It’s not yet in the cell phones of all those who signed up to “be the first to know,” but CNN’s John King broke the supposed best kept secret in politics.[1][2] Traditional media one, Obama zero.[3]

Ali A. Akbar, Publisher for TalkStraight.org and Republican New Media activist was a lone voice calling for people not to sign up for Obama’s latest grab at information:

“It is almost idiotic to sign up for the SMS alert - don’t give Obama your information. It’s not like your email. This is your cell phone - the marketing companies don’t have a comprehensive list like this. Watch, this story will break.”

There’s one phrase the American people can now get used to:

“I deeply regret any offense my remark in the New York Observer might have caused anyone. That was not my intent and I expressed that to Sen. Obama.”[4]

That’s the statement Joe Biden had to release after he said, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” and went further to say, “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” [audio]

After Obama intially brushed off the statement, he released a written statement:

“I didn’t take Sen. Biden’s comments personally, but obviously they were historically inaccurate. African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate.“

Former President Bill Clinton wasn’t afforded the same forgiveness when he made the “fairy tale” comment no matter how many times he clarified. Obama and the mainstream media used this to exploit Democratic African American voters who were largely uncertain about Obama.[5]

Biden on Barack

Biden’s political analysis of Obama originally was, “a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,” and added, “I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”[6]

Tense moments also came when Biden wouldn’t back down. He has enjoyed a decent favorably rating by moderates and even Republicans, because of his ability to put the country first, however this decision is all politics.

He slammed Obama for not holding hearings as the Chairman of a Sub Committee with oversight authority relating to Afghanistan calling Obama, “Johnny come lately,” in just recently calling for an aggressive policy.[12] One quote that will haunt Democrat’s bid for the White House is Biden’s in an August 2007 debate:

“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”[13]

This pick isn’t entirely unexpected from the man who has run and failed to obtained the Democratic nomination twice.[7]

After more than 35 years in the Senate and an entirely opposite approach, stance, and level of experience on foreign policy - it would seem Washington has this election in hand.

The Race Card

Biden is usually all to comfortable in his own skin. Not only does he have the longest track record of putting his foot in his mouth, even longer than that of Senator John Kerry, but he’s been known to make other racially motivated comments.

More dangerous than a George Allen slip or a Robert Byrd Ku Klux Klan membership card - Biden has crude racial humor. In June of 2006, Biden sighted an overly-excited young Indian American political activist. On shaking his hand he said:

“In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”[8]

Michael Turk picks up the double standard between Democrats and Republicans on his blog.[9]

Biden’s made his thoughts known on African Americans and the public school system. In Iowa, Biden spoke to the Washington Post Editiorial Board:

“There’s less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with…”[10]

Biden thought his chances at winning southern states, which lead Clinton to break Republican power, fared more than well, telling Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday:

“You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.”[11]

Clintonistas

After confirming that Senator Hillary Clinton, who received the popular vote during the primaries, was never vetted - Clintonistas might force the Democrats to defeat themselves.

Sources TalkStraight.org has talked to from PUMA, JustSayNoDeal, and Clintons4McCain groups are all in consensus that scheduled Democratic National Convention protests will go on. The general sentiment ranges from general dissatisfaction to rage of Biden being picked while Clinton was not honored by being vetted by the Obama campaign.

TalkStraight.org reached out to Christi Adkins of Clintons4McCain for a statement:

Furthermore, this will not only infuriate the Clinton supporters more, but most assuredly when this announcement is made at the convention will be a simultaneous victory speech for Senator McCain.

Senator Clinton was probably not vetted for the Vice Presidential nod simply due to the fact that her experience would far exceed Senator Obama’s and having President Clinton in the White House at the same time would overshadow Senator Obama’s reign.

No doubt, in the coming days, if the Clinonistas can keep the spotlight on the fact that Clinton was not respected by being vetted, expect Obama to play it off. He may go as far to say, she didn’t need to be vetted.

This will be a lie. All candidates must be vetted, not only to uncover anything on the opposition’s radar, but to see how the candidate will be handled by the communications teams.

It would seem “anyone’s short list,” didn’t make Obama’s own.

Sources:

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/23/biden.democrat.vp.candidate/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[2] http://twitter.com/cnnbrk/statuses/896246859

[3] http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/veepstakes

[4] http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1131516320080111

[6] http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1254171.php/Senator_Joseph_Biden_Obama_clean_and_articulate

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#1988

[8] http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/7/7/115513.shtml?s=ic

[9] http://www.kungfuquip.com/joe-bidens-racism/

[10] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402716.html

[11] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14554439/

[12] http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/joe_biden_barack_obama_afghani.html

[13] http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/22/flashback-biden-on-obama-pakistan.aspx