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Originally Posted by cacophony

i would suggest you look into biden's history and voting record before you write him off as a washington insider or tool of the establishment. the man has had a long and extremely honorable career.

seems like a silly set of priorities to throw the baby out with the bathwater if all you're interested in is the "zero experience = change" concept. a long career doesn't automatically make someone incapable of forging changing and positive policies.

Don't assume that I haven't looked into his career. I take into consideration that his biggest financial backer his entire career has been MBNA, that over his 35 years in office, has received $214,000 in campaign contributions from them, and was the key architect of what Sen. Chris Dodd called "one of the worst bills ever," the bankruptcy law which shifted the risk for engaging in predatory lending practices from predatory lenders to the borrowers, which has had a huge impact in our current housing foreclosure crisis. He's an architect of another incredibly important piece of legislation; the Anti-Drug Abuse law of 1986, which included mandatory minimum sentencing that can be credited with a world record prison population. While I don't hold his vote authorizing the Iraq war against him, he's voted for every single funding bill that Bush/Cheney has thrown his way. Not to mention his vote to reauthorize the PATRIOT act after it was due to expire. I probably should have brought all this up in my original post, but it was late and I was tired. I'm just a little concerned that after Obama got to where he is on the perception that he wasn't another cog in the machine, he chooses a running mate that's as entrenched as they come in Washington.