Biden’s Slip Ups and Long Winded Questions
We still don’t know who Senator Obama is going to pick to be his running mate but I can assure you I will be one of the first seven billion or so to find out. When I do I will let you know. Until then we have one person’s take on one of the finalists; Joe Biden. Enjoy! [Well, that’s unless you’re a Biden fan then you probably won’t enjoy this all that much.]
This would be a great match for Mr. Obama.
Mr. Biden’s previous racial controversies include his infamous—and almost certainly misunderstood—“clean” and “articulate” comment about Barack Obama to the Observer back in January 2007, and his off-hand remark two summers ago in his home state of Delaware that “you can not enter a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have an Indian accent.”
But what I recall best about Senator Biden comes right out of my own memory as a brand new congressional staffer while I was but a young kid. Biden was already known in his very early years in politics for his long winded, convoluted and often times non-sensical questions at hearings. It was almost as if he kept the question going as long as he could — just so you’d watch him ….. In the age of C-SPAN he has perfected this. And, just as in his early days as a legislator, Biden has now unquestionably mastered the art form of the stupid and ungracefully prolonged and laborious question. He is now the laughing stock of most congressional staffers….
John E. Carey doesn’t think too highly of Mr. Biden. Personally, I don’t know much about him. I really don’t follow the minutae of Washington politics because, well, it’s mostly boring. When I have caught Mr. Biden on the LCD he did have long, migraine-inducing questions. But, to be fair, most of those posers did.
His comments about Georgia and Pakistani President Musharraf’s resignation were very stately and made sense. Maybe he will bring some security gravitas to an Obama ticket.
I still contend, however, that his VP pick isn’t going to make much of a difference in this election. Heck, VP Dick Cheney, whom many on the left hate more than Hitler, is finishing up the second of his consecutive two terms. Do you think he made much of a difference in getting President Bush elected twice? Probably not.
The only VP pick that is going to matter is Senator McCain’s pick. If he picks someone who is pro-choice or someone who is a weak-kneed moderate, that could damage his ticket. Already, his commercials are grating on my capitalistic sensibilities.
To recap: John E. Carey doesn’t like Joe Biden. I don’t have much to say about him because I don’t know that much about him and, after all, the democrat’s VP candidate is going to be mostly a non-issue (unless Obama picks Senator Clinton). The only one who has to pick the “right” (literally and politically speaking, in my opinion) is Senator McCain.
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