I know that BTD thought his media darling status would carry him through but The New Best Thing has a hard time lasting for nearly a year.  And now they have a Newer Best Thing and she only has to maintain that shiny glow for two months.

He was SO not ready for this.  He has no idea how to present himself or build a coalition.  Or even a bridge.

Not only will the top of the ticket lose, but the important people who might hold McCain in check, too.

Not a pretty scenario.

FISA and flip-flopping and a number of issues including but not limited to Iraq and taxes, earmarks, public financing...

In short Obama has shown people that he is not the Progressive some thought he was. As of late he has shown that he is not the campaigner that they thought he may be and they may be funding a losing campaign. He has shown he is DOA without Clinton in terms of both big money fund raisers and getting a coherent message out.

This is about as ungracious as it gets:

Obama didn't want to appear at a PA fundaiser comprised of big donors backing Clinton. Let's just say with as much understatement as is possible without a head implosion, the FU, just send money message on the heels of a p!ss poor showing there was not the way to go.

I will vote for them because they're a better choice for sane policies than McCain/Palin. But I won't give money to a candidate whose campaign and supporters dissed the working class and Appalachian voters.

• capitulated to the extreme right wing of his party in picking Palin,
  
• pledged to continue Bush's disastrous tax and economic policies,
  
• is focusing on drilling our way out of our dependence on foreign oil, despite the evidence that it will hardly make a difference in oil prices or our need to import oil even after the oil becomes available years from now, at the expense of actively promoting renewable sources of energy,
  
• will stay in Iraq forever until we "win,"
  

• acquiesced to Bush's insistence that he has the power to torture, after having posed as an opponent of torture,
  
• will appoint right wing judges who will not only put our privacy and reproductive rights in jeopardy, but will also further other aspects of the right wing agenda,
  
• repudiated his own immigration reform bill and embraced the "secure the borders" position of those who thing we can or should deport every undocumented immigrant in America,
  
• agrees with Bush's view that American power is best exercised through shows of force rather than diplomacy and practicing what we preach on human rights.

And this "no idea where he stands on issues (yes, I've been to his website) and when I think I do know where he stands he takes a different position" might be another part of it.

In effect, I think you answered your own question.

To the extent that picking Hillary would have been embracing the "old" politics, how is Biden new politics?  He's okay for me, but I don't see what he brought to the party that Hillary wouldn't have brought.

No turning back now.