UK Guardian: Biden shows why Obama chose him as a running mate

[whirlygigspin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/28/uselections2008.joebiden1

Ewen MacAskill in Denver guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 28 2008 06:31 BST


"Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, had the bad luck to be speaking after Bill Clinton. Even on his best days, Biden is never going to be as good as the former president, especially when he is on form, as he was last night.

But it did not matter. Biden did as much as Clinton to turn round the mood of the Democratic convention...That is where Biden comes in...Biden spent about half of his speech in attack dog mode..."

"When he challenged McCain's record on Iraq and Afghanistan, he did so, as he told the convention, from a position of having been to those countries. And, in knocking McCain down, saying he had underestimated the need for more troops in Afghanistan and fewer in Iraq, he was also building up Obama: he was making the case that Obama was capable of being the next commander-in-chief."

[Eurobabe]

1. I just watched it, crying my eyes out!!

GOD LOVE YA JOE!!!

This ticket is ON FIRE! :woohoo: :woohoo:

Anybody else stoked? :headbang:

[melody]

2. I loved the Joe stuff but do these journalists sneer at all cultures or is it just ours?

I loved the good stuff on Joe but why do so many UK journalists always have to snipe about what they see as being cloying and sentimental ... which they only see that way because it's not their culture? Maybe we should start coming to reactionary conclusions
about various different aspects of putative European cultures and deeming THAT negative simply because we don't share it.

[DarthDem]

3. I Didn't Get That Vibe

. . . from the excerpt at all.

And yes, I am STOKED!!! :bounce:

[melody]

4. It was all the "lowly Americans like sap" stuff n/t

[anitar1]

5. Never mind, Melody. they have been doing that for

232 years, since we whupped them and kicked them out of the country.