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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I'm not worried about him, he seems like a normal rust-belt type of guy who just happened to become a lawyer and politician. But it is kind of weird that the media or the Republican party didn't go after him that much. Is there nothing on him? That would be cool if there wasn't, but I didn't think that was possible.
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I think the Republican party would have loved to go after him, but you know they were running someone for VP who didn't know Africa contained more than one country, didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was, thought that dinosaurs were around 6000 years ago, and who was reportedly throwing regular temper tantrums so it was hard to draw attention away from that. Biden has a tendency to make gaffs when he speaks, none of which seem particularly horrible to me, but there is a possibility there for media fixation. My parents actually had a personal sit-down Q&A with him when he was making a presidential bid in the late 1980s (that sort of thing happens when you live in Iowa). They report that he is actually wickedly smart and well-informed. He has some bonafide international experience (his proposed plan for Iraq is still the best I've seen), and is now an old hand in the Senate, all around a pretty solid choice for VP.