In his movement for change he's chosen another congressman who's been in Washington for decades, Joe Biden. McCain's campaign was ready, and released an ad within hours showing Biden himself criticizing Obama and saying McCain would be good for the country. A few facts about Biden:
- Elected to congress when he was 29. He won by less than 4,000 votes. That was 36 years ago. Biden is the ultimate Washington insider.
- As a senator, he voted for the invasion of Iraq. (Obama had an opinion, but he didn't have the intellegence to back up that opinion - I mean the information from the US intellegence agencies)
- Biden ran for President 20 years ago (twenty!), but lost his chances after he plagiarised a speech. (Luckily, Obama's repeated plagiarism hasn't been a problem for him.) [here's one video showing one time BHO plagiarised]
- He said he'd be honored to run with or against McCain. Prediction: As the VP pick for Barak, you'll wonder how this attack dog said he'd be honored to run with McCain.
- He's strong with experience and foreign policy.
- He won the election by higher percentages in the vote until 1996. Since then it's declined. (50%,58%,60%,63%,60%,58%)
I find it interesting that Obama picked another Senator with no executive experience in business or politics. Neither of them has had to be the decision maker. Picking a governor, a mayor of New York city, or a business executive would have been showing that he and the people ... behind him think that executive experience is important. I have to wonder if they see a difference between the Legislative and Executive branches of US government.
After all the criticism that Bush has received from the Left, that he was inexperienced and didn't know about foreign policy so Cheney must have been pulling the strings... Hasn't Obama's campaign put him in the same place. Isn't it beginning to look like Obama may be 4 more years of Bush?
Here's the McCain ad released hours after the announcement.
In the video, he says "I'd be honored to run with or against John McCain because I think the country would be better off."
What does that mean?