Right now, you might be saying “Teach, are you drunk? Have you drunk the liberal kool aid? Or, are you just a bit fetched in the head?” Maybe a bit of 1 and 3, but, let’s think about what the pick of Biden brings.

There is not much point in going over what so many pundits and columnists wrote Saturday. The basics that most, both left and right came to, was “he really ads nothing to the ticket. He won’t bring in many votes, he won’t help with the South, he makes Obama look like the foreign policy neophyte he really is, heck, he makes Barry look like a neophyte in most things. Joe is much more qualified to be president then Barry. He has those massive ties to lobbyists that Barry whines about. He is a massive Washington insider. This has really pissed of Hillary’s supporters. Etc, and so on.”

And, sure, there were many on the left and right who wrote that this was a massively bad pick. Some on the Left tried to spin it positively, but, you know they were popping out a post quickly so they could get back to cleaning the bathroom.

And women have not been entirely enthused with the pick.

But, this was a great pick. No, still not drunk.

The reason is simple: Biden carries a massive amount of baggage, as so many have pointed out. The gaffes, the racism, the runaway mouth, the lobbyist ties, the Washington insider mentality. And, how much and how often will the right side of the Internet, along with the miniscule Conservative leaning media, folks like Rush, Hannity, Levin, et all, bring Joe’s negatives up? And when he does or says something dumb? Even the liberal media might come out from their doggie houses and notice.

From my point of view, the pick of Joe 7-11 is one designed to deflect away from Barry and his character issues, his lack of advertised substance and policy (we know what he really stands for, but, that will not make it into the mainstream media), gaffes Barry makes, and his inexperience. Joe can get out there and attack, attack, attack, while Barry sits back and plays Mr. Lovable Hope and Change without getting his hands dirty.

Even the AP climbed out of their liberal tree house made of Arugula to notice that Biden fills the attack role. This way, Barry can remain articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

Anything that keeps the eyes focused off Barry’s negatives is a positive for Barry. That anything is Joe Biden.

So, the best thing to do is mostly ignore Biden. When he goes on the attack, do not address the responses to Joe, but back to Barry. Consider McCain’s latest attack, which attempts to get to Hillary supporters over the pick of Biden. Go after Barry, not Joe. Joe is Barry’s shield. Treat Joe as a sideshow, much like John Edwards was treated during the 2004 cycle.

Obama Biden 2008

Campaign posters for the Obama Biden 2008 ticket are already being posted on the internet. Some of these guys are really on top of things. This campaign poster was created at Exurban League. I hope the Obama Biden campaign will consider using it.

h/t: The Median Sib

Anyone think they will have been scrubbed at this point?

As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, the University of Illinois at Chicago said today that it will release records of Sen. Barack Obama’s service to a nonprofit organization linked to William Ayers, a Chicago education professor who was a radical protestor in the 1960s.

Sen. John McCain’s allies have been trying to exploit the tie between Obama and Ayers, with a McCain fundraiser donating nearly $2.9 million for an independent TV ad focusing on Ayers, whose Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge,which Obama chaired and which Ayers co-founded, will be made available to the public on Tuesday, UIC said in a statement.

We’ll see on Tuesday, I guess. Set the reminder to “11:58pm.”

Obligatory Biden’s Barry’s Bitch Vice Presidential pick. Even the New York Times couldn’t get excited, particularly at 3am, several hours after all the Obama supporters were informed by the TV news, and could finally walk away from their phones and take a shower and get something to eat

Senator Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware to be his running mate, turning to a leading authority on foreign policy and a longtime Washington hand to fill out the Democratic ticket, Mr. Obama announced in text and e-mail messages early Saturday.

Mr. Obama’s selection ended a two-month search that was conducted almost entirely in secret. It reflected a critical strategic choice by Mr. Obama: To go with a running mate who could reassure voters about gaps in his résumé, rather than to pick someone who could deliver a state or reinforce Mr. Obama’s message of change.

