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| No | 36% | 63 votes | Total: 173 votes | |
| Yes | 64% | 110 votes |
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Political pundits call Biden a safe choice, but that depends on how one views national security and the United States in the world. Joe Biden was picked to be Obama's vice pres...read more
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I don't necessarily think Joe Biden is an awful choice for a running mate. I just think it's rather an uninspired choice. Barack Obama was going to be the candidate for change...read more
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Everyone's favorite political rookie, Barack Obama, teased America for weeks over his choice of his vice-presidential running mate. The announcement of Joe Biden as his running ...read more
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by Peggy Molloy
Barack Obama lost the election when he chose Joe Biden. I don't even like Hillary Clinton, but I recognize that she got a raw deal. However deep racism may be, the hatred of wom...read more
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Joe Biden was like a joke in the primary, so why pick him for your running mate, when the reality is he was your competition, not to mention the fact that he publicly told the w...read more
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According to a brief news story on the Yahoo! news service on August 27, 2008, Senator Obama's selection of Senator Joseph Biden as running mate is a disaster . . . for John McC...read more
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by Keith Bailey
Barack Obama likes to tell stories about his days as a community activist on the mean streets of Chicago. He is particularly fond of recounting the nights when he played poker i...read more
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For all the talk about change and Washington insiders and the status quo, Barack Obama essentially picked the Democratic version of John McCain as his running mate. And while th...read more
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As a man running on the idea of 'change', picking a man who has been in the U.S. Senate for over 25 years is the wrong way to go. Sen. Biden is as Washington as you can get and...read more
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by Jerry Curtis
By putting Senator Joe Biden on his ticket, Barack Obama has chosen political expediency over real and courageous change. He could not choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate...read more
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by Randy Scott
"What Washington needs is adult supervision. Barack Obama Barrack Obama is the first man of color to have a good chance to become president of the United States. It has taken a...read more
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Senator Joe Biden is an uninspiring professional politician who stands not for change, but for more of the same-old, same-old. Even as Biden was speaking at the Democratic Nati...read more
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by Cinderelli
Okay, picture this...it is Thursday, August 28, 2008 at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado. The enthusiastic crowd is standing room only, filling Invesco Stadium to t...read more
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by Les Zsoldos
Barack Obama needed to choose a running mate who could assume the presidency in the event of an emergency. He also needed a person who was able to communicate effectively, appe...read more
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by G E Barr
MIDDLE CLASS JOE "This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected." -Barack Obama I looked into some of Joe Biden's...read more
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by Sherry Brown
Kudos to Barack Obama! His choice of Joe Biden as a running mate is an excellent one! Barack Obama needed to choose a running mate that would cement his ideology. His selection...read more
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One of the very few things about President George W. Bush that I find appealing is the recognition of his own shortfalls. President Bush realized early in his campaign for the 2...read more
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by michiemac
Biden: Ready to Serve This has become an election of supopsed experience versus change. I am not entirely sure who makes these rules as they go along. I do know the media ...read more
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I am one of the undecided voters at this point although I normally would vote for John McCain in this election since I generally support the Republican candidate for President. ...read more
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by Ryan Headley
When Barack Obama announced that he was putting Joe Biden on the ticket, I was impressed and elated by the decision. Anyone who has spent a little time watching C-SPAN and has h...read more
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When choosing a running-mate, there are many questions to consider. How many electoral votes does each potential VP candidate's state possess? Can they help with fund-raising?...read more
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In campaigning, John Mccain said that Barak Obama is too young and too inexperienced to be the next president of the United States. Ok, Lets put John under the microscope for a ...read more
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Joe Biden, are you kidding me. Joe Biden would make a good president, let alone a vice president. Joe Biden is more in tune to what is going on in the mid-east than anyone in th...read more
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by Jeffrey Graf
Until now, the most blatant, and central theme that John McCain has attacked Barack Obama with is the broad statement "I don't trust his judgment." The implication being, that ...read more
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