Biden is not change - Just look at his record
Tonight's prime-time Democratic National Convention speaker is vice presidential nominee Joe Biden. The past two days, I got an idea of the "change" the Democrats are thinking about listening to their "special interest group" convention speakers.
Union bosses and the head of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America spoke. They laid out a radical game plan for government control and spending, plus more taxes. The main change they talked about was getting their hands deeper into your wallet.
Comedian David Letterman exclaimed, "Nothing says change better than a senator who has been in office four decades!"
In picking Biden, Barack Obama went right to the Washington establishment. For example, Biden's son is, what else? - a lobbyist.
Biden will give a speech that is long on bombast to rev up the crowd, but it will be short on details. The last idea Biden floated to break Iraq into three pieces was so bad, even Iraqi political parties denounced it as something that would lead to a three-way civil war. Fortunately, America followed the advice of Sen. McCain and employed a counterinsurgency that has worked. Biden is the guy that Obama has taken on his ticket in order to fill in Barack's lack of foreign policy experience - yikes!!
Ironically, there has been no harsher critic of Sen. Obama's lack of foreign policy experience than Biden. He said, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Sadly, the U.S. is in a war against Islamic extremists and the Russian Georgia points to a new cold war.
Monday's Daily Herald revealed ties between Biden and Rod Blagojevich. Columnist Chuck Goudie pointed out that the former Democrat National Finance Director, Chicago lawyer Joe Cari, was a Blagojevich and Biden fundraiser. Cari has admitted to taking part in a kickback scheme overseen by indicted Blagojevich fundraiser Tony Rezko. On the day Cari's name surfaced in the Rezko case, Cari was to have hosted a Biden fundraiser in Chicago. No change here!
Importantly, as president, McCain will provide a check and balance on the Democrat Congress. To see the horrors of one party Democrat rule, look to Springfield or Todd Stroger's Cook County.
The world is a dangerous place. We need the experienced Sen. McCain as commander-in-chief. It is McCain - the original Congressional Maverick - who will bring the RIGHT "change" to America!!
• Kirk W. Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican, is Illinois Senate Minority Whip.