Politics

[urbpan]

I was looking back at my post of vicious lies about the presidential candidates, and to my astonishment, not only did I miss McCain (and owned up to it) but I also missed Joe Biden.  I guess he's just too clean and articulate to make fun of.

No, seriously, my Dad and I were discussing who Obama was going to pick, and I said, I hope he doesn't pick Biden: he's too smart.  It's true; America doesn't like candidates who seem too smart.  We elected Bill Clinton because he seemed like a big ol' dumb hick that played sax and had a mischievous eye for the ladies.  Of course, like almost all of the Presidents (except for a few dolts like William Henry Harrison and George Washington) Clinton was a millionaire who went to the best colleges available.  Even our current president made it into Yale without benefit of a big brain ("Yale could use an international airport...")  But he doesn't emphasize his college days, he prefers you to think of him as the guy who fishes and clears brush off of his ranch. 

Biden doesn't have a ranch, I believe, since Delaware is too small to have a Wal-Mart, never mind ranches (I kid, they have at least five--what did you think, they're Communists?) .  Basically all I know of Biden is what I've heard on the radio.  The guy sounds incredibly smart, which is what worries me.  Also, he's run for President every election since before I was born, and he's never won anything.  (To be fair, this translates as a "long and distinguished career in the Senate.")  The Obama administration will be much better with a Biden veep, but I don't think as a candidate Biden is going to make things any easier.

Of course, if McCain keeps sounding senile, hopefully it will scare people from voting for him.  Then again, Americans don't seem to mind senile presidents.

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[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Biden is a fscking moron. I say this as a native Delawarean alive since he got into the Senate, and who lived down the street from the intersection where his wife was killed (which got a traffic light after she died, but not after the 239804238409 other people who died there BEFORE her). Even his office staff wishes he'd just keep his fool mouth shut. And his son, Delaware Attorney General by grace of Daddy, apparently lacks even a fraction of his father's brains.

But he's got a lot of experience in Washington. And he's a cleancut wealthy white boy, which will help bring in the cleancut wealthy white boy vote for Obama. I suppose there are worse. And all his political compost was raked up YEARS ago, at least. Who cares about plagiarism now anyway?

I don't hate him as much as my parents do, but my parents are conservative Irish Catholic Republicans who still resent him for telling them that there would never be busing in Delaware, followed by him supporting busing. At least he eventually supported busing... that's in his favor, right?