I see that Kevin got his degree in Higher Broderism, where being right is less important than compromising.  So, you need to balance the ticket by picking someone with poor judgment to go along with someone with good judgment.  Makes sense.

I disagree.  

Biden's vote notwithstanding, he's been unrelentingly critical and in my view, honest about the war in general.  He knows what is happening in the rest of the world, and would be a fantastic attack dog, as Kevin pointed out.

I've never understood the blogosphere's general dislike of Biden.  I find him refreshing and smart.

I'm not saying he would be my first choice at all, I'm saying dismissing the idea out of hand is a bit shrill.  

John O

Would Drum's judgment possibly be skewed by the fact that he originally supported the war himself?

his post needed a meta tag

There is no way in hell Biden should be VP. I haven't forgotten that he started taking credit for the Leslie Gelb idea of dividing Iraq.

Wasn't Biden the one behind the disastrous bankruptcy reform bill that's been one of the things murdering people in the present economic depression? Wouldn't that automatically disqualify him from the ticket?

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?

I really think that Sherrod Brown or Richardson would be the best choices. Biden would be a horrific for just a number of reasons. I really think if Obama is smart he'll pick somebody to his left for the vice presidency so that it's quite clear that nothing good will come if something grassy knoll "bad" were to happen to him...You want the shooters to think "Oh great. A hispanic president..." or "Oh great. A pro union anti wto/nafta president..."

Philip Shropshire
www.threeriversonline.com

PS: Someone please tell me that Sherrod Brown is pro choice.

Philip Shropshire http://www.threeriversonline.com

I've made no secret that I don't mind the idea of Biden as a VP, but that is the worst reasoning...

What it is is a habit of selling out. Well, we're not really anti-war. I mean, you know, war is still cool and all. You guys'll still like me, right?

Yech...

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. -Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

Well, Biden's duller than shit. A disaster in the making as a campaigner. What is it with Apparatchik Old Dem Fighting Liberals and their thing for malfunctioning outpatients from the Disney Animatronics Lab? Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Biden?

People won't vote for a candidate who tacitly seems to be calling them idiots.

Raise you two Bushes and a Cheney.

Have I ever told you about my poor memory?

"Serious people", as the word is used by that self-described group, never saw an unnecessary war.

There are necessary wars, but they almost always begin as unnecessary wars started by someone else. The exceptions are few. I think most reasonable people would say that if a foreign leader starts talking about the necessity of war with your country and begins a massive mobilization of their armed forces, you should definitely mobilize your own and seriously consider whether you should strike first or plan on a defense in depth strategy.

Needless to say, only two countries share a land border with us, and neither of them are credible opponents. Short of the rise of another actively expansionist world power like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, all American wars at present are, therefore, unnecessary.

Really serious people understand this.

"Serious people", on the other hand, are formulating foreign policy from their personal psychological complexes, often including a need to be seen as "serious people" and a need to impose their will violently upon others. George Bush launched an invasion of Iraq not because of WMD or any other threat to the United States, but because his personal psychological inadequacies required him to. In layman's terms, he's mentally ill and a danger to others.

Really serious people keep hoping that the general public will eventually wake up to the realization that much of what has passed for "serious" leadership over bulk of human history is a symptom of serious psychological disorders.

I realize that many of you may think this approach is a non-starter politically, but it is the simple fact of the matter, and politics not based on facts leads to... where we are now.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

It would lend such credibility to Obama's ticket to have the number two slot filled by a guy whose '88 Presidential campaign ended in disgrace after he was exposed for stealing Neil Kinnoch's campaign commercials, who disastrously and ineffectively chaired the Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas hearings (where Anita Hill was trashed), who bears major responsibility for the bankruptcy bill and who, as a white guy, could give such a ringing endorsement to the cleanliness and articulateness of the biracial guy at the top of the ticket.

Seriously, now!

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