Joe Biden, Vice President

For the record, and I'm sure you're all sitting there with 'bated breath, I'm thrilled skinny about Obama's pick of Joe Biden as running mate.  He's brilliant, he's experienced in foreign affairs, he's not bellicose, he's real, sometimes too much so for the Pouncing Classes in the "news" media and other such vile circles, and as we have been told 8245 times in the past 36 hours, he takes a commuter train home every night to his one acknowledged house in dreary old Wilmington, Delaware.  OK, in a nice neighborhood real close to Wilmington. 

Furthermore, as has been noted here, he has a really successful hair transplant thing going on.  (This too has been a recent search meme on mondosapore.  I knew he was the VP pick a week ago when those searches started popping up all the time.)  That alone makes Joe rather special.

Seriously, folks, Obama and McCain Biden are a formidable team.  [Sorry, maurdel.  I really am an asshole, a careless one!]. Both hugely intelligent, both men of substance and vision, despite the reflexive honking of the Canada geese of the right.  (They fly in, take over and shit everything up.) By comparison McCain seems like a slightly dim old uncle who bores the hell out of everyone with his ancient war stories.  Gripping and brave, but enough already.  That was then and this is now, gramps.

I am dismayed by the obsessive, vociferous and ultimately incomprehensible attachment of Hillary Clinton supporters to their tragic heroine, to the point where they claim they'd rather vote for McCain rather than sully their whatever (boundaries of unreality?) by voting for the candidate of their party.  Classic example of American stupidity; we've excelled at voting against our own best interests lately. 

Well, fine.  Let them march in their sensible shoes.  I have another take on this superduper pairing of Obama and Biden.  I invoke the old Fred and Ginger analogy: Obama gives Joe class, Joe gives Obama sex. 

Wait.  I see Fox News has already Googled this one.  Ooops...

Comments

[maurdel]

>>Seriously, folks, Obama and McCain are a formidable team.<<
is that freudian?

[Strappo]

No, I don't think so.

What do YOU think, asshole?

[maurdel]

Apologies. I was only referring to the mishap because all these folks they trot out for us to vote for seem (to me) to only be more of the same-old-stuff and it is increasingly difficult for many of us to distinguish between them.

I suppose I should learn to use those horrid emoticon things in appropriate instances.

[alex]

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Furthermore, as has been noted here, he has a really successful hair transplant thing going on.
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Terry,
I know nothing about your future VP, but I must admitt that this is a very disturbing piece of info.
In Italy we have a prime minister who has had the same operation and I really dislike the idea of changing what the nature has deserved us.
It's a sort of "cheating"...
Biden false as Berlusconi?
I hope not :-))

[Strappo]

Maurdel, forgive my intemperate response. I'm an asshole too! :-D

Alex, this is America and though we talk a lot about God and Faith, the fact is we can't leave anything as God made it, we don't have Faith that He knew exactly what He was up to. We're Faustian in the Splenglerian sense. Rather ineptly so, but that's who we are.

[David J]

...as opposed to 'the Wagnerian' or 'the Goethian' sense?
Not to play too naïvely into the paws of the right-wing attack dogs, but I was looking at Mr. Biden's somewhat disheartening record--

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html

...of course, I can't vote anyway. I'm beginning to think it's rather meaningful & positive I can't. Tea party, anyone?

[Strappo]

Read Spengler, David, and tell me what you think.

I'm glad you can't vote. You'd probably vote for Nader anyway.