Biden Emerges From The Denver Background

CBSNews.com Analysis: Amid Party Intrigue, VP Nominee Delivers Solid Performance

(CBS)  This analysis was written by CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs.

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In the five days since being unveiled as Barack Obama’s running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden has been somewhat of a forgotten man in all the hoopla surrounding the Democratic convention.

That changed Wednesday night as Biden took his turn in the spotlight, formally accepting his party’s vice presidential nomination and serving notice that he’s ready and willing to take the fight to the Republican ticket this fall. (Joe Biden's speech: Video | Text)

Obama’s decision to wait until the eve of his nominating convention in Denver, and on a weekend at that, to announce his running mate meant it probably didn’t get the full amount of media attention it might have received at the beginning of the week. And the vast amounts of time and attention spent on looking for divisions within the party dampened Biden’s exposure even more.

Even Wednesday night, Biden was momentarily eclipsed by the appearance on stage of former President Bill Clinton, whose presence in the primary resulted in some of the hardest feelings on both sides. The call for “change” in the election must have struck the former president as a repudiation of his eight years in office and the nomination.

Clinton delivered a brief speech, but one that did what it had to do - support Obama’s readiness to be president. (Bill Clinton's speech: Video | Text)

“Everything I learned in my eight years as President and in the work I’ve done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job,” the former chief executive said. Like his wife, Bill Clinton urged her supporters to rally around the party flag and support the ticket in the fall. The fact that he isn’t sticking around for Obama’s speech Thursday night will be fodder for more psychoanalysis about the Clintons, but for one night, he was the good soldier.

But the night belonged to Biden, and the challenge was not minor. For a politician already known for his tendency toward verbosity, trying to boil down the kind of speech he’s had 35 years in the United State Senate to think about into a made-for-TV event couldn’t have been easy.

Biden spoke between some major moments in the convention. Senator Ted Kennedy’s appearance on the stage Monday night was an emotional high point for Democrats everywhere. Hillary Clinton’s speech, imploring her supporters to line up behind Barack Obama, may not have provided the catharsis some imagined, but it was a start. And Barack Obama’s speech -- in a giant stadium before tens of thousands -- is yet to come.

The mission for the vice presidential nominee, however, was different from those. It was threefold - to introduce himself to the American people, to vouch for Obama’s readiness to become commander-in-chief, and to rip into his longtime friend and colleague John McCain.

Democrats hungering for a McCain lashing may have come away disappointed from the lack of heavy rhetoric. There was no single moment like Ann Richards skewering George H. W. Bush for having been born with a "silver foot in his mouth." There was no mention about how many houses the McCains own.

There was something that has been missing for much of this convention however - clear contrasts drawn between Obama and McCain on very specific issues, both economic and on national security and foreign policy. On point after point, the mantra Biden repeated for John McCain was, "that’s not change; that’s more of the same."

And while Biden, like many others from the podium in Denver, declared his admiration for McCain’s service, he did take his jabs at him. "The choice in this election is clear," Biden said. "These times require more than a good soldier; they require a wise leader, a leader who can deliver change-the change everybody knows we need."

Biden was at his best, however, when talking about himself. Recounting the hard times in his life; the death of his father, the tragic accident that took his first wife and a child, and his childhood stutter, Biden recalled what his mother taught him. "After the accident, she told me, ‘Joey, God sends no cross you cannot bear.’ And when I triumphed, she was quick to remind me it was because of others. My mother’s creed is the American creed: No one is better than you. You are everyone’s equal, and everyone is equal to you."

Biden may have had a tall order, competing with Hillary Clinton and both Obamas in prime time. But he may have connected more on an emotional level than any of them at the end of this convention.

The theme of Wednesday was "Securing America’s Future," and most of the speakers who were paraded to the stage hit on the themes of national security, foreign policy and the war in Iraq. Like Tuesday, when the convention focused on economic matters, Democrats again sought to tie McCain to the Bush Administration at every turn.

