If the amoral Rove is not involved in the McCain campaign, certainly his adherents have put Rove’s stamp on the character assassination tactics that Rove always used and which a desperate McCain has adopted. “Turd Blossom” has quite a large ego, fattened by his successes in getting an incredibly mediocre candidate elected. Like the creator of Frankenstein, he would love to dispute the repugnance of his creation (Bush)and prove his superiority by getting a challenged old guy with limited knowledge elected.

First to Fadel, I posed a question about your writings on another post.It was not a loaded question, I was curious about how you would answer a question like mine,you did a stand up job. I was very impressed, with you honesty and the ease of which you answered the question.Not all questions or statements from my side of the aisle are meant to offend. Now it was Bi-La-den and Obama who came out negative first,Obama started with the attack dog comment..Like the play on his name.

This campaign just keeps sinking to new lows. All we need now is Mittens or someother right wing nutjob on the repug ticket, and away we go! This could be a repeat of 1968, hopefully sans the gunfire. And i have a feeling that, like 1968, we will ultimatly end up with electing the worst of all evils.
It has become uniquely American to shoot ourselves in the foot every four years.
Was it not Ben franklin that said we get the government we deserve?

I really think some people are underestimating Biden. He has solid working class roots (in Pennsylvania,) he teaches law (so he actually knows the law and may even have some respect for it), his state brings with it three electoral college votes and he has lots of foreign policy experience. He’s affluent but not obscenely wealthy like McCain. I’ve got a good feeling about him and,like Bush, I go with my gut! He’s also rumoured to be a bit of an attack dog who won’t back down in a fight. Good for him. Obama needs a fighter in his corner.Some people say he talks too much and might be a liability in that way but no person of conscience or commonsense could possibly vote for McCain anyway -that only leaves rusted-on Republicans who would vote for a goat if it was a Republican goat and far right religious nuts. Believe it or not these are a minority of voters and can easily be swept aside if everyone eligible to vote does so.

Biden has the unique ability to look someone right in the eye, and with a smile on his face cut them low with their own duplicity. In fact he’s so good at it the object of his frank assessment doesn’t even realize they’ve just been stripped naked until the draft hits their backside.

For Obama who has run on a platform of bi-partisanship and unity, Biden is the perfect choice, cause the bi-’s and the united on the other side respect and fear him.

That is the real advantage of his years of experience.

A Message to McCain and His Misguided Supporters:

It takes more than a bad pilot who fought in the evil war of Vietnam, that even his God disapproved of his acts and had him shot down and tortured for few years, to lead this country from the brink of total disaster.

What this country needs is a leaders with vision and wisdom who can navigate safely the troubled waters of our times. In fact, under and because people of the McCain types who have been in Washington for a long time, America has been moving backwards in the progression of civilization!

Now that Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden to be his partner in bringing change to America, they get my vote and my blessings!

The first words out of the McCain campaign and McCain himself regarding Biden was a negative rehash of a democratic debate sound-byte.  This only proves the lack of depth of John McCain’s soul and campaign. He has no class. A REAL man, a REAL opposing candidate would have had the grace to congratulate his colleague first, on receiving the nomination, before going negative. This reaction from McCain is further proof that his emotional development did not end the day he was shot down, but, was formed by being the son and grandson of more accomplished men. His envy of his father and grandfather has propelled him to do them one better. If he couldn’t beat them by becoming an admiral, he thinks he can do it by becoming Commander-in-Chief of all the military. He always has been and always will be pitiful. We DON’T need another president with “daddy was a better man than me” issues.

