While squinting a critical eye at the rather cynical choice of Senator Joe Biden as a VP candidate, I read a a more passionate response by a friend out in the blogosphere... which prompted me to say some hopefully intelligent things on the matter.
[quote] "Damn you, Barack Obama. You had a chance to put at least one of two WOMEN as your running mate. Do you REALLY think you have to toady to the radical conservative Evangelical types that much?? ... Kathleen Sebelius would have made me happier, not to mention the Dream Ticket. Once again, I'll be voting not so much for a candidate but more against the other one" ...
Joe Biden is obviously a "safe" choice... and THAT'S politics. Hillary Clinton has accumulated what I feel is a critical mass of enemies that she'll utterly rally conservative and Rep opposition, the same way that gay rights initiatives were put on the ballot in battleground states to haul the conservative wingnut vote out of the woodworks, and incidentally, while you're here to vote anit-gay hate — be a patriot and vote Republican.
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