Bi-Bama

It’s the new name for the debut marriage of Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware), another dream team newly hatched from the DNC incubator. Unfortunately for Democrats, this egg was already cracked. Almost immediately, McCain had an ad where Biden admits McCain is more qualified to be president than Obama. In other words, even Biden believes that Obama is not ready for prime time.

And because of those statements, Biden was probably a poor “veep” choice, but he was picked because Democrats are concerned with Obama’s inexperience, chosen because Biden adds that Washingtonian experience that Obama oh so lacks. Yet, when Obama was in Lynchburg, he claimed America has had an energy problem for 30 years, and McCain hadn’t solved it with his 25 years in Washington.

However, Biden with even more time in Washington than McCain hasn’t solved the energy crunch either. Biden though votes with the Democrats to deny America the energy it requires to have a growing economy. Going alternative would be great, but oil is what’s needed now.

And, Obama has been in Washington since 2004. Funny, he forgets that he never made that anti-war vote in 2003, but he has been there for four years. He too hasn’t solved the energy problem. Of course, how much can one accomplish when spending so little time there. In reality, Obama’s only accomplishments are two memoirs (already?) and being nominated.

At the DNC convention, Democrats did their customary whining of the disappearing middle class. If so, it’s happening where Democrats run amok. Per capita incomes are lowest in Miami, Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cleveland all democratically dominated cities. Obama would bring this Marxist economics to the nation as a whole. So, as Democrats dissed Bush, they were really just crying about being shutout of the White House.

In his acceptance speech, Obama argues inanely that everyone is now adopting “his” Iraqi withdrawal plan. Maliki, Iraq’s leader, General Petreaus, Bush and McCain have all mentioned removing US troops. But there’s a subtle difference between Obama’s plan and theirs. And it’s that subtlety that makes all the difference. Obama would leave even if Iraq weren’t ready. In fact, Obama’s plan would already have the terrorists in control of this oil rich nation and sending jihadis to America.

Obama also claimed that the surge was wrong and would never work. So, why is he proposing the same failed policy for Afghanistan? Proposing to send two battalions or was that two brigades, Biden got it wrong in his convention speech, but the militarily challenged Democrat delegates never even noticed.

And make no mistake Hillary was furious at the convention. Her speech was the minimum endorsement of Obama that she could give. Merely saying this, “I’m a Democrat; Barack’s a Democrat. He believes mainly what you believe. So, maybe he should be president. But, if he wins, I’ll be too old to run again. Unless McCain’s wins, and then I can argue that I should have really been the nominee in 2008.”

When Obama picked Biden, it came out fairly quickly that Hillary wasn’t even vetted for veep. Most likely, Hillary released that information to further alienate her voters from joining the Bi-Bama camp. Then, McCain made the excellent choice of Alaskan governor, Susan Palin, a woman with an 80% approval rating. Now, each ticket will make history.

Considering that women constitute over half the population and 90% of blacks will vote for the Democrat ticket anyway, women voters are the pivotal block in what has been a tight political race. The Democrats normally adept at group politics have really dropped the ball.

All the Bi-Bama campaign could do after McCain’s veep announcement was complain the Palin had no foreign policy experience. She doesn’t need it since she’s not the top of the ticket unlike Obama. Obama as president can just ignore Biden’s advice no matter how prudent. More importantly, Palin in her little finger has more experience and more accomplishment than Obama.

While Obama hasn’t passed one bill in the US Senate, Palin has passed landmark ethics reform, reformed the state's energy industry and rejected wasteful pork barrel spending including the infamous bridge to nowhere. When oil prices increased state revenues, she returned them to Alaskans instead of creating more wasteful programs. As Mayor of Juno, she cut property taxes. She’s the ideal candidate, a vice that’s nice, that will attract not only women but also conservatives, which McCain will need.

In his convention speech, Bill Clinton claimed that Republicans ridiculed his lack of experience in his 1992 presidential run, but Bill was Arkansas’ Governor for over a decade giving him executive experience, which Obama also lacks. Obama argues that Palin takes experience off the table, but serious voters won’t buy that and in November will hopefully be voting “Bye-Bye-Bama.”