Found this sympathetic profile of Senator Biden, from the Middle East:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/20088236923967867.html

Fahrenheit 451, there are dozens of political parties in the US. You never heard of the Green Party or Libertarian Party?  There are no constitutional restrictions on third parties fielding candidates in any election. They only need the signatures and the money to run, and neither of those ingredients should be a government entitlement.

re: Fahrenheit 451

I sense your frustration. The two party system reminds me of the computer, where it is commonly accepted that when it comes to operating systems, there is either Apple or Microsoft. Of course no one wants to inform you that there is a free, community based operating system called Ubuntu. In fact, I am posting this using their great system.
The either/or mentality prevents creative possibilities. Perhaps a start would be to begin by thinking: there must be a better way. A retooling of the status quo is just not good enough.

Did a quick check of members of the DLC- didn’t see Bidens name..YEAH!!!!
These assholes -who’s little group is funded by Corps- have been trying to take over the Democratic Party since 1984 (Appropo!).They gave US Gore/Lieberman and Kerry/Edwards-I voted of both,but only by holding my True Democratic nose. Gore may be proving he was never a ‘true believer’ in the DLC, reason the Clintons have had so little todo with him?
Funny Bill can go on a PSA with HW about disaster preparedness, but can’t seem to find the time to do the same about Global Warming- the reason we need ‘Disaster preparedness’
I’m not estatic about Biden, He’s been around for the amount of years our country has been steering off track and towards a Corp Hostile takeover situation, But I am relieved it was NOT Hillary or one of her DLC Minions like Bayh.
The DLC has a Grand Notion called ‘The Third Way’...Not Republican Nor Democrat, Theirs is the same as the Neo Cons in Red…The Corp Way-Imperialistic and Totalitarian.
Real Dems must fight this group who has infiltrated and infested OUR Party.It’s time to tell those in the DLC to get out and form theri own party with those hiding in the Republican party. Frankly I miss the Ol’School Republicans- fiscal Responsibilty,FREE MARKET (for Individuals Not Corps), limited intrusion into citizens personal and daily life.
I still think it would have been far better for Obama to choose an Ol’ School Republican for his VP- effectively kicking the shit out of those who have used these parties as camoflague for the Corp sponsors.

Wayno:

Suppose for a moment that the Dems & Independents remember 20 years ago: Biden correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, and (of course) the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video. Straw-grasping desperation.

Suppose anyone with a mind clear of McCain-loving media thrall-speak knows who is the real bloviater out there (Mr. noun+verb+POW definition: Obama and wife make $4 mil a year = middle class; only those making over $5 mil are “rich.”)

And remember Bush’s first official oath (lie): “I swear (before God) to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.” (Non) “maverick” McCain then supports 95% of everything that Bush Co. rammed through his Neocon/Neo-fascist thralls in Congress, including ways to torture.

Suppose Dems and Independents completely forget his most recent eight years of Bush-butt-nuzzling, and promises to carry that flag forward, but to do so with continued promises to strike first/think later to any and all situations.

Suppose Dems and Independents completely forget McCain being one of the Keating 5 corruption in the 80s. Sure, Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment” by the ethics committee. Suppose Dems and Independents do not feel any surprise by criticisms of poor judgment.

Suppose that Dems and Independents fail to recognize that McCain has proven, over and over and over again in just the past many weeks that he will lie, obfuscate and obscure without breaking a sweat, and considers any reaction to his most scurrilous attacks on his rival as just lacking a sense of humor.

I wonder how much humor he displayed when unjustly flayed by the Bush/Cheney/Rove machine in his very last days as a maverick, eight long years ago.

The McCain monologue to-date: “You are an elitist (though you are—by my definition—middle class, having grown up on modest means when my brother admits Mom took care of the finances and daddy didn’t even know how many oil producing holdings we had in Oklahoma. And homes? Can’t be bothered by that; best left to the servant I paid over $200K last year). And I want it re-institute the draft, so we can say FU to the Iraqis who want us gone and stay for the next century, help Bush aim missiles at a sleeping Bear so we can finally “keep our will” and fight them too. My ‘friends.’

“And, oh, yeah—let’s perfect this thing about privatizing the federal government. We’ve gone maybe 3/4 of the way there already (I helped), so there’s not much more to do [recommended: Find a Webster’s and look up “fascism”].”

And there is just oh, so much more. McCain really should take on Romney as a VP choice. Between them and individually, they have taken a stance on every side of every issue out there. Pro-choice/pro-life. Stay a hundred years and leave by 2013 (even though leaving is “surrender”).

