Why Joe Biden?
Posted by royters on August 23, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama is on the defensive, already being forced to explain why he chose Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. Critics of the decision point out the following:
1) Biden voted in favor of the Iraq War, which contradicts Obama’s central message of judgment;
2) Biden has been a Senator for almost 40 years, which contradicts Obama’s message of change,
3) Biden is from a small Mid Atlantic state, this makes Obama’s 50-state strategy look like a PR campaign only,
and
Obama forcefully defended his pick. “Joe brings a lot of foreign policy experience to the ticket,” said Senator Obama while measuring the White House for curtains, “And you need to have someone with such experience in your Administration. It’s not like there’s a cabinet position that deals with foreign-policy every single day. Had there been a cabinet spot whose job description involved meeting with world leaders daily and troubleshooting international crises, I certainly would have put Biden in that slot. But since such a position doesn’t exist, I had no choice but to make Biden my VP.”
Political commentators have learned that Obama tried to select the Feres twins, but that the two failed to meet the constitutional requirements forcing him two go with Biden instead.
C.Rag said
The greatest thing Biden brings to the ticket is a SENSE OF HUMOR!
Biden rocks!
AngryMan said
Don’t forget his plagiarism skills!
Malach the Merciless said
I think Biden brings what will attract conservative democrats and liberal republicans to vote for him. Biden also gives him immediate foreign policy chops, maybe even more than McCain
JMac said
Joe Biden was born in Pennsylvania and represents Delaware in the Senate.Neither are “small New England states”.
royters said
Forgive me, Delaware is mid-Atlantic. Regardless, it is still 45th in population and has less than one million people.
And the PA thing is stupid. He’s been in DE his whole adult life and been a Senator from there for almost 36 years. I don’t think that will do a whole lot (like Edwards in 2004).
royters said
I fixed the region that DE is from, JMac. I hope your head didn’t explode from a factual inaccuracy on a satire site. I’ll try to keep the facts on the fake news site to a minimum.
Malach the Merciless said
We tried to annex Deleware on time, but decided it wasn’t worth the effort