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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (767921)	8/24/2008 11:17:05 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

12. August 24th, 2008 9:54 am Link As a delegate for Hillary, who lives outside of Denver, I am not even going to the convention. My dismay with Mr. Obama is simply pragmatic. I see him as a religious left candidate with less experience than George Bush, when George went into office. The logic people had on George’s lack of experience was, “he can hire good advisors”. I hear the same from my friends who are Obama fans. As one who had run large organizations, it is very difficult to hire the right advisors if you know very little on what they should be advising on as well as being able to understand their advice when they give it. It is staff’s/advisor’s job to present options to the decision maker, not decisions, because they aren’t the decision makers. This is why Obama will fail as the chief executive of our country. Mr. Obama’s ego and incredible ambition worries me. I see it causing an arrogance that will cause him to ignore facts and go with his idealogoy, especially when he says taxes are about fairness, that is big time social engineering that has been proven to only work in theory.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (767921)	8/24/2008 11:26:39 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

On Obama-Biden Chemistry, Clues are Scarce By John M. Broder SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It was hard to tell from their first appearance as running mates what kind of partners Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be. After Mr. Obama mis-introduced Mr. Biden as “the next president of the United States,” the prospective Democratic vice-presidential nominee bounded eagerly onto the speaker’s platform to embrace Mr. Obama. Both were in shirtsleeves and wearing broad grins. A newcomer to American politics, observing the 18-year difference in their ages, might have mistaken the gray-haired Mr. Biden for the senior member of the team. In his introductory remarks, Mr. Obama spoke respectfully of Mr. Biden’s record of public service, and reverently of the personal trials he has endured. But there were few notes of personal connection, and no anecdotes about moments they had shared in the Senate or on the campaign trail. This is the closest Mr. Obama came: “I have seen this man work. I have sat with him as he chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and been by his side on the campaign trail. And I can tell you that Joe Biden gets it. He’s that unique public servant who is at home in a bar in Cedar Rapids and the corridors of the Capitol; in the VFW hall in Concord, and at the center of an international crisis.” For his part, Mr. Biden used most of his time at the microphone to attack the likely Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, portraying him as a partner in the Bush-Cheney administration and saying that he would merely continue their policies. He described Mr. Obama as a man of “judgment, intelligence and steel in his spine,” and said, “This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done.” But, again, little personal connection; no mention of shared battles fought, defeats suffered or victories won. Maybe that comes in November, after 10 weeks in the campaign foxhole together. The Obama campaign was stingy with details about how Mr. Obama came to choose Mr. Biden as his electoral partner. We do not know (yet) of any secret rendezvous or late-night telephone calls in which the two men bonded; no stories of how their wives sneaked off to the Four Seasons for coffee. All we know is that Mr. Obama called Mr. Biden on Thursday night and offered him the job. Mr. Biden obviously accepted, as he said in several interviews in recent weeks that he would do if asked. Aides to Mr. Obama said that Mr. Biden gained his respect for the way he ran the Foreign Relations Committee, where Mr. Obama serves as a junior member. They also cited Mr. Biden’s recent trip to the Republic of Georgia — made at the Georgian president’s request — as a factor in the decision. As Mr. Biden spoke, Mr. Obama sat behind him on a tall stool; afterward, Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, and Mr. Biden’s wife, Jill, appeared for the obligatory four-shot of the happy couples. Their children were nowhere to be seen. Once the photos were taken, the four disappeared into the Old State Capitol building here for private meetings, before going their separate ways — Mr. Obama back to Chicago, Mr. Biden to his home in Wilmington, Del. They do not plan to appear together again until the middle of next week, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, according to their current schedules. Chemistry? We’ll see.