Saturday, August 23, 2008

Obama Picks a Bro: It's Biden


It's official. Obama picks Joe Biden for Vice President.

And there goes the last chance for party unity.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the candidate who earned 18 million votes, was not even vetted. We're sure Biden's 200 voters are simply thrilled. The rest of us, well, just call us marginalized and invisible.

Back in the 1990s, Biden was the leader of the pack of 14 white male senators who conducted the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. The committee of 14 men threw every sexist stereotype in the book at Anita Hill. Like Hillary, Joe Biden voted to authorize the war in Iraq, but that's so not a problem when a bro does it.

MSNBC reports that the Obamabots are still breathlessly awaiting that text message the text message was sent at 3 a. m. Team Obama couldn't resist one last dig at Hillary, because we are all in junior high now.


I Don't Care Anymore: Phil Collins

Update: Biden's pro choice score from NARAL: 36% in 2003 and 75% in 2007. And check out what Melissa at Shakesville wrote last week: "[T]here's no way in blue hell that Obama could be foolish enough to be seriously considering for one blinking second putting on his ticket the speech plagiarizing, bankruptcy bill voting, Bush-coddling, racist, sexist asshat Biden, a consummate gaffe machine who launched his own '08 presidential bid with a screeching dog whistle that declared Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Jeralyn at TalkLeft: "[T]he Obama-Biden belief that we shouldn't antagonize Republicans, but work to bring them into our party is completely distasteful to me. I didn't vote for my senators and congresspersons to make nice in Congress. I voted for the ones I thought would fight for Democratic ideals, not water them down to be acceptable to people whose policy views I vehemently disagree with."

TalkLeft: Joe Biden is No Progressive on Crime Issues.
Patrick Ruffini - The Next Right: Joe Biden vs. Joe Biden's Mouth: Please, PLEASE, let it be him.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
-- Joe Biden

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