Obama's VP choice - Biden

I'm not really sure how to feel about Obama choosing Biden to be his VP on the Democratic ticket in the upcoming election. I've done a little digging over the past few days, looking at his website and what people are saying about him. Pretty much the biggest negative that people are bringing up is that he sometimes says things he shouldn't. (Okay, maybe that's a nice way to put it...is 'he says things that make him look like an asshole' any better?) Honestly, if that's people's biggest problem with him, I'll take it! I'd rather have a VP who knows what he thinks and doesn't hide his viewpoints on things! Better to have someone who comes out and says what he wants than someone who can't even string a sentence together grammatically!

I think he is a pretty good match for Obama. I think they will complement each other nicely. Here are few things that I like about Biden: 1) He is strong for education. No Child Left Behind is awful! We have had eight years of Bush messing up the country's education system, and doing nothing to remedy it! I strongly feel that Bush's intentions were good when he passed the NCLB Act, but almost immediately, it proved not to serve the purpose it was meant to. I'm putting my faith in Obama and Biden to change this for the good of our children!

2) Biden is religious AND pro-gay-rights! Finally, someone who has learned to think for himself! I know the Bible...I know the passages that say that homosexuality is a sin...but there are so many more passages that preach acceptance and tell us that it is not our job to judge others! Go Biden for being your own man!

3) Biden realizes that merely pulling all of our troops out of Iraq is WRONG! I want to end this war as much as anyone, but to simply pull out all of our troops would be murder. This is the one issue that really drew me to Obama during the caucuses at the beginning of the year. They both seem to have a plan for withdrawing from Iraq; they don't merely want "to have all troops out of Iraq in 6 weeks" (approximate words I heard coming out of Hilary and Bill Richardson's lips). Let's face facts people, we still have thousands of soldiers in South Korea, and that war ended forty years ago! Do you think we could just pull out of Iraq and everything will be hunky-dory?

All in all, I am pretty happy with Obama's choice for VP. Is there a better candidate out there? Probably! But there are probably better candidates for president out there, too! The people who are best suited to run this country never will because they are too good of people to be politicians. At least with Obama and Biden I feel like I will be voting for people and not politicians!

Now, I just hope that McCain doesn't go and do something smart like picking Lieberman or Powell for his VP and really screwing our chances for victory!