Biden

Why no socks?

The New York Times is reporting that Joe Biden, a senator from somewhere called "Delaware," has been tabbed by Braack Obama to be his running mate. Well, that shows what I know about veepstakes predictions (I still think McCain's taking Pawlenty.) Biden is old (62,) experienced (he's Delaware's longest serving US senator,) and white, three things that Obama is not. It's a classic ticket balancing, where a candidate picks someone who will cover percieved weaknesses.

It's not an exciting pick, but he's at least an improvement over Evan Bayh or Bill Paxton in Weird Science. No idea if Obamais still mad over Biden calling him "clean and articulate," but if not, they wouldn't be the first president/VP combo who hated each other (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Bush Sr. all thought none too highly of their running mates, and I'd be shocked if Gore and Lieberman didn't get in weekly knife fights during their campaign.)