Joe Biden: Obama’s ‘Evil Twin’

Despite Sen. Joe Biden’s denial on Meet the Press and other media outlets that he was not interested, it seems as though his insider supporters lobbied heavily for him to be Sen. Barack Obama’s pick for vice president. I hardly think these supporters did this without the knowledge and consent of Sen. Biden. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Biden’s “team” sold Sen. Obama on Joe’s “humble roots” by pitching his poverty compared to other senators, and his strong foreign policy experience. His team would like you to believe that commuting by train to and from Delaware to the nation’s capital means he’s not a Washington insider despite being a U.S. senator since he was 30 years old. His alleged modest lifestyle also was a major attraction to Sen. Obama’s VP vetting team because he listed his net worth between $59,000 and $366,000. Shortly after the announcement that Sen. Biden was Sen. Obama’s pick as his running mate, the media flocked to Joe’s “humble” home. From what I saw on cable news channels, Humble Joe’s home looked more like a compound. I wonder how many kitchen tables he has to choose from to discuss family matters. News anchors said the mansion in the camera’s view actually belonged to his mother, the wife of the equally humble car dealer who helped raise Joe. Somebody must have sold a lot of cars during his career. I find it hard to believe that after receiving a senator’s salary for over 30 years, plus his PhD-wife’s income, that they haven’t amassed over $366,000 in net assets. The landscaping at his compound probably cost more than that. Sen. Biden’s camp torpedoed the chances of front-runner Indiana Sen. Even Bayh, when they discovered that his wife made nearly $1 million annually from sitting on various corporate boards. What does her salary have to do with Sen. Bayh’s ability to be vice president? It’s all about perception. It’s hard to be humble when you earn $1 million a year. But Sen. Biden’s biggest attraction was his potential to capture scarce working-class white peoples’ votes, something Sen. Obama was not able to do during the primaries in states like Pennsylvania, which is where Joe grew up. How does one promote changing Washington when you have the consummate Washington insider as your VP? If Sen. Biden has so much experience in foreign relations, wouldn’t he make a better Secretary of State, who can actually do something as opposed to a vice president whose only official job is to vote in the Senate as a tiebreaker? Does Sen. Biden remaining a senator prevent him from consulting with the president on crucial foreign relations issues? One reason Sen. Biden was picked was to fill the void of experience voters recognize Sen. Obama does not have. But picking Sen. Biden still won’t make Sen. Obama more experienced. Sen. Biden is Sen. Obama’s evil twin. It’s hard to turn a family member down when he asks for a job. Humble Joe seems to feel about blacks and other minorities the same way Sen. Obama feels about typical white people who cling to their Bibles and guns during hard times. Humble Joe was recorded by the Washington Post editorial board as saying that the reason Washington D.C. schools are failing is that they are inundated by blacks whose mothers don’t read to their children before they enter school, unlike white women. The real reason couldn’t have something to do with the school’s educational philosophy and liberal curriculum, could it? At another event, he was recorded saying that you couldn’t go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin’ Donuts store in Delaware unless you have a slight Indian accent. But Sen. Biden’s supporters dismiss his biases by saying, “That’s just Joe.” Sen. Biden forgot to mention in his acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention that he has the U.S. Senate’s third most liberal voting record, just slightly behind the most liberal record, that of Sen. Obama. He favored immigration reform that essentially provided immunity for illegals, he’s against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and voted against renewing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He also wanted to divide Iraq into three nations: Kurd, Shiite and Sunni. Like his twin, Sen. Biden also fully supports abortion on demand, said the surge wouldn’t work and never met a strict constructionist jurist he liked for the Supreme Court. Sen. Biden’s higher “pay grade” as vice president won’t change his liberal Beltway mentality, but it will finally get him out of the Senate.