Joe Biden Shows why Obama (and America) Still Need Him
http://www.politicususa.com/joe-biden-shows-obama-and-america.htmlJoe Biden Shows why Obama (and America) Still Need Him
By: Black Liberal Boomer
July 13th, 2012
When speaking about Vice President Joe Biden, a lot of people still prefer to discuss his gaffe-prone nature. As a matter of fact, if you Google the Vice President, one of the first choices that comes up is ‘Joe Biden Gaffes’. Part of this is because, in an entertainment-infatuated society such as ours, Biden’s gaffes are entertaining and much easier to digest than anything substantive. The other reason is, well, Biden does have a rather colorful history of screwing up sometimes, especially when he goes off script.
But as most anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention should know, the gap between the entertaining soundbyte and the man himself is rather monumental. President Obama is not a stupid man, nor is he a man afraid of surrounding himself with intelligent people. His cabinet choices, even those whom some might regard as questionable, can hardly be said to be intellectual midgets. I think it’s safe to say the same holds true for Biden. But it’s not just his political intelligence that makes him invaluable to the Obama team, it’s his ability to connect at a gut level that sometimes matches or even surpasses Obama’s gift, and that’s saying something. Biden has that same sort of everyman charm that Obama has never been able to pull off very well but that was Bill Clinton’s specialty. Earlier this week at the NAACP Annual Convention, anyone who watched Biden’s stem-winding speech to the extremely enthusiastic crowd who enjoyed his comments so much that they booed when he said it was time for him to wrap it up (especially if you watched it after seeing the response to Romney at the same event) should have been able to see plainly why Obama keeps this guy on the front lines.
As for these Republicans such as Fox’s beloved Sean Hannity who are suddenly so concerned about the high rate of unemployment among African Americans, emphasizing repeatedly how much higher it is than the national average under Obama’s presidency, I must say that’s what I call entertainment. Aside from the fact that the level of black unemployment has been dropping right along with the national rate, Hannity and all of the other Republicans hopping on this bandwagon are dutifully ignoring any and all pesky facts that dare to stand in the way of their conclusions.
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I mean seriously, folks; if Obama was somehow responsible for the high level of black unemployment, or if he really just didn’t give a damn, do you really think the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and most revered African American civil rights institution, wouldn’t notice?
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They're trying to bamboozle women and hispanics with the same concept- that President Obama is somehow totally responsible for the high levels of unemployment that *they* (but, in reality, everybody) are experiencing- as though they even care about unemployment in the first place, of course. Basically, realizing that they aren't going to get many minorities to vote for them and knowing damned well that they aren't doing anything to help with the unemployment situation in this country, the GOP seems to be trying to drive a wedge between President Obama and the aforementioned groups so that they will stay home from the polls on election day in great enough numbers so as to win the election (and/or make it close enough to steal). I think that I heard O'Reilly on the radio earlier this week crowing about how President Obama's numbers with women are down slightly from 2008 (and, I think, lamenting the fact that they're not down more) 
They are an utterly shameless, shallow, self-serving, and cynical bunch of people, these Republicans are.
