If Al Gore won't do it, then Biden is the next best pick for VP.

Obama 08!!!

I sure hope you get the job.

Obama/Biden '08

I find it interesting that people are grasping at straws to try to find some way to stop ObamaMCcain who has no experience on foreign relations whatsoever, Americans are ready to turn over the security of America to MCcain simply because he got shotdown while riding in a plane. The racial hatred in America is so deeply rooted that it'll never change, ecen after Obama winsa nothing will change.

To Joe Biden—Mr Truth teller?

plagerizing…..huh? plagiarizing what? are you 'pugs so afraid that biden may be the next vice president?

Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth otherwise look out for the great Sen. Joe Biden to set the record straight. You can't touch that GOP, your down and dirty tactics won't work. Obama is simply the best.

As long as the VP isn't Hillary or that homophobe Nunn, I'll be happy.

Obama/Biden = VICTORY!!!

it's amazing that McCain could not tell the difference between a Shia and a Sunni ..after all that talk ..visiting Iraq and not knowing the difference ..Imagine that

McCain and Bush got Iraq wong …did Obama say it was Afghanistan that was the problem …

Bush and McCain ..yesteday's right wing leaders incapable of understanding the changing global environment

Obama has the vision and judgment to be a great commander in chief.

Another white man in a tie.

OUUCH!!!

that hurts!

Anything short of Hillary and I'm voting for McCain. Obama lacks vision and is not serious about change. The fact that he is considering a Washington insider and longtime political crony like Biden is yet another of example of how Obama has spoken out of both sides of his mouth as to his message of "change".

Biden has made racially insensitive comments in the past and Obama would be a real desperate guy to pick him….Not to mention he's a Washington insider and would'nt GAIN any votes for Obama…I hate to say it but the only REAL formidable, famous Dem left on the table who could win this election for Obama is Hillary!
Katie Homes

So Biden rightfully criticized Obama for being a no-show on this commitee and you OBAMABOTS criticized Biden at the time, but now he is defending the chosen one to get a cabinet position, and you now are talking Obama/Biden 2008???

Are you people really this brainwashed that you ignore that Obama does not show up for the meeting on an important commitee that was given to him ONLY to gloss up his woefully thing resume?

Clinton and Biden were a far better choice but the swooning media and you moronic Obamabots hammered Hillary and Biden, but now you NEED THEM OR YOUR TOAST.

The media will not be able to hide or explain away this fraud for much longer.

You mean this racist man will accept it in light of his comments about obama. Obama is a clean and articulate man according to biden. Voters have not forgot about that remark. Face it Hillary will be vice or he will pay the price at the voting both.

Obama is a joke!!!!!

SHOVE IT GOP YOU WILL GO DOWN IN FLAMES IN OCTOBER

obama/hrc08-16

I sure wish he was running for Pres. I wanted to see he and Hillery in which ever order. Even if he is VP choice I just can' NOT vote for Obama with a clear conscience. He scares me.

If McCain is S-O-O-O great as a leader of foreign affairs …and…has 30 years experience….WHY HAS HE NOT USED HIS POSITION AS AN EXPERIENCED LEADER IN THE SENATE TO HAVE AVOIDED THE MESS WE HAVE NOW???? Seems of late he is just copying Obama's position of more than a year and CLAIMING IT AS HIS !!! Is this the kind of leadership that we need ???

I like Joe Biden - though Obama's supporters treated his neice terribly during the Iowa Caucus. Some even told her to go back to her state; the wouldn't let her finish a sentence.

All I have to say is as much as I respect Joe Biden, Hillary better land a significant post in Obama's cabinet if he wants our support. He seems to be a wise man; knows how to play the game. Time for him to place his pieces to win.

Obama is nothing more then a puppet and if his vote on FISA didn't turn you off of him then you all have junk for brains. He is not qualified to be president and I will not vote for him. I would rather vote for McCain.

Puma Power

First McCain said Obama was irresponsible for saying he would attack Al Queida in Pakistan if their was solid intelligence. Since calling Obama 'irresponsilbe' our miliarty has attacked Al Queida 4 times in Pakistan.

