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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Frankly, I was for Joe Biden as a Democratic choice in the primaries. (I was also hoping that John McCain would win on the GOP side.) I'm very, very pleased with Biden's impending nomination as the candidate for VP. He is an experienced, thoughtful, no nonsense legislator.
BUT...now we won't have to wait very long for the Obama critics to begin to rag on the choice, saying that Obama really isn't an agent of change. Rather, they will say, he is an old school politician as proven by his choice of a running mate with undeniable and deep experience.
By the way, those critics will be the same people who have complained that a 47-year old can't possibly have enough experience to be President.
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We both agree that Sen. Biden is an experienced, thoughtful, no nonsense legislator. Of all within the orginal pool of Democratic candidates, Sen. Biden is still THE most knowledgeable about how government works, foreign policy, national security and the law.
If it's considered "ragging" that the obvious has happened, that being the fact that
old school Washington politics have now jumped to the forefront, so be it. The choice again was not Sen. Obama's to make, but the DNC's as the DNC controls the party, the money and the favors. This was no king-to-be picking his heir-apparent prince, but a political machine hedging its bets. Good old-fashioned politicking!
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agent-of-change is a slogan, nothing more. The selected tag-team by virtue of the backgrounds of the team-mates shows it better than words here can describe.
As far as whether a 47-year-old has sufficient experience to be president - yes, that can happen. However, a few years in a state senate and spending more time on the campaign circuit during 2/3rds of a single U.S. Senate term than being a working Senator; and no knowledge or experience of how Defense, State or Homeland Security do its missions results in an exceptionally slim curriculum vita.
An "experienced" Democratic ticket of a Sen. Biden with Sen. Obama understudying as VP would have been dynamic.