Biden- Obama 2008 (pun intended)

The process was seriously bungled- somehow I don't think Saturday at 3 AM was how they wanted it to come out. Unless they really did want to take a mocking stab at Hillary for the 3 AM commercials- but I hear there is something about how the cell networks work that they could only do that time.

But it was the absolute correct choice, and this probably will really help Obama win. It is a move to the center.

The other big winner from it is Romney. He is almost a sure thing now. Even if the leak that McCain had settled on Romney is false (which I don't think it was), this forces McCain to move right. After all- Biden persuaded Kerry to offer McCain the Democratic VP slot in 2004. Biden said a couple years ago he wouldn't mind running with McCain. And Liebermann was Gore's 2000 VP pick, of course.

Liebermann is 100% not a conservative. His support for a Wilsonian war of nation building doesn't change anything. If McCain doesn't do Romney or something to the right, it will be an election of Star Young Democrat- Old Tough Democrat vs. Almost Democrat- Independent Democrat.

Foreign policy is now basically not going to decide this election. I don't think it decided 2004: 42% had it as their top issue, call it terrorism and Republicans got those, call it Iraq and Democrats got those. It has been a funny dance for foreign policy in 2008- originally the Dem was going to win on anti-Iraq in 2008, then McCain was going to win on the Surge, then it all was a non-issue behind the economy, then Obama was going to lose because of Russia eating Georgia, and on and on.

In the end this won't be an election about how Biden and McCain voted for the war in October 2002 while Illinois State Senator Obama spoke against it early and often, or an election about how Bush & Cheney went for it in March 2003, or an election about how Rumsfeld & Bush & Co sipped lemonade on the Crawford, Texas seashore while Iraqis and New Orleanians drowned, or any of that.

All Biden has to say is "I want to punch Vladamir Putin in the face" and the Democratic landslide is on.