FOR JOE BIDEN!?
I've been feeling pretty disheartened with how folks have been talking about Biden. Here, on other sites, in the media (natch).
Obama chose Biden. Biden is on our ticket, and he deserves our respect. He is doing exactly what the Obama campaign is asking him to do, when they ask him to do it -- no more and no less.
He is right now working his heart out at town halls around the country, for us. For Obama. I've included video from the town hall events I could find. Biden is terrific on the stump. Watch the audience as he's talking, really talking to them -- they're rapt. Think about how they're going to recount the afternoon to their friends, neighbors, and co-workers. He's charming, empathetic, articulate AND easy to identify with. He's a storyteller. He's modest but powerful. And he makes Palin look like a pull string doll.
Please let's show him our respect and gratitude. Personally, I think he's Obama's secret weapon. And, as with Obama, pundits -- and other people, too -- underestimate him. Which they do at their own peril.
If you know of other town hall videos not listed here, please add them! I'd love to have them all available. And don't miss this very informative Biden-as-feminist piece from The New Republic! I was especially struck by this bit:
Joe Biden may have lost in a titanic struggle to expand the civil rights of women. But, along the way, he showed himself ready to follow the lead of female attorneys and judges. As Victoria Nourse told me in a recent e-mail from her desk at Emory Law School, where she is now a professor: "[I]n a day and age when Senators were still fondling interns in the Senate elevator, he not only protected me, he listened to me, my legal advice, and by extension, all the women who talked to me."
So, let's get behind Joe, too -- loudly & proudly -- and get this done!
Michigan, 09/2008
Michigan, 09/2008
Montana, 09/2008
Missouri, 09/2008
Missouri, part 2, 09/2008
(all clips from Missouri here: Missouri town hall)
New Hampshire Town Hall, 09/2008
via videosift.com
Sarasota, 09/2008
Sarasota, part 2
Sarasota, Q&A (watch this one!)
Many other clips from that town hall here:
Chris Blask page
Denver Economic Forum (with Michelle Obama)
And in case you've forgotten, he effectively ended Guiliani's prospects while answering a throw away question during a Democratic debate.