McCain calls Obama naive and reckless for wanting to set a timetable to get out of Iraq. Next thing you know the sovereign Iraq government demands we set a timetable.

McCain calls Obama reckless and an appeaser for saying he will sit down with leaders of countries unfriendly to the U.S. 3 months later the U.S. successfully appeases and negoitiates with N. Korea ('axis of evil') and they begin to dismantle their nuclear plants.

McCain and Bush call Obama an appeaser and irresponsible for saying he wants direct diplomacy with unfriendly countries rather than threats of war. Just yesterday the State Department announces they are sending a top level official to Iran to sit down and have direct talks.

Who has the judgement?

Biden's voice is one of the more ignored voices in America today. Why? Like Kerry and Kennedy,he's thought of as another rich guy in politics. Biden campaigned heavily for Kerry and Kerry lost.Just think about it,Bill Clinton was the only Democrat ellected to the White House on his own merits in the last 50years.Johnston benefited from JFK,Carter was a shoo-in after Nixon.Typical Democrats,hate their own successes,love to lose.

life long loser, but he can talk and talk and talk and talk……….

OMG… Obama - Osama/Biden - Binladen. Think before you vote!

GROW UP.

Hello!!! July 17th, 2008 2:22 pm ET

Hillary on the ticket, or NO vote…..We are over 3,200 strong in my little town alone.

I WONDER WHY BIDEN…

UNITED WE'RE STRONGER

OBAMA (P) & CLINTON (VP) 2008-2014

NO TO "BUSH II" (MCCAIN), NO TO McWAR, McDEATH, GRAMPS YOU WON'T BE PRESIDENT!

Obama…please pick this guy for your VP….

He's so desperate to have an office in the White House and he has been a loyal public servant.

And frankly, I'm sick and tired of his hints.

Great choice,he is so pleasant!

I'm from Delaware, so I've always liked Joe Biden and I am glad he is so fervently supporting Obama. I just don't want him to give any speeches anytime soon, because he may lift lines from Obama himself. LOL!!

Proves once again the Repugs are dispickable people and the world would be bettter off without them. Their policy is not what they stand for or what they plan to do, it is Obama this Obama that, like whining children. Proving once again, McShame is a media manufactured hero. He was the gift that kept on giving to the enemy in Vietnam.

Nothing gets done in Congress and part of the reason is a lot of them are out campaigning for months on end for President. Obama has been in the Senate for two years and has spent over a year on the campaign trail.

Geraldine Ferraro hit a nerve back in the spring when she observed that if Obama were white he wouldn't even be considered seriously with the thin resume he has. But Oprah jumped on his bandwagon and the rest is history.

It seems that the electorate just keeps shooting itself in the foot (Bush in 2000 and 2004 and now Obama in 2008). Why can't we decide to elect experience and competence instead of fluff and charisma?

Gene July 17th, 2008 3:13 pm ET

Hispanic for McCain…

You're the only Hispanic on any blog on any website that I've seen so far support McCain. Every other Hispanic voter that I know (and being in Los Angeles I know many) is voting for Obama.

Gene you must be educated now what has OBAMA done for the Latinos people guess what NOTHING, Nada, and to answer your question there are Thousands of Hispanic Latinos on this Blog and Thousand more on other blogs that support John McCain. Don't hate cause Hispanic people are to SMART not to go to a BOZO in OBAMA. The Latinos here in NY support John McCain and that is a Fact!!!! the fact is Hillary Clinton stated that John McCain bring in tons of Experince to the White House, Hillary bring in tons of Experince to the White House and OBAMA just bring in a Speech Remember that!!!

Hispanic for McCain!!!!!

THE REBUBLICANS WISH THEY HAD SOMEONE AS SMART AS OBAMA TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT BUT YOU DON'T DO YO WISH YOU DID DON'T YOU, YOU JUST HAVE IDIOT BOY McMAIN LOL LOLLOL (YES OBAMA IS MUCH SMARTER THAN McCAIN)

Rita, Burbank, CA July 17th, 2008 3:05 pm ET wrote:

"…I heard the Meet the Press interview in which Joe Biden was asked about the VP position, and his reluctant acknowledgement that he would accept it only out of a sense of obligation to his party and his party's Presidential candidate seemed entirely genuine…"

Man! Your kids must get away with murder if you are that gullable…

Oh great, another white establishment male. No wonder this country is going in the toilet. It's going to be more of the same from Obama now too.

