No Ordinary Joe

Even though Joe Biden has been in the Senate for many years, he has continued to fight for the american people and not play the insider game. Biden has the experience and compassion to be an excellent VP. The type of change Obama will bring to the american people is an administration which cares more about the everyday citizens interests than special interests of the wealthy and connected...this is the change that Joe Biden will help Obama deliver to our country in November! Congratualtions Senator Biden!

I do hope that McCain lowers corperate taxes, which are higher than anyother country in the world. As a small business owner and may I say, heavily taxed, I can say with certainty that the government is extremely less efficient at spending your money than we are. I say: Cut spending on pork, stop paying subsidies, cut foriegn aid, streamline the tax system. CUT SPENDING! OBAMA WILL NOT CUT SPENDING!! Check out his proposal on World Poverty Bill. S.2433 at the U.S. Congress web site. This will put the U.S. taxpayers on the hook for an increase in Foriegn Aid of about 60 Billion more dollars. Just an example of whats to come. For the nations sake,THINK ABOUT HOW YOU DEFINE CHANGE!

I am a Viet Nam Vet. My sons are and have served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea. I am tired of people confusing patriotism for political blunders. The Bush/Cheney regime knew that Americans would do that. They were banking on it as the scammed this great nation out of billions of $$$ for contract on the blood of our brave fighting forces. WAKE UP! We need people at the helm who are not beholden to the money mills of lobby-laden Washington, DC. John McCain's war record is no more honorable or notable than the thousands of fighting men and women whose lives were lost and the countless others, mained and forgotten about by the McBush gang because of the lies concerning Iraq's intentions and capacity to threaten the United States.

Does reality count for nothing in this country anymore?! Let's forget what we feel for a second and deal with what we know! We know that Iraq was a colossal LIE!!! Why are we allowing anyone to capitalize on our ever 4 thousand dead military personnel? Giuliani tried to get a free ride by exploiting our loved ones lost on 9/11. Many Americans called him on it. So why are we going to give McCain a pass and a free ride on the "War built on lies and deceit express"?

No one person can change everything in a nation as diverse and complex as ours, but at least we are sincerely being offered a seat at the table. A table that regular Americans have been banned from for eight years. So John McCain and his so-called "straight talk express" can get on a train and rush himself straight out of my face. I have heard enough about who has inherited the "right" to be president because of some limited and convenient interpretation of patriotism. Let's, in this land of oppotunity, give Obama and opportunity to offer a more inclusive, open, globally savvy and peace leaning government. After 8 years, anybody trumpeting the Bush plan has got to be on some really bad drugs, Like Oxicoton [sic]. Are we going to let racial bias, party blinders and fear of change stop us from having any kind of a shift toward progress in this country?

Forget about the John Wayne images that McCain rhetoric evoke. That was a time when we were told that Native Americans were blood thirsty savages, blacks were only good to shine our shoes and woman were only show pieces for a man's lust. Who's still there?

Wrong choice. How can u have change with a lifer politician who is a BS er. I left the democratic party years ago when I realized they are extremely ANTI FATHER, pro woman anything. Any father or divorced father who votes for this ticket is the reason men can't get custody and are weekend ATM machines.

Quite frankly, from what I've read at this point I'm leaning towards Obama. But if it were available on the ballot I'd check "None of the above". To some extent both of these guys are trying to sell you "snake oil". Speculators control 81% of the oil contracts (recent article on Reuters and confirmed by the CFTC). Obama is less open to more drilling and favors new renewable energy sources (which would get us out of the clutches of the third world oil countries). McCain thinks we can drill our way to lower oil prices (a fantasy). Neither one of these offers relief any time soon. I'm disappointed with both on this subject. Why not take on changing the rules to get the speculators out of the market (sooner relief) and long term work on the alternatives.

newvoter101
Don't let the left wing liberal kool-aid sucking preachers (just like obama) get to you. Anyone who disagrees with them has to be a racist or ignorant in their feeble holier than thou minds.
Hang in there dude.

The biggest rap againt Biden seems to be that he opens his mouth to change feet. Since this hasn't affected Bush the Younger's ability to go to Washington twice, I doubt it will matter much for Biden.

