And the Obama Veep shall be...


Joe Biden.

Hm. Interesting. Not a result I would have called.

Pros:
- tons of foreign policy experience
- tons of washington experience
- I generally like his politics - an "old school" liberal who actually believed in progressive causes


Cons:
- voted for the Iraq War (although one of those "now that it's not popular I consider my vote a mistake" Democrats)
- Catholic (in a country that's only ever tolerated one Catholic in the oval office, and then shot him)
- not a woman (so the "nobama" former Hillary voters have more reason to sit this one out)
- has made a bunch of verbal gaffes over the years which the McCain campaign can easily pull out of the archives

worst of all

- doesn't bring in any swing states, any new constituencies (ok, maybe Catholics, but Obama's pro-choice so I don't see Catholics voting for him anyway)


So I'm left feeling personally kind of good, in that Biden (his war vote aside) is the kind of guy I'd like to see in charge of things, but bad in that I think this is another in a famous line of idiot strategic moves on the Democrats' part. Obama should have picked someone with certified Southern White Cracker credentials, or a woman, or a woman with Southern White Cracker credentials, or some psuedo-liberal military mind like Wesley Clarke...

...I just don't see what Biden brings...

I mean, I suppose it could be worse, he could have picked Walter Mondale...

I dunno, at this point my only hope for a McCain defeat is McCain making some hideous botch, like getting a Nam flashback during a trip to the Vatican and punching out the Pope...

- SW