Biggest mistake so far by Biden

Joe Biden made a major mistake today when, as reported by the Guardian and as picked up by Drudge, he confirmed that an Obama administration would prosecute "crimes" committed by the Bush administration. While his sentiments do not surprise me, his clear admission of them is truly a shocker.

Putting Biden's comments into English, he is stating that the "new politics" promised by Barack Obama in which Obama will work in a bipartisan fashion to change the way things work in Washington is, in truth, an old fashioned partisan witch hunt. Indeed, for the Obama team, it will not be sufficient to win the election and take control of the government. No, they will have to destroy their opponents by sending them to prision for purported crimes. Since the so-called crimes that Biden refers basically involve actions by the government to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists, Biden admits that Obama is really planning on prosecuting the Bushies for actually having the nerve to fight back against the Islamic terrorists in a way that might stop future attacks from taking place.

In the whirl of the Palin speech and tonight's McCain speech, Bidens shocking admission has not received much attention, but, once it does, it is sure to turn off the millions of cetrist independant voters who will decide this election. would any sane American actually want a new government that has a principal mission to destroy its political enemies? Can anyone at the DNC actually believe that the criminalization of opponents will win converts to their cause?

I believe that this admission by Biden is just more proof of how out of touch Obama and his campaign really are. They live, as Peggy Noonan puts it, in a bubble. They only speak to the others in the bubble who think as they do. Surely Jeremiah Wright would applaud the arrest of many in the Bush administration as would William Ayres. So would Harry Reid and the Pelosi crowd. Indeed, the Daily Kos crowd would probably make an exception and hope for capital punishment in this instance. Fortunately, these folks do not speak for common sense, normal Americans who, I beleive, will see this farce for what it is: a manifestation of just how far the Obama folks are out of touch. Political show trials belong in the Stalinist Soviet Union, not the USA. As enticing as a Stalinist society may be to Obama and his friends like Ayres and the others, it will not play in the USA. I think we will be hearing a lot more about this in the weeks to come.