Obama picks "ultimate insider".[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite Barack Obama's pledge for "change," his pick for vice-presidential running mate running mate n. 1. The candidate or nominee for the lesser of two closely associated political offices. 2. A companion. 3. A horse used to set the pace in a race for another horse. , Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.), is the clearest signal yet that an Obama presidency would be little more than old wine in new bottles. Like George W. Bush, Obama has been criticized for his lack of experience in national and international affairs Noun 1. international affairs - affairs between nations; "you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television" world affairs affairs - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" . And like President Bush, Obama has tapped for veep a man with all the right establishment credentials and connections, a man Ron Fournier of the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. called "the ultimate insider." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Fournier, commenting on the Biden pick, "a senior Obama adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said his boss has expressed impatience with what he calls a 'reverence' inside his campaign for his message of change and new politics. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , Obama is willing--even eager--to risk what got him this far if it gets him to the White House." Senator Joseph Biden is certainly a known quantity. A six-term veteran of the Senate who took office in 1973 at age 30, Biden has an established track record of extreme left-wing positions on a range of important issues. He favors re-instating the so-called "assault weapons ban" and closing the "gun show loophole" whereby firearms may be bought and sold amongst private individuals without a paper trail. Biden opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) covers 19,049,236 acres (79,318 km²) in northeastern Alaska, in the North Slope region. It was originally protected in 1960 by order of Fred A. Seaton, the Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. and is one of the most ardent climate-change alarmists on Capitol Hill. His rating in THE NEW AMERICAN'S "Freedom Index" for this Congress (to date) is a low 19 percent. |
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