The overall impact of the message was likely to be lost though, thanks to the roll call vote which formally bestowed the party’s nomination on Obama.

After days, if not weeks, of conversations between the Clinton and Obama camps over how to orchestrate something that would recognize Clinton supporters, not embarrass the nominee and satisfy both sides. The result couldn’t have come off much better, resulting in Hillary Clinton calling to stop the roll call and nominate Obama by acclamation right in the middle of the evening news.

In all the intrigue and positioning this week, the magnitude of the history being made in Denver has sometimes gotten lost. Forty years ago, Robert Kennedy predicted that a major party would possibly be ready to nominate an African American candidate at this time, and on Wednesday, it happened.

Thursday, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, Barack Obama will accept that nomination, making all the gamesmanship of the days leading up to it seem petty in the larger perspective.

[vnveteran-72]

This was one of the worst speeches ever, Vaughn.

Biden basically said to his audience that if you are a loser with no self esteem who feels ashamed to be American, then vote for me!

Disaster.

[jedi080808]

McCain and Romney basically say to all audiences that you are a loser with no self esteem who should be ashamed because you don''''t make millions like us, but what the heck I still want you to vote for me!



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Posted by SHURCH4TRUTH

Hate to tell you but the dems are the anti american anti everything clinging to guns and religion party.

[sistatee-2009]

The middle class is finished with either McCain or Obama as president.

[concerns47]

Remember Biden''s words when running, maybe he is hoping Obama will be like Martin Luther King and Kennedy, short lived but with meaning.

Obama''s ego is so great, he had to pick King''s speech anniversary, the Kennedy''s for support and Biden for credability.

McCain is not prize, but not voting is a waste of our American rights, so I may vote for a third party or McCain depends who McCain picks and how far from Bush the Maverick will move.

[concerns47]

Bush did not cause the mortgage crisis or the oil crisis, greed by these lenders and the oil companies did, give credit where it is due.

[concerns47]

We can be millionaires, but most lower income people do not see the value of a good education until it is too late then blame the rich for their problems.

I worked my way up from poverty and see everyday those who just want others to give them a head start, step up to the plate yourselves.

The government, corporations and the rich do not owe you anything, you owe it to yourselves and your children to improve your way of life by fighting hard for what you want, earn it.

McCain, at 72, earned the right to have houses, Obama, earned the right to own a million dollar house and will own more when he is 72. Get off your butts and earn it like they did, take responsibility.

[rktsci3127]

That woman doing the convention roll call was absolutely hilarious...just like a sound track from Betty White on Mary Tyler Moore. They should put her, Baghdad Bob and Nancy Pelosi on Saturday Night Live. Then Bill Clinton talking about job losses but never mentioning he pushed through NAFTA. Thousands of people yelling about a done nothing shyster lawyer from Chicago...and the funniest part...BO coming out like some sort of minor god in a Greek temple. Gotta give them credit, most laughs I%u2019ve had in a long time.

[jmurrieta1]

Smart is better than stupid, and we''ve had 8 years of stupid.

McClone would be 4 more years of stupid. The man cannot even read a teleprompter screen straight or deliver a line in his squeaky voice without a flub.

Obama and Biden will make a fine administration, and will reverse the downward slide that 8 years of disastrous Neocon rule has brought us.

[xmanborg]

Wow could Joe Biden have any more makeup on. Looks like he went shopping at HSN or QVC and got some serious makeup and wrinkle remover.

Lets see how much makeup the plaster on McLAME.

[fstop100]

another upstanding citizen....look at this guys track record.....very scary! and barry obama also scary

[sereptaann]

Poor Joe Biden, accepted the veep position with Obama and all his closet skeletons. The latest Dr Khalid al-Monsour (extreme radical) who helped Obama in many ways, including getting into Harvard. Poor Biden will forever be associated with these closet skeletons and the people under the bus.

