Barack Obama, on the campaign trail today in Flint, Michigan:
As Dean Barnett noted earlier, it was a bit ungracious of Sen. Obama to make fun of John Kerry (“For it before you were against it?”), for the sake of enlivening his lame assault on Gov. Palin. But why follow that up with a swipe at his own running mate, Joe Biden (“I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself.”)? It was of course Joe Biden who, in 1987, famously tried to make up a past and to recreate and reinvent himself as a version of British Labourite Neil Kinnock. This attempted recreation and reinvention, when revealed, forced Biden from the presidential race. Rich material for amateur psychoanalysis here, on Obama’s subconscious resentment toward Kerry (whose losing 2004 campaign Obama must now fear he’s re-enacting), and Biden (whose selection as his running mate Obama undoubtedly regrets).
