Good question CDR.

I am not pumped up about Biden as a running mate or anything, but I think he is a good choice. He certainly fills out the ticket in terms of general experience and foreign policy experience specifically. Plus, Biden doesn't seem to take shit from anybody. He won't be afraid to attack McCain or defend the democratic party from the Republican attack machine. Those are definitely qualities that will help Obama win the election...

But I don't see this election coming down to VP picks or to party platforms or policy statements by the candidates. I think this will come down to media coverage of the candidates. John McCain is certainly good for a joke by the Late Night Comics, but I think the media is giving him remarkably favorable coverage and free pass after free pass on really important issues. Why don't they go after him for repeatedly confusing Shiite and Sunni's Muslim groups in Iraq? If Obama were to come out and say that Alqeda in Iraq were getting supplies and training from Iran, there would be a field day of reports about his inexperience. McCain gets a free pass. McCain has essentially accused Obama of attempted treason in his statements saying "Obama would risk losing a war just win a political campaign! He Tried to legislate failure in Iraq!" Where is the outcry about that outlandish statement? What do you think the media would say if Obama made similar comments about McCain? "John McCain would rather spend billions more dollars and risk thousands of American lives than admit he made a mistake engaging in the Iraq war and bring our troops home! All to make a political point!" Just imagine it.

So yeah Biden seems like a good choice we need a fighter on the ticket, and I like Biden as a person. He did have one of the best lines of any in the plethora of Democratic debates last fall: "...every thing out of Rudy Guliani mouth is a noun, a verb and 9-11."