8.23.2008

Oba-biden-obabá...

un nuevo cha cha chá...
and no, I am not a Republican nor a blind populist...

AP photo by Charles Rex Arbogast


The candidate of change went with the status quo.... The pick says 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....

So the question is whether Biden's depth counters Obama's inexperience — or highlights it?


y otro... A Biden Classic: posted in Time magazine from Peggy Noonan's January 12, 2006 column in the Wall Street Journal titled, "Biden His Time:"

"The great thing about Joe Biden during the Alito hearings, the reason he is, to me, actually endearing, is that as he speaks, as he goes on and on and spins his long statements, hypotheticals, and free associations--as he demonstrates yet again, as he did in the Roberts hearings and even the Thomas hearings, that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back--you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going. I love him. He's human, like a garrulous uncle after a drink."

a revolution to repair...

in the Financial Times, by Richard Lapper...

and more reading assignments for the weekend, compañeritos, para combatir el aburrimiento, ya que lo que de verdad hay que batir y tumbar, nos da pereza siquiera empezar...

foto de Richard Lapper