Merit-bound Alley

From this interview with Joe Biden:

“Everybody talks about change. Let me tell you something, I am fascinated to find out that all of the sudden John McCain and Sarah Palin are the agents of change,” Biden said. “Name me one single place where the McCain-Palin ticket disagrees with George Bush.”

Not only is their apparent lack of change from the policieso f the Bush administration fascinating, but I am also intrigues by McCain’s co-opting of Obamas campaign motif. It’s almost like McCain doesn’t have a successful message at all!

Ever have a moment where something familiar comes in an unfamiliar circumstance? Like the smell of boardwalk fries in Delaware, cotton candy at an unfamiliar carnival, or seeing an old friend when you’re on vacation hundreds of miles from home. 

I felt something like that as I watched Joe Biden’s address to the DNC. The feeling was something that I only felt when I looked at my daughters, or considered my luck that my wonderful wife chose to spend her life with me. That feeling was pride.

I’m proud that Joe Biden will be making Barack Obama’s fight his own, and I’m proud that that I will be able to say to my kids, “That’s the Vice President. He’s part of the reason that we have it so good, and he lived not five minutes away from us!”

Thanks for accepting, Joe, and thanks for fighting for the rest of us!

(h/t to DE Liberal for the youtube link)

So, our next VP is going to be Delaware Senator Joe Biden. I still think a more suitable position for his experience would have been Secretary of State, but this is a good pick! Check out this vid that I saw on De Liberal.

I can’t help but wonder what this is going to mean for our little state. As I said last night to liberaleek, I would expect their hit count to skyrocket, but that’s small potatoes. I imagine every local DE campaign is calling Biden for an endorsement, but I wonder who will get it. Biden has sered in the senate for over 30 years, so is he going to go for the established John Carney? Or will he go with Jack Markell, who has taken up Obama’s call for change?

This has turned our local elections into a whole new game, as a Biden endorsement will carry heavy weight!

Today, we may be hearing who Obama’s VP pick will be. There will likely be discussion all day today here at Delaware Liberal.

I like Joe Biden. His command of foreign policy is unmatched among the potentials, he’s a fairly quick wit, and his ability to say something a little off-key would keep press coverage on the Obama campaign. After a great deal of consideration, the first reason is why I hope he won’t be the VP. Biden is Secretary of State all the way. Think about it, after the election, the VP has almost no real responsibility except as an advisor. What would Joe best advise on? Foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton would be the wisest choice. She’ll give the Obama Campaign a reputation for balls and backbone that, despite it’s strong words against McCain, it has not yet gotten. Clinton is a veteran of Washington clockwork, and will be able to foresee some of the obstacles that Obama won’t. Plainly speaking, her command of internal politics is something that Obama would be wise to learn from.

What else could be gained from a Clinton Vice Presidency? Yes, she adds a veteran perspective to Obama. I think a point that some aren’t seeing is that Obama can reignite in Clinton a bit of youth and idealism that her campign for presidecy sorely lacked. Not only that, Obama has Bill’s merits with strength of ethics that the first Clinton administration lacked. With that, maybe Clinton can secure the next Democratic Presidency. I would very much like to see the next 16 years of Obama, then Hillary Clinton leadership.

One of the laws of life that few people recognize is that we all have something to learn for every other person in this world. If Clinton and Obama can learn the good stuff from each other, I predict very good things for this country in the future: peace, prosperity, happiness, strength, diplomacy, respect both earned for us but also given by us.

Pick Hillary Clinton, Sen. Obama. Give the real idealists something to believe in!

Well, not really Ovaltine, but Joe is taking his cue from something else that doesn’t really concern him. Seeing the news about the mysterious death Alexandre Litvinenko apparently put a bug up the butt of the Biden Dynasty founder to start putting the thumbscrews on Vladimir Putin. Apparently, Joe saw CNN sometime in the past couple of weeks, looked up Putin on Wikipedia (on the Internets), and recognized the name. Biden was heard to say that he has not been a big fan of Putin after the Russian President “wiped that big red splotch off of his head.”

I kid because I love. In reality, Biden thinks “that Russia is sliding further away from genuine democracy and a free-market system and more toward a command economy and the control of a single man.” Biden is not considering removal of Russia from the G-8 summit, a political meeting between the heads of the eight countries that control, I mean represent, about 65% of the worlds economy. Biden says, “”I would consider laying down markers about whether or not, as he continues to consolidate power within that economy and in that country, whether or not he warrants continued membership.”

In other words, he doesn’t support kicking him out, but supports seeing if they should kick him out if Putin’s behaviour of consolidating economic power under him continues. Get it?

One might wonder if Joe Biden is chiming in about Putin after the Polonium scandal as a way to get his name out there on big issues to test the waters for a presidential bid. That would be a shocking misuse of the media.