Vice President

Obama has made the collosally unimaginative choice of Joe Biden, the Delaware Senator who cannot keep his mouth shut. Biden has all the negatives of John McCain plus vanity and foolishness. Indiana Senator Evan Bayh should have been selected. Bayh was governor of Indiana, so he actually has EXECUTIVE experience which the other principals are lacking: Obama, McCain (a little as a Navy officer), Biden and Hillary Clinton. Bayh has foreign policy experience from his work in the Senate. Plus Bayh is modest and will remain in the background until he is called upon to assume the office of president, which along with breaking tie votes in the Senate are the sole the responsibilities of the vice president. Biden was chosen in part to be Obam's attack dog with McCain as the victim. McCain has been given a huge opportunity. Biden cannot attack McCain on age, tenure or having voted for the war in Iraq. Biden is a very conventional choice who adds little and subtracts much. He is no agent of change. McCain can make a bold choice: Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She satisfies both the gender and race constituencies. Her baggage is the many foreign policy failures of President George Walker Bush but she could draw many of Hillary's disaffected supporters. Rice could be the wild card who makes the election really interesting.