Biden 1000% better than Uncle Fester Cheney

Elect freedom instead folks: if enough are willing to fight for it; claiming it is DEM or REP; it is THIS (democracy) which exploits folks to the max; the very laws to protect it’s citizens are let go by the lawless leaders who race around the world bribing their heads of states & proclaiming we have got away with it in the USA for years; tragically resulting in millions of deaths in other countries; http://www.democracynow.org; stop loss; where the soldiers are forced to go repeatedly back over & over & over again into battlegrounds; with NO $ given for disability; where the soldiers themselves tell you it is NOT right to call them insurgents; they are simply people fighting for their freedom; go to yahoo news & search corruption in Iraq; it started with the “set up” of the same system here in USA folks with the same Corps; go to http://www.time.com & look at Georgia invading other providences then to the “accounts” that our lawless lying leaders tell you; doesn’t match; other countries tell us what we are shown & told are FALSE pictures; and untrue; & by the time Americans ever wake up to this it will be to late for them;

if the press and media(s) spent as much time on issues and not meaningless politics, might....... might have a slightly better informed public.

‘attack ads’ du jour...... what a waste

btw:  Biden’s a good pick
but will McCain choose someone like Romney?,..perhaps McCain feels he may need the protection of Mormon ‘magic underware’.

• SEDONA, Ariz.—John McCain’s campaign pounced quickly Saturday morning to attack Barack Obama’s running mate Sen. Joe Biden by using the Delaware politician’s own words against him.

No surprises here. This is a template technique for the McCain team. They did the exact same thing as soon as Obama won the primaries, only then, they just recycled all of the stuff Hillary had already been hurling at him for months.

• “…Sen. Biden is a key component of the Republicans’ counter-programming for the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver. He’s featured in three videos on a new Web site, to be launched Sunday, of Democrats criticizing Sen. Obama…”

EXACTLY the same thing they did before! This is just too much. How low can they go? Just wait.

Unfortunately, in a contest that focuses only on mud slinging, I have to agree with G Anderson, that things look pretty dim, based on the amount of stuff the Repugs can come up with on Biden. And they will, because McCain has zero to offer himself, aside from being a ‘presence’ on the Senate. He’s never sponsored any brilliant legislation in foreign policy or anything else. As Aegrus pointed out on another thread, McCain has never done anything except the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, which he now rejects himself. Otherwise, WHAT HAS MCCAIN DONE?

Nothing.

Still, they define the narrative every time, and so having pounced on Obama’s so-called ‘lack of experience’ from the very beginning, (thanks to Hillary and the rest of the republicans) they’ve perpetrated the impression that they have so much more of this ‘foreign policy’ experience, even though in reality, there’s nothing impressive about it.

I’m still critical over Biden’s co-sponsorship of the plan to ‘partition’ Iraq, that he sponsored with Kay Bailey Hutchison, just as I was at the time. He SHOULD have been sponsoring legislation to get us the hell out of there.

Now it’ll be interesting to see if the repugs try to criticize that move, since that’s exactly what they did anyway, (partition the place as if Iraq belonged to us to chop up however we see fit) and it’s the ONLY reason that the violence has *marginally* decreased...they’ve locked up the all of the Iraqis behind walls covered in barbed wire.

That said, I don’t see how any of these guys have any better judgment on foreign policy than Obama does, for all of their so-called ‘experience’. Longevity does *not* automatically equate to good judgment on decision making, no matter what the area of policy is.

I really fear that nominating Biden implicitly validates everything McCain stands for.

Now the voters will be faced with a choice between the real McCain and a candidate who is desperately trying to turn himself into McCain. If that’s the choice, I’m afraid that many voters will decide you might as well vote for the real McCain.

I cannot personally take another Republican administration. It will literally ruin my life. I’m not in a position to emigrate. It’s really scary. I’m trapped in a car with a lunatic driver, and we’re going right off a cliff.

Talk about tragic mistakes. This nomination will be a boost to McCain.

There are many years of Biden mistakes to choose from, an embarassment of riches for Republican operatives.

Can America survive another 4 years of Bush’s policy’s and an infinite war in the Middle East?

Suddenly, there is no hope in sight. It’s just politics as usual, the destruction of our country will continue.