1.0 link 120900 <![CDATA[Joe Biden's the Man on Guantanamo, Iraq and the "War on Terror"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/joe-bidens-the-man-on-gua_b_120900.html In the end, then, it came down to this: Barack Obama needed a vice-presidential candidate with well-established Washington credentials, foreign policy experience and an ability to connect with blue-collar workers.

And while Joe Biden -- a 65-year old working class Irish Catholic, the Senator for Delaware since 1972, and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- has a far from unblemished foreign policy record (most notoriously in his support for the invasion of Iraq, but also, arguably, in his...

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