Obama-Biden Trumps McCain-Rove

Erik Ose, 09.28.2008

Writer, Activist, Community Organizer

Biden's acceptance speech proved what the citizens of Delaware have known for a long time: Biden is a regular Joe with all-American family values who also happens to be a Senator.

McCain vs Biden: Not All "Foreign Policy Experience" Is Created Equal

Arianna Huffington, 09.25.2008

The past seven-plus years have shown us that "foreign policy experience," in and of itself, isn't all it's cracked up to be. For Exhibit A of this look no further than George Bush's most "experienced" foreign policy advisor: Dick Cheney. How's that working out?

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Dude, Where's My Change?

Jeffrey Jena, 09.25.2008

Joe Biden? That's it? Is this the start of the big sea change in American politics? He of the loose lips and bad hair transplants is the first change that Obama has for us?

Why Biden is Such an Important Pick for the Climate

Joseph Romm, 09.25.2008

Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Editor of ClimateProgress.org

It has become increasingly clear that achieving a serious, binding international emissions treaty is even more politically implausible a task than passing serious, binding domestic legislation.

Senator Biden is the Right Man at the Right Time

James P. Rubin, 09.23.2008

Biden knows that America is not just a military power but also a peacemaker. And he knows that American ideals must be tempered by a hard-headed realism about the way the world really works.

McCain on Biden: Should have, didn't

David Weinberger, 09.23.2008

Writer, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center

If McCain hadn't become Karl Rove's sockpuppet, this is what he might have said in response to the selection of Joe Biden as OBama's running mate...

Why Joe Biden is Vital and the Right Choice

Steve Clemons, 09.23.2008

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Biden's competence will help Obama be able to remain Obama. Insider or not, Biden is liked by the country -- and he's smart.

Pro-Choice Catholic Biden Fits with New Poll of Catholic Voters

Scott Swenson, 09.23.2008

Biden understands the American value of separating personal faith from public duty in our democracy, and his positions on sexual and reproductive health issues demonstrate that clearly.

Obama's Mobile Moment

Jonathan Spalter, 09.23.2008

Chairman, Mobile Future

By going around the news media and even bypassing its own massive email list, the Obama campaign is attempting to build a direct, personal, and immediate connection with voters.

Reading The Pictures: He's Got Obama's Back

Michael Shaw, 09.23.2008

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes

Biden is one of the few liberals that could pull off a scene like this. Too bad American politics -- especially under GOP rules -- is so much about manhood, but that's how it's played.

Is Joe Biden Good For Labor? Mostly, Yes.

Jonathan Tasini, 09.23.2008

Executive Director, Labor Research Association

Where are the disagreements? Mostly over trade and immigration. Biden, initially, was a strong support of so-called "free trade" but he seems to have shifted his position a bit in the past few years.

Joe Biden Explains His 'Clean' Obama Comment -- to Jon Stewart

Greg Mitchell, 09.23.2008

Author, "Why Obama Won"

Biden told Stewart that the "word that really got me in trouble" was calling Obama "clean....I should have said fresh. What I meant was he's got new ideas."

America's Middle Class: Is Biden Your Guy?

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, 09.23.2008

Enough with the talk about filling in the foreign affairs gap. This just accepts that we are going to live out yet ANOTHER campaign the way the right wants us to -- on their turf.

Biden His Time

Bob Franken, 09.23.2008

Appears on MSNBC and is a member of SPJ Washington Hall of Fame

Unlike Cheney, Biden believes in explaining his decisions and thought processes in public. And explaining. And explaining.

It's Biden -- Ho-Hum

Richard Silverstein, 09.23.2008

Blog at Tikun Olam

When I think of the boring prospect of adding Joe Biden to the ticket, I look back fondly on the vice presidential candidacy of Lloyd Bentsen.

Obama-Biden logo revealed

Christina Bellantoni, 09.22.2008

Senior reporter/White House beat Talking Points Memo

  So it's official, Barack Obama picked Joe Biden, one of the most colorful characters out there.   BarackOb...

'The best Biden I can be'

Christina Bellantoni, 09.22.2008

Senior reporter/White House beat Talking Points Memo

That's what Sen. Joe Biden told us would be his political strategy when he announced his presidential bid in January 2007. A year later, he finished f...

McCain, Not Obama, Picked VP Biden

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 09.22.2008

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

Biden is on the ticket soley to parry McCain's hit point that Obama is a greenhorn on foreign policy and national security. Time will tell whether Biden will be much good in doing that.

Joe, Let's talk

Erin Kotecki Vest, 09.22.2008

I need you to do something for me, ok? It's something I'm pretty terrible at -- but I'm guessing with all your experience you'll be okay. Don't say anything stupid.

Joe Biden Gets Call (Maybe. . .) and Yells: "Where is Blinken?"

Steve Clemons, 09.22.2008

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Some in the Foreign Relations Committee office in the Senate have said that I should not read anything in to Antony Blinken being back in Washington. Right. . . Something is up -- and it's very good.

Wait 'Til America Gets to Know Jill Biden

Steve Clemons, 09.22.2008

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

I can't wait til America gets to know Jill Biden. As down to earth and serious about education as they come. She's a working mom like many others around the country.