all the air out of the room and caucuses don't allow for non-front runners to gain traction.

Obama-Biden isn't NEARLY as liberal as KerryEdwards or GoreLieberman. This notion of painting Obama (especially) as some kind of cookie cutter liberal has to stop.

and after 8 years of BushCheyney, Liberal isnt nearly the dirty word it was.


All Senators get painted with the ideological brush because of the nature of the Senatorial process.


Nothing about Mitt Romney pleases McCain. if Romney gets the nod, then he is a useful idiot.

And I GUARANTEE you there will be a moment where Biden cracks Romneys face with a Lloyd Bentsen like retort.

Lloyd Bentsen cracked Quayle's face...But Bush-41 still won the election.

Romney is a former Governor and successful business executive. Mormonism may have cost him the Republican Presidential Nom, but in a general election, people are going to look for reassurance.

Obama-Biden doesn't reassure me. Obama-Biden presumes that America will be dominated by foreign policy concerns during the next four years.

Foreign affairs will not be the issue in this election. As Carville said in '92, "It's the economy stupid." At first I thought Carville was looking "pissy" for the sake of looking pissy earlier today (on CNN). Now, I know exactly what he's feeling...he's feeling sick about four more years under a republican administration.

The punditocracy is praising this ticket. Even conservative David Brooks is praising the ticket. It reminds me of how the punditocracy predicted that Hillary would be the Presidential Nominee...and it scares the shyt out of me.

Different time, different ticket, different campaign. This is a good choice.

"Noun, verb, 9/11."

"That's bull****"

Joe ain't nothing to play with.

Biden definitely will fight. That is a good thing.
I trust Barack's decisions.

jelana: Me 2! :>) :>)

Uninspired.

If McCain chooses Romney, it's going to be pretty tough. Inspite of eight years of Bush-Cheney, if you add Pro-Life "I'm NOT going to Hell no matter how bad the economy gets" PLUS the Hillary-Lovin Obama Haters...it's going to be pretty tough.

Uninspired by this choice (if it's true).

There's no amount of oratory on next Thursday or debate performances that may (will) overcome the racist tendencies of some of these mofos in the electorate.

Uninspired. I sure as shyt hope that Plouffe/Axelrod got some tactics that are going to compensate for this decision...cause I'm uninspired.

I will not be racing to get an Obama-Biden bumpersticker anytime soon...I feel like GA and VA have just slipped off da ***ckin table...my state is no longer in play.

GA? Georgia was never about a running mate. The state is all about either the majority voting for Obama or McCain....PERIOD. Trust, who the VP pick is has NOTHING to do with how this state swings. If the voter registration drives keep going the way they are and those new voters VOTE in November, Obama will win. If that doesn't happen McCain will win...but it aint got a darn thing to do with the VP pick, no southeastern state gives a damn who the VP pick is.

Can you explain your last statement, please. I wanna understand how you think Biden hurts Barack in VA and GA.

Who was your first choice?

The text message/e-mail didn't happen because someone, probably someone outside the campaign, leaked the information to the media. Once the word was out about the Secret Service, their cover was blown. The campaign's not going to send it out early when: 1. most people aren't paying attention to the news on Friday night and 2. they said they'd send it Saturday morning.

The October 2nd vice presidential debate w/ Gwen Ifill just got a lot more interesting. Joe Biden is going to wipe the floor with whatever suit the Republicans put up. I can't wait.

Obama-Biden, let's go!

Should of pick Richardson... oh well there is a reason why Biden has never own anything outside Del

I am not pleased. I look at this as MAJOR capitulation. Yeah Obama isn't McCain but dang it! Why didn't we get the promised text message? If we get spammed I am going to be so pissed off!

they can't control everything at shop obama. you know how many reporters were on the hunt for this story. honestly, it's good reporting at CNN. rare praise from me. now let's hope they apply those bloodhound skills to uncovering the sham of an economy we have and the flagrant injusti--- oh who am i kidding.

No kidding. I'm sure the Secret Service was dispatched the moment the campaign signaled that they'd send the text messages. At that point, it's pretty much a red blinking neon sign saying "He's VP." Most regular folks woke up and saw it on their phones, anyway.

He's got a 100% rating from the NAACP, League of Conservation Voters and Planned Parenthood. Unions LOVE him. His wife is a teacher.

AND--he's an Irish Catholic from Scranton, PA. He can help get those folks on board. That's where the "fresh and clean" comments help, actually: it shows that just because he mis-speaks, Obama is not "over-sensitive" on the race thing.

Now, I believe the notion that we are "over-sensitive" on racial matters is bullshit, but it doesn't matter what I believe. Joe can help seal the deal with that segment--the ones who are hurting, but have been racially conditioned. He can be the attack dog so Obama stays above the fray. He's smart. He's got a great voting record.

Game ON!

And as far as Virginia--please remember that we were the first state to elect an African American man as governor, and it was done when the demographics were less kinder than now.

I'm excited. Let's kick some ass.

I didn't get my email from B.O. Kinda sad about that. Kinda uninspired with Biden, but am trusting Obama to make a good decision. Ready to move on and get this thing won.

I am so feeling you on that.