I think the best thing that can be said about Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden for VP is that it could have been much worse. The ultimate Washington insider, Biden hardly complements the "change" message we've been hearing so much about. The always irreverent Alexander Cockburn is much more harsh:
"Change” and “hope” are not words one associates with Senator Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about our political system that a computer simulation of the corporate-political paradigm senator in Congress would turn out “Biden” in a nano-second.
The first duty of any senator from Delaware is to do the bidding of the banks and large corporations which use the tiny state as a drop box and legal sanctuary. Biden has never failed his masters in this primary task. Find any bill that sticks it to the ordinary folk on behalf of the Money Power and you’ll likely detect Biden’s hand at work. The bankruptcy act of 2005 was just one sample. In concert with his fellow corporate serf, Senator Tom Carper, Biden blocked all efforts to hinder bankrupt corporations from fleeing from their real locations to the legal sanctuary of Delaware. Since Obama is himself a corporate serf and from day one in the US senate has been attentive to the same masters that employ Biden, the ticket is well balanced, the seesaw with Obama at one end and Biden at the other dead-level on the fulcrum of corporate capital.
Corporate media, for obvious reasons, will not delve into the issues raised by Cockburn. Probably the major risk of having Joe Biden on the ticket is that he will say something stupid that will derail the campaign for a few weeks.
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Obama has to pick people who appease the racist conservative strain running through our country. Mccain and Obama are close in the polls. This means even after all that has happened in the last eight years, most Americans are too stupid to wake up and smell the coffee.
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