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Biden pick shows lack of confidence
USS Neverdock — So much for "change" eh? "DENVER – The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions. He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate — the ultimate insider — rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of ...

Biden!
Obsidian Wings — ... The first criticism — echoed already by the great visionary Ron Fournier — is that Obama’s pick shows a lack of “self-confidence.” Another way of looking at it is that Obama had the guts to endure these types of criticisms to put someone on the ticket who would be a real governing asset. ...

Ron Fournier, Wanker
Newshoggers.com — ... The AP's the acting Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier writes today that Obama chossing Biden as his running mate shows that Obama suffers from a "lack of confidence" and that "Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions." ...

Ron Fournier's ASS Press
Newshoggers.com — ... By Ron Beasley I don't need to quote Republican hack Ron Fournier's AP hit piece - the title says it all: Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence No it doesn't show a "lack of confidence" it shows Obama may recognize a potential weakness and a willingness to correct it.  After almost eight years of ego driven - I can do no wrong - supernaturally inspired - gut feeling "leadership" having a president who realizes he may have a weakness or two is refreshing. ...

Courtin'
Talking Points Memo — Ron Fournier riding hard on the tire swing.

Fournier is at it again
Political Animal — FOURNIER IS AT IT AGAIN.... The latest piece from Ron Fournier, the AP's Washington bureau chief and the man responsible for directing the wire service's coverage of the presidential campaign, on Joe Biden joining the Democratic ticket, is ...

Fox News Really Is Fair and Balanced
If I Ran the Zoo — ... Today, AP's resident douchebag Ron Fournier has a recycled McCain press release piece titled Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence. The title is obviously one of those wingnut Mad Libs type deals, with the template "Analysis: _____ pick shows lack of _______" ready to fill in as soon as Obama gave them a name (Bayh/principle, Hillary/cojones, Gore/sanity, etc.). ...

The Obama Rorshach decoded
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... candidacy as a coming of the Messiah; as "the New Testament" in modern times. Some simply see a slick marketing campaign designed around an inexperienced, inarticulate, cookie-cutter Chicago-machine politician. Views around the country and around the world vary. However, it has become increasingly clear in recent weeks, days, and hours what it is that Obama himself views his hope/change/etc. candidacy as: A means to an end. From this Yahoo! news report: A senior Obama adviser, speaking on ...

Why Joe Biden is Vital and the Right Choice
The Washington Note — ... Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier has a tough critique out on Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate. ...

Obama's Lack of Confidence Shines Through
Gateway Pundit — Dan Riehl asks, "Did Barack Obama just lose the election?" Tom Maguire says, "It looks like the Obama Campaign just laid an egg." But, surprisingly, Ron Fournier from the AP may have beat them both in hs criticism of The One: Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence... The candidate of change went with the status quo. Ouch! STACLU has reaction from the blogs.

Steve Clemons: Why Joe Biden is Vital and the Right Choice
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier has a tough critique out on Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate. ...

Biden time
The Reaction — ... As for the GOP's new waterboy, AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's concern trolling, which seems to have a lot of traction in the news cycle, I'll let ...

Ron Fournier: If Obama were confident, he would have picked a ficus tree
Majikthise — Because nothing says confidence like picking a VP who adds nothing to your ticket. A photosynthesizing running mate would have been a decisive break from the status quo, not to mention a source of fresh air. By picking a ficus tree, Obama would have signaled his readiness to win the entire election by himself. Of course, such a bold selection by Obama would have telegraphed arrogance to many observers, especially Ron Fournier. ...

Is Team McCain Scared of Lunch Bucket Joe?
Taylor Marsh — ... Well, that didn’t take long. The same day the O-Biden ticket is rolled out, the AP’s Michael Fournier does his first bit of flaking for his friends. Under the facade of "analysis," without revealing long held biases, Fournier let rip today on the Democratic ticket. ...

Karl Rove’s Little Hot Soup Nazi
Firedoglake — ... In many ways it looks like it was a good thing that Hot Soup Hack Ron Fournier didn't accept the job offer from the McCain campaign. Why buy the cow when the milk is free? Fournier, this morning: ...

Joint New York Times/Atlantic Monthly Death/Washington Post/AP Spiral Watch
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence: In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.... The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack... ...

Epithets
The Reality-Based Community — ... ." Here, as often in Homer, the epithets are essential to the understanding of the character's actions . Update A reader points me to ...

ACTION: Tell AP To Remove Ron Fournier From the Presidential Beat
Firedoglake — ... Fournier say in a new AP piece that the Biden choice demonstrates that Obama "lacks confidence," that Biden is the "ultimate insider," and that it threatens to undermine Obama's message of "change." It could've come straight off the fax machine of the McCain press shop, with no need for editing (indeed, ...

