Obama selects Joe Biden

[Sarcasmo]

I think I might need help coming back from the camp of people who see this as a bad choice. Obama's whole campaign has been about the need to get away from politics as usual and make some changes, and he selects a running mate that's just as establishment as they come, seeing as Biden's been in politics longer than many of us have been alive. Plus, I can't help but see a little insecurity in Obama in picking someone who seems to be everything he's not, namely an international relations and foreign policy guru. It just seems like it highlights, instead of offsets, his weaknesses. To top it all off, Obama's campaign, until a few weeks ago, was surprisingly positive and free of the nastiness that McCain was all too willing to indulge in. Now he's brought in someone who's no stranger to negative attack ads, and who's more than willing to go toe to toe in the mud. Call me cynical, but it also seems to me that the choice of a politically institutionalized white male is a good damned way for the Democratic establishment to keep Obama from trying to stir the shit TOO much. I don't know. I need help understanding this one.