Bush: America Has No Problems.

[A Black Falcon]

Out by 2011 isn't exactly something that will help McCain, ASM... people have decided that the Iraq War was a mistake, and that opinion has lasted through much of this year despite a lessening in the violence there. John McCain isn't winning on the Iraq issue... he keeps trying to push his "I supported the surge, which worked" line, but for many people, all that does is remind them of the fact behind that: He supported the war in the first place.

The war in Georgia does seem to be helping McCain a bit because overall Republicans win foreign policy (which is why Obama might have chosen Biden?), for whatever idiotic reason (considering how many massive foreign policy messes the Republicans have gotten us into, why people think of them as better at it really makes no sense...), as Iraq did for Bush in 2004 before most of the American people turned against it, but no... I definitely think that the more Iraq or the economy are an issue, the better Obama does; the more generic foreign policy or Republican wedge issues (deceptive lies about tax cuts, abortion/gay marriage, etc) matter, the better McCain does. Right now it's close, far closer than it should be... hopefully America will wake up and realize that McCain would be far more of a Bush 3rd term than most anyone in this country wants, but we'll see.

Oh, and if it really is Biden, Obama clearly thought that he really needed to narrow that foreign policy gap. Biden is/was almost certainly the #1 person in the Democratic VP running on the foreign policy issue.

The problem with Biden is that he's well known for saying really stupid things sometimes, which could be an issue, but they obviously just think that the positive is more than the negative...