I would like to give credit to anyone who joins the service, regardless if their dad is in public office. It is a sacrifice of time, income and with a republican administration in office...perhaps getting sent to fight in a country that the administration decides to overthrow for corporate interests.

PD...overthrow for corporate interests???...YEAH RIGHT..gas at 3.89 a gal...wholesale prices up....unemployment, you name it, it's up, except for the stock market, which reflects corporate health which is down....try arguing on another issue, that one falls flat..

If Biden is so great how come nobody voted for him in the primaries?

It is refreshing to know the child of a U.S. senator, who comes from a multi-millionaire family, volunteered for the U.S. Marines. I wonder how many McCain critics have served, or if they are wealthy would agree to have their children serve. It's amazing how easy it is to sit in comfortable surroundings and demonize those you don't support. Being in battle is hell, whether you are a member of the JAG or a "Grunt." I salute young Mr. McCain (the Marine) and young Mr. Biden (the lawyer). By the way, I did my 29 years and 9 months of active duty before retiring; having enlisted in 1956, out of Selma, Alabama, where I could not even vote because of the color of my skin. But, because I am a McCain supported, I suppose I'll be labeled, threatened and told how stupid I am.

Biden Makes McCain look like an amateur when it comes to foreign policy and national security.

Didn't Biden say that Obama didn't have enough experience to be Commander in Chief. He said it isn't a something you learn "on the job".

He trashed Obama's non-experience during the primary debates.

And Percy - Condi Rice tells the story of how her father registered Republican because the Democrats wouldn't let him register.

Been following Biden closely since the spring of last year (knew he was my favorite for prez shortly thereafter).

To answer geevill's question...

(1) Biden was the 'second choice' of a lot of voters - who already had their hearts set on Hillary or Obama. Uphill battle for anyone trying to run this cycle (i.e., Edwards, Richardson, Dodd, etc.)

(2) Iowa and its archaic caucus system was set to sink his campaign before it started - just look what it did to Hillary. If New Hampshire was first - or Iowa simply had a primary format - Hillary wins (I think). Biden, who had measured support in rural eastern Iowa, could have finished third or a strong fourth.

So, basically, he never GOT to the primaries. Remember Richardson (God love him)'s camp proclaiming they had made the 'Final Four' (with 4% maybe) in New Hampshire?

Anyway... I'm ecstatic with the possibility of Joe's VP selection coming to fruition. His foreign policy credentials are second to none and Americans have only had a sneak preview of his ability to combat GOP attacks.

My friends and family have long tired of me bragging on this Biden character. Help me out here, O!

Can I get an answer here? Do we know if Biden is still in favor of partitioning Iraq? Can we get that answer? Also..if not, why not? And what is different now from when he proposed it over and over in '07. I won't hold my breath.

If Biden is so great how come nobody voted for him in the primaries?

Posted by: geevill | Aug 19
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Because 0-bama skillfully framed him as a racist on the very day when Biden announced his candidacy, for the freeking God sake of praising the phony articulate.

0-bama killed Biden's campaign before it ever gets started.

Geevill,
I was a volunteer for Biden in Iowa. As it turned out, there were a lot of people here who were in love with the idea of "making history", either by nominating a Woman or an African American.

Then there is the problem that in this day of channel surfing and web surfing few people have the attention span any more to listen to someone who is actually explaining complicated issues like Joe Biden does. Many of these "attention span-challenged people" apparently wet to hear Obama.

After the caucases here many were then congratulating themselves that a mostly white state had nominated a black man for president.

I also had the opportunity to meet with Joe's son Beau, and was very favorably impressed with him.

LOL @ the Hillary supporters still cheering for her chance to be president. News Flash: The Clinton Express has already left the station and is heading towards Obamaville at 120 MPH.

So you can stop dancing on the tracks with your megaphones and pom-poms, unless you want to look like the HRC equivalent of the Spartan Cheerleaders.

Biden would be the best VP choice Obama could make. I like him, he has the foreign policy cred and he's a feisty competitor. Obama needs an attack dog on his team, and Biden could easily take on McSurge's smear and fear swift boaters, and win the fight hands down. I really hope Obama is as smart as I think he is and he chooses Biden.

Please spare me that McCain doesn't mention his son's service. He has. And after saying he'd never use his POW experience to gain political points, he has. I mean, I probably would, too - but I wouldn't be such a dunce as to say I wouldn't in the first place. He's a hypocrite.

Obama is such a FRAUD!!!! - This guy will NEVER be elected so who cares who he picks as VP - maybe Rev. Wright would be a good choice!

McCain has seven children. From the first marriage with Carol, he has two sons and a daughter. The two sons are actually Carol's sons from a former marriage who McCain adopted. One of those sons had served in the army. From his second marriage to Cindy, he has four children. Two sons (one in the Marines and one in the Navy) and two daughters (the youngest of whom is adopted from Bangladesh).

You forgot the other 2 kids from McCain's relationship with Vicky Iseman. A total of 9 kids that we know of.

I don't care who Obama picks. I will never vote for him. I hope people wake up before it is too late and realize he is NOT right for America. People should remember Obama's questionable associates......this speaks volumes as to what poor judgment he has. He can't answer a question in less than 10 minutes. Foreign dicators will rejoice if this man is elected. He is too weak, inexperienced, and arrogant. Remember his Berlin appearance? Remember Rev. Wright? Who in their right mind would stay in that church for 20 years????

"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

John McCain, Worth the Fighting For (2002), p. 373

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

What a neocon nightmare McBush and Lieberman. We would be bomb bomb bomb Iran in no time flat. McInsane wants to ramp-up the cold war again. What a corporate payoff that would be. Never ending war is good business. Wake-up and stop being stooges for the Republican party. They keep the masses fooled by wedge issues and dishonesty. But not this year, not this election. The American people will fix this mess they will elect Barack Obama.