Sir;...It is a big mistake to expect too much wit and wisdom from our political leaders...They all talk too muuch because they are expected too...If the folks back home see them on the tube it is to see them hard at work, and too often it is only to see one of the fools... We make much of the words of Abraham Lincoln, but Lincoln did not say all that much... What we have is all the much said of him after he was gone, and of that, he discounted perhaps 50% in his own life time... But; as a practicing circuit court lawyer, he learned to be judicious with his words...And I would recommend such behavior for our politicians... Here is the problem: We all expect something, and we all expect consistency...I saw Mr. Obama during the last election campaign...If you held up a penny at arms length, his, and Lincoln's head were about the same size in my sight...Yet, from C-Span if realized that he gave the identical speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan earlier in the day; and most of us would not have had it any other way...From my vantage point I lifted two people to see the sight I saw that day, a distant future president... One was a short woman who could only see people's Backs, and she said I made her day...As with every candidate I have ever seen, and I guess I have seen a few, I go to see the crowd, its size, and its enthusiasm...Not one of them cares so much what these people say as what they will do...We are so often disappointed... Our leaders too often put off for another day, and at the appointed time are not there, or cannot do what they desire... They should strike while the iron is hot if they intend what they say...There is a growing sense of anger, frustration, and disappointment in this people...I saw that many years ago at a George Wallace rally in a civic center filled with future Reagan republicans... What if all the fickle people who now switch parties out of frustration begin to pull down the government??? What if they walk from the political system and shut down the economy???..Ultimately, what a vice president says means nothing... That should be the losing party's representative anyway...Since we have winner take all government; that government must do over the resistence of the losers all the good it can do...In that sense it must keep popular support and perform magic...What I mean is... Government has not united us, but divided us because their was no incentive for unity like there was for division...We are divided to make government ineffective at reaching the goals for which it was formed...There is no simple thing any president can say, or that any politician can do to change that fact... We are divided so we can be ruled...We are divided so we can be robbed in detail... If we will have unity in this land we are going to have to find it ourselves...Our leaders will only lead us into more disunion...Thanks...Sweeney

Why in the world did Obama pick Biden for V.P.Can anyone enlighten me?