Barack America Introduces President Joe Biden

Barack Obama introduces Senator Biden as our next President. After that Biden calls Obama, "Barack America". Yes we can, yes we can. The Obama Campaign has stumbled, and picking the pro-abortion, anti-gun Biden as his Presidential, I mean Vice Presidential running mate is not going to be enough to bring his campaign back to where it was back in the good old days of "change" and "yes we can". It's over change boy, just face it.(when I said "boy", that was not intended as a racial slur, it was in reference to his relative youth and inexperience). Posted August 23, 2008 4:25 PM The Swamp by Frank James Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden appeared in Springfield, Ill. today to introduce their new presidential ticket, with Obama, the all-but-official Democratic presidential nominee, making a strong case for why he made Biden his vice presidential pick and Biden making the case that Obama was just the candidate to bring change to Washington. Before an enthusiastic crowd of thousands of supporters on a stiflingly hot summer day, on the steps of the old State Capitol where Abraham Lincoln once served as a lawmaker, Obama painted a portrait of Biden as a man whose great personal strength which allowed him to survive adversity and faced down tyrants would make him a great vice president. Obama emphasized the foreign policy credentials that the senator from Delaware is known for, trying to draw the contrast between the Bush Administration's foreign policy of the past eight years and Biden's approach. Over the last eight years, he has been a powerful critic of the catastrophic Bush-McCain foreign policy, and a voice for a new direction that takes the fight to the terrorists and ends the war in Iraq responsibly. He recently went to Georgia, where he met quietly with the President and came back with a call for aid and a tough message for Russia. Joe Biden is what so many others pretend to be - a statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong. But the senator from Illinois also ticked off many of Biden's domestic accomplishments, including legislation to better protect women from domestic violence and to place more police on the streets of U.S. cities, the latter which Obama said helped lead to a significant decline in the crime rate in the 1990s. All the while, Obama painted Biden as a fighter with a common touch. The fighter part was important since many Democrats have believed that Obama needed a running mate who could go hammer and tongs after Sen. John McCain, a long-time friend of Biden's. Obama referred to Biden as "stiil that scrappy kid from Scranton who beat the odds," and a "dedicated family man and committed Catholic who knows every conductor on that Amtrak train to Wilmington. That's the kind of fighter who I want by my side in the months and years to come." Biden didn't disappoint Obama on that score. He went after McCain. At one point, when he was talking about Americans sitting at their kitchen tables trying to figure out the family economics, he said of McCain "he has to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at." It was a not too veiled reference to McCain's recent flub in which he didn't know the answer to a reporter's questions as to how many homes he and his wife owns. The number appears to be seven though some have reported it's eight. The gaffe has played into the Democrats' line that McCain is an elitist and has also rekindled questions about his age. He will be 72 next week. While Obama viewed his job as making the best case possible that Biden's experience made him the best choice for vice president, all the better to attempt to mollify Sen. Hillary Clinton's supporters who wanted to see her chosen, Biden's job was to make the strongest possible argument for Obama's candidacy, especially since during the primary campaign he had essentially said Obama wasn't ready to be president. To this end, Biden said that he had learned a lot about Obama's character during the Democratic primary campaign. "Folks, campaigns for president are a test of character and leadership and in this campaign one candidate has passed that test. Barack has the vision. He also has the courage. And, let me tell you something else, this man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done."

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