Obama, Biden and PUMA…

Folks,

As most of you know, Barack Obama announced that he had picked Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate at 3am this morning.

Other than the obvious choice of 3am as a direct jib at Hillary’s famous 3am ad, the fact that he never even considered Hillary for the Vice-President position, the fact that despite raising over $50 million each for two consecutive months he has done absolutely nothing to reduce Hillary’s campaign debt (it’s only been reduced by $1.3 million thus far), it is obvious that Obama does not take Hillary Clinton and the 18 million people who voted for her with any amount of seriousness nor does he treat us with aany sort of respect.

Meanwhile, the Messiah chose a person whose track record reflects the following:

“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation,” said a TV ad for Sen. Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign.  “A President has got to know the territory, but that’s not enough.”

The ad says, “Joe Biden thinks its time to remind the world of what America stands for. Freedom. Equality. Justice. Opportunity. He thinks it’s time to put courage over compromise, time to express America’s outrage once again towards repression, brutality, violence, the abuse of human dignity around the world. And if the sparks fly, so be it.”

He said the following to Jeffrey Goldberg three years ago, “The Lord Almighty, or Allah, whoever, if he came to every kitchen table in America and said, ‘Look, I have a Faustian bargain for you, you choose. I will guarantee to you that I will end all terror threats against the United States within the year, but in return for that there will be no help for education, no help for Social Security, no help for health care. What do you do?’ My answer is that seventy-five per cent of the American people would buy that bargain.”

Campaigning for president in New Hampshire in 1987, Biden admitted he had misstated several facts about his resume after a man named Frank questioned his Syracuse Law School resume.

”I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do,” Biden responded.

He added that he ”went to law school on a full academic scholarship - the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship,” adding that he ”ended up in the top half” of his class (not true) and ”graduated with three degrees from college” (not true).

Five months later, Biden acknowledged that he graduated 76th in a class of 85. ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate,” he said in a statement.  He graduated with one degree — a B.A. — in two majors, history and political science.

”I exaggerate when I’m angry,” Biden told the New York Times, ”but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me…’I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.”

More recently, Biden raised eyebrows as a presidential candidate running in 2008, telling an Indian-American, “In Delaware the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans, you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” (Watch HERE.)

Responding to a question from Fox News’ Chris Wallace about how a Northeastern liberal like him could compete in the South, Biden said, “you don’t know my state. My state was a slave state, my state was a border state, my state has the 8th largest black population, it’s anything but a Northeast liberal state.” (Watch HERE.)

He has a grittiness, a candor, a feistiness.

He said he would shove a troop funding bill veto down President Bush’s throat. (Watch HERE.)

He called former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani “the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency…Rudy Giuliani, there’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, and a verb and 9/11.” (Watch HERE.)

And of course he said of Obama himself, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” The implication that other African-American leaders weren’t clean or articulate certainly raised some hackles.

“Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around,” Biden later qualified. “He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.”

Biden said he regretted that “some have taken totally out of context my use of the word ‘clean.’..My mother has an expression ‘clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack,’” Biden said. “Look, the idea is, this guy is something brand new no one has seen before.”

According to Biden, Obama told his colleague, “‘Joe, you don’t have to explain anything to me.’” Biden said he felt Obama “knew what I meant by it.”

Oh well, I guess Obama has yet again shown superior judgement…

Meanwhile, as PUMAs, on to Denver we go…

Some of this stuff was taken from Jack Tapper @ ABCNews.Com

Meanwhile, here is a picture of the Democratic Party’s Proposed Dream Team courtesy of Exurbanleague.com

 

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, here is what Joe Biden did NOT say about Obama this year…

 

Posted by: GrandPUMA