Biden Is A Good Pick

by Steve Soto

After several weeks of taking his lumps from McCain, Obama shows good judgment and picks Joe Biden as his running mate.

Biden is a far superior choice over the other possibilities on Obama's short list: Evan Bayh, Tim Kaine, or even Texas Democratic congressman Chet Edwards. Biden brings Beltway experience, feistiness, and boatloads of foreign policy seasoning that Obama sorely lacks, and Biden knows more about sensible foreign policy than McCain, Tom Ridge, Tim Pawlenty, or Mitt Romney will ever know themselves. In fact, the Biden pick allows the Democrats to fight the GOP on turf that Obama heretofore has failed to grab and hold himself, which is the mark of a good pick.

Yes, the brainless chattering heads will find a way to mar this choice by dredging up how this will play with Hillary's supporters, a truly moot question since Hillary would never have been Obama's choice anyway. No matter how many commercials the McCain camp runs of things Biden said about Obama and McCain, Biden fills in the gaps for Obama, and this was a solid pick.

All Biden needs to do is hammer over and over again how wrong McCain was about Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror, the economy, energy, and health care. Biden can point out that despite his rhetoric on these issues, McCain has done little about any of them except endorse George W. Bush's approach. And Biden can also remind voters that no matter how much McCain wants voters to forget it, he is after all a Republican.