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I regret Tim Kaine, but I'm cool with Biden. Biden is a smarter move. (I think. I hope.)

The decision to announce his pick via text message was brilliant and creative on Obama's part because, in principle, it was im-mediate. Had it succeeded, it would have bypassed the media and gone directly to supporters. And then word of mouth, which is still the best way to disseminate a message, would have taken over.

I was really hoping that when the message came I would be on a crowded part of Broadway, or in the Village, or somewhere surrounded by tons of people. Instead, I was next to my building, on a patch of grass, walking Joseph. I was the only one on the street.

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scleroplex says:

you'll still remember it :-)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

litherland says:

Of course, I'll always remember it — but I was interested in the physical phenomenon of being in a large city, surrounded by people all getting the same text message at the same time. It would have been historically unprecedented. And a very interesting experience to be part of.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

scleroplex says:

the obama campaign has turned into a damp squib.
i won't be surprised if he loses the election.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

litherland says:

I'm not sure what "damp squib" means.

You don't like Biden?

Would have been more dynamic (and truly change-ful) with Tim Kaine, for sure. But with the sudden surprise of the Georgia-Russia conflict, seemingly manufactured remotely rather than organic and spontaneously arising from its context, Biden was the best choice imho.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Jorn Ake says:

I think you are right. If Obama was running for President of NYC or NPR, then yes, Tim Kaine (we know him from VA, nice guy, great family, he'll go far even w/o being VP, maybe Pres later.) But this is for the whole Sheboygan, so Biden is a good pick. Experience + toughness. The Obamites will need to attack McCainisms directly, and Biden is just the guy for it. And his doubts about Obama as expressed during the candidacy will give him the perfect persuasive position to persuade the unpersuaded.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

scleroplex says:

i am not alone in feeling this way.

paul krugman writes -

"Over the past month or so many Democrats have had the sick feeling that once again their candidate brought a knife to a gunfight.

Barack Obama’s campaign, inexplicably, was unprepared for the inevitable Republican attack on the candidate’s character. By the middle of last week, Mr. Obama’s once formidable lead, both in national polls and in electoral college projections based on state-level polls, had virtually evaporated.

Mr. Obama’s waning advantage brought back bad memories of the 2004 campaign, whose key lesson was that there are no limits to the form G.O.P. character attacks can take."

and from an older column -

"No, the problem isn’t lack of specifics — it’s lack of passion. When it comes to the economy, Mr. Obama’s campaign seems oddly lethargic.

Worse yet, he seemed to go out of his way to avoid scoring political points. “Back in the 1990s,” he declared, “your incomes grew by $6,000, and over the last several years, they’ve actually fallen by nearly $1,000.”

Um, not quite: real median household income didn’t rise $6,000 during “the 1990s,” it did so during the Clinton years, after falling under the first Bush administration.

Income hasn’t fallen $1,000 in “recent years,” it’s fallen under George Bush, with all of the decline taking place before 2005."

people may claim bias on a columnist's part, but it is remarkably close to my impression too.

undeniably the impression left is spinelessness :-(
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

litherland says:

Well, I disagree. I'm very familiar with Krugman's take on Obama and I have never agreed with it.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Jorn Ake says:

So Krugman is saying that Obama is losing? The election is tomorrow then? I think this is classic Democrat hand-wringing. I am not going to say that Democrats aren't completely capable of losing this thing, but I am also not going to say that McCain is capable of winning it. He is still behind in the polls - polls whose formulas do not take into consideration first time voters (registration of new voters is at an all-time record level) and demographic changes due to population growth (the west is the new south), both of which benefit Obama. Caution is good, but let's get past the convention, shall we?
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

litherland says:

… polls whose formulæ do not take into consideration those who don't have landlines …
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Jorn Ake says:

Cellphonistas for Obama!

That's a pretty natty cell phone there btw Litherland.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Alki1 says:

It ain't over till it's over.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

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