Obama Picks Biden

Unfortunately the Obama text message was sent at 3:23 AM so I wasn't able to report on this immediately.

Out of the names that were floating around, Biden was the one person who could turn around the slump that Obama's been having recently. Last week he dropped below McCain in the RealClearPolitics electoral vote count. McCain's lies and whines have been working.

Obama needs someone to strike back, and Biden has certainly shown a willingness to attack when he needs to. He might screw up once in a while but that's better than not saying anything at all.

McCain will also no longer be able to use his greatest weapon-his foreign policy "credentials". Yes, he was a prisoner of war, but he supported the Iraq War. Yes, he was a prisoner of war, but it is Obama's plan for withdrawal that has been vaguely endorsed by American generals and Iraqi politicians. Yes, he was a prisoner of war, but he does not realize that "surrender" is not an option in Iraq because we are not fighting a group that it is possible to surrender to. It's not quite that bad yet, but we're getting to the point that we can say McCain's sentences are composed of a noun, a verb, and "I was a prisoner of war". Not to say that McCain cheated at Saddleback (I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt), but what does being a prisoner of war have to do with that? War heroes can't cheat? What ever happened to Duke Cunningham? Or that guy Benedict Arnold? Of course I'm not comparing McCain to either of those people, but he can't keep using the prisoner of war card like it's a get out of jail free card. I see him using that tactic far more than Obama has pulled his race card.

I just hope that the Obama-Biden joint appearance today will be the start of a new campaign phase, where the Democrats actually get their act together and go attack the other candidate. And we can attack McCain with truth, instead of the lies he's using. You can't pull the prisoner of war card on the truth.