Thoughts on Biden's Acceptance Speech

Joe Biden truly grows on me more and more every day. And, every day, I think that he was the best choice for VP. On Wednesday evening, I was able to get credentials to watch the speeches in the Pepsi Center. After being shuddled around an amusement park in a bus, and then going through massive security (as expected), we arrived just as Bill Clinton was addressing the convention. Unfortunately for us, there is a policy to not permit people to enter or leave the seating areas during speeches, so we had to stand at the edge of the entrance to watch the big screen of Bill Clinton speaking.

Once we found seats, we ended up sitting behind the stage area and watching the screen. Although these were by no means even decent seats, it was just wonderful to be in the Pepsi Center because of all of the energy around us. I really enjoyed John Kerry's speech to the convention, especially his section addressing the policies of Senator McCain and CandidateMcCain. I loved his comment about permitting McCain to debate Obama only after Senator McCain and Candidate McCain had finished debating himself. After the Bush campaign hounded Kerry for being a "flip-flop" for agreeing to the Authorization For Use of Military Force, while voting against the $44 billion, I think that Kerry was definitely the man to stick it to McCain with that c0mment.

The introductions for Biden's speech almost brought me to tears. Hopefully the Hillary supporters will realize that he does have their best interests in mind--as he wrote the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Interestingly enough, the first man prosecuted under the VAWA was taking a woman across state lines from WV to KY. Moreover, his son's speech really portrayed Joe Biden as the family man that he is. I especially enjoyed the points during his speech where the camera was on his mother and you could see her mouth "that's right" or "yes I did," as he described the things she told him when kids bullied him during his school years.

I'm interested to see how Hillary supporters fall in line after the convention. I feel that McCain's selection of Sarah Palin was obviously intended to try to sway Hillary supporters from the Democrats. However, any woman in her right mind that supported Hillary for her advocacy on women's rights will not support McCain-Palin.

McCain is guilty of something the Republicans have slammed democrats such as Bill Clinton and John Edwards for--when his first wife was in an accident and became disabled and gained weight, he started having an affair with his second wife and was living with the second wife before the divorce to his first wife was completed. Moreover, Palin is extremely pro-life and supports the same economic policies of Bush-Cheney. Any Hillary supporter that truly supported her issues could not rationally side with McCain-Palin because their stance differs so greatly from Clinton's.

Furthermore, both Obama and Biden support women's issues. As previously mentioned, Biden authored the VAWA, while Obama is a loving husband and a father to two girls. Even if Obama was not open-minded and committed to equality before the birth of his daughters, I think that the saying has proven true with him: "the easiest way to make a man a feminist is to have him become a father to a daughter."