As Obama has decided on Joe Biden for his Vice Presidential candidate, the pundits have begun to spin away. Lets face it, Obama's message for hope and change are not being realized with this choice of Joe Biden. Biden has foreign policy experience, which presumably Obama feels will offset his weaknesses on that front. However, as the Obama campaign has somewhat painted themselves into a corner with the criticisms of McCain being a "Washington Insider." Joe Biden has more Washington experience than John McCain does and is only a few years younger, making any attack on McCain's age or experience a moot point. While the cable news channels are all covering this predictably, the spin being given by Democratic operatives is incredible. For all of the criticisms Biden has made of Obama, they can only claim they were taken out of context. Certain statements, while gaffes, can be considered as that, even if they are borderline racist:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Believe me, they would be classified as so if Biden had a little R next to his name, rather than a D...Other statements made by Biden about Obama underscore some of the major problems with this choice. In the beginning of this primary season, Biden criticized Obama's experience.

"I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

Biden then reaffirmed that statement to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week in August of 2007:

Stephanopoulos: "You were asked is he ready. You said 'I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Sen. Biden: "I think that I stand by the statement."

I haven't seen the new McCain commerical echoing these things, but the fact remains that they were things said and can potentially hurt Obama. The Democrats already have material ready for a possible Romney nomination, and have actually put out some attacks pre-emptively, which shows to me that they are worried Romney's economic experience will trounce that of Biden. The main issue I have however, as the title of this post implies, is that all the Democrats are coming out saying how wonderful Biden is, and that these quotes don't matter. Furthermore, the most ludicrous thing I heard was from a gal representing the Young Democrats. When asked how the choice affects the mantra of change, she had the balls to say that it doesn't matter because Biden made good decisions over his legislative career while McCain constantly made bad ones. Are you freaking kidding me? Just admit that you don't care about change, but the political party you represent. Here's how she *should* have responded to that question:

While Barack Obama represents change, the entire political platform encompasses more than just the issue of change. Senator Biden brings a vast amount of experience fighting for the issues that Barack Obama cares for and will complement him extremely well throughout an Obama administration.

It doesn't change the fact that the answer is all BS and fluff, but at least it has some semblance of intelligence in it. Speaking of intelligence, during his failed run for Preisdent in 1988, Biden was asked about his time at law school and the type of grades he received, to which he responded with the classic line:

"I think I have a much higher IQ than you do."

Joe, I'd be willing to be a very large some of money that you don't...