David Brooks: Hoping It’s Biden

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By DAVID BROOKS
Published: August 22, 2008
Barack Obama has decided upon a vice-presidential running mate. And while I don’t know who it is as I write, for the good of the country, I hope he picked Joe Biden.

Biden’s weaknesses are on the surface. He has said a number of idiotic things over the years and, in the days following his selection, those snippets would be aired again and again.

But that won’t hurt all that much because voters are smart enough to forgive the genuine flaws of genuine people. And over the long haul, Biden provides what Obama needs:

Working-Class Roots. Biden is a lunch-bucket Democrat. His father was rich when he was young — played polo, cavorted on yachts, drove luxury cars. But through a series of bad personal and business decisions, he was broke by the time Joe Jr. came along. They lived with their in-laws in Scranton, Pa., then moved to a dingy working-class area in Wilmington, Del. At one point, the elder Biden cleaned boilers during the week and sold pennants and knickknacks at a farmer’s market on the weekends.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1219417451-RzT7ytBkOqSYlezqtO4FbA&oref=slogin

This is actually a very good article for Biden.

[No Elephants]

1. I don't trust Brooks.

[liberaldem4ever]

2. I don't trust him either

I can't imagine him having the best interests of the Dems in mind when he says anything.

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3. I don't either

But the article is 100% positive for Biden.

[Rob H.]

4. Neither do I

He's been a slobbering Bush sycophant for the last eight years. I see no reason to put much faith in anything he says.