Meet Joe Biden
After much anticipation, waiting with bated breath to find out who Barack would choose for a running mate, we have arrived at the Joebama ticket. I was pushing for Hillary, but I have to say, this is a great 2nd choice. I’m really starting to like this guy. NYT has some good coverage from the convention:
“I just want you to know that this is a great honor, this is a great honor being nominated vice president of the United States and I’m proud of it,” Mr. Biden told the small breakfast gathering. “But it pales in comparison to the honor I’ve had representing you.”
At this point, the extraordinarily loquacious senator paused, speechless and lost in his thoughts. He wiped away a tear with his handkerchief and went on.
“My private life has been lived in the public arena because you all got me started so young,” he said, alluding to his election to the Senate at age 29 and the death of his wife and daughter in a car accident before he was sworn in.
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He said that Michelle Obama’s speech to the convention Monday night was the most important moment of the week, more significant that that of her husband, Senator Barack Obama, or Mr. Biden’s or Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s.
“This is an incredible woman, folks,” he said.
He said of Mr. Obama, who will accept his party’s nomination on Thursday night, “This is a guy who has, as my mother would say, a sixth sense. This guy’s got it. This guy’s got it. He’s going to make you proud.”
This looks like a great team to chaperone us through the start of the new millenium.
(McCain is sooo last century.)
No bounce for Biden
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109834/Gallup-Daily-Bounce-Obama-Post-Biden-Tracking.aspx
From Exile’s ealier post:
“One thing that’s interesting is that the two tracking polls (Gallup and Rasumssen) both lean heavily Republican.”
I’m not too concerned.
Hmm. Well, the pro-life and Catholic blogs, radio programs, and websites are jumping all over this pick and this ticket. Pelosi didn’t help on Meet the Press. It’s not playing well in some swing vote circles.
I don’t plan to vote for McCain myself, but enough people might hold their noses in places like Pennsylvania and Ohio to make a difference.
Again,
I’m not too concerned. Yeah, let’s save fetuses while we continue to murder innocent Iraqis. A pro-life/pro-war president seems somewhat of an oxymoron to me. I don’t think I stand alone with this conviction.
Oh, and be so kind as to give me a link here.
Link to what - the blogs? Go to http://www.catholicblogs.com/ to search some of those sites. That will give you a start.
You can also Google Archbishop Chaput or the USCCB to see what they are saying about Biden/Pelosi. Both the NY Times and the Washington Post (real papers, as opposed to the D & C) had some coverage of the problems the Dems are facing over this.
As for the killing of babies vs. the killing of Iraqis, both are bad (I think Bush is a war criminal, and I was part of the protests before the illegal invasion began). But we are talking scale here. Are we killing close to a million Iraqis each year - and some 50 million total? That’s how many babies we are executing.
We should stop both.
Just one thing Lee - Re “killing babies”.
I suppose it depends on your definition because as you, I believe are doing here, assuming life begins at conception based on a religious definition. I don’t believe that a newly fertilized egg is the same as a baby.
Look I respect your beliefs with regards to abortion. I really do. I just happen to disagree with your definitions and terms. In the end I don’t want a religious dogma I don’t subscribe to dictating.privacy policy in this case Roe v Wade.
I see this more as a privacy issue and separation of Church and State issue more than anything else.
I’d also rather focus on what we agree.
I’m hoping that all things considered - We agree that the Bush Presidency is a disaster, A McCain presidency will be a continuation of Bush and invite more disaster and an Obama presidency is the first step in reversing the GOP legacy.
Can we agree on that?
Yes, I do believe life begins at conception - what it is except a human being? Test the DNA and that’s what you’d get.
Bush a disaster? Absolutely. The man should have been impeached.
McCain a continuation? Whether that would happen is unclear - come on, it’s hard to imagine anyone being that bad! - and just a political talking point anyway.
Obama the first step in reversing the GOP legacy? Also unclear as it’s uncertain how much he could actually accomplish as opposed to campaign promises. How many campaign promises actually get fulfilled? I have doubts about his ability to do that.
All I can say Lee is when you are in a hole - stop digging.
That is what an Obama presidency will be able to do. Obama doesn’t have some magic plan that will make all 8 years of Bush vanish as if they didn’t happen.
It will take a long time to repair the damage done by the Bush Presidency. But stop doing what we are currently doing is a step in the right direction.
Re McCain possibly not being a continuation of Bush. Like Casey said - when you vote with Bush 90% of the time you are a sidekick.
about DNA - aren’t we extracting it from ancient mammals? Doesn’t make them alive.