Change and Experience, Obama / Biden Ticket

It's what we've all been waiting for, the big unveiling of the vice presidential running mate for Barack Obama. At 3am many receive the all important news that Senator Joe Biden would be the one balancing out the ticket for the Democrats. But no sooner than the announcement was made the McCain camp was putting out ads about how from Biden's own mouth, Barack was not ready to be president.. so was this a good choice?

I feel like it is. One of the major problems that many people had with Barack was his lack of experience. So Barack went out and got a man with over 30 years experience. They had a problem with Barack's lack of experience with foreign relations... so that problem was shored up with Biden's years as chairman of the foreign relations committee. Barack was called an elitist... Biden is the poorest member of Congress with a negative net worth. Barack could not get the Catholic vote from Hilary supporters, Biden is a Catholic.

It's like the line from the Jerry McGuire movie on the elevator... "You complete me.." Biden makes up for where the American people (at least the polls) say he lacks. So it's the "CHANGE and EXPERIENCE " ticket, as it's already being labeled. That's cool, but of course people are not satisfied unless they have something to complain about. I was watching CNN this afternoon and they were taken time out to view the "iReport" where people get on their webcams and tell their opinions. The new complaint is that Obama choose a man with so much experience, and how could he possibly get around the whole "politics as usual" working with someone who has been in Washington for such a long time. That's a simple answer... Barack is the one who, if elected, would be in charge.

It often blows my mind how soon it is forgotten that a president has a Cabinet of people who helps him makes decisions. And one thing that we all notice about Barack Obama is that he is open to tossing ideas around and bouncing things off other people before making his final decision. We saw that as he discussed some hard hitting issues at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency. While Senator McCain came out with staccato, black and white answers to questions that are many shades of gray in the lives of those making them, Senator Obama took time to express his thought process behind his decisions. He showed that although he does not necessarily agree with people's choices, he'd rather not deny people rights as well as spoke about ways to help people not have to make such difficult choices. This proves that he would in fact utilize the advice of the advisors, but ultimately make his own decision based off of a variety of information. He needs the experienced people in his corner so that when he throws out ideas, they can tell him how they feel "based on experience" it would play out. Open discussion leads to better solutions.

From what I understand about Joe Biden is that he is verbose and not a push over. He is able to speak his mind, which sometimes gets him into trouble. He is generally saying what is on the minds of the regular guy. Perhaps those that are still upset just wanted Hillary on the ticket. I commend Barack for not choosing Hillary simply for the sake of getting states. It would have been a fake move on his part. They really just don't like each other and it is apparent wheneever we see them together.

So I like Biden. It is only been a few hours since he was announced, but I think they should make a good team. Since McCain chooses to always compare Barack to celebrities, it would make sense to annoint the two with a celebrity couple name like "Brangelina". I now annoint the ticket as the "OBIDEN" ticket. Hopefully, the Obiden will lead them all the way to the White House. because frankly, I am not not great a fan of McCain.