When Joe Biden was first asked by then-Democratic presidential nominee to be his running mate, Biden said no! In a few short months later, Biden's name was announced as the VP candidate.
CNN) - It was an oft-repeated anecdote on the 2008 campaign trail: then-Sen. Joe Biden accepted the request to be the No. 2 on the Democratic presidential ticket at a Delaware dentist office as his wife was undergoing a root canal.
Less discussed however was how Biden first said no to the post when then-Sen. Obama raised the subject months before the final announcement was made.
"I initially said no, that I wasn't interested," Biden told a Pennsylvania crowd Monday night at the annual Allegheny County Democratic Committee dinner. "He asked me to think about it."
Biden said he finally accepted the job "a couple months later" not in a dentist office but in a hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The vice president said he asked the then-Democratic presidential nominee, "Are you really committed to changing the course of this county?"
"He reached out, shook my hand, and said 'I am,'" Biden said. Link
Well, with an article like this - out comes the venomous opposing views from the anti-Obamans! Yes, these are your teabagging, death panel, wanting Obama to fail, Jesus Loves You unless you're gay, Neo-Conservatives.
Change the course of this country.............too bad voters didn't realize that change meant the bankrupting of America and that Obama was going to be the WORST president ever.
Odumbo could have picked a monkey for vice president and all of you cool aid sippers would have still voted for him. For the most part, most of the people voting for Odumbo didnt even know Biden was on the ticket. What a joke.
Biden's a dufus, just like his boss. Yes indeed Oblunder is changing our once powerful country into just another euro country lookalike.
I am so tickled pick with all of these comments from the Right!
They rant and sneer about our current President and will take every opportunity to pounce on his leadership and decisions. How quickly they forget.
This is the same group of people who WANTS Senator McCain's choice of Pitbull with Lipstick - whose IQ is no greater than a tube of lipstick!
Calling her a pitbull is insulting to canines everywhere!
Her one qualification that attracted these Far-Right Neo-cons: Hey, vote for Palin, She's a Christian!
And what is so pathetic, these same people will vote for her again in 2012 - for PRESIDENT!
Neo-cons have every right to display negative opinions on President Obama's leadership and harshly criticize him on our nation's healthcare, the 2 wars, our economic crisis, unemployment rate, etc.
But what is so funny and equally disturbing is that, these same Rightwing Nutjobs would actually think that their Sarah Palin is able to do a better job in a Presidential role and that she is able fix the complexity of our nation's crisis.
No wonder the GOP is shrinking - in numbers and in intellect!