Right

Real change with a guy who has been in the Senate for well over 30 years. Change. Hope. A guy who has repeatedly stated that Obama is not qualified to be president

Today, McCain spokesman Ben Porritt issued the following statement on Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate:

“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden. Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be President.”

Let’s go to the video tape

Ouch.

Let’s check a few of the DUmmies, shall we?

• Actually it’s a horrible choice. But I’ll still vote for that ticket. Biden will hurt us, not help us.
• Blame secret service to blow it not the campaign. (no, seriously, this DUmmy just blamed the USSS)
• Indeed. Valerie Plame said the Bush Admin can’t keep a secret!! (managed to drag BDS in)
• I checked. It’s really too bad. I thought he’d pick someone better. Oh well. They still get my vote because the alternative is a guaranteed World War III.
• now that the internet creators of the obama product have all those email addresses how soon do you think they’ll be sending campaign donation solicitation messages? All hose addresses will go into Democratic party lists……I wonder if they’ll be available to marketers? If they’re part of a political campaign are they public property now? (aha! someone gets the point of the phone list)
• f*ck I’m drunk. maybe I will wake up tomorrow and the Biden part will be gone.
• I’M MAD If Biden is the VP then i would have wanted Obama to send me a text earlier today before the crazed media got hold of this information. I can see it now, me holding up a newspaper tomorrow morning saying “BIDEN FOR VP!” while I get my text message at 10am saying the same thing. This would make me mad at Obama b/e it makes this text out the VP seen like a scam just to get my number. (then again, when is a DUmmy not mad?)
• Obama chooses Mr. Screw the People for VP, Corporate Lackey Joe Biden stands in the wings, Hillary in pants. I might be wrong and what America really needs is someone knows how to kneel and tongue banker booty.

And these were not even the bad ones. Mostly, they are pissed off about not getting their texts ahead of the announcement. Quite a few of them feel taken, denied by the Messiah. But, no worries, as I am sure the Neophyte/Long Time Washington Insider ticket will be sending plenty of text messages asking for money.

One more?

DainBramaged - Unite under Obama/Biden or get on the mothership and leave.

No more bitching and moaning, he IS our VP Candidate.

THAT is all.

Progressive version of free speech.

Anyhow, see a ton more at Memeorandum.

My 1.4 cents: the pick of Biden will, at best, have no impact for Barry. Sure, he provides some experience in government, something Barry is sorely lacking in, but, he didn’t do that well in the Primaries. And, with all due respect to Delaware, there isn’t a whole lot in Delaware. It won’t help Barry with the South.

This pick can hurt Obama. If he is lucky, just a little bit. Biden loves to put his foot in his mouth, though. And there are many, many comments by Joe dismissing Obama, both generally and specifically, as unqualified to be president which Camp McCain can take advantage of.

Its just so much fun that the Obama campaign has made a big ol’ dog and pony show out of his vice presidential pick!

Joe Biden

Obama’s people are out now telling everybody why Joseph Biden is such a great choice for the Obama VP position. All of the sudden, they need someone with more experience, someone with some fire and fight in them, someone who brings foreign policy experience, etc. All the things they said didn’t matter that the Obamessiah didn’t have.

So, its going to be Obama Biden 2008! Ha. I would have picked him myself if Obama had asked me. I just don’t know which one of them will listen since they both love the sounds of their own voices.

Here’s some fun videos of Joe Biden. The first one is of him saying that there would be a doughnut crisis in the country if it weren’t for Indian American’s running 7-11s. The other one is of him saying he is not a Northeastern liberal snob since his state was a slave state. He says that gives him credentials in the South and will help him win the South.

Oh - and remember. He is the guy who said that it was just wonderful to have Obama in the democratic party since he’s an African American who is ‘clean and articulate‘.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Its important for your vice presidential running mate to think you are articulate and clean I think.