[nolalou]

Gotta give them credit, most laughs I%u2019ve had in a long time.
Posted by rktsci3127

I wonder, do you think the fact that Bush got us billions of dollars in debt with China is funny too? What about 45 million Americans without health care, pretty funny huh? Then what a hoot that war in Iraq is , based on lies!
Sorry, there is nothing funny about what this administration has done to ruin this country, and nothing funny about 4 more years of the same with McCain!

[concerns47]

Remember Biden''''s words when running, maybe he is hoping Obama will be like Martin Luther King and Kennedy, short lived but with meaning.

Obama''''s ego is so great, he had to pick King''''s speech anniversary, the Kennedy''''s for support and Biden for credability.

McCain is not prize, but not voting is a waste of our American rights, so I may vote for a third party or McCain depends who McCain picks and how far from Bush the Maverick will move.

[nolalou]

"Obama''''s ego is so great, he had to pick King''s speech anniversary, .."
Posted by concerns47

Give me a break! Convention locations and dates are arranged years in advance, long before the Democratic party knew who the candidates would be, let alone who would get the nomination! You anti-Obamanistas are so fanatical you look for controversy where there is none, even if you have to just make it up!

[xlib]

Hmmmm, no coverage of the bubba speech. I would think you people would be sceaming about the slight. Ah yes, you''re the party of real short memories. Bubba was sooooo last week, or yesterday. Sure do love the loyalty.
Didn''t warch ole joe''s speech but I wonder which ethnic group he slammed this time. Remember, he''s fiesty, that ole joe.
Nice Greek temple backdrop for the chosen ones speech. Naw, no symbolism there, none at all. And you people get PO''d when he''s referred to as the messiah.
If it looks like it and acts like it and is treated like it-guess what.

[shutupnvote]

ok we all need to agree the MSM just spreads propaganda Biden showed a creep factor and he and the Mrs Obama should not sit together those two sour pusses scream when the create in their minds a slight...

%u2026%u2026%u2026.like Biden voted for the Iraq war%u2026

[xlib]

nolalou-sweetie, it was the chosen ones handlers that picked the field for his speech. Like I said in my first post, you libs have short memories. Don''t you remember when the chosen one robbed hill of the nomination that it was decided to do his speech at Invesco Field (isn''t that an evil corporation?? My, my)to accomadate the followers?? I sure do. Sweetie, Denver may have been chosen a long time ago but the field, setting and all is NOW and chosen for a reason.
Get ready for the rapture.
I hear after he leaves the speech he''s flying, literally, to NO to stop the hurricane. Yep, he sure is.

[eclecticman1]

BY the way- The only thing THE SAME about McCAin and Bush is that they are far more intelligent than the Liberal dopes. --------------One thing McCain and Bush have in common is a lack of intellectual curosity. Bush was famous for it as his ideology gave him all his answers. McCain also is strangely incurious. Here he is asking to be president in 2001. and he has no idea of what the internet is and how computers are used. He has never e-mailed, googled, or done anything that America does to communicate. McCain is a president for the past, not for now and certainly not for the future.

[jackdems]

Someone needs to tell Obama we have freedom of speech still in america, he isnt president yet!


%u201CHaving failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama%u2019s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project%u2019s president. %u201CThese over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.%u201D

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project%u2019s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project%u2019s initial ad.

[blkpresident]

Joe Biden, career politician and a longterm Washington INSIDER, who voted for the Iraq War. Has the Obama campaign theme of change been hijacked by the Washington INSIDERS?

Hell, NO, Joe Biden must go!!!

Obama-L. Douglas Wilder ''08, REAL CHANGE we can believe in.

[cfin5]

Whoa! I didn''t know any politician could smile that hard without breakin,.......GASP! I think he knows we''re gonna get did. Derned if I know where to hide my hide.

[lilvinnyb]

Biden has made more racially insensitive comments and jokes than any VP candidate I can remember. He has joked about East Indians working in 7-11''s and called his presidential Nominee.. "clean".

Had this been a republican, the media would be
re-playing those comments "to death". In fact, those comments alone would have disqualified him. He would have been called nothing but a racist.

