Barack Obama announced Deleware Senator Joseph Biden as his VP running mate. This seems to be a odd choice for Obama, considering Biden once supported John McCain as a vice presidential choice for John Kerry in 2004.And let’s face it; Biden isn’t known for his smooth talking, savvy off the cuff comments. In fact, he is known for his politically incorrect comments, for instance when he called Obama a “clean” black person.
In a February 2007 interview with the New York Observer Biden said, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy. I mean that is story book, man.”
Biden stirred up the pudding good and race pimp Al Sharpton was quick to show his distaste toward the comments telling Biden, “I take a bath everyday.”
However this is not the first time Biden has gaffed. How about in October 2007 when he told the Washington Post, --One reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city’s high minority population… What??? Let a conservative say that and their career would virtually be over.
Here is another quote from Biden:
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin Donut unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” [Video here]
Then in this video we have Biden basically bragging that Delaware was a slave state and that he is not a Northeastern liberal…huh???
So here we have a man who blurts out what is on his mind, politically correct or not, at not the best of times. This has the potential to make the rest of this election season highly entertaining, but this had very little bearing in Obama’s decision to pick him as his running mate.
What Biden ads to Obama’s ticket is experience, particularly on foreign policy. He has, after all, been the head of the Foreign Relations Committee since June 2001. At the same time what Obama does not need is someone to emphasizes his own inexperience.
Which makes the Delaware Senator an even odder choice, considering in the primary it was Biden who harped on Obama’s lack of experience and said he was not ready to serve as president.
In my opinion, Obama has displayed a complete lack of confidence by choosing a Washington insider that has been in office longer than half of all Americans have been alive. So much for a campaign of change, looks like the same old thing to me.
What Biden ads to Obama’s ticket is experience, particularly on foreign policy. He has, after all, been the head of the Foreign Relations Committee since June 2001. At the same time what Obama does not need is someone to emphasizes his own inexperience.
Which makes the Delaware Senator an even odder choice, considering in the primary it was Biden who harped on Obama’s lack of experience and said he was not ready to serve as president.
In my opinion, Obama has displayed a complete lack of confidence by choosing a Washington insider that has been in office longer than half of all Americans have been alive. So much for a campaign of change, looks like the same old thing to me.
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