Biden is a wrench in McCain’s veep choice
August 27th, 2008 at 08:01am Pat Cunningham
 
Politico’s Jeanne Cummings EXPLAINS how Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his running mate hampers John McCain’s selection of a vice-presidential candidate.
Personally, I still very much doubt that McCain will go with Mitt Romney. He’s too supercilious, too rich, too much of a flip-flopper and too much opposed by certain elements of the Religious Right. I’m still betting on Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
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1. Menlo Bob | August 27th, 2008 at 8:36 am
For those slow to the game, Joe Biden’s past plagiarism charges are not behind him. Certainly the phony attempt by Media Matters and the owner of this blog to claim it wasn’t serious isn’t going to fly. As this post in Slate illustrates, Biden not only repeatedly used passages from a speech by Neil Kinnock but also began to weirdly incorporate them into his own biography. Biden’s plagiarism was not a single time or of a single person. It shows him to be a deeply flawed selection by the Obama camp.
2. Milton Waddams | August 27th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Thank you for the link Bob. I have heard the plagiarism bit thrown around a lot and not thought much of it as all politicians use boilerplate from each other. After reading the story, I can see that there was something to have been reporting about back then.
I think however, that due to the fact that it was 20 years ago, it is now off limits and not story worthy like McCain’s philandering.
3. Menlo Bob | August 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Nothing is off limits when it comes to elections. Not McCain\’s lousy behavior, nor Obama\’s associations with radicals, nor Biden\’s obviously bad advice about partitioning Iraq. It\’s all fair game.
4. Peter Gunn | August 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Nothing is off limits when it comes to elections. Menlo Bob
And of course that includes the young children of the candidates
5. Optimistic1 | August 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Biden is a “Tool” for sure, doubt it is a wrench. Awful lot of old baggage for the “Change Meister” to invite in.
6. Orlando Clay | August 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Pat, your previously posted arguments for betting on McCain to select Pawlenty as his running are indeed compelling. But I can tell you, after months of listening to right-wing radio here in Central Florida, the selection of Romney would definitely fire up the lunatic fringe base down here. Nowadays, they’re actually willing to overlook the fact that he’s a Mormon (”Yes, it’s a cult, but at least he believes in God and is against the killing of unborn babies”). In their eyes, Romney, with his rugged good looks, silver-tongued oratory and shrewd business acumen, is the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Remember the scene from “Blazing Saddles” where all the cowboys remove their hats when somebody utters the name “Randolph Scott”? That’s the way it is here with the name “Ronald Reagan,” and to use his name with anything less than total adulation is considered blasphemy.
7. LD | August 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Yep the Ayers angle is up again, since minutes from meetings put Ayers and Obama in the same room! No doubt Ayers was programming Obama to be his very own Manchurian Candidate.
The other angle, according to my GOP handbook, is speculating on what would have happened had Michelle Obama said certain things during her speech. GOP special agents are supposed to come up with things somewhere in between O’Reilly (what if she came across as less sincere?) and Malkin (what if she had a litter of golden retriever puppies and proceeded to bite the heads off each one?)
What if? Link:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808260008
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