Would be nice if someone would ask him about those.

[peterp111]

Why the faux Greek Temple at Obama''s mass rally at the Invesco Park, you ask? Actually, it''s probably not his God Complex. It''s just the basic stagecraft of visual illusion.. If you want an actor on stage to look tall, put him in a short frame. It si sometimes called %u201Cforced perspective". The most famous example is the Ames Distorted Room, and the wonderful website VisualFunHouse.Com has an example called the Little People Optical Illusion.

Except that the Obama''s stage director will make him look big, tall, and closer than life instead of small, short, and distant. A Greek Temple is a perfect way to frame a human figure, and change perspective any way you like. The media photofrauds knew all about it, of course, and celebrated how well the Clintons'' slick trickery fooled the American public. That''s how Bill the Draft Dodger was able to look like he was marching a platoon of US Marines up the West Lawn of the White House, and still look taller than all those tough guys behind him. That''s how he was able to win in 1996 against Bob Dole, who still bears lifelong injuries from the Italian campaign in WWII. Dole didn''t like to talk about that during the campaign; but that hurt him in the election.

So you''re going to see pure visual illusion.

What does that tell you about Obama and his inner circle?

Yes, exactly.

This is turning into a Greek farce, not a drama. Let''s hope it doesn''t turn into a tragedy by November

[realpatriot1]

Maxify55,

Do we really need to get into the "your a baby killer" versus "your a troop killer" game of insults?

Biden supports a policy on abotion that millions of Americans see as murder and millions of others see as protecting the health of mothers. McCain supports policies on Iraq which millions see as humanitarian and millions more see as unnecessary death and destruction.

The bottom line on both counts is that no matter who wins the election, both Roe vs. Wade and a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq are settled issues that won''t change.

Why don''t we discuss the issues where there will actually be a difference, like the economy and the deficit and achieving energy independence?

[jackdems]

Someone needs to tell Obama we have freedom of speech still in america, he isnt president yet!


%u201CHaving failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama%u2019s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project%u2019s president. %u201CThese over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.%u201D

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project%u2019s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project initial ad.

[misha128-2009]

McVain...which is it?

6, 7 or 8 houses?

Posted by jh6379 at 09:12 AM

The last count was 10, but it would have been 11 until the McCain''s merged two condos into one super-condo.

[peterp111]

%u201CWhy not let the government attempt to care for our every need, to heck with the future of our children, close your businesses, retire, let it fall apart on Obama%u2019s watch.%u201D Maybe when it all falls apart or we%u2019re attacked again because of Obama%u2019s policies and naiveti, the people living here will once again come to remember and think about how we got this far as a people. Maybe then reason will make a comeback and it will be time to vote responsible Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats and Independents back in office - to clean up the mess.


The mess that Senator Obama%u2019s imposition of Mediocrity upon America will bring. The Mediocrity imposed by government handouts to create dependence and secure your vote, instead of a hand up. The Mediocrity caused by the over regulating and socializing of businesses. The Mediocrity caused by unjust wealth redistribution which stymies the creative individual spirit and initiative. The same Mediocrity that will cause the hard working, innovative Americans and the small businessmen and women to resent the government%u2019s hand being so deep in their pockets in exchange for some votes does not come without consequence. The same Mediocrity will cause the job producers to close shop or lay people off rather than deal with such idiocy, bureaucracy and taxes.

Vote MCCAIN. THE SMARTER CHOICE

[jackdems]

HEARS A FUTURE GLIMPSE OF LORD OBAMA PRESIDENCY.



Someone needs to tell Obama we have freedom of speech still in america, he isnt president yet!


%u201CHaving failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama%u2019s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project%u2019s president. %u201CThese over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.%u201D

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project%u2019s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot. With no success on either front, the campaign has also begun running its own ad in response. Notably, this ad fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project%u2019s initial ad.

[underdogus87]

Top shrink concludes liberals clinically nuts

[underdogus87]

Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

[realpatriot1]

Rafterman-1,

2004 and 2008 present entirely different contexts from the standpoint of the economic insecurity that people are feeling and the clear sense that people have that we can''t continue down the same road.

