Once again we see Joe Biden demonstrating why he never got out of single digits as a presidential candidate.
Once again, we see that Barack Obama would have done well to ignore the petulant carping critics who said he needed to add some maturity and foreign policy experience to his team, not to mention those who said he had to lean on Geithner and Rubin to prove he wasn't a socialist.
Most of those a heartbeat away from the oval office have been scary... Andrew Johnson was a disaster, and in more recent times, there have been Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney... those of you on the other side of the fence doubtless shuddered at the prospect of Al Gore suddenly succeeding Bill Clinton.
It comes of "balancing the ticket," by inviting someone who could supplement the voter appeal of the main candidate. Sarah Palin was in the same mode. She was never qualified to succeed, but she was young, energetic, and had a sort of appeal to her particular base that McCain lacked.
Putrid results all around. Washington and Adams may have been the only team that didn't follow such a script.
Jefferson had his Burr, Roosevelt waxed and waned from Garner to Wallace to Truman... Truman wasn't bad, but who woulda thunk it?
Once again we see Joe Biden demonstrating why he never got out of single digits as a presidential candidate.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, we see that Barack Obama would have done well to ignore the petulant carping critics who said he needed to add some maturity and foreign policy experience to his team, not to mention those who said he had to lean on Geithner and Rubin to prove he wasn't a socialist.
Again, I say, this Dumb-Dumb is a heartbeat away from th oval office.
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Most of those a heartbeat away from the oval office have been scary... Andrew Johnson was a disaster, and in more recent times, there have been Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Dan Quayle, Dick Cheney... those of you on the other side of the fence doubtless shuddered at the prospect of Al Gore suddenly succeeding Bill Clinton.
ReplyDeleteIt comes of "balancing the ticket," by inviting someone who could supplement the voter appeal of the main candidate. Sarah Palin was in the same mode. She was never qualified to succeed, but she was young, energetic, and had a sort of appeal to her particular base that McCain lacked.
Putrid results all around. Washington and Adams may have been the only team that didn't follow such a script.
Jefferson had his Burr, Roosevelt waxed and waned from Garner to Wallace to Truman... Truman wasn't bad, but who woulda thunk it?