:snort:

Here’s a biography on Joseph Biden’s wife, Jill Biden.

Poor Joe Klein at Time. He is watching his candidate implode. Reminds me of Don Imus beating his head against a wall after a John Kerry interview while saying “this is my guy, and I don’t know what he is talking about”

A few days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. “I want somebody … who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than they are right now,” he said. “I want somebody who is mad right now that people are losing their jobs.” And I immediately thought, Uh-oh.

Memories of John Kerry in 2004 came flooding back, of how he tended to describe his feelings rather than experience them, of how he suddenly —and unconvincingly — started to say he was “angry” about this or that when his consultants told him that Howard Dean’s anger about the war in Iraq was hitting home with voters. And then, in the general election, Kerry kept repeating the word strength rather than demonstrating it. Clearly, Obama’s consultants have given him similar advice, that he was on the short end of a passion gap — that it was time for emo. A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his “blood boil.”

Or, Joe, it could just be that Obama is a neophyte when it comes to tough elections, since he has never had to fight hard in them. For his first Illinois election, he had most of his competitors disqualified. For his 2004 Senate run, the GOP opponents were first Jack Ryan, who left because of the sex charges in his divorce papers, then Alan Keyes. It was a walk over. Now, he has a tough one on his hands against a seasoned veteran, one who has specific policies. Obama has very few policies that he would want to share. Abortion on demand, hell, terminating babies who are still alive after an abortion, are not issues that will excite the average American. Perhaps the far end progressives, but not average Americans.

Joe thinks Barry should concentrate on the economy. Great! Can’t wait to hear that debate and the substance, considering Barry has really done nothing in during his short pants time in office, versus McCain, who has been there, done that.

But, Joe, see, it is not the passion, the feelings, the empathy. It is the lack of substance, and his poor character. And, as Peggy Noonan points out, people are starting to really pay attention to the race. The people who are the swing voters. And they want to know who the hell they are voting for, and what his policies will be. Not the patronizing ones. The real ones. And what the character of the Democrat nominee is, after 7+ years of Democrats complaining about Bush.

Say, whatever happened to Barry’s healthcare plans? We don’t hear much about that anymore.

The Surrender Monkey jumps in the way back machine today, to a time when he put on his pink party dress and visited Queen Nancy on the floor of the House, along with his French cousin Reddition, in light of this new story by the San Francisco Chronicle

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-S.F., has done something worse than commit a crime against the First Amendment. The speaker’s censorship of nonobtrusive posters featuring men and women who gave that last full measure of devotion in service to their country is a blunder that could alienate 23 million veterans and their families from the Democratic Party. If she is endowed with a crumb of constitutional or political sense, she will reverse course.

The tale of Pelosi’s folly begins with Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. He wished to pay tribute to the service members of Camp Lejeune who had been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Accordingly, Walter placed a poster flat against the wall in the corridor outside his office showing their names and pictures.

It was altogether fitting that Jones saluted the fallen soldiers on congressional premises. Congress authorized the wars that occasioned their tragic deaths. Congress appropriated the money that dispatched them to mortal danger. The posters communicated to congressional visitors that war is a combination of heroism and hell. Voters would leave with more informed judgments about the costs of the twin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no tension between Jones’ wall poster and the ordinary use of the House Rayburn Office Building to host direct communications between Members of the House and the public. On one occasion, for instance, a mother from Minnesota entered Jones’ office with tears in her eyes to thank him for displaying the picture of her son who had been killed while serving the nation.

But, Queen Nancy did not like that. She wanted it cleaned up. She told Jones to remove the poster back in July. Now, apparently, she had it forcibly removed at the beginning of August. A poster paying homage to the troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Removed. So much for any free speech.

What is so surprising is that it was an article in the San Fran Chronicle. A bastion of far, far liberalism. Of course, the bulk of the writers argument is that she is going to cause Democrats to lose military votes in November. Typical.

