Tupenny VP analysis

Well, both Obama and McCain have announced their VPs, and here's my vaguely uninformed opinion of them both!

First, batting for all that is good and right in the world...

JOE BIDEN
Pros:
1) He's an attack dog. It'll be his job to rip the Republicans a new one during debate. And it's something he's done well in the past and seems to enjoy doing.
2) Has a strong labour union background
3) Voted against FISA and for Net Neutrality
4) Old white man.
Cons:
1) He's a major supported of invading Iraq and the Patriot Act.
2) He's wants to watch and control what you do with your computer.
3) Sponsored the RAVE act, which allows for glow sticks to be considered drug paraphernalia.
4) Old white man

Secondly, for evil and damnation...

SARAH PALIN
Pros:
1) Young woman candidate, full of Republican morals
2) Negates Biden's attack dog skills, because if he goes after he, he'll be seen as a bully
3) VPILF
Cons:
1) McCain can't question Obama's experience as the person second in line for the Presidency would actually be LESS experienced than Obama, younger, having served for less time, and over a less populated jurisdiction
2) Rabidly pro-life, anti-gay-marriage, anti-environment, creationist
3) She's under investigation for abusing her power by firing a Public Safety Commissioner who refused to axe a state trooper. A trooper who had just gone through a bitter divorce with her sister...


My thoughts? While Palin will undoubtedly curb some of Biden's advantages, her inexperience puts pause to the Republican's big tactic of questioning Obama's leadership experience. After all, if McCain one, he'd be an aged and ailing president with a history of cancer. And she'd be next in line. She's also being used to try and grab some of H. Clinton's voters who are still bitter about the Obama nomination, but I think Angry Mouse from the Daily Kos responded to that far more eloquently than I.

I'm just terrified of Biden taking over from Obama if something should happen to him. He's Hawkish and want to control the internet.

So, I'll end in a quote of Warren Ellis' masterpiece Transmetropolitan

The fix is in. It remains only to be seen what it's been traded for. To get to this stage, anyone wanting to be candidate has had to learn to enjoy the special flavor of pressure-group dick. The question is: will the Smiler stagger on stage with lungs half full of steaming lobbyist semen? Or will he merely be licking his lips?

AC out