Oh, wait…. shit….

Biden has said some stupid things in the past, but they don’t rise nearly to the level of classlessness and stupidity regarding some of McCain’s gaffes. This is a man who has made “jokes” regarding Chelsea Clinton allegedly being ugly and the Iranian people getting cancer from our country exporting cancer to their country.

Yeah, I don’t see it. HRC’s a bad choice for loads of reasons, but that isn’t one of them. It’d be a distraction for people that get all their news from blogs or the Daily Show. Everybody else will be exposed to the daily nice-making in the newspapers and 24-hour news channels (except probably FNC).

I’ll grant that this was the roughest primary of which I’m familiar in the modern era, but I still don’t see that as all that relevant. What do the independents care if the McCain camp uses their primary battles against them? They’ll just look like liars when they see Sens. Clinton and Obama making nice (moved past our differences, common vision for America, yada yada) when they come back from commercial break. I’ll tell you what I think is relevant – they’re not all that different ideologically, so it’d be easy to blend their programs.

LMAO. Well done.

Just my two cents.

Unfortunately, that was before blogs, online newspapers, 24 hours news channels, Youtube, etc. As much as it pains me to say this, AP is right. There was too much animosity between Clinton and Obama during the primaries that their sniping at each other would be nothing but a major distraction during the general election campaign.

I’m kind of hoping for Joe Biden. Biden is afflicted with a permanent case of foot in mouth disease. He’s a blowhard who likes to hear himself talk and the Obama campaign is going to be very busy issuing press releases to “clarify” something for which Biden was flapping his gums.

Biden would be a substantive choice, and would be a candidate taken very seriously by the very serious beltway chattering classes. He’s been a fixture in Washington long enough to impress Chris Matthews and Mrs. Greenspan – maybe Cokie Roberts would even forgive Barack for vacationing in the State of his birth.

Yes, Biden has been in Washington since the War of 1812, but Obama has the obverse problem as McCain: He needs someone who can mollify people who may have doubts because of Obama’s relatively short political office resume. McCain needs someone younger to allay the fears of him being older than Methusaleh, with one foot in the old age home and the other on a banana peel.

Although I ruled out Hillary weeks ago – mainly because of the tone of the campaign, and because she comes with some serious baggage – personally, I’m starting to change my mind and beginning to think she’d be a very good choice – and it would be a complete surprise – so it would almost have something akin to “shock value”. She would bring a lot of votes – and as far as any controversy she may bring along with her (in the form of her “can’t-keep-his-yap-shut” husband) – I don’t think the folks out there who would be offended at the choice are likely to vote for Obama anyway.

I like Wesley Clark too – but if he were to get the nod, the Media would talk about nothing else but how much he dissed John McCain’s service or some such twaddle.

Whatever he does, I really don’t want Bayh at all – and I’ve got nothing against Kaine, but I think that would be a mistake. The Republicans will just say “He’s got less experience than Obama” – and the prattlers on TV would be repeating it 24/7.

If Clark backs up Obama, you can take to the bank. It’s good.

Still and all, a definition of moderate.

An Obama administration has to be similar to FDR’s first term. Try anything and everything.

I guess the parallel to John Garner would be… Nancy Pelosi?

Start fresh. Start clean. An Obama administration has to be similar to FDR’s first term. Try anything and everything.

What?