Obama's clean and articulate running mate

[joannemerriam]

According to metafilter posters, Obama's office sent out the text message announcing Biden as his pick at 3 a.m. Cheeky.

I've been reading up. Here's some of the stuff I've run across that I found interesting:

• A 2001 New Republic profile. Biden's admirers spin his undisciplined chatter as a kind of John McCain-esque straight talk. Their shining

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[jenphetamine]

Washington insiders "like people to speak in this kind of thought-speak where you talk for three minutes and don't say anything," says his former longtime chief of staff, Ted Kaufman. "That's not Joe Biden." But Biden's mouth does him as much harm as good. " He gives Castro-length speeches," says one exasperated Senate staffer. In Democratic caucus meetings, he is famous for declaring, "I'll be brief," and then talking the room into a stupor.

I can identify with this. He'd get my support. ;)

[joannemerriam]

I think I like him. He has some positions I don't like, but so do they all, and it sounds like he's smart and non-sound-bitey.