Obama’s Choice For VP

Democrat Senator It appears presumptive Democratic nominee for president Barack Obama has chosen his running mate.

by The Associated Press

Published: Sat, August 23, 2008 - 12:04 am CST Last Updated: Sat, August 23, 2008 - 12:36 am CST

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that Delaware Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama's choice to be his vice presidential running mate.
The 65-year-old Biden is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party's leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican rival John McCain.
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.
Barack Obama's choice for vice president is a man who tends to say what's on his mind.
Obama has said he wanted a running mate who will challenge his thinking and Delaware Senator Joe Biden appears to be just that.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is also a foreign policy heavyweight with more than ten years' Senate seniority over John McCain.
An internationalist and strong supporter of the United Nations, Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. Since then, he's become a firm critic of the conflict.
One of the youngest politicians ever elected to the Senate at age 29, Biden entered the 1988 Democratic presidential primary but reluctantly quit three months later after he was caught lifting lines from a speech by a British Labour Party leader.
His second presidential campaign faltered early, as the contest between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sucked the air out of the
rest of the field.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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