Comments on: Biden Selection A Mixed Bag For Obama

Analysis: CBSNews.com’s Vaughn Ververs Says Senator Brings Strength But May Dim Obama’s Allure

[dowjones20k]

This analysis was nicely done by CBS .. bringing to light several possible hurdles that Obama is now faced with by selecting Biden as his VP ..

Unfortunately, the writer left out the very important fact that Biden was the lead democrat who championed the recent bankruptcy law that has handcuffed citizens. Certainly not a "for the people law".

Maybe it is because Biden is from Delaware and that is where the majority of banks hail from corporate tax law reasons?? ..... and he was pressured with corporate donations????

It is going to be very interesting how the repubs go about attacking Biden .. there is much to expose and utilize to show that Obama''s "change in DC" is evaporating .... lets see if the voters still feel that Obama is going to "change" anything in DC ..

Doubt it .... until Americans vote OUT the two term + incumbants we will never see change ... DC is permeated with ego''s and power brokers who could care less about Americans .. only themselves and their families ...

And where else can you leave your job behind and campaign for years and still draw a $167,000 a year salary??? Only Washington DC ... and not one ordinary American can even fathom such a perk ...

[dowjones20k]

This analysis was nicely done by CBS .. bringing to light several possible hurdles that Obama is now faced with by selecting Biden as his VP ..

Unfortunately, the writer left out the very important fact that Biden was the lead democrat who championed the recent bankruptcy law that has handcuffed citizens. Certainly not a "for the people law".

Maybe it is because Biden is from Delaware and that is where the majority of banks hail from corporate tax law reasons?? ..... and he was pressured with corporate donations????

It is going to be very interesting how the repubs go about attacking Biden .. there is much to expose and utilize to show that Obama''s "change in DC" is evaporating .... lets see if the voters still feel that Obama is going to "change" anything in DC ..

Doubt it .... until Americans vote OUT the two term + incumbants we will never see change ... DC is permeated with ego''s and power brokers who could care less about Americans .. only themselves and their families ...

And where else can you go campaign for years and still draw a $167,000 a year salary??? Only Washington DC ... and not one ordinary American can even fathom such a perk ...

[cyndilu9]

I think Joe Biden is a great choice. I was a former Hillary supporter - and I''m perfectly pleased with this selection. I think any working class person who votes Republican and John McCain is voting against his/her pocket book and interests. It''s time to wise up. The Democrats have stepped up to the plate an we have a great ticket now. Obama / Biden 2008!! Let''s make it happen Clinton Supporters!!! I''m already on board.

[peterrr73]

This story claims that Obama has based his candidacy on a call for a ''fundamental and transcendent change''; ''not incremental change or minor change'', but ''a clean sweep'' of the whole Washington system. According to this Year Zero notion, the choice of Biden is a betrayal of this vision.

Sorry, have I missed something? where did Obama ever say this, or anything even remotely like it? And think a little about this. What would such a clean sweep do? are we going to throw out the constitution? the whole machinery of government, the senate and congress and judiciary and all? and start all over?
Actually, my understanding is that Obama proposes just to make the government work better: as he put it today, to be more worthy of the American people. This might be disappointing for Mr Ververs, but is a whole lot more sensible.

But, hey, maybe Mr Ververs has information I do not. Can he could point me out some passages of Obama''s books, or record, which suggests he ever proposed anything like this ''clean sweep''? I''ve read Obama''s books, and heard many of his speeches and interviews, and I was struck by his respect for many aspects of the way the government of this country is arranged: for the decency of many of his colleagues in the Senate, and for the genius of the founding fathers in their arrangment of the constitution. But hey. Mr Ververs writes for CBS. Surely he knows what he is talking about. So, Mr V: where and when did Obama ever argue for this ''clean sweep''?

[steinbass56]

Why does this article automatically assume that Joe Biden cannot be an agent of change in an Obama administration? Many of the policy proposals on the Biden ''08 website were as progressive as any of the other Democrat candidates were proposing. And to all the Hillary supporters out there who say they cannot support the Obama/Biden ticket because Hillary was ''the next inline'' to be the Democratic nominee, realize that is how the GOP has selected their nominees for over 40 years. Do all of you really want the party of the working/middle class people to become a carbon copy of the party who represent the economic elite in our country? Time to put the ''culture of personality'' away and do what is best for our nation in its entirety. We can''t afford 4 or 8 more years of GOP/Conservative ideology. If all you Hillary supporters who say you will not support the Obama/Biden ticket this fall cannot change your position for yourselves, then do it for your children and their future and the future of our nation.

[coryellco]

for someone who talked down about politics of the past not being good it seems kinda funny bho would pick a dinosaur for vice prez can we say NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME ....why yes we can

[coryellco]

for someone who talked down about politics of the past not being good it seems kinda funny bho would pick a dinosaur for vice prez can we say NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME ....why yes we can

[coryellco]

for someone who talked down about politics of the past not being good it seems kinda funny bho would pick a dinosaur for vice prez can we say NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME ....why yes we can

[kesac4650]

Obama can only pick from a very few who are willomg to get on the ticket with him.
If elected, Biden will never be heard from again.
But at least he can answer a question, without resoorting to "that''s above my pay grade".

[beader59]

Oh the list is long. Biden has a temper problem. He has angered memebers on both sides of the Senate aisle. He is a man. He is old Washington. Wait a minute, Obama has promised change and out with old Washington. Lie. Biden lied when he was taped saying he was not the guy for VP just the other day. We are in for so much trouble no matter which party is elected. I don''t understand why the other Democrat who received almost 50% of the American Democrats vote, was not chosen. I don''t care what anyone says, half of the Democrats in America wanted her as our next President. You cannot discount that. She better be given what ever position she wants, or this jerk Obama has proven once again he is out-of-touch with the real America. The real America is black, white, brown, yellow and gay, straight liberal and conservative. We are pro-choice and anti=abortionists and we want politicians who do not lie and flip-flop and who are out of touch with us. Obama and Biden are not those two candidates. This is the first time in my 30 years of voting Democrat that I will not vote for a President of the U.S. It is indeed a very sad day.