Biden would be best Obama veep pick

1 comment August 19th, 2008

 Obama’s veep should be Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. And that might be the ticket, but there’s no guarantee. Here’s why I think it should be Biden: He has extensive foreign policy experience, something Obama lacks. Plus, Biden’s a forceful speaker who has been a candidate for president in his own right. Yes, yes, I know he once stole a speech from Labour’s Neil Kinnock, but Neil never became prime minister, anyway.

Biden has been in theCommunauté urbaine de Rock Dunk at least once; it was in the 1970s and he was a freshman senator. Then Winnebago County Treasurer Doug Aurand brought Biden to a fundraiser picnic at one of those ethnic or service clubs on the Kishwaukee River, I don’t remember which one. Anyway, I met Biden, who had a good time at the picnic.

I haven’t seen him in person since t hen, but I have seen Biden hundreds of times on TV. He would certainly add gravitas to the Obama campaign. (Oh, I almost forgot. Biden was also the guy who said that Obama was clean and articulate. He’ll have to avoid that kind of stuff, although you can’t fault his accuracy.)

Obama/? ticket to appear Saturday at Old State Capitol

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This just in from the Obama campaign: Obama has reserved the Old State Capitol in Springfield to appear at noon Saturday with his running-mate, the mystery person who will be announced sometime this week.

The ticket will kick off its tour of battleground states on the way to the Denver convention next week. The kick-off event is at the building where Abraham Lincoln served as a state legislator. That building is actually Illinois’ fifth capitol building, completed in 1853. It was here that Lincoln delivered his famous “House Divided” speech. Abe said the speech that the nation could not long survive half slave and half free, that it would either become all one thing or all the other.