McCain and Lieberman - Perfect together.

This came in my Biden Google alerts, so you may have seen it. Pretty good article.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/mccain_and_lieberman_perfect_t.html

Edit: Here's an excerpt. It makes sense.

So Obama will go with a safe choice: Virginia's Governor Tim Kaine, Indiana's Senator Evan Bayh, or Delaware's Senator Joe Biden. Biden is the best choice. He is well versed in national security issues and offers reassurance that Obama will have someone to turn to. Excellent in debate, he can be counted on to bring the war to the Republicans. He would add reassurance and gravitas to the ticket just as Cheney did for Bush and Johnson did for Kennedy. (The only problem is that anyone objectively looking at an Obama-Biden ticket wonders if it shouldn't be upside down).

Kaine lacks the very experience that Obama misses and adds nothing. Neither one can find the men's room in the White House without a GPS.

Bayh lacks any killer instinct. He refused to attack the Republicans when tapped to give the keynote speech at the 1996 Democratic Convention and is allergic to negative campaigning. That's OK in a presidential candidate, but what's a vice president for if not to sock it to the other side?

So the race may boil down to Obama-Bayh vs. McCain-Romney. But it should be Obama-Biden vs. McCain-Lieberman

"The only problem is that anyone objectively looking at an Obama-Biden ticket wonders if it shouldn't be upside down"

:(

It will make Obama look like he had to turn to his daddy for help.

I giggle just thinking about it.

that Biden wouldn't get the presidential nominee. They knew they didn't have a chance against Biden and surely don't want him as VP either.

The visual is so pathetic McCain/Lieberman on one side and Obama/Biden on the other. Our side would look like superheroes up against Wimp/Wuss!

Reporters sitting in a room waiting for a press conference. McCain and Lieberman shuffle in, mumble in the microphone, give their bland statements. CUT TO - Obama and Biden blasting into the room. Can't you just FEEL the difference?

and I hear Lieberman's whiny voice and I see McCain's frozen smile and robot-like eyes blinking as if he'd short circuited. Then over here folks behind door #2, dazzling smiles, soaring oratory, confident demeanor, attractive and healthy surrounded by enthusiastic supporters (not cheese and juice).

I can picture The Daily Show doing a segment going back and forth between the two events, no commentary necessary. :applause:

And Bill Maher will be back soon. Remember when August was the slow news month?

Great article. Thanks, Gateley!