The Rainbow Candidate and the Plain Vanilla Veep

[Chris]

The Rainbow Candidate and the Plain Vanilla Veep

Has Bob Dole been secretly advising the Obama?  Joe Lieberman, eight years ago, was an inspired choice.  John Edwards at least was youthful and Southern.  Cheney proved rock solid as a campaigner, whatever the Left may hoot about him now.  The last vice presidential nominee this lame was Jack Kemp.

The only thing politically that can be said about Biden is that he is safe.  Barack seems to be desperately thrashing about for safety now.  In Biden, Barack finds the ultimate politician.  Biden was elected to public office when he was twenty-eight years old and he has served as an elected official for the last thirty-eight years.  Only three Democrats in the Senate have served in that body longer than Biden: Robert Byrd, who is positively ancient; Teddy Kennedy, who was almost drafted for president in 1968 -- forty years ago; and Daniel Inouye, who has been a senator from Hawaii almost since Hawaii has been a state.  In the 209 year history of the United States Senate, Biden ranks as 20th in length of service among all states, all political parties in the history of the republic.   He has already served in the Senate longer than Bob Dole served.

Yet Biden has never been in the Senate leadership, never been elected by fellow Senate Democrats to any post beyond what seniority has required.  In his community, the Senate, Biden has never been Democrat Floor Leader or Democrat Whip or Democrat Conference Chair or Democrat Conference Secretary or Democrat Policy Committee Chair:  He was never been anything that required his fellow Senate Democrats to pick him out for a special honored position.

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Let the Joementum begin...