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McCain Biden’ Ad

well, that didn’t take long. the mccain campaign already has a spot out called “biden,” highlighting newly anointed barack obama running woman joe biden quotes saying obama lacks the experience to be president and that he’d be honored to cialis bestellen serve with mccain. video lay out anncr: what does barack obama&#8217 cialis kaufen;s running mate say about barack obama? abc’s george…

Non-Joltin’ Joe

So it’s Obama/Biden. Not entirely unexpected, and not exactly going out on a limb: it’s a safe, non-controversial choice.

Biden’s assets: he has foreign-policy experience, honed by years on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (he is presently the chairman); his voting record is not so far left as Obama’s, giving him the appearance of that mythical creature, the Moderate; and he has a gift for one-liners, which may or may not pay off. (Biden won the 2008 Chaz Award for Best Political Snark with this dismissal of Rudy Giuliani: “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”)

John biden

State Democrats, up to and including Governor Brad Henry, have been trying to get Barack Obama to schedule a speech or two here, without success. Biden, however, we’ll probably get.

The only downside, for a blue-dog Democrat like me, is the vague sensation that this ticket might play out better inverted. But, as Donald Rumsfeld might have said, you go to the election with the candidates you have.

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