As I’m sure you’ve already heard from every other media source in the world, Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. I woke up this morning to find an email from the Obama campaign inviting me to write a ‘welcome note’ to Biden (not sure what the point of that is). I gather the announcement went out at an unfashionable 3 am in the States, but thanks to timezones it was pretty reasonable here.
I think Biden is a good choice for Obama’s VP. He effectively addresses a lot of Obama’s weaknesses. He brings wisdom, experience and a lot of foreign policy credentials to the ticket. He also has that reassuring old-white-guy flavor which will probably help in some demographic groups. Biden is a good debater and should make an effective attack dog for Obama. He just needs to be careful to keep his foot out of his mouth, because he’s dropped some big gaffe lines in the past.
Even more than the announcement itself, the campaign did a brilliant job of managing the pre-announcement hype. They got an entire day’s worth of free news coverage for NOT telling the media anything:
And now they’re going to get at least two more days of wall-to-wall Obama-Biden coverage, because the Sunday news shows will all cover it, and then it’ll be covered again on Monday.
Anyway, I’m off to hang out with hackers and check out a new possible location for PUSCII.
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