Pick Joe Biden

For whatever it is worth, I think Obama should pick Joe Biden, if he ever actually announces this decision. Apparently his strategy is... well, alienate everyone by keeping his secret for days and days. He is doing this in a week where polls say John McCain would win the Electoral College if the election were today.

So the text message gimmick is backfiring- alienating the media probably. And a lot of the people are saying this is kind of "cool kid on campus"/ "hard to get" behavior. Oh, and next week, he doesn't need a 75,000 fan concert of a convention in Denver- he needs spreadsheets and graphs and details and plans.

The best reason for Biden is the weakness of the other options. Tim Kaine and Chet Edwards are kind of a joke. Evan Bayh would be okay, I guess. Ditto for Wesley Clark. Kathleen Sebelius is crazy left wing. Hillary Clinton would be an absolute shock, but it would be better than most of these options. I can't believe people are even talking about bringing back Gore or Kerry.

This election is 74 days away- and it appears to be turning into a real fight. McCain has had a good month, but there still has to be an unheard of alignment of the stars for him to actually win.

I think Biden would absolutely destroy Romney or Pawlenty in a debate. Biden has experience and foreign policy credentials, but what he really has is presence and realism to him, a no-nonsense candor and apparent desire to take off the gloves if he can- that would really keep the cotton candy candidacy criticism of Obama in check.