CAPITAL REGION Democrats pleased with selection Running mate seen as complement to Obama BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter
Local Democrats were pleased to hear that Sen. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s pick for a running mate. “I think it brings strong balance to the Democratic ticket,” said Schenectady Mayor Brian U. Stratton, who will attend the Democratic convention this week in Denver — his first time voting at a national convention. “I think that the biggest problem [Obama] faced was people just felt that he was inexperienced, being a freshman senator,” Stratton said. “You can’t say you don’t know enough about Sen. Biden.” Obama announced early Saturday that the senator from Delaware is his choice for vice president, days before the start of the Democratic National Convention. Biden’s three decades in the Senate and experience in foreign policy fill any gaps that Obama might have as a freshman senator. “He’s not someone that’s going to get pushed around,” said Larry Bulman, chairman of the Saratoga County Democratic Committee and a member of the state Democratic Committee’s executive committee. Bulman regrets that former nominees and their running mates — John Kerry and John Edwards and Al Gore and Joe Lieberman — were easily derailed by opponents. Bulman thinks Biden can help polish the country’s image overseas, which has suffered in recent years. “People are upset with us as Americans. [Obama] recognizes that Sen. Biden will do a great job helping heal the wounds that we have with our allies overseas. “That’s what he’s known for is his work in the Senate with foreign affairs and the military perspective,” Bulman added. He believes Biden would be able to end the war in Iraq in a responsible way.
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JRaup
August 24, 2008, 4:50pm
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I'd have been apolexic if they didn't endorse him.
I'd have been apolexic if they didn't endorse him.
why?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Essentially, I was saying I'd have burst a blood vessel if they didn;t sign off on the Biden nomination.
As for why, if they didn't endorse the selection, it would have meant that they weren't the only ones, and it would have spelled doom for Obama in November. If the rank and file, in "safe Blue states" like NY didn't like the selection, it means that fund raising and organizing activities wre going to be subpar, if happening at all. As it is, The Chosen One will have trouble with the big money Clintonistas. To have the lower end types grumbling, and publically to boot, it would have put Team Obama into crisis mode, and he hasn't even had his moment in the sun yet at the convention.
Says a lot for Hussein's message of "Change" ... nominate a 40 yr congressional veteran, with lots of "insider" connections. Ya, that's change you can believe in (in his world)
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