Psychologically, What Do You Think Made Obama Choose Joe Biden? [Update]
By SusanUnPC on August 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM in Barack Obama, Joe Biden
UPDATE: Something else just occurred to me. In the primaries in which Biden competed, he got — what — typically 1 to 2% of the vote?
Facts are stubborn things. In anyone’s book, Biden’s failures in the primaries to win over voters are empirical evidence that Joe Biden is NOT capable of adding voters to the Obama/Biden ticket. He campaigned and campaigned and campaigned, and yet what did he EVER have to show for it? Biden never — not once — took off. How in the world does Obama think that Biden will succeed with voters any better than he did in the primaries? Again: Why pick someone like Biden when you can pick someone like Hillary who is a PROVEN MAGNET for large voter turnout? It makes no sense. But, then, I don’t believe Barack Obama is using his brain’s center of reasoning. His unresolved psychological issues cast a giant shadow of his capacity for reasoned calculation of what is most beneficial strategically.
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I am not convinced that Biden’s exceptional knowledge of foreign policy will be an asset since that is a difficult attribute to convey during a campaign rally. Biden will NOT get a chance to demonstrate his knowledge in any of the typical campaign venues, so the average voter will never get to know about his background directly.
Aside from a few C-Span wonks, most Americans haven’t a clue about Biden’s experience on the Senate’s Foreign Policy and Judiciary committees.
Furthermore, to fully appreciate the depth of Biden’s knowledge, Americans would themselves have to know quite a bit about foreign policy, and — let’s face it — most Americans are sadly ignorant. They’ll be incapable of appreciating Biden’s grasp of world affairs.
Then there’s Biden’s state. Delaware has 3 electoral votes. And they always go to the Democrats. So Biden brings no electoral might to the ticket.
What’s left, then, that made Obama gravitate to Biden?
Is Barack Obama still seeking a father?
Is he still aching for the father he never had?
Does he yearn, like a little boy, for that relationship that remains alien to him?
We know he didn’t want another mother. We know he obviously has a strained relationship with his grandmother.
Psychologically, it would have been impossible for him to pick Hillary, even though she was the utterly logical choice.
Not only does Hillary have the requisite experience, she continues to demonstrate in polling that she is a formidable opponent to John McCain. Far more so than ANY of the men that Obama was considering.
This is the problem with having a candidate who, besides a lack of experience, has serious unresolved psychological issues.
Obama has proven incapable of being a John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was mature enough, seasoned enough, and astute enough to get beyond his personal animus towards Lyndon Johnson, and he was able to make the politically essential choice.
Kennedy was not so burdened by psychological issues that he could not make the correct political judgment.
And he knew that carrying TEXAS was essential to his victory. He saw the number of electoral votes that Lyndon Johnson would bring him, and calculated wisely.
However, Obama is not mature, not seasoned, not astute, and remains beset by psychological needs that get in the way of his better judgment.
Obama was incapable of seeing Hillary’s assets in terms of electoral votes. He didn’t factor in her victories in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and other key electoral states. (And he probably resents her victories – especially Pennsylvania since he poured a fortune in campaign money into the state, and still couldn’t defeat her.)
For Obama, Hillary’s strengths are repellant. He cannot bear to have another strong woman in his life. He has enough of those already.
by Ronald Scott
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