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US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has announced that Joe Biden will be his running mate in November's election.

Mr Obama's choice, confirmed on his website, comes ahead of next week's Democratic Party convention.

Mr Biden, a 65-year-old veteran lawmaker, has three decades of Senate experience and is highly respected on foreign policy issues.

Republican contender John McCain could announce his choice next week.

Speculation is mounting that Senator McCain may name his running mate on 29 August, his 72nd birthday, and a day after the Democrats wrap up their convention.

'Impressive record'

The announcement came hours after several US media networks began reporting that Mr Biden had been chosen.

"Joe Biden brings extensive foreign policy experience, an impressive record of collaborating across party lines, and a direct approach to getting the job done," a brief statement on Mr Obama's campaign website said.

The two men are expected to appear together at a rally in Illinois later in the day.
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McCain has already started attacking the new ticket. Though I bet the Dems will be going after McCain if he picks Romney with the much more venomous attacks they exchanged during the primary.

I think these two compliment each other very well. Biden has experience and expertise and would make a perfect top adviser to a young, ambitious president.
 
Age and experience combined with a huge amount of foreign policy expertise (one of Obama's most focused upon weak points). An excellent choice that tries to balance out Obama's weaknesses, definitely very solid decision. I think McCain will choose Mitt Rommney.
 
That was Misty, and he approves this choice.
 
While just to win, Clinton would probably have been the best choice, Obama/Biden is certainly a more formidable ticket than Obama/Bayh or some of the other possibilities.

As for the Republicans, I think the chances of Romney as VP have gone down significantly now that Obama is going to start this populist attack against McCain's 7 houses. Right now the best compliment to a $100 million dollar man (actually, a man married to a $100 million dollar woman) isn't a $200 million dollar man, unless the Republicans want to lose. If Obama is able to whip up anti-rich anger over this house issue (which is itself stupid, since McCain doesn't own most of those himself), then Romney's slight boost in Colorado and Nevada (even I know that Romney won't help us get Michigan) won't be worth it.
 
But to that point, will it sit well with evangelical voters, who view traditional family arrangements as basically sacrosanct, that McCain is being "overpowered" by his wife, and is relying on her to own his houses? I could see 527 attacks along that line from liberal sources trying to disillusion evangelical voters. The argument that he doesn't actually own the houses, and that it's his wife who owns them...I mean, it sounds silly and political.

As for Biden himself, I like him from a policy standpoint for Obama, but his habitual speaking-and-not-ceasing could get him in trouble. He's made a couple of racist-ish comments. But he's good, overall.
 
Michigan is moving away from swing-state territory even as McCain gains in the national numbers, meaning Obama seems to have coalesced his support there. Romney's stock is probably dropping quite a bit. Personally, I think Huckabee is his best choice, giving McCain the ability to coalesce support in Colorado, Ohio, and Virginia, which are all evangelical hotbeds.

Hillary was a good "winning" choice, but a terrible "governing" choice. It would have been a weird co-co-presidency with her and Bill, and I think Obama wanted to avoid that.
 
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But to that point, will it sit well with evangelical voters, who view traditional family arrangements as basically sacrosanct, that McCain is being "overpowered" by his wife, and is relying on her to own his houses? I could see 527 attacks along that line from liberal sources trying to disillusion evangelical voters. The argument that he doesn't actually own the houses, and that it's his wife who owns them...I mean, it sounds silly and political.

As for Biden himself, I like him from a policy standpoint for Obama, but his habitual speaking-and-not-ceasing could get him in trouble. He's made a couple of racist-ish comments. But he's good, overall.
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I think the fact that Cindy has all the money is probably the least contentious point of their marriage to conservatives.
 
I know McCain and his people are using Biden's criticisms of Obama earlier this year. But I think Biden can easily explain it away as he had misjudged Obama. And if he picked Clinton I think it would be even worse since their campaigns leveled even more venomous attacks against one another which would be harder to explain away.

McCain I think has bigger problems with his VP choice because of the structure of the Republican party. The party is divided into two factions, the economic conservatives and the religious right. Right now McCain has managed to make Obama an enemy of both. However, when you look at his top picks, they might turn on him.

