A few random thoughts about the Biden pick.

Gosh!  Where to start…  Is it true?  It looks like Presidential UNSUB Barack Hussein Obama the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party made a choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate … Delaware?  Can anyone even find Delaware on a map? 

We all have seen what Biden said about Barack in the heat of battle… and how he has treated Barack and his "inexperience".  I would assess this pick as one that kills two birds with one stone. Biden will be able to absorb almost all the dissension over Hillary, with his over the top rhetoric and give Obama some needed breathing room and put a real killer on his team.  

This is a great day for John McCain but not so for America.  I will allude to my post of 8/22/08 where I put Biden on my short list.  As I had stated…  Obama will be making a deal with the devil with the choice of Biden, and Biden would love to have a backdoor to the Oval office… nominating Biden makes Barack a very dangerous Presidential UNSUB for America.

As a Clinton Republican and now a McCain Independent, I like this pick for my political purposes.  Biden has a rich history of verbal divisiveness with his uncanny ability to say whatever he pleases whenever he wants.  We have watched the same style now for almost eight years.  It just has a Texas twang and bad Texas metaphors.  This for me increases the disenfranchised, independent vote for McCain.

This will not bode well for the likes of PUMA… etc…  Biden will take up the attack and initially deflect the focus off of Obama, but McCain knows Biden and his tendencies.  McCain should be able to orchestrate a Biden foot in mouth meltdown that pushes groups like PUMA closer to McCain, thus making easier for both parties to embrace.  As for Hillary, she will be treated as a footnote after the Convention and may feel dissed enough to cozy up with McCain.  This for me increases the women, disenfranchised, independent vote for McCain.

There is a catch to Biden, call it a poker style tell.  Biden will exaggeratedly raises his brow line and straightens his face when he is saying something that is off the cuff and for effect because he is pissed or something he won’t stand behind when it comes to crunch time.  Just keep it in the back of your mind when he is speaking over the next few days and months.

Biden and his record speaks for its self, you either agree with his legislation and socialist agenda or not.  There is not a great deal of genuine bipartisanship about him.  As for his personal baggage, you can judge this by your own moral standards.  As a politician, Biden is the complete package of good and evil, and if the press chooses, they could have a field day with him.

Obama’s bump from this choice should be on the order of a piece of sand in the oceans… total bump of no more that 5 ~ 7 pts by Conventions end.  This bump will fall far below modern bumps from Veep and the Convention.  This will quickly dissipate in the next 3 weeks and McCain will be riding high again by mid September.

The side note…  Keep an eye on Michelle Obama.  Biden and his mouth will give Michelle a new lease on life.  We should see a great deal more of her.  In addition, Hillary is caught in a very tight place with this choice.  She might want to reconsider the cozy up attitude.