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...hidden time bombs are the thousands of votes cast by Biden in the Senate, and the millions of words uttered by him publicly over 36 years," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "There has got to be rich material for negative ads in there. But then again, people don't vote for or against the vice presidential nominees." Indeed, perhaps with his choice in mind, Obama last week underlined that he would be the one making foreign policy decisions in the Oval Office, while acknowledging he was looking for someone to challenge...
...Biden's Achilles heel has always been his own tongue. Indeed, when Obama flubbed his introduction of Biden in Springfield, the McCain campaign pounced calling it not only a "Freudian slip" ("Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt) but the Republicans also alluded to Biden criticisms of Obama's campaign, when both were still rivals for the nomination. Said Porritt: "The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn...
When presidential contenders pick their running mates, the choice is almost always a reflection of their own political weaknesses. And so it was with Barack Obama's selection of fellow Senator Joe Biden. More than Biden's obvious international expertise as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, what got Biden the job was his ability to connect with voters that Obama himself has had trouble winning over - and his willingness to throw a punch...
...While Biden is not a dazzling pick, the party elders who are beginning to gather for their nominating convention in Denver consider him a solid one. Andy Stern, president of the two-million member Service Employees International Union, says Biden could help enormously in reaching "the people in our union who are skeptical about Barack Obama." Stern recalls that when Biden took up the union's challenge to work a day with one of its members in Iowa last year, the Delaware Senator asked to do it with a school custodian - and surprised the head building engineer at a Cedar...
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said Biden, with his working class roots and a 35-year Senate record, can appeal to two groups of voters with whom Obama has had difficulty closing the sale: blue-collar workers and suburban female voters, whom Obama strategists hope will remember the fights Biden waged on the Senate Judiciary Committee against conservative judicial nominees and for legislation such as the bill that became the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. "Joe's about as good a messenger as we can get to those groups," Rendell says. "And once you've got a good messenger, the issues...