Here's the weird thing about Biden's speech. It's pretty good, and he speaks with more passion and conviction and natural ease than anybody I've yet heard in this convention. But he sounds like he's addressing a small hall, not the Democratic convention televised nationally in prime time. It's odd. This speech isn't quite pitched right. It's sounds like a great stump speech, but only that.
Nevertheless, we're seeing right now why Biden's going to be such a formidable campaigner for Obama. He comes across like a man who's speaking from his heart, and his gut. The guy's a fighter. Word tonight is that McCain has made his vice presidential selection. It had better be someone who can give as good as he or she's going to get from Biden; I can't think off the top of my head of anybody McCain is likely to pick who is not going to get the bark stripped off of him by Biden. From a purely political point of view, this speech shows why Obama's Biden pick was a smart, effective choice.
(But -- and you knew I'd say this -- I don't like what Biden and Obama say about Georgia and Russia. Biden's just called the Bush foreign policy a total failure, but what, exactly, would he do differently with Georgia?)
Overall, though, Biden's doing a hell of a job selling Obama. When I started this post, Biden had just started, and it was only okay. He really found his rhythm and his power there toward the end. After Kerry and Biden, I think this convention is finally coming into focus for the Dems. Biden gives it propulsive momentum. I think very few people watching this speech will have any worries about Joe Biden's ability to be president if something should happen to Obama ... who just walked onto the stage.
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Wouldn't a much more apt analogy for Romney be Plastic Man?
Allen,
Good one ... though Plastic Man has a sense of humor!
I would hope that Biden or any sane statesman would remove Georgia and Ukraine from the list of future potential NATO allies. That's what he can do. Without the prospect of NATO membership, Georgia would not have done what they did providing Russia with cause (or perhaps a convenient excuse) to do what they did. But now the South Ossetians will NEVER reconcile with Georgia or trust them again (nor should they), and Georgia can kiss goodbye the real territorial integrity that they desire and had previously deserved.
So what now? Send in the humanitarian aid a while longer, back off on anchoring US warships in the Black Sea, then just LET IT BE. That's what Obama/Biden can do differently. I could never see McCain/Condi doing that, or not without months of bloviating and dangerous saber rattling first.
The hard core Democrats here will despise the source, but none other than Karl Rove has a piece in the Weekly Standard eviscerating Joe Biden's claims about Obama's "accomplishments" in the US Senate.
In summary, Obama tagged his name onto a Richard Lugar bill backed by the White House that established some minor administrative reporting requirements relating to nuclear proliferation. It passed on a routine voice vote and was so trivial that it wasn't reported on at the time in any media outlet. Biden described Obama's secondary role in this trivial and uncontroversial exercise as "reaching across the aisle" to pass "sweeping legislation."
Obama's supposed accomplishments on behalf of wounded veterans are even less substantive than that. He failed to get his bill out of a committee controlled by his fellow Democrats, and his campaign is brazenly taking credit for work done by Washington Post reporters to which Obama contributed nothing at all.
Puffery to this extreme will backfire on Obama and Biden. Guaranteed.
Can you really believe this! Joe Biden is so out of touch! He's on a ticket to be Vice President and can't get the facts together. It just goes to show you that the Democrats have no clue. They are opportunists and would do or say anything to get elected. Americans open your eyes and become educated voters. Obama and Biden offer answers to all of the worlds problems and as customary with Democrats, they will just throw money at it. The way to fix everything is just spend more of our tax dollars. Try and tune in Fox news and get the real story. The drive-by media won't tell you the truth because they are biased.
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