EDIT: As for Cindy. A better point of attack would be how McCain dumped his first wife who waited faithfully for him to come home from the P.O.W. camp and married Cindy five weeks later. His new father-in-law then funds his entrance into Politics. That would be a fatal blow to the McCain campaign as it would anger a wide range of people.
 
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But to that point, will it sit well with evangelical voters, who view traditional family arrangements as basically sacrosanct, that McCain is being "overpowered" by his wife, and is relying on her to own his houses? I could see 527 attacks along that line from liberal sources trying to disillusion evangelical voters. The argument that he doesn't actually own the houses, and that it's his wife who owns them...I mean, it sounds silly and political.
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Actually, I could see attacks like that coming from the uber-conservatives who think McCain's too liberal. To what end, I don't know, but uber-anythings are crazy as hell.
 
Biden is a terrible choice. He has many ties to lobbyist (his own son is one!) and Obama has attack lobbyist. This will just make him look like a hypocrite.

And what racial remarks? That ridiculously overblown "clean" remark? what's wrong with saying someone's clean? It probably was just in association of Obama having a relatively clean record because of his ridiculous inexperience.

Anyway, it just goes to show how everyone's so eager to jump on people for racism, but noooooooooe, sexism can't exist unless somenoe's called a stupid c*nt, it can't be more subtle than that!
 
There was that one time Biden said, you know, you can't go into a 7/11 or Dunkin' Donuts without an Indian accent...
 
Actually, those 'racist-ish' comments might HELP Obama in the long run. It might help keep those who are still racist silent, because they'll see that Obama has put 'one of their own' on his ticket and that Biden will help to keep Obama 'in check.'

I actually think that Biden is a good choice for Obama. He's got the experience that Obama lacks, as well as the fact that his strengths are Obama's weaknesses. I'm with The Big Al: I think these two compliment each other very well.
 
Actually, those 'racist-ish' comments might HELP Obama in the long run. It might help keep those who are still racist silent, because they'll see that Obama has put 'one of their own' on his ticket and that Biden will help to keep Obama 'in check.'
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Yeah right... like if multiplying 1000 by zero gets a bigger number.
 
I'm pretty sure nothing Obama does will win him the racist vote. But that's not a big deal seeing as most of it is gone and the remaining stuff is concentrated in states like Alabama that he can't win anyway (nor can any Democrat.)

Hopefully Obama uses this opportunity to strengthen his economic message.
 
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I'm pretty sure nothing Obama does will win him the racist vote. But that's not a big deal seeing as most of it is gone and the remaining stuff is concentrated in states like Alabama that he can't win anyway (nor can any Democrat.)

Hopefully Obama uses this opportunity to strengthen his economic message.
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You'd be surprised, actually. The Rust Belt has a lot of holdover, anti-Black sentiment. Pennsylvania west of the five-county Philadelphia area (and excluding Pittsburgh) pretty much votes like Alabama.
 
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You'd be surprised, actually. The Rust Belt has a lot of holdover, anti-Black sentiment. Pennsylvania west of the five-county Philadelphia area (and excluding Pittsburgh) pretty much votes like Alabama.
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I, sadly, have to agree with this. It wouldn't shock me if the majority of Pennsylvania was full of Republican Racists.

I've been living in Northampton County (Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton Area) for about three years now and I've been floored by the very strong racist sentiment around here.

As for the pick, I like it. I would have taken Clinton if it meant McCain could be steamrolled - but that would only be out of desperation. Obama and his supporters' principles have always been their strongest asset and to stroke Hillary Clinton's ego just to win votes would be the true travesty.

"Hillary or McCain" PUMA dumbasses don't realize they're hurting their cause more than helping it. Furthermore, shame on both of the Clintons. If they would allow their egos to ruin Democrat's chances of retaking the country - they truly are small and petty people.

Joe Biden's likable and his foreign policy credentials should be enough to sway voters who have doubts about an Obama Administration's ability to operate overseas.
 
Eh, I think it was a good choice. Obama's got my vote.

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