Running Mate

Senator Barack Obama announced his choice of running mate on the steps of the Illinois State Capitol, where President Lincoln announced he would run for president almost one hundred and fifty years ago. What hubris! To imply to prospective voters that they should think of you in terms of Lincoln? What man, or woman, would suggest that you might look to him, or her, for the seemingly inexhaustible reserves that Lincoln subsequently demonstrated? Who was the running mate, whom he was announcing as his partner, and whom he had invited to this hallowed place?
I know nothing of Senator Biden, other than what the media have made known, but that may be enough. He is a demonstrated heavy-weight when it comes to doing business in the Senate, and he is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He is Catholic, from a north-eastern state, and he is from a working-class background. So there we have it. Senator Obama counts on him for protection from those who would suggest he is light on Washington politics,foreign affairs, and the fisticuffs of international relations. He also, I suspect, expects that he will bring into his camp that Democratic electorate of the North-East, whom Senator Clinton demonstrated to be hers.
United States law requires that any candidate for President or Vice-president should previously have been legally vetted. Senator Obama did not vet Senator Clinton. Why? Why would he not have, at the very least, done that, even if he had no intention of choosing her?
I suspect this election may be decided by the women voting, and I think they may decide that they got the short end of the stick.