A pitbull *without* lipstick
Thanks to Matt for flagging up this article in the LA Times about the re-emergence - or rather: the re-emergence of the press interest in - Joe Biden, following him on the stump in Ohio last week:
“His mission is to win over working-class white voters resistant to an Obama candidacy, whether because of race, experience or the mistaken belief that he is a Muslim.
If Obama is seen as an aloof egghead, Biden is the guy from Scranton who takes the train to work, uses words like “helluva” and “malarkey,” and endlessly quotes his father - “Champ, when you fall down, geeet up!”…
For a regular guy, Biden is very well-tailored… Even as one of the poorest members of Congress, he makes more money than most of the people who took off work, if they have work, to hear him.
Yet many called him a “roll-up-your-sleeves kind of guy,” the son of working-class Catholics who understands that sometimes you don’t know how much it costs to fill up the gas tank because you never have enough money to fill it. His campaigning style recalls Bill Clinton’s; he listens, and people feel permission to use the few seconds they have to talk about their shrinking Social Security checks, their stolen pensions, even their divorces.”
And here he was at one of his stops in Ohio:
Don’t worry. Joe. We are imagining. All too clearly.
Tags: barack obama, Joe Biden, ohio