Apparently it IS possible to make Barack Hussein Obama even more unelectable than he already is.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next never-will-be-vice-president of the United States, Joe Biden.
Okay, he's an aged white man, just like the Obamaniacs wanted (though one wonders why.)
But he's also one of the wettest eco-liberals in US politics. Not exactly the sort of person to mitigate and soften Obama's own hyper-lefty tendencies so much as exaggerate and amplify them.
Biden's pro-environment, pro-choice, anti-tax cuts, pro-gun control and pro-gay civil unions. Whatever the merits of any of those individual positions, they certainly won't endear the Obama ticket to the MOR Republican-lite voters and undecideds that they need to get over the line in November. If anything, the opposite.
He is vaunted for his foreign affairs knowledge, however. Again, his positions seem unelectable to me. He's in favour of dialogue with Iran and North Korea, the so-called axis of evil, for example. He wants American troops sent into Darfur.
While his pro-Israel views might align him with the US mainstream, they're hardly a standout issue. After all, is there ANYONE in American politics who doesn't give the Zionist regime a carte blanche?
According to the Washington Post, who analysed senatorial voting patterns, pretty much the only Senator with a more liberal voting record than Biden is - Obama, of course.
Response in the States has been predictable:
Glee from the McCain camp, who are delighted to see Obama pick such an unelectable running mate.
More dark murmurings from the Clintonistas and the sisterhood that they don't feel comfortable voting for the Obama ticket, especially without a woman on it, and double-especially without Hilary.
Forced cheer from the true believers, whose initial JFK hysteria is subsiding into an 'Omigod, what have we done?' hangover more and more each day.
What does it all add up to? Another Republican president, of course, albeit a one-termer.
I don't mind adding my voice to the cliche - the Democrats really are set hard on grasping defeat from the jaws of victory, and it looks like they've managed it now.
2 comments:
You got that right, Mister. Biden brings nothing to the ticket except more ultra-leftist radicalism and mind-numbingly empty run-on (and on and on) rhetoric -- peppered with "above my pay grade" wishy-washiness.
By picking Biden -- who is an entrenched Washington liberal "old boy" political hack -- Obama has merely done two things: amplify his own unutterable unpatriotic and immoral beliefs; and, affirm that he is an affirmative-action puppet candidate for whom the Dems have appointed a "tried and true" string-puller (plagiarist and presidential-race reject though that string-puller may be).
The Dems sure know how to pick em.
It gets worse for the Dems. McCain's picked a gem of a Veep.
Palin is ideally placed to hoover up a lot of disgruntled Clintonista votes, not to mention swing voters and soccer moms.
Obama's in a real race now.
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