It's been a long year, hasn't it? Well we're in the final stretch now and the goal is within reach. After a pretty crappy week or so when Sarah Palin showed up like Godzilla in San Francisco Bay, barfing fire and brimstone, she's thankfully lost most of her initial luster and the polls are climbing back in our direction.
The next hurdles are, of course, the debates. (There's an apropos and excellent diary by DeanDemocrat on the Rec list now) And while any sane person - with functioning frontal lobes - would look at Mr. Biden's decades of service and experience and select him over Palin, the ideologues and "morans" will see what they want, and remain blind to the rest. But most (sane) folks don't vote for a Vice President any way.
No the real battle will be our guy versus theirs. A few hopefully somewhat coherent, caffeine-addled thoughts follow:
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