Photos: Charting Joe Biden's Path to Becoming Obama's Veep Pick

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?


The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

He believes people will vote against their own interests.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

Hold them accountable NOW! while it will still help.

Elect Obama Biden 2008

Too bad the press is so BIASED and LIBERAL. Divides people. They should report news, not greate it.

Jpoitier - You mean, does anyone do PROPAGANDA better than democrats? I mean closet socialists? All they want is another government handout , so they can sit around and be part of the problem, and NOT part of the solution. Get a job!

for once a man thats not rich from making deals in back rooms that really love america that wanted to serve his country makes me feel like theres some hope god bless mr.biden.i was beging to think no one could be found obama and biden will put america frist god that sounds good god bless america

for once a man thats not rich from making deals in back rooms that really love america that wanted to serve his country makes me feel like theres some hope god bless mr.biden.i was beging to think no one could be found obama and biden will put america frist god that sounds good god bless america

Joe Biden is a very wise choice. His experience in foreign affairs is a definite plus. His legislative experience is again a definite plus: After all of the division in congress and a destructive and useless VP, we will have in Biden a VP who knows how to get things done in congress. Hopefully he can break the partisan log jam of the last 8 years and help put this country back on the high road. The team is right and the time is right. There will indeed be hope again.

Great Choice, Mr. Obama. I had the privilege of meeting Joe Biden when he was in Denver campaigning for Kerry/Edwards. He is very knowlegeable about foreign affairs and about the economy. I agree with the previous commentator that his has a BRAIN and is not your "typical" politian. I pray that they are elected and that they can bring this country together because right now we are headed downward in our ability to take care for one another regardless of their race, gender, age, sexual preference, etc. We all have to take responsibility for our actions and we need to support our local, state and national government in order to be strong AGAIN in the world! I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!! VIVA AMERICA!!!

he would have been a fool NOT TO CHOOSE BIDEN. biden's the only DUMOCRAT with a BRAIN. besides, this is the first election EVER that the VP pick even matters... in other words, '(for different reasons on both sides) WHAT IF ? it happened? who would run the country then ??

he would have been a fool to NOT choose biden. biden's the only Dumocrat with a BRAIN. besides, this is the first election ever that the VP pick has actually mattered. in other words, what IF? then who would be president ??

Barack Obama's decision to select Joseph Biden who came through the ordinary ranks of the Amercan life, and who still, on a day to day basis mingles with the ordinary people, and who has tremendous experience in the Senate, and in foreign relations, is only a sign of Obama's wisdom, maturity, courage and his ability to do the right thing! It doesn't show anything negative on Obama's part; it is when one pretends, or when one acts as if he/she has not seen the reality, one becomes like the ostrich! There is absolutely nothing improper in selecting an experienced senator as his VP; it definitely shows signs of maturity and judgement, and a clear sign of acceptance of reality/actuality.

Obama should be seen as a leader willing stand up for the principles, truth, and courage! His background , or, his origins need not be adeterrant - that's what America is all about! Now, Americans have an opportunity to rise above petty l narrow world view, and be able to resist satus-quo, and regain America's
moral standing in the world, and also regain its economic power.

What about all the POWs/MIA soldiers whose rescue McCain deliberately thwarted, just to appease the powers that be? People might not like Ross Perot, but Perot had it correct when he said McCain is a poor excuse for an American...Perot sent his own people over to 'nam to find MIAs and POWs - all the while McCain did EVERYTHING in his power to thwart that - and he has the nerve to say he is a hero?
I beg to differ with his assessment...the McCain people who distort Obama's record and views and who will distort Biden's qualifications, gained their experience distorting the real truth about existing MIAs and POWs - McCain is a disgrace to this country...

McCain is the new Dubya...Biden is not a bad choice, considering McCain says Obama has no foreign policy experience...Remember, JFK had next-to-no foreign policy experience and, in the end, things worked out well...I can't say the same for Dubya - We all know Cheney is the one running things - Dubya is a pawn - a front man - just gives a dumb faced look to the Presidency...Dubya is Cheney's fall guy... McCain is a Dubya yes-man - or, a Cheney yes-man...and you all critizcize Obama/Biden...at this rate, even Hillary or another 8 years of Bill Clinton would be better than Dubya...Biden as VP can do no worse...

This will not be a baby kissing hand shaking campaign. With Biden in th epicture, the focus will now be on the issues that have been on the back burner

Great choice Obama... now... Biden get out there and help that campaign fight back.

What the USA requiers is change and Obama is the man to do it Bush only wants to create problems around the world .Any country that does not a gree go for a strike , go for it Obama.