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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: puborectalis who wrote (41204)8/23/2008 11:45:02 PM
From: Bearcatbob  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224720
 
In an Ohio add Oba is advertising to "responsibly" end the war in Iraq. What does that mean? As for wars - my wife rants on Iraq now - I said what difference does it make - Obama is hell bent on war in Afghanistan (at least he says so).



To: puborectalis who wrote (41204)8/24/2008 11:00:42 AM
From: Ann Corrigan  Respond to of 224720
 
Does Obama expect Biden to be disciplined--keep to script?

Biden adds experience, but duo may clash

By Chuck Plunkett
The Denver Post
Aug 23, 2008

"(Obama) has been running on forging a new kind of politics," said Robert Eisinger, a political scientist at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. "By putting someone seasoned on the ticket, the message will be amended. It's now change with experience."

Biden, a Delaware senator since 1972, chairs the Foreign Relations Committee and is considered one of the top Washington insiders on international affairs. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is serving his first term in the Senate.

But the two men, so different in their campaign styles, might not mesh, Eisinger warned. If the Obama campaign, which expects tight discipline and keeps to script, tries to rein in the freewheeling Biden, it risks losing some of the magic.

"If he plays the disciplined Joe Biden, that's not Joe Biden at his best," Eisinger said, calling Biden's acceptance speech "uninspiring."