One was Sen. Bob Casey, whose best, and truest, line was about John McCain being more of a sidekick than a maverick. Given the 95% agreement rate between Bush and McCain, that’s a message Democrats would do well to emphasize over the next couple days, and the next couple months.
The other native voice was from Change to Win Chair Anna Burger, who came from a union household in Levittown, Pennsylvania – that’s our neck of the woods, and also a stone’s throw from my old stomping grounds in Langhorne. Those connections, along with a great pro-labor message, make her today’s featured DNC video:
Michelle Obama had the prime spot and gave a speech worthy of it, but there were other highlights. To read more about the convention so far, check out CtW Connect, reporting from Denver all week long.
Barack Obama has chosen his running mate. The news leaked out this morning as I was finishing my workweek. The AP broke the story by 1 a.m., and two hours later I got my text.
So, despite the fact the Obama campaign’s text alert plan got scooped by the news media, it was good to hear Sen. Joe Biden was the choice. Originally hailing from Scranton, PA, Biden is a man who connects to working class issues by birth, and has proven his allegiance to everyday Americans throughout his entire adult life as one of the Senate’s most knowledgeable and sensible leaders.
The McCain campaign, predictably, fired off a negative ad almost as soon as the news broke. But the reality is that Biden makes a strong campaign even stronger. Not in the arena of fear and smear politics, but in the real world, where we need more than flimsy slogans and attack ads to solve our nation’s problems.
So as the 2008 presidential race enters the home stretch, Barack Obama is betting on Joe Biden to boost his chances of bringing about change in our country. I’d say it’s a good bet.
