Kathianne
08-24-2008, 06:21 AM
Some good, some bad. This strikes me about right:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzIwYzM0NTJjOWU1Njg5NTlmOWY5OTRkOTVmMWJlMWU=
He makes Obama look weak, same as McCain. At the same time, he in ways matches up to McCain, problem is he's not running for president:
Biden [Yuval Levin]
For me, the most striking line in Obama’s introduction of Biden today was: “Joe Biden is what so many others pretend to be — a statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong.”
Hmmm…now who do we know who pretends to be a statesman?
The entire event made roughly the same point: boy, Obama is inexperienced and light. ...
Biden is not without his advantages of course. [COLOR="Blue"]He does know at least as much about foreign policy and defense issues as John McCain does, and far more than Obama.
...
[B]he largely takes the issue of McCain’s age off the table (unless the idea is that McCain is precisely six years too old to be president); he makes it far more difficult for Obama to talk about Iraq (since Biden voted for the war, and then bitterly criticized Obama’s withdrawal plans in the primaries); and he makes it tough to argue that Washington is the problem, as he has been there a good bit longer than McCain.
...
...Picking Biden is not an act of confidence, driven by a sense that the public likes what it sees in Obama and wants more of the same (as, for instance, the choice of Al Gore was in 1992). It is a sign, rather, that Obama recognizes that he is suddenly in some serious trouble, and will not be able to win the election the way he won the primaries. He is trying to do something to compensate
...
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzIwYzM0NTJjOWU1Njg5NTlmOWY5OTRkOTVmMWJlMWU=
He makes Obama look weak, same as McCain. At the same time, he in ways matches up to McCain, problem is he's not running for president:
Biden [Yuval Levin]
For me, the most striking line in Obama’s introduction of Biden today was: “Joe Biden is what so many others pretend to be — a statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong.”
Hmmm…now who do we know who pretends to be a statesman?
The entire event made roughly the same point: boy, Obama is inexperienced and light. ...
Biden is not without his advantages of course. [COLOR="Blue"]He does know at least as much about foreign policy and defense issues as John McCain does, and far more than Obama.
...
[B]he largely takes the issue of McCain’s age off the table (unless the idea is that McCain is precisely six years too old to be president); he makes it far more difficult for Obama to talk about Iraq (since Biden voted for the war, and then bitterly criticized Obama’s withdrawal plans in the primaries); and he makes it tough to argue that Washington is the problem, as he has been there a good bit longer than McCain.
...
...Picking Biden is not an act of confidence, driven by a sense that the public likes what it sees in Obama and wants more of the same (as, for instance, the choice of Al Gore was in 1992). It is a sign, rather, that Obama recognizes that he is suddenly in some serious trouble, and will not be able to win the election the way he won the primaries. He is trying to do something to compensate
...