The media links Bidden’s son with MBNA and the vote in 2005, his son worked as an Internet banking consultant for MBNA.

The American consumer and the credit card industry are inexplicitly connected. The media grossly misrepresented the changes and affects of bankruptcy reform.

Bankruptcy still exist as it did prior to the changes in 2005 for the below average income. They can file Chapter 7 just as before. Guess who added that to the Bill? When a democrat votes with the other side it is because they are influencing the bill, rather than covering their ears and refusing to make it happen. We needed bankruptcy reform and the democrats that voted for it incorporated items that protected the lowest income earners and that would have been Bidden.

He’s not seen as a champion of the working class, though that’s being touted as a theme.

Regardless of whether Bidden was on the ticket or not, he is the democratic go to for global political issues, I would also like to point out that president Clinton relied on him in such capacity. Obama’s position are derived from Bidden’s as are Clintons.

Read his book… IBSN 1400065364…then say Oh I did not know!

Half the people that did not like the selection of VP do not even really no anything about him…oh you can bet on that, this is still America isn’t it?

Here in an environment where people are facing financial situations where going to a pub would be out of the question, their primary concerns and motivations would tend to be different. This is a struggling working class neighborhood where the concerns and the day to day decisions are much different than those in power. These are the people that don’t have a voice, or at least didn’t have much of a voice, not that I can do much but? I listen and when I can I help, it’s impossible to not have this have an impact on me.

Take this week as an example, part of my focus off blog was helping a parent who did not have dental insurance get hooked up with a non-profit dental clinic because one of their children was in pain and they did not have the money to go to a regular dentist. Another person faced having their electricity shut off, two others had no food in their home. Another had their phone shut off and needed a way to contact a relative long distance. School starts here tomorrow, a good number of these kids don’t have what they need to start the school year. Donations are down at the social service organizations and through the food bank.

My own family has been hard hit by the economy, my son is out of work, my ex-husband is out of work, I’ve been interviewing since it’s clear that I need to re-enter the “real workforce”. Fact or Fiction, some of these people felt a connection to Clinton that they don’t feel from Obama or Biden. Then there is the other issue that many don’t touch on. It was more than Hillary for some, she was a symbol of what they have struggled with and they are tired of seeing women get screwed over.

Fact or Fiction, they view Obama as more of an elitist than they do McCain or Clinton.

And as we both know? Perception is everything…

I’m not sure if the VP choice has been made out to be more than it usually is made out to be, but for sure the media loves to harp on it – my sense was that it’s always this way re: harping on it at this point – because what else is there to harp on – but that in the end, the voters show time and again that the VP doesn’t matter.

Could just be us junkies too though – we care – or I do – and I’m guessing by your comments that you do too.

That would be very consistent with blogging – I am pretty sure that I haven’t read any bloggers who didn’t care about the pick much. Darn bloggers.

I think it’s strange that no one so far that I’ve talked with has been happy that it’s Biden, I think in the past the VP was more of a bow on the package type thing, for both Obama and McCain it’s become more than that. Which I think directly relates to the choices we have minus VP’s. Many appeared to have been waiting for some type of signal from the VP pick.

Some Clinton supporters, naively perhaps, felt that Obama would demonstrate the worth of their candidate by selecting her as VP. A great number of political pundits stated that Clinton would make it easier for Obama to win. So to my way of thinking, it’s not surprising that Biden has not been received with that much enthusiasm, especially working class neighborhoods.