Tuesday, September 2, 2008

joe biden

i wasnt that active around the time barack obama made his choice of vice presidential candidate, so i shall blog about it now.

personally, i thought the best pick was chuck hagel- an anti-war republican who mouths off a little. i thought the gesture of picking someone almost diametrically opposed in philosophy would help to fuel the whole compromise and change message. plus, i found hagel to be quite articulate on a lot of issues i care a lot about, namely education and market restriction.

but the choice was joe biden. biden agrees with obama on a lot of issues; they are both very liberal democrats. from what i can gather of his narrative, joe biden was elected to the senate in the seventies and upon his election, his wife and one of his children were killed in a car wreck. his two other sons survived. he nearly gave up on the senate to tend to his family, but the senior democrats came to his aid and convinced him to carry on. they placed him in a lot of major committees, keeping him as busy as possible. its actually because of the tragedy (indirectly) that he had so much experience in the senate, working on the judicial and foreign relations committees.

as a person, biden is compelling. as a knowledgable advisor on foreign affairs, not so much. he wanted to break iraq into kurd, shiia, and sunni states, giving them semi-autonomy, but by all accounts also straining relations further as well as forcing people to evacuate their homes.

on the economy, hes in the mainstream of the democratic party- in favor of restreaming welfare and redistributing wealth. whatever. im not even sure free markets work when youre society is mentally retarded, so maybe its best if government takes care of it all.

hes socially liberal which sits pretty well with me, but doesnt really make or break my opinion of a politician.

he also plagiarized a speech back in the 80s. thats about as relevant as sarah palins teenage daughter being pregnant, though. who fucking cares?

hopefully that gives you a little insight into the one they call biden.

2 comments:

esha. said...

thanks :) i shall wait for the results.

Dani said...

I agree that palin's daughter and the plagiarized speech should be irrelevant, but i dont think that the american public can divorse those actions from their opinions the candidates. therefore, the relevance is inevitable.