Cheney and Bush the Elder have shown us that the VP position can indeed be very powerful when you have a weak president: Obama is far from weak. So if Biden offsets some of Obama's perceived weaknesses, that's fine. (It will be interesting to see who McCain can find to offset his).

But with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians in Georgia and the Chinese seemingly everywhere, the real question is who Obama (and McCain) will nominate for Secretary of State.

The Sec. of State nominee and any Supreme Court Justice nominees are the real positions of power. we should be concerned about.

If the MSM truly wants to help the American electorate make an informed choice, they should push both candidates to reveal their picks in these areas.

When is the United States going to get real canidates to run for Presidential office? What if you don't like either canidate? This has been the senario for the last 8 years.
I had an 88 year old man tell me that McCain is awfull. To my surprise. I asked then you must be for Obama? "Hell no" he said.. "You must be insane to vote for Hussein" he said.
Now dumbfounded I asked again what was the matter with McCain?
He said McCain's father was an Admrial and a dumb Asssssss and so the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
I argued that because you didn't like his father doesn't mean he would be bad.
He just gave me a stare like I was the dumbest person on earth.
So the question now is if not insane for Hussein and not McCain then who can lead this nation?
Where are the good canidates? Where are the good Americans? Are there any left?
Have we become a culture of bloated egos and rotten eggs?

Obama is the change America needs if they expect to be a leading nation in the world. I think its sad that 98% of Americans are still concern about teh colour of a man's skin and then say to themselves they are not racist. Bush was not suppose to be elected for a second term, yet he was and sent so many of our children to die in a useless war. Why was he not impeached?? Why would Americans want to vote in Mccain who is just another bush. If Americans vote in Mccain they may as well vote in bush for a3rd term. Why are so many people come home from a "good war" with some many mental issues and northing is being done about it. I challenge the media do some proper investigations into this

Comment I'm a former us soldier who fought for your right to free speech and I
am ashamed of the the way YOU are conducting your priviledge on this
website and others I have seen. We are Americans first and owe respect to
one anothers diverse opinions. Vote for whoever, but don't tell lies and misrepresent the facts. Don't smear candidates because of your prejudice
this crap is heard around the world.Behave toward one another as proud
Americans would respectfully.Then vote your choice you won't change anybodys mind.
A former GI

Obama could have chosen Jesus as his running mate and McCain and his RNC clowns would still spin it as Obama's doom. Kinda hard to take anything they say seriously when they get their inspiration from that bombastic, bellicose blowhard Rush Limbaugh.

Nice unbiased reporting. I want ot vote for a President that knows the ropes himslef. Nothing takes the palce of personal experience. Thank you, no...on Barry.

Newsweek says Biden's the anti-Cheney? Well, for sure I won't vote for the goon.

vansa
The 98% of Americans that are concerned about skin color .... you are talking about the 98% of black folks voting for obama, aren't you ?????????

I don't buy the media's spin that Obama lacks knowledge of foreign policy. I'm sure that Biden has more knowledge than Obama, but Obama has shown he's got more foreign policy expertise than McCain.

Iraq was not only a foreign policy matter, but McCain's obsession. Yet he persisted in the preposterous claim that Shia Iran was training their blood enemies, the Sunni Al Qaeda. And this was no mere "misspeaking" as the media tried to spin in, like not being able to say what the capitol of Norway is. Failure to know and understand your enemies is a prescription for military and foreign policy disasters (like Iraq).

And while McCain has been blundering his way through the campaign, Obama has been proven right by events in the Middle East. The Bush administration made a strike on a terrorist leader inside Pakistan without notifying the Pakistani government, exactly as Obama said he would do under similar circumstances, a position that McCain ridiculed. And of course, now we have a TIME TABLE for withdrawal from Iraq, similar to what Obama has called for and which McCain says is "surrender." The fact that a supposedly sovereign government has requested the US to leave their country is irrelevant to foreign policy "expert" McCain. If he wants to troops to stay in Iraq indefinitely, to hell with what the people and government want. Some expert.

Reading the comments, I'm sure that many of them are from Republicans. Biden must be an even better pick than I thought if he has y'all running so scared. Go get 'em, Joe and O...More power to you, and Via Con Dios!