The selection of Joe Biden says a lot about BHO's good sense. Clearly he has developed -- learning the hard way -- a willingness to make the hard choices, as any potential President must. To pick Joe Biden, he had to ignore the following "conventional wisdom":

1.that a VP running mate should help the candidate carry a state that he needs

2.that he needs Hillary in order to win.

3.That his VP cabdidate should "do no harm."

Joe Biden adds not one electoral vote to BHO's total.

Joe Biden is not Hillary.

Joe Biden has said a lot of things that will definitely embarrass BHO on the campaign trail -- not the least of which things is posted at this very website as a video blog.

BUT..... Joe Biden does help BHO to govern, were he to win. Biden is an accomplished Washington veteran. He connects to working-class voters. He has substantial foreign policy credentials.

To get to the pick of Joe Biden, BHO had to say that he is willing to take his chance that he might not win with a running mate who adds so little, election-wise, to the ticket. He had to say that he prefers to win the right way, or not at all. He had to say that he was willing to chance the displeasure of the Clintons -- and to do so because he cannot, CANNOT, govern the nation if he owes, or is perceived as owing, his election to Bill and Hillary and their commanding presence.

Frankly, I think much better of BHO today, for having made this choice, than I did before.

I still disagree completely with BHO's isues and I cannot abide the prospect of the country's hate-America left-roots being inside in the power. Yet if BHO could make the choice of Joe Biden, who is in NO way a left-root, I see no reason why he could not gofvern on his own authority, with the left-roots left waiting, were he to win. After all, Ronald Reagan was a master at giving our right-roots tons of lip service: and not much more.

Now it's up to Big Mac to make a BIG decision. I KNOW that he will do it and do it the RIGHT way.