The McCain camp thinks that Barack Obama deep down believes that he is not prepared to be president by inadvertently introducing Joe Biden as the next president of the United States even though he immediately corrected himself and introduced Joe Biden as the next vice-president of the United States.
I disagree.
Barack Obama’s inadvertence in introducing Joe Biden as the next president of the United States proves Barack Obama’s honesty in his intention to pick someone who is qualified to be president on day one or at the end of Obama’s eight year term, not merely his campaign "attack dog."
The Freudian slip also shows how much respect and reverence Barack Obama has for Joe Biden, not only for his work in the Senate, but also for whom Joe Biden is as a person.
The slip reinforces Barack Obama’s intent on having a vice-president who is willing, ready and able to work with Barack Obama as president on day one to repair the dilapidated job market, economy, energy policy, Mideast affairs and moral compass.
The slip also points to a successful bonding of political and personal friendship, when the president and the vice-president can think with one mind and speak with one voice, when status, labels and titles can almost be inconsequential and interchangeable.
It is around this one-voice phenomenon that Barack Obama has rallied Americans to strive for the unification of the red and blue states and inspired people across the continent with his proclamation in Berlin, that he is a citizen of the world.
Barack Obama’s Freudian slip today in Springfield, Illinois, proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Obama is not a person who needs to be conscious of or insecure about his status or label or title, but one who values the right of every other to take part in this life, in which all of us are equal and responsible partners.
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