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Submitted August 23, 2008 - 10:42 am by Jeff Larson

I also had hoped for a Washington outsider. Like Terra above it reminds me of Kennedy choosing Johnson, but it seems to me that the reason then was for Johnson's legislative system experience. With Johnson, Kennedy had someone with the knowledge and skills to help push new law through Congress. I think this can only help domestic policy.

Ironically with foreign policy, Biden will help Obama in the election due to the public perception of him. But I'm skeptical about Biden's contributions helping to take us in the completely new directions we need to go in foreign policy.

Not only did he vote for the AUMF, but he wimped out in his committee chairmanship at the time:

The Democratic Party, even in its role as loyal opposition, should be doing its utmost to raise the difficult questions. Instead, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator Biden, organized two days of hearings, notable for the absence of critical voices. Such hearings are worse than nothing, creating a forum for advocates of war, fostering the illusion that no sensible dissent exists and thus serving mainly to raise the war fever a degree or two.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020819/falk

 

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