{"id":298,"date":"2008-08-25T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T08:54:29","slug":"my-democratic-party-snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden:  The Spiro Agnew of the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to look like a schmuck.\u00a0 I want <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em> to look like a schmuck.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-Kevin Kline in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Dave<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-299\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Joseph Biden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/biden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"109\" \/>Senator Obama had his choice of huge range of individuals for vice president candidate.\u00a0 He could have picked Hillary Clinton, who has a solid constituency, or he could have picked Bill Richardson, who has a brain the size of the planet and represents the left well.\u00a0 Instead, he picked Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, who received a whopping 1% of the vote in the primaries in which he participated.\u00a0 Biden has a less than distinguished carrier in the Senate that includes such debacles as the Anita Hill massacre, in which Clarence Thomas was confirmed as a justice of the Supreme Court, having been publicly shamed by his assistant.\u00a0 Biden chaired the mess.<\/p>\n<p>He also was accused of plagiarizing work of other candidates the last time he ran for president in 1988.\u00a0 While this is a seemingly normal thing for politicians, it&#8217;s not something I want my daughter to aspire to do.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, pick this man?<\/p>\n<p>Senator Obama has put a huge effort into seeing that he is perceived as a positive campaigner.\u00a0 He objects to each of Senator McCain&#8217;s attack ads, and he does his best to not fight back in kind.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s pretty clear that at least someone thinks he needs someone to fight back.\u00a0 That would be Joe Biden, in the fine tradition of Spiro Agnew.\u00a0 This, it seems to me, is why Obama picked Biden.\u00a0 The man won&#8217;t make a great vice president (whatever that means), but he can be nasty, in a whithering sort of way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to look like a schmuck.\u00a0 I want you to look like a schmuck.\u201d -Kevin Kline in Dave Senator Obama had his choice of huge range of individuals for vice president candidate.\u00a0 He could have picked Hillary Clinton, who has a solid constituency, or he could have picked Bill Richardson, who has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Biden:  The Spiro Agnew of the Democratic Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[143,145,146,144],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-attack-dog","tag-biden","tag-schmuck","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}