Get some backbone and offer Hillary the position.

I love Obama/Biden!!!! Luv it!!!!!!!!

Truthteller: I think Biden is ripping off Obama! The correct spelling is 'plagiarizing', by the way.

Oh I got it…

Obama isn't really involved at all in Afghan but has a strategy for fixing it… without talking to anyone there, or seeing it… Great… typical politician…

OMG! did I say Johnny come lately? ….great minds think alike. What I don't understand is, given Obama's education, why wasn't he able to cast a vote or hold meetings? Why given important posts? Why aren't there any court records of cases won or lost? Why wasn't there any mention of work in Algerst Garden and so forth? This is mind boggling. If this doesn't interest the voters…….then something is terribly wrong. One American President once said….." America will not be destroyed from the outside if we falter and lose our freedoms, it is because we allow to destroy ourselves". History has a funny way of repeating itself. I will chop its head off.

Itty bitty Biden went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the Biden out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itty bitty Biden went up the spout again.

Grandmaaaaaaa their picking on me again…

Now they're also picking on Michelle…waaaaaa

I'm sorry Hillary, please forgive me for picking on your spouse. .

Anyone, how about you Biden, please protect me.

Sandy July 17th, 2008 2:43 pm ET wrote:

Democrats are hopeless! That's a laugh. We have lots of hope…
_____

The point is that WE have no HOPE for Democrats…

Having the bar set so low kind of takes the pressure off, doesn't it? Anything short of total idiocy or failure on your part is considered a success by the rest of the world.

And Obama can't even rise above THAT bar…

There no one better than Senator Biden for the VP job and then hopefully another 8 as the President. He has the charismatic personality that we need in our President to fix the one million things that are screwed right now.

Given McCain's record as having the WORSE attendance/voting record in Congress, he really should not be throwing stones at Barack about this!!!

The fact that Biden's committee has done something does not excuse the fact that Obama has not. To even make the suggestion is a red herring and frankly misleading. In addition, I don't want to hear another complaint from these guys on Afghanistan given their personal responsibility through these committees.

Biden would be a great choice for Obama's VP. He has enormous foreign policy experience, is well respected in the senate, and is a straight shooter. He tells it like it is and that's what America needs.

All you Hillary supprters need to stop smoking that stuff and get real. She's irrellevant.

Obama/Biden '08

This is one of the most compelling ticket.

He got a lot of credentials and not much baggage at all.

It is a tie between Biden and Hillary.

Obama/ Biden or

Obama/Hillary 08 & 12.

I wanted Joe Biden to be the presidential nominee. The VP spot for him on an Obama ticket just doesn't cut it with me.

Because the media is bias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S.

Joe ought to accompany Obama to Iraq and Afghanistan on his forthcoming trip.

Please for anybody still questioning if Barack Obama is ready, is experienced enough, is prepared enough, and is intelligent enough to be President…..
Please watch this speech during a CNN clip it was less than two years ago and it is just mesmirizing, inspirational, and really made my decision for me.

McCain should learn first to differentiate between tactics and strategies. In Irak Petraeus is making strategy. Is it the same in Afghanistan ? Poor US where the millitary is defining the strategies. It´s the Presidents task before talking with the soldiers.

John McSame and Bush take not a blind bit of notice of these committee reports,

As witnessed over the Val Plame Wilson affair the congressional oversite is ignored or deliberately blocked by the BUsh McSame duo why therefore shoiuld anyone think they are important or matter in any way shape or form.

It amazes me why McSame flip flopper in general with short and long term memory loss is percieved as better on foriegn relations, when he cannot even remember anything accurately.

McSame is just dead from the neck up.

Joe Biden would be a good choice for Vice-President of the United States. I hope that Senator Obama chooses either him or someone with similar qualifications and experience.

