Originally Posted by kane

Obama picked Biden because the two major criticisms of Obama have been that he has no experience and that he had no knowledge of foreign affairs. Biden is the chair for the Senate committee on foreign relations. He has more foreign policy experience than all of the candidates put together. His experience in that area helps take some of the criticism off of Obama. He also has roots in Pennsylvania and has a great track record with blue collar voters so he can help Obama in those areas. He is also pretty clean as far as skeletons in his closet. He has been around for about 30 years, if there was a lot of dirt on him it would have come out by now so the republicans have little to attack him on.

Were there better candidates out there for Obama? Maybe, but I think he did a pretty good job considering what he needed.