Vote for Barack, he’s clean!

In rapid order, Barack Obama made a huge deal out of announcing his VP choice by sending out a text mail, and then made people wait until the next day and then his huge announcement? Uber-annoying Senator Joe Biden.

No sooner did Obama announce his choice than we started seeing the quotes from Joe Biden. One, the more damaging one, is Biden saying that Obama is unqualified for the job and that the presidency is not the place for on-the-job training. Expect to hear that over and over again over the next few months.

The other quote is so incredibly condescending that it is almost breathtaking. Biden describes Obama as:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

A black guy and he's clean and articulate! That is either faint praise or it is a thinly veiled insult. Imagine if John McCain said that, the press would be apoplectic.

The choice of Biden is clearly a safe one, designed to put someone on the ticket who has a ton of foreign policy background. But the problem is that we aren’t voting for a co-President. The Biden choice really highlights just how unprepared Obama is and how flawed his candidacy really is. He picked someone who his team knew had tons of quotes that make Obama sound unready because he IS so unready and had to get someone with substance and experience to balance out his charming lack of gravitas.

Please, please, please Senator McCain pick someone decent. Obama’s lead had evaporated completely, he peaked too soon and the more people look at him, the less certain they get. If McCain picks someone solidly conservative for his VP, he should be able to take Obama and win solidly, but if he does something dumb and picks someone unpalatable to conservatives (especially someone pro-abortion) he will hand the keys to the White House to one of the most unprepared and ill-equipped men to ever hold the office of President.