Y'all need to stop second guessing, and falling for the spin meister's magic. Biden was then, and is now, the best choice for VP. Clinton would not have been the smarter choice, and that is why she was not in contention. She might have made it a different race, but the Presidency would have been intolerable. Obama could have chosen her for political reasons (as McCain has done), but he would have had to deal with not one, but two co-Presidents. That simply is not tolerable, and the Repub's would have used exactly that in the campaign, painting him as not his own person.

Palin was a smart move POLITICALLY, that will eventually fade. She is still in her honeymoon period, although you have seen the beginnings of that unraveling as more is known about her record, and in the wake of the Gibson interview. Make no mistake, she will make the race close, but in the end I refuse to believe that American women make their choices solely on the basis of the genitalia of the candidate. Certainly they will find a kinship with a working Mom, but we don't elect on that basis. We elect on the basis of positions that will affect OUR ability to raise children and provide them with opportunity. I have a great deal of faith in the ability of the electorate to wade through the chaff and get to the grain.

And don't forget that ultimately we are voting for either Obama or McCain, not Obama or Palin.

So do the old Mick a favor and layoff with this attitude that somehow the selection of this right wing idealogue is going to break the Dems and cause them to lose. I don't believe that will be the case at all.

Mick