Joe Biden (D-Delaware)
Resume:
- Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate
- Member of the Judiciary Committee
- Failed presidential run in 1988 -- accusations of plagiarizing parts of stump speech from British Labour party derailed campaign
- Failed run in 2004
- 2008 campaign -- most notable debate line: talking about Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11"
Assets to the Obama Ticket:
- Adds foreign policy knowledge and gravitas to counter Obama's relative lack of experience with national politics
- His blue-collar roots in Scranton, PA may undercut Obama's alleged "eliteness" and attract the very voters that Hillary had so much success with in the primaries
- Can "go negative" against the McCain campaign more effectively than Obama can
Potential Detriments to the Obama Ticket:
- Can make Obama look unknowledgeable and inexperienced in comparison
- Is known to be a loose cannon -- most memorable campaign gaffe came when he described Senator Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy....a storybook." He seemed to suggest that Obama's eloquence and cleanliness were anomalies in the African-American community.
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