In spite of all that was thrown at Kerry he won 252 electoral votes and ran practically dead even for another 32(Ohio, Iowa, & New Mexico).

If there is a Bradley effect not being identified in the polling there''s another powerful effect also not being identified..new voters. The polls that show Obama underperforming use the screen of "likely voters" to discount people they assume won''t vote. That''s like fixing the polling results to adapt them to past patterns.

The bottomline is this. In order to stop Obama, McCain needs to win every state where it''s close but Obama can lose some of them; he has a much larger margin for error than McCain and will have more flexibility to make larger and more widespread ad buys to keep McCain hopping to run the table.

Nothing is guaranteed, but I''d bet the house on our chances.

[tfheringer]

If the Bush years were so bad why didn''t Biden do something? These guy''s have been in the Senate watching this and didn''t take any action. Instead we get platitudes and empty rehtoric. This makes me feel like vomiting, we need some one in the White House who will bring us back to the true path. That man is not Obama, he has a lot of words and no substance, in a mater of fact he is a socialist. We need John McCain!

[ioweign]

Vote MCCAIN. THE SMARTER CHOICE

Posted by Peterp111 at 09:56 AM : Aug 28, 2008

McCain - 894 out of a class of 899 speaks volumes to smart choices...

[blkpresident]

Rafterman1,

Mr. Obama doesn''t need the likes of Joe Biden as much as the Washington INSIDERS have found a way to hijack Obama''s campaign theme of change and repalce it with stale, old-style Washington politics as usual, person al attacks, more personal attacks, and more hatchet-man/pitbull us against them nonsense.

Obama-L. Douglas Wilder ''08, REAL CHANGE we can believe in. Just say NO to Joe Biden.

[misha128-2009]

Someone needs to tell Obama we have freedom of speech still in america, he isnt president yet!

Posted by jackDems at 09:53 AM

Freedom of Speech was always relative and never absolute. Libel and slander are legal restrictions on the Freedom of Speech. Yelling fire in a crowded establishment resulting in injury to fleeing occupants is also not protected speech. In this case the MCCAIN-Feingold campaign finance law has provisions to block "Swift-Boat" like attack groups by not allowing candidate preferences to be expressed by certain groups. The group you referenced has already lost several issues in terms of this lay including the requirement to identify the contributors to their organization. That lead to discovery of evidence that contrary to the MCCAIN-Feingold Campaign Finance law that the funding of an organization expressing candidate preferences was violated with excessive contributions from a single individual of I believe $2,300 when the entire funding of millions was from a single individual. Sounds like this issue still merits due process considerations and a day in court to resolve the issue.

[realpatriot1]

Davicar2,

You may have forgotten that when pollsters were still running both Obama and Hillary head-to-head againt McCain Obama was beating him but Hillary was being drubbed 51-36. McCain has never lead Obama at any point in a majority of polls.

[bluepointer]

After Obama & company are through with America all we''ll be left with is the change in our pockets. Look at the details of his economic plan. He says only the upper income people will see tax increases. That''s complete BS. The middle class is going to take a massive hit - that''s where the big tax bucks can be found. The welfare state is going to make a huge comeback - income redistribution, bigger, more intrusive government programs, universal (i.e. rationed) health care, a super sized nanny state if you will. If we continue going down this road we''ll create a society that stiffles individual liberty and hard work. Got a sob story? Go to the Democrats - they''ll create a whole new government program to make things all better. Of course it''s going to cost you - it''s going to cost all of us. Want to work hard, save, invest, and heavens forbid keep more of your money that you earned as a result of your hard work? No, not in Obama''s world. In his world, he knows best and the government is better qualified to determine how your money is spent and how we should live our lives.

Wasn''t it Reagan who once said that the scariest words in the English langauge are, "I''m from the government and I''m here to help you." I love my country and I seriously don''t believe our Founding Fathers ever envisioned a monolithic government that controls almost every aspect of human activity. That''s called statism and we should fear it.

