I am fully aware that Joe Biden voted for the bankruptcy overhaul so that credit card companies never lose money over their predatory lending and billing practices. Okay, that was a dick move by Old Joe. I know Joe Biden is considered the most insider of Washington insiders, and will undermie the idea of change behind Obama's campaign. Basically no Senator could be considered an outsider, but Joe really blows the curve on insider. I get that.
I am still fairly happy about his selection. He started attacking the McCain campaign within seconds of opening his speech. I did find it truly awesome. After weeks of Barack looking very weak under withering attacks from virtually every angle of the Republican world, Joe Biden lifted my spirits immediately. I just hope he keeps his attacks focused and doesn't run off at the mouth too much. If he can, then I will forgive him for the 75,000 word acceptance speech he will deliver at the DNC.
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There are other things that I like about Joe Biden. He's not sensationally wealthy. He faced great personal loss when his wife died, which is something I am familiar with to a great extent. He believes the Bush administration should be brought to justice for their actions, or so he has said. He has vehemently spoken out against the current administration on numerous occasions.
Please allow me to present some of my favorite Biden quotes. On Iran in December, 2007:
Are you telling me a president that's briefed every single morning, who's fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the U.S. government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear weapon in '03? I refuse to believe that. If that's true, he has the most incompetent staff in modern American history, and he's one of the most incompetent presidents in modern American history.
On Bush and Libby in July, 2007.:
This guy is brain dead. I know I’ll be quoted, I’ll be killed for that. This is a guy who is on the balls of his heels, here’s a guy who is lower off in the polls than any president in modern history and he goes ahead and he does something that just flies in the face of the sensibilities of the American people.
More on Bush and Scooter:
He commuted the sentence. He commuted the sentence. That is what you might call tone deaf or brain dead, one of the two, because seriously, think about it. Here when the world is going to hell with a hand basket, when our leadership around the world is literally on the balls of its heels, instead of engaging in any uniting, uniting effort to bring the country together, what does he do? He takes one of the most controversial political cases to raid the country. This is an administration beyond redemption. I really mean it. It's not a joke. I've been there for seven presidencies. Nobody. I was there 29 years ago this day. I was there with Richard Nixon. That's how old I am. And folks, this guy's worse. This guy's worse.
You're damned right I like Joe Biden for the VP pick. We just need to insert an interrupt in his brain, to guarantee a two second delay between when he thinks of what he wants to say and when he actually says it. I understand he has offended minorities, women, religious faiths, manatee, aliens and insects with his comments in the past. Hopefully there will be none of that.
I swore I wouldn't write about Biden. That worked out well. I made it a half day, at least. I was going to do an in depth article on the steep increase of hateful words from Freepers and Freeper-like trolls, but that would be ignoring the giant elephant hanging around in my brain. Here's what I had so far, sans any links (I barely started before the Biden issue got the best of me).
Blog Threads Crawling With Troglodytes
There has always been a fair amount of trolling going on at the bigger liberal blog sites. The population of McCain trolls has skyrocketed lately, however, probably as part of the troll-for-prizes scam cooked up by the McCain campaign. I find it pretty funny. They sound more hateful and ignorant than the normal posters, and therefore do their cause a great injustice. In fact, I think I will refer to them as troglodytes on occasion, because that seems to fit them just fine.
I am a sarcastic SOB. I am bitter and full of cynicism. I write hugely acidic commentary on the path our nation has been led down. But I am not a troll. I am always respectful of other people's writing and threads, even if I disagree (which is often). Of course I don't go to the kingdom of the Freepers, the Free Republic. I am not sure how I would react. I do know that trolls at progressive sites hardly ever get massive bashings, such as what the Freepers do.
So, there, I said it. I have met the enemy and its name is brainwashing. It teaches hatred and violence, distrust and judgment. It's controlled by a media with no shame, because the truth doesn't make dollars. Its soldiers do not even know what has been done to their way of thinking, and therefore follow their leaders unquestioningly. 'Tis a sad time for intelligence in America.
Good day, from someone who doesn't feel like being stuck in a cage in Denver after becoming spirited and passionate about causes. Sorry if I missed any mistakes. Believe me, I will feel stupid when I find them (they are always somewhere to be found). Toodles.