The United States Secret Service has dispatched a protective detail to assume the immediate protection of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a source tells ABC News, indicating in all likelihood that Biden has been officially notified that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, has selected him to be his running mate.
I'm sure he'll look great next to the "clean and articulate" Obama. I have more information on why Biden will be a blessing for all of us here and here. Just for fun you might want to read this, this, this, and this.
This campaign will fit Biden's ego to a "T". He'll get Secret Service protection for a few months, including the motorcades and all the trappings of power. He'll be feted at the convention and every network will want to hear his every word. I've heard it said that the most dangerous place to be is between a microphone and Joe Biden, and he won't disappoint. I expect a great many embarrassing moments in the coming months.
Rob at Say Anything Blog says that Biden may have been a desperate choice:
As of this moment it looks like Joe Biden may be the pick. Come on.... Joe Biden? The very idea reeks of desperation on the part of the Obama camp. Why would he have to dig so deep into the the Democratic refuse heap of used up, political has beens for a running mate?
Morrissey may have hit it. Maybe nobody, at least nobody with a political future in mind, was willing to join themselves at the hip with someone who has plummeted in the polls and is beginning to be seen for what he is: an imposter, a poser with a great act that is all lights and mirrors and is of little substance.
The young lions of the Democratic party should have been jumping at this chance. And we just haven’t seen much jumping going on.
Just guessing, but if Biden is his pick, this may not bode well for the Obamanator.
Digesting an Obama-Biden ticket...
It's hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain.
The candidate of hope and change selected a running mate who was first elected to public office when Obama was 9 years old. He was elected to the Senate when Obama was 11.
The bottom of the ticket running on change has been in Washington forever.
He voted for the Iraq War — which Obama touted as the most important decision since the end of the Cold War.
Biden supports a ban on partial-birth abortion. He supports deploying U.S. troops to Darfur in Sudan.
His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a "slave state" again? Will he discuss who's behind the counter at 7-11s?
I'm reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him — "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications — he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."
That statement is true for both men on the Democratic ticket.
Other than Biden's mouth, it's a relatively safe pick. But since he'll be spending just about every waking moment between now and Election Day in front of television cameras... look out.....
Keep these 23 statements handy. And relish these YouTubes of some of Biden's greatest hits.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack Obama's pick as vice presidential running mate, The Associated Press has learned. ...
The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.
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