Then again, suppose that Dems and Independents DON’T forget, when reminded of these inconvenient truths the vast MSM fall all over themselves to hide.

Obama, Biden, McCain, Romney, economy, Iraq? None of them even matter when it boils down to the very simple, single fact that the Neo/Fascist/Cons have almost completely destroyed our check-and-balance democracy and replaced it with something that would make Orwell gasp in recognition.

Neo-Repugs want to complete their mission of forever altering a country they never really liked anyway (it was founded on very, very liberal principles) and, at the moment, McCain is the standard bearer leading the charge to forever bury our country’s ideals, principles and freedoms once and for all time.

That’s the real—the only—choice on the table right now. Bury the US? Vote McCain. Attempt to revive it from its near-terminal coma state?

Obama—and whomever stands by his side—are the only viable choices at hand for that task.

Good bye Obama and hello McCain.  This should just about seal Obama’s defeat.  Just what is this strange disease infecting democrats; anybody know?  Loseritis, Presidentaphobia, Vertigo (fear of high places), or is it impotence from an inability to perform during political intercourse?  Jeez, I think we need a few more parties; two just aren’t enough.

re: G. Anderson, Ed Harges

Senator Biden once said: “any country that engages in genocide forfeits their sovereignty.”
I’m just asking, but would such a rule apply to Turkey from what happened to the Armenians in 1915? Or for that matter, what about the United States and the bombing of Nagasaki; as the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut stated that he could understand the reasons for the first atomic blast, but the second?
I gather too that the late peace activist Rachel Corrie was being hysterical when she used the word genocide to describe Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. Perhaps ethnic cleansing is a more appropriate term.
Yes I too believe that Senator Biden’s so-called bankruptcy reform is an insult to everyone who actually works for a living.
How strange. The candidacy that was suppose to be about change, turns to a Senator who has been there since 1973. Touted for his foreign policy expertise, and I wonder, why? What has been the great accomplishment?
One more note: this is for the rewrite department. Scratch out those lines about John McCain being in Washington too long. Biden has been there even longer.

Unfortunate. Sad news. A stumble.

Biden’s ties to Credit Card reform, and Bankrupcy reform, make this a slap in the face to all working men and women.

Almost any other vice presidential candiate would have been better. This decision will be very hard for Obama to overcome.

May Ponce writes:

“Who the fuck does Joe Biden bring to the table?”

Well, May, here’s a hint, from the Jewish Daily Forward:

As the liberals clamor for greater distance between the U.S. and Israel, one of Washington’s most vocal critics of the administration’s Middle East policy is vowing to keep the two countries joined at the hip if he is elected president.

...“The Arab nations have known that there is no daylight between us and Israel.”

http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/forward-interview-biden-rejects-clamoring-for-the/

-Joe Biden

Joe Biden is all about foreign policy.

Therefore this pick is about foreign policy and therefore it’s all about Israel (because our foreign policy is all about Israel) and therefore about the Florida Jewish vote.

This is just more of what Obama has been doing ever since he got the nomination: running to the right on foreign policy to placate the Israel-first crowd.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me-Joe Biden?

Who the fuck does Joe Biden bring to the table?

I hate Hillary Clinton as well as Obama, but picking Joe Biden makes no sense at all. Looks like the Democrats are doing everything they can to lose as per usual…

Suppose for a moment the GOP forgets Biden’s embarassing plagiarism.
Suppose for a moment Biden won’t continue to orate/pontificate/bloviate ad nausium.
Suppose for a moment Biden isn’t a Washington insider with seriously over-bleached teeth.
Then yahoo, we got Delaware’s 3 electoral votes in the bag!!!
After a couple weeks of yawn-inducing political campaigning, cow-towing to Evangelicals and his Bush-like vacation (gotta recharge with the family during an international crisis and be too busy to respond)...we have the least inspiring, most predictable, least courageous choice for VP since Joe Lieberman (it even hurts to type his name).
Thought this one was gonna be different.
Fooled again.
Who the hell is running this show???...(I see the steady hand of Donna Brazille on the tiller…has she ever won an election???)do they think white men with beer bellies cotton to Joe Biden??? Hell, we could even lose Toby Keith over this one.
Why not go after a real constituency??? Hello…women???
And the gold medal for election throwing goes to…
Barak Obama…the “different” politician.

jeez, is that the best he could do.

business as usual only the names and the faces change.

‘one ring to rule them all’

The dems have plenty of ammo and Joe shoots from the hip.  He will destroy his repooplican opponent in their debates.  Bring it on poopdaddies!