Palin vs. Biden

What I fail to understand is how liberals can cry foul over the Sarah Palin pick, screeching about how it's purely political, how she's only on the ticket to woo Hillary voters, or women, or moose-hunters, or Eskimo-descended champion snowmobile racers or some other group, that it's impossible that she's on the ticket because she apparently appeals to pretty much everyone and because she's done a hell of a job as governor, and would make a damn good chief executive. Meanwhile, they completely ignore the fact that their own VP pick, Joe Biden, is about as pandering a pick as you'll see.

The pick makes absolutely no sense in terms of Obama's whole "Change" message, in less it is viewed as utterly admitting that Obama has virtually zero in the way of foreign policy credentials, and even less in terms of actual executive experience (not that Biden really helps him there), and therefore Biden was brought on to appeal to older white folks, and/or those people who don't feel comfortable with a President whose only experience is running for president. The Biden choice is as pandering a choice as the Palin pick, but at least Sarah Palin has demonstrated, albeit in a short time, that she can handle any real responsibility, something that neither Joe Biden nor Barack Obama can claim.