
Barack "Hussein" Obama (that one's for you Kevin) and Joe "Robinette" Biden make the perfect running mates for the White House.
Barack Obama has been running the campaign message that there is now "Hope" in America for "Change". Joe Biden is the perfect candidate to add to this ticket of change, since he is 36 years new to Washington. This long-known advocate of reform...
I can't continue with this nonsense. Let's get down to the truth.
The couch potato of Washington change, Joe Biden, has done little, if any, throughout his many years as Senator to reform D.C.. Often reform refers to fighting the established powers. Its hard to do that when you, yourself, are a 36 year established power in Washington, D.C..
To make change truly happen, one must work across party lines. Biden and Obama have not worked across party lines. According to the National Journal's 2007 Vote Ratings, calculated by Polidata, a nonpartisan political data analysis firm, the Junior Senator Obama votes as the most liberal Senator of the United States. His vice-presidential nominee, the 36 year couch potato of the Washington change, comes in a close third in the rankings of most liberal Senators. In a Senate where there are 25 Senators more liberal than Ted Kennedy (26th by National Journal's 2007 Vote Rating), Barack Obama and Joe Biden are anything but moderate.
Barack Obama's plans with United States include raising taxes(as found in Obama's platform). This Junior Senator seems to be looking for any excuse to raise taxes. Be it a higher Social Security tax, a higher tax on capital gains, a higher tax on dividends, a higher tax on small businesses (the back-bone job creator of the economy), or the the higher income tax which Obama will have to raise to pay for his national health care plan, Obama never misses a step in his plan take "change" out of the citizens pockets and stick it into his ever-growing federal bureaucracy.
One thing which may unify Obama and Biden, besides their far left agenda, is their habit of habitual plagiarism. In 1988, Joe Biden plagiarized a speech by Neil Kinnock, a labor party leader in the House of Commons. After being exposed, Bidens resignation from the Democratic primary soon followed. Obama followed in his VP's footsteps. Check out Obama's plagiarism's of John Edwards and Deval Patrick below.
It is amazing that these two candidates of "Change" sound like the same old politicians of yesterday.
While the Obama Presidential campaign has focused on the issue of stating that they are for "Change" in the government, they have proven to be supporters of "changing" their minds. Obama and Biden have flip-flopped on many different issues.
Let us start with the 36 year couch potato of change. Biden changed his mind about Barack Obama and his readiness to be President of the United States.
Amazingly enough, Joe Biden changed his thoughts after receiving Obama's vice-presidential nomination.
Obama stated the day before his announcement of his VP choice that he wanted a vice president who would challenge his ideas. Obama failed by selecting flip-flopper Joe Biden. On Labor Day, before his vice-presidential pick, Joe Biden stated that he was not against offshore drilling. This type of elaborate energy plan for a Democrat was truly a "Change" America and the Democratic party needed. Amazingly enough, he gets the vice-presidential nomination by Obama and he "changes" his mind and conforms to Obama's viewpoints, stating that he is against drilling.
One issue that Obama flipped on was campaign finance. After agreeing to a new ethical standard with the republican nominee and beginning to "change" America, Obama went back on his word and "changed" his mind.
Obama also "changed" his mind on his stance on Jerusalem's sovereignty. He originally stated that Jerusalem,"must remain undivided". After pressure from Palestinian leaders, Obama "changed" his stance less than 24 hours later.
These candidates of "change" share many things in common. Hopefully after November they will share another: A failed attempt at the United States Presidency.
Just some food for your thought until the next blog entry: