When Barack Obama tapped Delaware Senator Joe Biden to be his Vice Presidential running mate, I shared the opinion of the masses that this was a politically safe and conventional selection that, while offering nary a sizzle, would do little to harm Obama's chance of being elected President.
Boy oh boy, how wrong I was.
One concern many had about Biden is his well honed penchant for verbosity, and how the Obama campaign may be nudged off message on any given day due to Biden's sharp tongue cutting through his shiny veneers.
I'm not sure if Biden is merely garrulous though.
He may have Tourette's Syndrome.
Biden has droned on during the past week with a few rhetorical missteps that appear to be a near Obama sabotage conspiracy story, worthy of an Oliver Stone double-take.
It's as though he's in cahoots with the Clintons that his best bet is to settle back into his Senate chair for another four years, long enough for Hillary to go toe-to-toe with Sarah Palin for the contest of Madame Commander in Chief.
Biden openly said that Senator Clinton would've been a better Veep selection for Obama than himself. A few days later, his football locker room pep talk to his Alma Mater, the University of Delaware Blue Hens, included a reference to his trip to Ohio just days before. Biden suggested that Delaware is such a football juggernaut that they could go out and beat the crap out of Ohio State.
I've been to Columbus to witness an Ohio State football game. Any politician worth a bought and sold Chicago vote knows that you don't mess with the Buckeye state and their football prowess.
Yesterday Biden attacked his own campaign about the merits of an Obama television spot that portrayed McCain as an out-of-touch computer illiterate.
Nice work, Joe. Directing the attention away from the McCain attack ad pimping Obama as an advocate for comprehensive sex education to kindergartners (in reality, a bill designed to help young children identify and report child molesters) was a magnanimous gesture towards your opponents campaign.
Quick. Somebody in Camp Obama needs to scramble and get some duct tape and apply it liberally to Joe Biden's mouth.
Obama should consider a new campaign song when he travels with Biden. Perhaps going old school with Run DMC;
You talk too much and you never shut up
I said you talk too much, Homeboy you never shut up!
A big blabbermouth, that’s what you are
If you were a talk show host, you’d be a star
I said your mouth is big, size extra large
And when you open it, it’s like my garage
You talk too much and you never shut up
I said you talk too much, Homeboy you never shut up!
Forget about Sarah Palin. For McCain, Joe Biden is shaping up to be a gift.
The gift that keeps on giving.
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