He said he was against lobbyists, and against PACs. Remember his ad, where he said “I’m Barack Obama, and I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change any more”? And this

In a statement today, Obama spokesman Bill Burton, reiterated that Obama doesn’t take PAC money or money from federal registered lobbyists, and “that includes oil companies and oil lobbyists.”

Interesting, eh? Pretty much everyone refuted those statements. But, did you know that Barry has his own PAC, Hopefund? It is not exactly a secret, but it is not something I have seen covered much, and the links about it I find are stories that are typically buried.

Question: is it proper for a Congressman to spread around money to other sitting Congresspeople? What kind of propriety does that show? Is that part of Hope and Change and Change and Hope, or simply the politics as normal that Obama learned from the Chicago Machine?

Is it proper for a sitting US Senator, and presidential wannabe, to spread money around to reelection campaigns for other congresspeople and state reelection groups, in effect using his PAC to skirt the donation rules? Is this the politics of Hope and Change?

And, is this year old report from The Hill part of the “new politics” of Barry?

Two weeks after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the first endorsement of a lawmaker from Iowa or New Hampshire, a new fundraising report shows that he has spent the past two months using money from his leadership political action committee (PAC) to court them.

Obama showered lawmakers from Iowa and New Hampshire with contributions while other presidential hopefuls turned their focus to raising money for their presidential campaign accounts, records show.

Just more Hope and Change, Chicago Machine style. Especially the $202,807 he has taken from MoveOn. He won’t take money (so he says) from oil companies, which provide a product to help us get to work and keep our economy going, but, Barry will take money from unhinged extreme leftists.

A press release from Camp McCain via The Corner

Please see comment from me on Barack Obama’s new ad supposedly running in Georgia:

Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.

“However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs … I feel we didn’t do enough.’

“The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?” —McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. Question: how soon will Camp Barry jump in the waaaaah!-mbulance and start calling Mccain mean and of running a mean an un-civil campaign? Barry won’t respond to the allegations, of course, nor will the Credentialed Media follow up.

Via Stop The ACLU, which also links to Doug Ross, who tears apart the Barry’s camps insinuations about Abramoff, and shows Barry’s links to Perp Jack.

Sister Toldjah: Unfortunately for the Obama campaign, they clearly haven’t learned that if you’re going to engage in a battle of wits, it’s best you come armed with more than just a lofty speech.

Technically, she is not a MILF, but, I wouldn’t mind if she was my sugar momma! Maureen continues her assault on the Messiah in today’s column, Two Against One, and shows a sense of actual humor, something most progressives are lacking. Crying, fainting, smearing feces on themselves (which, I guess is humorous, if disgusting,) screaming in rage, yes. Humor, no. Maybe she is slowly coming to the dark side

In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal.

They grin at each other as they lift their celebratory shots of brutally cold Stolichnaya.

“Our toast to The One,” they say in unison, “is that he’s toast.”

“Obama should have picked you, Hillary,” John McCain tells her. “It isn’t fair, my friend. But it just makes it easier for me to whup him.”

“Don’t worry, John, I’ve put it behind me,” Hillary replies. “I’m looking toward the future now, a future that looks very bright, once we send Twig Legs back to the back bench.”

Wait, did she just call Barry “Twig Legs?” The NY editors are going to get strongly worded letters shortly which all seem to look the same. Will the Barry camp whine about Mo being mean?

“He’s a bright young man, but he got ahead of himself,” McCain says. “He needs to be taught a lesson, and we’re the ones to do it. Have you seen the new Bloomberg poll? Obama’s dropped and we’re even again. The Bullet’s getting all the credit, but you and I know, Hillary, that it’s these top-secret counseling sessions we’re having. And thanks again for BlackBerrying me the Rick Warren questions while I was in the so-called cone of silence.”

“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”

I suppose Mo’s point is that the McCain campaign is using many of the same tactics against Barry as Camp Clinton did, but, Mo seems to approve. If it works, do it.

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