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Obama Picks Biden
by Chris Edelson The wait is over, thankfully, and it’s Joe Biden. I like the pick. Biden has enormous credibility on foreign policy–he’s the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is often descibed as a foreign policy expert and he just visited Georgia at the request of Georgia’s President. He’s Catholic and has ties to Pennsylvania (someone on CNN just said he’d once been referred to as “the 3rd Senator from Pennsylvania”). Biden had probably the best line of the presidential campaign so far when he said every Giuliani sentence consists of “a noun, a verb, and 9/11″. Biden has a great personal story. He commutes home to Wilmington every night (this will be the answer to charges he’s a Washington insider). He’s been ranked 99th of 100 senators in terms of personal wealth, so keep the McCain, man of many houses attacks coming. His son is going to be deployed to Iraq (I believe he’s in JAG Reserves). McCain came out with an ad showing Biden saying he’d be homored to run with or against McCain. To quote Obama in a different context–is that they best they’ve got? Big deal–shows Biden can work with both parties, which is his reputation–everyone seems to like him. My guess is the first Obama-Biden response to McCain’s VP pick (especially if it’s Romney) will be a lot more damaging. The one thing I don’t understand about this is why the text was sent out at 3 am–was this supposed to be Obama’s 3 am moment? Kind of weird–why do this Sat morning at 3 am? I hope no one got woken up by a text msg. I’m excited–and looking forward to Biden being used as an attack dog to bolster the mounting case against McCain.
Chris Edelson is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. who writes frequently about current political and legal issues. His writing has previously been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Metroland (Albany, NY) and at commondreams.org.
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