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I’ll just give my off the cuff remarks regarding Barack Obama selecting Joe Biden for his VP candidate:

1. Biden is far more experienced than Obama, and will strongly emphasize how unqualified Obama is to be   president.

2. Biden isn’t that much younger than McCain is, and will defuse some of the argument that McCain is too old to be president.

3. Biden is at least as arrogant as Obama is, and the two of them together are going to be unbearable. Biden is not a likable person, and that will present problems for Obama’s candidacy.

4. Biden has said that Obama is not qualified to be president. Expect to see televison ads out the wazoo with clips of Biden bashing Obama. It’s gonna be ugly.

5. Delaware is a reliably Democratic state, and Biden doesn’t help Obama win a state he wouldn’t have won anyway.

6. Adding a northeastern liberal to the ticket doesn’t add any balance. Obama will still have all the problems he’s already having down south, and among blue collar white voters. Biden isn’t going to help him with those bitter rural whites clinging to their religion and their guns. If anything, he’ll help drive them away.

7.Biden is an absolute gaffe machine, maybe even worse than Obama. The next couple of months are going to be fun.