August 23rd 2008
Biden On The Other Stuff
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lenty is being written about Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience, with the Dems spinning it as a perfect balance for the ticket and smarter folk seeing it as an admission of overwhelming weakness in foreign policy as evidenced by the campaign’s response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia, and a foresaking of the “Obama is change” platform in a panicked response to dropping poll numbers.
But what about Biden in another area voters have reason to question Obama: the economy? Obama’s offering up a high-priced solution to everything in keeping with his ranking as the most liberal Senator, so it would have been wise to seek someone with more moderate economic credential to bring balance to the ticket. Alas for the Dems, that is not Joe Biden.
I won’t bother quoting conservative think tanks on Biden’s economic record since Libs will dispute the source. Instead, here’s Biden’s ranking from the left-lib site TheMiddleClass.org: 95%. Only six senators are ranked more liberal – Bingaman, Durbin, Levin, Kennedy, Sanders and Whitehouse.
Granted, Obama’s paper-thin record doesn’t give folks much to measure by, but TheMiddleClass ranked him behind Biden in economic liberalism, with 88%.
Biden voted to keep the death tax in place, for the 2008 phony stimulus package, for expanding the Child’s Health Insurance Program, for more no strings attached funding for education, for giving citizen’s rights to the children of illegals. He voted for every global warming cash cow and – curious that TheMiddleClass.org includes this in their ranking – against all efforts to expand our intelligence-gathering capabilities.
By November, it’s likely the war in Iraq will be over as a political issue, as headway is being made with Iraq on our disengagement. Foreign policy will remain an issue as long as there are Russian and Islamist threats, but the election will turn on the economy, and the Dems have put their stock in a VP nominee who espouses an anti-business, pro-tax agenda. And he lead the efforts to keep Bork and Thomas off the Supreme Court.
All this, and the tantalizing possibility of a major gaffe from the gaffe-prone Biden, as well as a substantial record of pro-McCain, anti-Obama statements by Biden, make Obama’s VP selection an opportunity for McCain to advance.
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August 25th, 2008 at 7:46 am
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