Netroots Rally Behind Obama-Biden and Go After Fournier
The Washington Note — ... about AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's edgy attack on the Obama-Biden ticket. I'm not going to add more at this point from my end. ...

What Sully Said
Comments from Left Field — ... As Kathy previously noted, new Political Animal head honcho Steve Benen has penned the ultimate smackdown of Ron “keep up the fight” Fournier’s bullshit op-ed-masquerading-as-analysis re: the newly announced Obama/Biden ticket (sample dingleberry of wisdom: Biden “talks too much”–yep, that’s why they pay Ron the big bucks, folks), both of which y’all should check out (assuming you haven’t yet done so). But I want to highlight something that Andrew Sullivan also noticed regarding Fournier and his blatant (if inconsistent) use ...

Getting it over with
The Sideshow — ... the NAACP rather likes him. On some things, he seems to have been moving to the left from less attractive positions over the years. Bob Herbert likes him for bringing the populism. He's very pro-Amtrak and takes the train to work. He's also pretty much as un-monied personally as Senators get. Of anyone Obama was likely to have chosen, I expect Biden was probably the best. Right-wing hack Ron Fournier found a way to spin the Biden announcement as showing a "lack of confidence" on Obama's part. (More about AP crap at MyDD.) I wonder how he'd ...

SATURDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... Filled a Gap, Rather Than Reinforced - kos, Daily Kos [image] Weighing My Options - Jeralyn, TalkLeft [image] An Outside The Comfort Zone Pick - Marc Ambinder [image] Biden is Vital and Right Choice - Steve Clemons, HuffPo [image] Joe-Bama… O-Biden - Taylor Marsh [image] Biden: Smart and Solid - and Adult - A. Sullivan, Daily Dish [image] Biden Signals Foreign Policy Debate - G. Sargent, TPM EC OTHER NEWS SOURCES: Biden Pick Shows Lack of Confidence - Associated Press Obama Picks Biden, Adds Foreign ...

Opinion Journalism
TalkLeft — I hate to rain on the parade, but when MSNBC has as its primary news anchor the most biased and ridiculous person in journalism, it ill behooves Left blogs, who fawn all over Olbermann, to complain when Ron Fournier, does what he always does, editorialize the news. ESPECIALLY when he does it in piece labelled as an opinion piece. As Bob Somerby ably argues, Barack Obama is the Media's choice for this election, and thanks for that. I am happy about it. Indeed, I COUNTED ON IT when I supported him for the nomination. To play the victim now with ...

Obama-Biden -- Just What Most Republicans Would Have Picked
Rhymes With Right — ... and you are left wondering if these folks will be able to handle a 3:00 AM overflowing toilet in the West Wing, much less a 3:00 AM phone call regarding an international crisis. And that is part of why they picked Biden -- the ultimate insider and "non-hope and non-change" candidate. Obama recognized he needed a grown-up on the ticket , and so went for one who merely highlights all of his weaknesses even as ...

Links for 2008-08-23 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... followed by real estate ($1,297,690). Pro-Israel groups are the 8th biggest contributing industry. Digesting an Obama-Biden Ticket - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online A Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him — "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications — he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business." Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence - Yahoo! News In picking Sen. Joe Biden ...

Ask The Iraqis
Classical Values — Ask The Iraqis In a posted opinion piece "Biden pick shows lack of confidence" a pundit suggests that Biden brings a lot to the table in terms of national security credibility. Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since become a vocal critic of the conflict. He won praise for a plan for peace in Iraq that would divide the country along ethnic lines. The Iraqis seem to have a ...

links for 2008-08-24
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Power Line: Happiness is a thing called Joe Happiness abounds in the GOP and in the Clinton Cabal (tags: joe_biden) Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence - Yahoo! News In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his ...

worst vice presidential pick ever
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... of joe biden as obama's veep makes us seriously not care one way or the other now if the democratic senator from illinois wins or not. obama, now, is rather like bill clinton has been to us: when everybody gangs up on him, we are prone to defend and support him. but when there's no one treating him unfairly and he starts making decisions, we wonder what we saw in him in the first place. there has been much to-do in blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase, about ron fournier's opinion piece in the asspress calling obama out for this selection. ...

8/25: Reactions To Biden
Blogometer — ... about joining the AZ senator's presidential campaign in October 2006. This past weekend, Fournier further angered the netroots by writing an AP "analysis" piece arguing that Obama's decision to choose Joe Biden as his running mate "shows [a] lack of confidence": "The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness -- inexperience in office and on foreign policy -- rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions." Unsurprisingly, the ...

Hey! Don't come around here no more
SteveAudio — ... Ron Fournier is The Thing That Wouldn't Die. Just last Saturday, as newly-crowned AP Washington Bureau Chief, he ran this fair and balanced hatchet job on Obama VP candidate Joe Biden: ...