Guido laughed this morning, Obama has chosen the man who admired Neil Kinnock’s oratory so much he copied Kinnock’s speech – word for word. This will be Biden’s second try for the White House, the first ended badly in 1988 when he was caught lifting lines from Kinnock’s speech. Obama broke his promise to supporters who registered for text messages that they would “Be the First to Know” who was his VP pick. CNN reported it was Biden late last night. Hesitant Obama campaign managers decided they had to send the $3 million dollar text message and sent it at 3 a.m. EST, waking a lot of East Coast liberals from their dreams.
Biden dropped out of the 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination after a poor finish in the Iowa caucuses, but not before saying “I am not running for vice president, I would not accept it if anyone offered it to me. The fact of the matter is I’d rather stay as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee than be vice president.” That quote will not hurt as much as other quotes McCain’s campaign will be replaying extensively – Biden gave a hard-hitting TV interview during his abortive 2008 run where he laid into Obama as too inexperienced to be President.
UPDATE : This just in from McCain ’08:
