Crossposted from Flopping Aces

Joe Biden is the Vice Presidential pick for the Obama team:

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack Obama’s pick as vice presidential running mate, The Associated Press has learned.

Biden, 65, is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party’s leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican rival John McCain.

The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.

Works for me, now we can play that soundbite of that “clean” black guy comment from the guy over and over again.

UPDATE

Yes! Here is the audio:

Lets not forget the Indian 7-11 racist comment he made:

Here he is proud that his state was a slave state:

But we all are supposed to know he didn’t really mean this kind of stuff in a mean way right? He’s a liberal so he just can’t be racist…..

Ask Sen. Byrd that please.

Awesome pick Obama….just stellar.

UPDATE

Jonah Goldberg:

I think it is an outright terrible decision on Obama’s part to pick Biden. Yes, he helps balance Obama’s inexperience on foreign policy, but he also reminds people of it. Yes, Biden could conceivably be effective as an attack dog. But Biden is such a gasbag he makes the Hindenburg look like a sack of rocks. Obama doesn’t need to increase his lip-flapping quotient. Biden is a gaffe machine and Obama is bad explaining faults, and his VP’s faults will inevitably become Obama’s in the Fall campaign. Biden will be fantastic at convincing people already eager to vote for Obama to vote for Obama. His ability to convince the undecided is much, much weaker, in my opinion. There’s more than a small risk that Biden will reinforce the sense that this ticket is all about hearing itself talk. I wouldn’t be surprised, two months from now, that we’ll hear a lot of talk about how Obama’s mistake in picking Biden can be explained by Obama’s inherent weakness, and love, for talky-talk-talk.

UPDATE

A few Biden statements that should interest a few people:

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) Reaffirmed That Obama Was Not Ready To Be Commander In Chief. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “You were asked is he ready. You said ‘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.’” Sen. Biden: “I think that I stand by the statement.” (ABC’s “This Week,” 8/19/07)

Sen. Biden: “Having talking points on foreign policy doesn’t get you there.” (”Biden Lashes Out At Obama,” ABC News’ “Political Radar” Blog, blogs.abcnews.com, 8/2/07)

Sen. Biden Called Obama’s Pronouncement “Very Naive.” Sen. Biden: “It’s a well-intended notion he has, but it’s a very naive way of thinking how you’re going to conduct foreign policy. … [T]he way to deal with it is not to announce it, but to do it. The last thing you want to do is telegraph to the folks in Pakistan that we are about to violate – quote – ‘their sovereignty.’” (“Biden Lashes Out At Obama,” ABC News’ “Political Radar” Blog, blogs.abcnews.com, 8/2/07)

More here and at Stop The ACLU.

also:

Obama – Communist China Infrastructure Is Vastly Superior To America

picture from Democrat=Socialist

Another day, another gaffe from Obama. This time he praises China for having a better infrastructure, better ports, and better airports then the United States.

Yes, you heard that right:

From Hugh Hewitt:

Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics , Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a coporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, “Beijing looks like a pretty good option.”

Sure thing Big O’….it’s not like the country has 120 million suffering from malnutrition or that they constantly ask factories to close down because they just don’t have the power or that they discharge sewage into the ocean with high a concentration of fecal matter. (h/t UNCoRRELATED)

Oh wait….they do have that. Lets not forget the internet censorship, the jailing of dissidents, the huge air pollution problem and the slave wages the state-run government pays their citizens either.

But Communist China is still better then his own country.

I mean we see this kind of stuff in our rivers and bays all the time right?

Kinda remind you of the praise heaped upon Germany after their Olympics in 1936?

QandO:

There’s spotty utility coverage and lack of indoor plumbing out in the provinces, but overall, China’s infrastructure is probably every bit as good as America’s…in 1930 or so.

Still, entering the 20th century infrastructure-wise counts as a Great Leap Forward. And the $300 million or so the Chinese have spent in Beijing to put on a super Olympics has certainly allowed them to put their best foot forward.

You gotta hand it to totalitarian dictatorships. They certainly know how to put on a show. And when you can expropriate all the nation’s wealth, if necessary, to fund the thing, money’s obviously no object. And, I suppose the incentive to dance well—even flawlessly—at the opening ceremonies is always increased by the thought of a cold steel muzzle at the nape of the neck for failure.

Yep, whether it’s the annual Nuremberg Party Rally, or the big May Day parade in front of Lenin’s tomb, you can always count on dictators to go all out for a good show. Complete with goose-stepping soldiers. You really don’t have a top-flight dictatorship if your soldiers don’t goose-step. and the Chinese have that sharp goose-step down cold.

Just one more example of what a empty suit this guy is. Once the teleprompter goes off he becomes a blathering idiot. The remark above? No teleprompter. The remark below….no teleprompter:

Democrat Barack Obama scolded Russia again on Wednesday for invading another country’s sovereign territory while adding a new twist: the United States, he said, should set a better example on that front, too.

The Illinois senator’s opposition to the Iraq war, which his comment clearly referenced, is well known. But this was the first time the Democratic presidential candidate has made a comparison between the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Russia’s recent military activity in Georgia.

“We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,” Obama told a crowd of supporters in Virginia. “They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point.”

John Hinderaker was a little po’d by the remark:

So our “charging into” Iraq–with dozens of allies, supported by a U.N. resolution, as a last resort after six months of build-up and negotiations, to unseat one of the cruelest dictators of modern times who had twice invaded neighboring states, was in violation of more than a dozen U.N. resolutions and was responsible for the deaths of something like two million people, who was shooting at American aircraft and had tried to assassinate a former President of the United States, in Obama’s childish mind, was just like Russia’s “charging into” Georgia, which resembles Saddam’s Iraq in no respect. And, of course, we invaded a horrifying charnel-house so as to establish a democracy, whereas Russia invaded a peaceful democracy that it wants to re-incorporate into its empire.

Sometimes I think Obama himself should get some commission from the script writers for McCains ads. He gives them so much material.