Barack Obama finally picked his vice presidential running mate. Joe Biden shores up Obama's foreign policy bona fides and also gives the Obama coterie a sorely needed old-time Washington hand and insider.
Missed by most, but not all, reporters and commentaters over the long weeks of guessing about who would be Obama's veep is that what Biden brings to the 2008 democratic ticket is exactly what Dick Cheney brought to the 2000 Republican ticket.
The similarities between Biden and Cheney are much more than superficial. They both come from small-delegation states that no one ever thinks much about. They both have very definite views on what the world order should be. They are both significantly older and more influential among decision makers than their presidents. They both have odd, even off-putting, smiles.
I'm willing to give Biden the benefit of the doubt on not being pure evil like Cheney is, but that's only because Biden is a Catholic. As a coreligionist, I can't admit that any Catholic has ever done anything wrong ever. That's one of the oaths the Vatican makes us all swear in Latin.
Still, for all you future Obama voters -- a group that may include me when push comes to shoving that key card into the voting machine on November 4 -- know that a vote for Obama as president is very likely to be a vote for Biden as vizier.
Start doing your homework now. (Yes, I read the link. Mostly just to spite anyone who would bring that up. I refused to actually learn anything useful. So there.)
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