SAN-Feature Service SOUTH ASIAN NEWS-FEATURE SERVICE August 24,2008 Commentary : Obama picked Joe Biden, a feisty senator
Dr. A.H. Jaffor Ullah The American voters should fasten their seatbelt because the election season is surely be filled with turbulence. SAN-Feature Service : Senator Obama, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, finally announced his decision about the picking of the Vice presidential candidate in the wee hours of Saturday, August 23, 2008. The announcement came hardly two days before the commencement of Democratic convention to be held in Senator Joseph Biden who is popularly known amongst his friend as "Joe Biden" is known both for his short fuse and usual loquaciousness. An artful speaker, Joe Biden, has a propensity for making verbose speech. His friends in the Senate wished he would speak less because some of the words emanating from Biden's mouth have haunted the senator in the past. For example, on January 1, 2007 when Senator Biden announced that he will be competing in the primaries he gave an interview to NY Observer when he described Senator Obama as follows: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." This characterization of Obama was later labeled as racist remarks and Senator Biden later apologized publicly for his off-the-cuff remark. Not too long ago in early 2008, Senator Biden Senator Biden held a very negative opinion about Senator Obama when he said, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." However, in politics there is no final word. Senator Biden had gladly accepted the offer Senator Obama made on Thursdays (August 21, 2008). Many Biden observers in The presumptive nominee for vice president, Senator Biden, was flown to In American politics the candidate for vice president is considered to be an attack dog. While the presidential candidate maintains the decorum of the highest office, the VP candidate may do scathing characterization of the opponents. In 1976 presidential election, Senator Bob Dole, who ran as the VP along with President Gerald Ford, had blithely assumed the role of attack dog to say negative things about President Jimmy Carter. The same goes for George H.W. Bush (1980), Dan Quayle (1988), John Edwards (2004). Many political observers in One thing very positive about Senator Biden is that he would bring a wealth of experiences in foreign policy because he is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the fourth-longest serving Democratic senator. Both Senator McCain and Senator Hillary Clinton had negative things to say about Obama's lack of exposure to foreign policy. By including Senator Biden – a deft hand at foreign policy matters Obama had extricated himself from this allegation. The Democratic ticket became a strong one by the inclusion of Senator Biden. Senator Biden comes from a Blue Color background who grew up in The American voters should fasten their seatbelt because the election season is surely be filled with turbulence. It is going to be a nasty fight and one should expect our no-nonsense senator from Dr. A.H. Jaffor Ullah, a researcher and columnist, writes from New Orleans , |
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