Reply #27: That's why I think he'd be a good choice; frankly nobody [View All]

can top Obama when it comes to the electric speech (and I thought so back when I was a Bidenite, so this isn't the inner fanboy talking), so it's pointless to aim for magnetism. Any minute the national stage is given to anyone else is wasted; he needs a policy-minded '00 Cheney or '92 Gore, not an attractive '88 Quayle or an experienced '88 Bentsen.

Hillary, on the other hand, needs some magnetism badly. It would be a pain to lose '08 because the campaign became about "Shrillery." Biden would be a okay choice for her, even though he's expressed an unwillingness to work in a white house containing Bill. I hope their side-by-side seating at the SOTU would suggest some degree of reconciliation (though not an endorsement yet ;)). My only concerns there are a lack of geographic balance and Biden's somewhat-checkered past--add his to Hillary's past, and we run the risk of this election turning into a issue of openness and honesty, and McCain wins that one.