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Saturday, August 23, 2008 – Obama and Biden Team Makes Public Debut (Reuters) – and that was that: Obama tapped the Delaware senator, a leading voice on international affairs, as his vice presidential running mate earlier on Saturday. Biden, 65, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is one of the most knowledgeable Democrats on foreign policy - an area where Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, has been criticized as inexperienced. After much artificially induced an

by John Adams Dateline Denver, the 2008 Democratic National Convention...staging ground for victory for the American people in November. Why Joe Biden? Let's ask the neocon icon, Mr. William Kristol, his thoughts on the question: "There's lots to like about Barack's choice of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate; Biden's bowling score, honed by years of practice...now that will help the ticket..." OK, I admit I didn't ask the unctuous, reptilian Kristol to answer the question...rather I

As the nation waits for John McCain and Barack Obama to announce their running mates, TIME looks back at the worst vice presidents in the country's history. Source: Time Magazine

The Virginian writes an excellent post on Obama’s meteoric rise to the Democratic nomination, overcoming a 27-point deficit to Sen. Hillary Clinton in Nov. 2007. “People never see him, they always see their own desires and hopes reflected back to them,” writes the Virginian. He attributes that quality, and more, to Obama’s success. But he postulates that this Obama trait is beginning to fade. “The blank screen is shredding, the man behind it is being revealed, and the image is not pretty,”

Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his vice presidential choice will only have a significant influence for a small number of voters, according to a Foolocracy.com poll. Only 14% said the vice presidential choice is very important. Seventy-nine percent have already made up their minds to vote for either Obama or McCain.