After watching the media exploit the stupid Australians during their last election, where the media voted a dud called Rudd into power, by abusing their privilege of publishing and denying the facts to Australians, i can't wat to see if America is so stuoid to vote for a clown whom is involved in corruption of the worst kind.
Anyway the almighty media favourite, Obama,has named his running mate which in itself shows what a clutz he is.Remember Obamas wonderful promises to remove the old guard?? Yet hang 5 isnt his running mate the eternal old guard??
Obama names veteran Biden as VP choice
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CHICAGO (AFP) — Barack Obama Saturday named veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate, adding foreign policy heft -- but also a loose tongue -- to his ticket for November's election against Republican John McCain.
After hours of media leaks, the 47-year-old Democratic White House hopeful confirmed that he was picking the Delaware senator, 65, in an early-hours email and text message sent out to millions of signed-up supporters.
"I've chosen Joe Biden to be my running mate," Obama said in the email. "I'm excited about hitting the campaign trail with Joe, but the two of us can't do this alone. We need your help to keep building this movement for change."
The new running mates were due to appear together for their first rally after 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) Saturday in Springfield, Illinois, president Abraham Lincoln's hometown where Obama began his White House quest in February 2007.
Biden was then likely to join Obama on a tour of four states to the west before ending up in Denver for the coming week's Democratic convention. He will speak on Wednesday, followed by Obama on Thursday.
The official campaign website already read "Obama-Biden" and it invited supporters to send a welcome note to Biden, who is a hugely experienced Washington insider having entered Congress at the age of 29 in 1972.
The chairman of the Senate's foreign relations committee has twice run for the presidency himself, including a shot at the Democratic nomination this time round when he had some unflattering things to say about Obama's inexperience.
Republican John McCain's campaign responded by saying Obama's choice of Biden was an admission that the Democrat was not ready to serve as president.
"There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama's lack of experience than Joe Biden," McCain spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.
"Biden has denounced Barack Obama's poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing -- that Barack Obama is not ready to be president," he said .
But in turning to the loquacious and pugnacious Biden, Obama is banking that the veteran's expertise on national security will blunt McCain's attacks and that his personal background will keep wavering Democrats in the fold.
A Catholic native of Pennsylvania, Biden brings appeal to the kind of working-class voters with whom the African-American Obama has struggled to connect, and who backed his primary rival Hillary Clinton.
In snubbing Clinton for the VP slot, Obama has calculated that Biden can do as much to reach out to those voters without the need to bring the political baggage of the former first lady and her husband Bill on board his campaign.
Obama had said this week that he was looking for a principled running mate who was unafraid to speak his mind and tell his boss if policy was veering off-track. Biden fits that bill.
But Biden's length of experience could also detract from Obama's promise to sweep away the Washington old guard, and Biden has a long record of verbal mis-steps.
Launching his ill-fated shot at the Democratic nomination last year, he said of Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
Biden apologized and Obama said he took no offence, but the Delaware senator then went on to make another remark that has already become fodder for Republican attacks.
Ahead of a debate among the Democratic presidential contenders, he had said Obama "can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
At the debate in Iowa, he said: "I think I stand by the statement."
Biden emerged on top after Obama reportedly broke the news to two other leading contenders -- Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine -- that they were no longer under consideration.
Earlier, ABC News said a detail of Secret Service agents had been sent to assume Biden's protection in preparation for his new role as an official candidate for high office.
But the Illinois senator's campaign had been resolutely tight-lipped, having promised to release the vice presidential pick in an electronic blizzard to registered supporters. In the event, that plan was trumped by leaks to the media.
The confirmation of Biden as Obama's running mate will feed into McCain's decision-making as he prepares to announce his own VP pick at the end of next week, just before the Republican convention in St Paul-Minneapolis.
Two front-runners for the 71-year-old Arizona senator are former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
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