If you haven't noticed, I want Barack Obama to win. But Biden keeps letting things slip that are not exactly helping my boy out.
First he says Hillary would have been a better VP pick than him. What?? Then he ticks off Ohioans by making some comments about their football team. Biden, sweetie, Ohio is a swing state. I mean, not that what he said did irreparable damage, but why? Then today I read that he said an Obama ad was "terrible." Egads!
If I could sit down and have a talk with Biden, woman to man, this is what I would say: Look, Joe, I know you're excited about being on the ticket. I mean, seriously, it's something to be excited about. Even though you talked junk about my boy during the primaries, I know you're giddy that in the end you were chosen to be along for the ride. But you have GOT to rein it in, buster. Okay. You have a bad rep for being long winded and I know you've made concerted efforts to take it down a thousand. I appreciate that. Additionally, I know you've got this rep to uphold for speaking your mind and everything, and that's fine. But there is a difference between speaking your mind and having an acute case of diarrhea of the mouth. And you're leaning towards the latter. You're killing me, Biden. Not only that, but you're probably tempting my boy's staff to slap the taste out of your mouth and put a gag order on you. Try to control the urges. Breathe. Carry a sock around with you to use in case of an emergency. Do whatever you need to do to stop yourself from messing up my boy's chances. Thank you.
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It's not like Obama wasn't familiar with Biden's history of saying stupid, intemperate things. It was a calculated risk. And, like Wall Street, sometimes risk bites you in the behind.
As an Ohioan, I think he's in trouble.
Granted. Biden was a calculated risk. However, I think Hillary would have been even more of one. There haven't been any major bites in the behind (yet), but he's definitely nibbling.
But please don't tell me you're no longer my compatriot on the Obama bandwagon! If you have changed your mind, if you wouldn't mind leaving another comment, I'd like to know your reasons.
I have mixed feelings. The victory lap in Europe really turned me off. I also am not sympatico with the chattering classes on either coast who think I'm a moron because I live in a state without an ocean. I am not in love with McCain (who can't decide if he has clout for being in Washington so long or if he's an insider and, by the way, he was a POW if you haven't heard) so I suppose I would put myself in undecided. The stink of the campaign process is no one can put out a detailed plan for us to make an informed decision on. It's just so much noise. I would love detailed plans from both candidates (not the programed bits from the campaigns). Sigh. It ain't going to happen.
Having said that, Biden was an idiot for speaking against the Buckeyes. There is no room for debate on that.
I understand. Hopefully we'll get to hear some specifics from both during the upcoming debates (which, I just found out, McCain wants to cancel . . . but that would be for another post) I'm pretty sure the one Friday will still go on as planned.
I agree with you about the "noise." I think the debates will give us some decent evidence on which to help us make informed decisions. Hopefully they will be what helps undecideds make up their minds. I'm looking forward to them.
Re: the debates. Dumb move by McCain with the request to cancel. Trying to look presidential (and failing). I am with you in hoping for more specifics from the candidates during the debates.
One more thought on Ohio. Race will play a HUGE factor here. No one wants to talk about it but it's true. While Obama will win the urban areas (any Democrat would) he is going to have tough sledding in SE/Southern Ohio where Democrats normally do well (if they're white). This is the uncomfortable story no one wants to address.
You'd hope we were beyond this. We're not.
::sigh:: the race thing.
If I think about it too much, it depresses me. I guess that's why I don't talk about it not just with Obama, but in general.
But back to Obama. Yes, it's apparent that we're not beyond it. However, when the primary season first started, I will admit that even as a black woman, I figured that Obama didn't have a snowball's chance in you know where because he was black, and I wrote him off. I thought it was a nice idea, but ultimately a pipe dream.
But look where he is now. Unimaginable. So maybe, just maybe, though we're not beyond it as a whole, there are enough people who are beyond it to make a difference.
Personally, I thought McCain's move was kind of smart, going to Washington to help figure out what to do. That is, until yesterday, when he kind of just said, "Oops..just foolin'!" and went anyway despite the fact that nothing had been permanently set in stone.
I cringed when I got the fancy text message that said that Obama had picked Biden. I can't STAND him.
Also, at Obama's acceptance speech, I took note that Mrs.Biden claps like a seal. But that's neither here nor there.
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