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Article: The Necessity of Joe Biden
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- August 28, 2008
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As V.P. nominee, the senator brings foreign policy muscle.
And the winner is: Joe Biden.
It did not take a newfangled text message, just an old-fashioned leak, to identify Barack Obama's running mate. Word of the Biden selection spread late Friday night, barely 12 hours before the event in Springfield, Ill., at which the presumptive Democratic nominee for president was to introduce the presumptive Democratic nominee for vice president.
Ultimately, Obama went with the guy who suggested most pointedly during the race for the Democratic nomination that Obama was not quite experienced enough for the presidency. It was Biden who suggested in an August 2007 debate that "I think [Obama
] can be ...