A Strong Pickup
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I blogged my thoughts about the Biden pick on the The New Republic site.
Bottom line: Hillary aside, Biden was the best possible pick for Obama.
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That’s the perspective of a Clinton supporter (tiny judgement capabilities). The election is McCain’s to lose now.
Obama picked the closet thing to McCain he could find.
Biden=9,500 votes? (that is what I have heard)
Clinton= 18 mil. + plus votes
Obama/Biden= Obama’s Ego= McCain win
I didn’t want him to pick her. If she had been his VP I still would not have voted for him. We don’t vote for VP. No VP pick will give Obama experience.
Obama = No experience + bad judgment = loser
Hillary was my choice too but I think her attacks on Obama during the primary made that impossible. We would have seen endless loops of “Shame on you, Barack Obama” and “He’s not a Muslim…that I know of” in McCain ads. While some of that is inevitable when primary opponents are chosen for veep candidate, the stuff she said was just too combustible.
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