I’m with him.

Click the link to read McCain, Obama and Palin.  I’ll give you Joe Biden as a free sample:

Biden: I’ve been in the Senate forever, and I proposed a whole bunch of bills to deal with this problem – in fact, I’ve proposed bills to deal with just about any problem – but nobody will listen to me, particularly not John McCain. I hate it when people don’t listen to me.

Hat tip: Megan McCardle.

The GOP nominated this man.  A famous war hero. Notably bipartisan, he won the nomination after besting the right wing of his party.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

His vice-presidential nominee was someone from the west, much younger, someone Ike hardly knew, someone known as a hard-charging partisan who specialized in slashing attacks:

Richard M. Nixon

Over on the Democratic side, the party found an inspiring yet cool and cerebral intellectual from Illinois:

Adlai Stevenson

He was joined on the ticket by a U.S. Senate insider of long tenure:

John Sparkman

Familiar?

One big difference. In ‘52, the incumbent was a Democrat, Harry S Truman. Eisenhower’s victory was predicated on the need to change parties and clean house. He had to run an above-partisanship campaign because then, as now, the Republican “brand” was damaged by the previous Republican president, in this case Herbert Hoover, to whose disgraced memory Democrats tied Republican presidential candidates for decades.

That difference might be enough to put the 2008 version of the Illinois “egghead” over the top this time. Stevenson was stuck with the baggage of Truman’s failed presidency (or so it was perceived at the time), but Eisenhower managed to escape the Hoover curse, the only Republican to do so from 1932-1968. John McCain is carrying the burden of Bush’s failures, while Barack Obama can point to the good-time era of his Democratic predecessor’s reign.

McCullagh posts a detailed analysis of the Biden record, which he terms “mixed.”

Now, it’s true that few Americans will cast their votes in November based on what the vice presidential candidate thinks of copyright law. But these pro-copyright views don’t exactly jibe with what Obama has promised; he’s pledged to “update and reform our copyright and patent systems to promote civic discourse, innovation and investment while ensuring that intellectual property owners are fairly treated.” These are code words for taking a more pro-EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) than pro-MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) approach.

Unfortunately, Biden has steadfastly refused to answer questions on the topic. We asked him 10 tech-related questions, including whether he’d support rewriting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as part of our 2008 Technology Voters’ guide. Biden would not answer (we did hear back from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Ron Paul).

In our 2006 Technology Voters’ Guide, which ranked Senate votes from July 1998 through May 2005, Biden received a mere 37.5 percent score because of his support for Internet filters in schools and libraries and occasional support for Internet taxes.