Bernie Sanders?
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [via Mike Allen]
>
> ***AP Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier, from Denver: 'Analysis: Biden
> pick shows lack of confidence: The candidate of change went with the status
> quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought
> to shore up his weakness - inexperience in office and on foreign policy -
> rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying
> political conventions.
>
> 'He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate - the ultimate insider - rather
> than a candidate from outside Washington ... The picks say something
> profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois
> senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help
> from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden selection is the
> next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative - a
> strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his
> image. Democratic strategists, fretting over polls that showed McCai n
> erasing Obama's lead this summer, welcomed the move. They, too, worried that
> Obama needed a more conventional - read: tougher - approach to
> McCain.'___________________________________
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