……..Biden???
Posted on August 25, 2008
Filed Under Obama, Politics, Diversion |
It’s been just over fortyeight hours, but it’s already a cliche: So much for change we can believe in.
1. Obama’s early primary force, especially among the young demographic, was the idolatry of those who desperately wanted to believe bumper sticker platitudes coming from the thoroughly charismatic and swaggering candidate. Youth want their own identity, their own separation from previous generations: Obama’s texting, twittering online presence made him one of them, and - recall - item after item talked about his ability to turn out the vote of those who’d previously never cared. They wanted a rock star president.
That support began to ebb when he started to flip positions on key issues and showing himself to be the typical - albeit inept - pol; Zogby had him slipping twelve percent in the 18-29 demographic in late Aug.
Now? Forget it. Hillary might have regenerated enthusiasm; Biden is emphatically old-school. In hoping to get older, blue collar voters back in the Democrat camp; in hoping that Biden’s foreign policy credentials would somehow elevate his own, Obama has sacrificed his most enthusiastic constituency.
2. The problem is he won’t pick up the votes he’s lost. People who want an adult in the white house, who are seriously concerned about foreign policy integrity and at least some substantive governing experience, are going to vote for that in the top of the ticket as opposed to the subordinate.
3. Biden himself is the personification of Congress’ eleven percent approval. He’s absorbed in the first person singular, the type of person who in conversation is never listening to what you’re saying but instead formulating what he’s going to say next to prove how clever he is.
4. And he’s just not that clever.
Conventional wisdom in picking a VP is First, do no harm. Biden is McCain’s dream.
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Ya think McCain will pick Lieberman…why not continue this nonsense!?!?!:O)
If McCain picks Lieberman all the momentum he’s picked up in the last six weeks will be gone…
Boy, I agree with you on that one. When is McCain set to announce his VP pick?
Palin…well, that’s one way to attract Clinton supporters. Wonder what ultra conservatives think about a woman in the wh? I was hoping for Condi Rice four years ago just to see what conservative folks would think about a black female as prez…could they put gender and race aside?
My in-laws in Selma are speechless right now. At least they ain’t speaking to this “Yankee” as I am called.