[gop_fornever]

mcsame''s not change he''s more of the same.

[realpatriot1]

tfherringer,

Democrats were in the minority for 6 years and have had a razor thin majority for a year and a half. So long as Republicans can filibuster everything that benefits the public nothing will change.

[jackdems]

Obama spoke at a Rock Concert in Orgeon to 70k people.

Obama spoke at a Rock Concert in Berlin to 200k people.

Obama is going to speak at a rock concert in Denver in front of 77k people.

Obama deny the surge and wont visit wounded troops.

What does this tell you?

Obama will make a better Concert Organizer than a Commander in Chief.

[blkpresident]

Joe Biden, at best, is a more appropriate choice as Secretary of Defense in an Obama Administration, but somehow this career politician(Washington INSIDER) who has been in congress for over thirty-plus years has found himself just a mere heartbeat away from the presidency. Didn''t Mr. Biden vote FOR the Iraq War? Just say NO to Joe Biden.

Hell, NO, Joe must go!!!

Obama-L. Douglas Wilder ''08, REAL CHANGE we can believe in.

[ioweign]

McCain - 894 out of a class of 899 speaks volumes to smart choices... ----------------------------------------
-------------- Posted by IOWEIGN


Book-learnin am over-rated!

Posted by DaVicar2 at 10:09 AM : Aug 28, 2008

And so is McCain''s experience over-rated - has he ever received a paycheck NOT signed by Uncle Sam.

[dagrandma]

underdogus 67: Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

Yeah, and I''ll bet sometime soon in the middle of the night I''ll be flipping television channels and there will be the good Dr. Lassiter selling his "cure." Maybe if we''re lucky he can also come up with something guaranteed to make you loose 50 pounds in 10 days.

[Mccarthyaw]

McCain is the only one who does as he pleases.

Posted by fenner at 10:12 AM : Aug 28, 2008

Rofl, he is a puppet.

[ioweign]

McCain is the only one who does as he pleases.

Posted by fenner at 10:12 AM : Aug 28, 2008



Are you really Buffalo Bob ??

[misha128-2009]

If the Bush years were so bad why didn''''t Biden do something? These guy''''s have been in the Senate watching this and didn''''t take any action. Instead we get platitudes and empty rehtoric. This makes me feel like vomiting, we need some one in the White House who will bring us back to the true path. That man is not Obama, he has a lot of words and no substance, in a mater of fact he is a socialist. We need John McCain!

Posted by tfheringer at 10:06 AM

Do you remember the Republicans had a majority in Congress for Bush''s first 6 years?

Ever hear about closure rules in the senate where only 40 of 49 Republicans can block any action for the last 1 1/2 years.

Yeah -- We need really need McCain for 3 more years --

Wrong about Iraq never ever asking us to withdraw.
Wrong about when the surge started.
Wrong about needing more troops in Afghanistan.
Wrong about the surge''s success,

The military provided the diplomats time -- the diplomats failed to achieve a simple majority of the benchmarks (negotiated and signed into law by President Bush) and have been losing ground (provincial elections delayed and canceled) since the ending of the surge was announced.

Just simply WRONG.

[blkpresident]

Fenner,

Hold on there, please be careful not to blame the victim(Mr. Obama)if his campaign theme of change has gotten hijacked by the Washington INSIDERS, who have somehow forced Joe "the hatchet-man/pitbull" Biden on the ticket, when he voted FOR the Iraq War and is nothing more than a representative of Washington politics as usual. Just say NO to Joe and his thirty-plus years of Washington politics as usual.

Obama-L. Douglas Wilder ''08, REAL CHANGE we can believe in.

[gop_fornever]

mcsame''s not change he''s more of the same.

[gop_fornever]

mcsame has attempted suicide and that makes him and anyone who votes for him insane.

[gop_fornever]

Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Virginia and even Montana are all moving to Obama.

Say goodnight McInsaneans!