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What about "Smokin'" Joe Biden? I hope he will be the attack dog for Obama because Obama is not gettin the job done on Mc$ame.
Warming up by kos Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 06:22:56 PM PDT(Bumped -- kos)
The more I read stuff like this (from Stephanopolous on Good Morning America Weekend Sunday), the more comfortable I am with Biden's selection.
I have never seen a vice-presidential candidate, in the announcement, come out with THAT KIND of ferocity. Usually, you see it a little bit later in the campaign – not at the announcement. But Joe Biden showed one of the main reasons that Barack Obama picked him. They WANTED a scrapper out there. They WANT a fighter out there. They know Senator Biden will be able to get UNDER Senator McCain’s skin. They’ve known each other for an AWFUL long time – more than 35 years.
Digby writes:
Biden doesn't make me feel that way. He's a Washington insider, with all that that implies, but at least he hasn't spent his career making the social conservatives' case for them...
if Biden can speak the language of the working class Dems (even if his record speaks to the typical beltway fealty to big business) then he is an asset.
However if you want a different perspective on Senator Biden I suggest that you look at what Glenn Greenwald states:
The most entrenched establishment spokespeople are cheering the selection of Joe Biden because, in their minds, that selection confirms the most important fact for them: that in this election, the prevailing orthodoxies of our political system won't be meaningfully challenged. Chief Establishment Defender Fred Hiatt cheerfully announced today, also on the Editorial page of The Washington Post, that the Ways of Washington have been vindicated:
Mr. Biden may share Mr. Obama's outlook, but with an idealism tempered by years in the trenches. Which points to Mr. Biden's second advantage: experience. Mr. Obama's willingness to reach out to the kind of seasoned insider that he has, at times, derided suggests a heartening recognition that time in Washington can be useful.David Brooks wrote earlier in the week that he hoped Obama chose Biden because it would advance what Brooks conceives of as "the good of the country." The political establishment's overriding preoccupation is that nothing meaningful should change how the political system works, that both parties should continue to embrace the central orthodoxies.
Well there you have it! The change is...facile or do we make the case for real change by demanding it!
The first step is still to win the election. In that arena I am very confident of Joe Biden's ability to fight back against the smears of the GOP and their radical attack 527s. His condemnation of the current mis-administration's crimes and offenses have been noteworthy for over 2-years (watch the clips of his air-time with Bill Mahre). Biden's treatment of "unfit to print" Corsi should be very entertaining.
After the election the entire nation will enjoy the benefits of a Vice-President committed to a government "...for the People and by the People." The neo-cons and WingNuts installed by the current mis-adminstration to undermine, rather than enforce, progressive laws and programs should start their resignation letters now. Because, the next Vice-President is in a prime positon and has the necessary knowledge and political savy to see them rooted-out and shown the door in quick order.
I can't wait for Lunchbucket Joe to hit the talk shows and other political infotainment shows. He's rip Bush and McCain a new one, quote the votes that back up his position, and then add some sly dig in between.
Just remember at some point he's going to go off-topic, and say something monumentally stupid. That's the price of this guy, regretably...