As we were expecting, Barack Obama taps Joe Biden to be his Vice President. After a few days of hype and speculation, bouncing between Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and even Chet Edwards today, the announcement for Vice President came without a text message but rather the traditional announcement over the TV media. Biden will be joining Obama in Illinois on Saturday for a joint appearance to officially introduce the ticket together and to start the media lead-up into the Democratic Convention next week.

Joe Biden, or as we call him “Mr. Foreign Relations,” fills in one of the key areas where Obama is weak - Foreign Relations. This helps minimize the impact that McCain has on the public relations debate, where most of the current rise in polls the past few weeks has been coming from for McCain. But remember, Biden called for breaking up Iraq into three federated states and was against the surge, so McCain might be able to incorporate the success of the surge as a decent counter-argument against Biden’s foreign policy views. Additionally, Biden voted for re-entering Iraq in 2003. Obama has campaigned on how he had the foresight to be against the war, so this will be another potential advertisement point for the McCain camp. Now McCain needs to pick someone who can handle the verbal skills of Biden, which means that it will probably be Mitt Romney.

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Yahoo News - “Official:  Obama picks Biden for Veep”
Breitbart - “Biden speaks - and speaks - his own mind”
U.S. Senate - “U.S. Senate Roll Call vote on the Joint Resolution 114″
Chicago Tribune - “Biden:  Iraq surge success a ‘fantasy’”
Associated Press - “Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence”
Tom Rants - “The Vice-Presidential Picks”
First Door on the Left - “Only Barack knows for sure”
Washington Interns Gone Bad - “Blue Delaware”
Tom Rants - “The Message is Here”
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Polisicks - “This could not be better.”
Killer Buffalo - “For Obama, Biden is a Change in Focus”
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Disillusioned Words - “Obama Made the Best Possible Choice for a Running Mate”


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