Is Choice of Biden For VP A Way To Win The Jewish Vote?

So, why did Obama pick Biden?
Remember this from June 2007?

MR. BLITZER: What about that, Senator Biden? You're the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. If you got word from the U.S. intelligence community that Ahmadinejad and his government were on the verge of having a nuclear bomb capable of hitting targets in the region on missiles, what would you do?

SEN. BIDEN: Well, first of all, I would do away with the policy of regime change. What we're saying to everybody in Iran is, "Look, by the way, give up the one thing that keeps us from attacking you, and after that we're going to attack you. We're going to take you down." It's a bizarre notion, number one.

Number two, understand how weak Iran is. They are not a year away or two years away. They're a decade away from being able to weaponize exactly what the question was, if they put a nuclear weapon on top of a missile that can strike. They're far away from that.

Number three, in fact, we're going to -- we have to understand how weak that government is. They import almost all of their refined oil. By 2014, they're going to be importing their crude oil. There's much better ways, if we had to get to the point of being real sanctions, of doing economic sanctions on them forcefully that way. But at the end of the day, if they posed the missile, stuck it on a pad, I'd take it out.

Hmmm, so maybe the reason Obama picked Biden is in order to win the Jewish vote!

But what this is more likely to do is--

• Remind people of Obama's promise to do whatever it takes to talk to Iran.
• Remind people of Hillary Clinton:

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Hey, Clinton would attack Iran only for launching an attack on Israel; Biden would attack them for just putting the missile on the pad!

[Hat tip: Abe Greenwald]

Crossposted on Soccer Dad

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