Aug. 24, 2008
Over the weekend, Barack Obama finally made his Vice Presidential selection, Senator Joe Biden from Delaware. Biden, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and 4th most senior member of the Senate, brings a wealth of foreign policy experience to the ticket, but more importantly he will act as the perfect attack dog for Obama, who so far has shied away from all out verbal warfare with John McCain. Biden will have no such qualms about throwing verbal right hooks at McCain or whatever less experienced VP candidate the Republicans roll out in the next week.
In fact, the Vice Presidential debate will probably be one of the highlights of the remainder of the campaign because Biden has the potential to all out embarrass whoever the poor Republican nominee is, with his breadth of knowledge and ability to completely dismantle his adversary’s arguments.
Two great videos show Joe at his best, ridiculing Rudy Guiliani during the Democratic Primary.
This first one, the more famous of the two, shows Biden savagely ripping Guiliani’s penchant for weaving in a reference to 9/11 no matter what he’s talking about:
This one, though, is my favorite. After his “noun, verb, and 9/11″ quip made headlines, Biden threw out this gem while talking to reporters during his short lived campaign in Iowa. The appropriate condescension in his voice is biting, but the look on his face after he says it in the last half second of the video is absolutely priceless:
That’s the reason virtually every Democrat was rooting for Biden in these final days, and why Republicans supporting John McCain were hoping for anyone else, as MSNBC’s First Read explains:
“On the Democratic side, it was a collective ‘phew.’ As the days got nearer for the pick, it was hard to find a Democrat — even savvy Clintonites — who weren’t hoping it would be Biden. Only the most strident Hillary supporters appear to be upset this morning. On the GOP side, the sound you heard was disappointed silence. Of everyone on the short list, the candidate many Republicans least wanted to see Obama pick was Biden.”
(videos via dailykos)
Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer
Attack dog? Unfortunately, the obama campaign needs one. this sure feels like a ‘different kind of politics’ on Obama’s side, but he cannot stand idly by while McCain tries to twist the facts and sway the american voters with lies.
those are great videos, and from what i’ve seen from Biden, the debates will hopefully expose the GOPs presidential campaign for what it is….power hungry out of touch career politicians grasping at straws.
Haha, lovely. I don’t know much about Biden, so I can’t say much, but those videos are just… hilarious. Like Ryan said, unfortunately, Obama needs an attack dog to slow down McCain.
This should be interesting.