I'm gonna trust Mr. Obama on his VP pick...

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

That's all I know to say, except it's a good indicator of leadership when you can get buy-in from somebody who's as on the fence as I've been about the VP issue. I have gone back and try to educate myself a bit more about Mr. Biden this morning, and I'm starting to like what I see. Seems like he'll make a helluva good bad cop!

Skeptical Democrats welcome to reply in this thread, just not nasty or condescending ones. I'm in, okay?

[Thrill]

1. Progressives like Maddow and Randi Rhodes love Biden

I think he's a good choice

[JohnnyLib2]

2. It's clearly a good choice in terms of potential succession.

That's an insensitive thing to say, but my first vote was for JFK.

I also think Obama has "shown the way" on handling that 2002 IWR vote.
On to 2009.

[billyoc]

3. Do you mean that you think Biden will run in 2016?

Won't he be older than McCain is now?

[JohnnyLib2]

4. No, I mean in the unthinkable case of emergency succession.