Joe Biden! I have long admired the guy and, more recently, have thought he would be a terrific VP for Obama. Like his personality even tho I know he can be a little testy sometimes. On the Very Big Plus side, he's so knowlegeable about foreign matters. Go ObAMA/ BIDEN!!!!!!

Biden… PLEASE!!!!!

I thought this whole Obama thing was about getting rid of the Washington insiders.

Do I hear some more back pedaling folks

Is Biden on the trip?

I love how McCain and his straight talk express have so clearly expressed that they don't want to run a negative campaign.

I have yet to see ANY positive campaigning on his part. His whole strategy to date has been to blast Obama for ever word he says… then take his advise and run under the same platforms.

McCain… you don't even have the decency to give credit where credit is due. Remember all the times you said how irresponsible and convoluted Obama is for even suggesting we meet with leaders of countries like Iran and N. Korea… are you ever going to issue an apology and give Obama credit for the fact that he was the one suggesting we do that?

Anyone who votes for McCain is voting for a president who will never give credit where credit is due, and will never take personal responsibility for anything he's wrong about. It's ok to be wrong about an issue… but to constantly try to blast down everyone else's ideas and not even concede to the fact that those ideas have worked… McCain isn't even a decent human being, let along someone who I would want to represent our great country.

Excuses Excuses flip flops everyone picking on poor me and Michelle. He's going overseas but won't do his job in the Senate sub-committee on Afghanistan. I think he is disgrace and I cannot believe how many people follow him blindly. I'm really disappointed in Biden for making excuses for Obama.

So disband the sub-committee and Obama takes it off his resume…

What does Obama do all day? He doesn't vote back here in Illinois - he's never present. Anyone care to let me know what he does for a living beside gripe about how everyone's mistreating him and trying to draw sympathy?

Sounds like, "entitlement" mentaility.

It will truly be amazing and historical if Barack gets elected to the Presidency.

Think about all those that are attacking him:

* Dumb butt Puma's…emotional former Hillary supporters
* Foolish Republicans looking for 4 more years of the same
(includes Limberger and Faux news commentors)
* Jealous / frustrated black leaders i.e. J. Jackson
* John McSame

Except for the intelligent people (i.e. Obamabots)….this guy has the world against him. Does anyone else see it this way?

Why is it that if an Obama supporter hits back at the GOP it's titled "coming to Obama's defense", but when Romney or someone hits back a Obama its "Romney Slams Obama". Once again, very biased reporting.

Wow– Joe Biden–
That name rings of change—
I've been telling you—THe only change you will get is the change in your pockets—Biden = Change like Special Interest groups will be running the Country because Mr. Obama has no experience and no clue as to whats going on—

Here we go again! How hypocritical. Senator Obama is chairman of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. The same panel that has jurisdiction over NATO's operations, including its efforts in Afghanistan. And he has not called a meeting in two years. That may be understandable. He’s just probably too busy trying buying the Presidency of the USA!

And of course Senator Biden is going to defend him. He's bucking to be the Senator's vice president. A few months ago Senator Biden
thought that Senator Obama was "too green" to aspire to be the next American President. How convenient! How hypocritical. Senator Obama IS still "too green." What changed Senator Biden's mind. Suspicious minds!

Every one knows Senator Obama has absolutely no foreign policy experience. American voters, remember Senator Biden has been caught lying previously. Can you really trust these two Senators?

This is why it is so difficult for some of us Democrats to believe (accept) Senator Obama's and his supporter's rhetoric about open government. That includes "Change We Can NOT Trust."

America, please wake up before it's too late!

Anyone but Clinton and Obama is a sure loser.

He's probably going to lose anyway, but at least Clinton would give him a chance.

BIDEN , UNFORTUNATELY HAD TO WITHDRW FROM THE PRIMARIES BECAUSE HE DID NOT GET ENOUGH SUPPORT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE , NOR THE FUNDS HE NEEDED FOR HIS CAMPAIGN. WHAT MAKES AMERICAN S THINK HE CAN GET THE VOTES AND FUNDS AS THE VP RUNNING MATE OF OBAMA.
IT IS VERY CLEAR WHO HAS THE GREATER NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS AND THE FUND RAISING ABILITY FOT VP TO OBAMA. NONE OTHER (NADA) THAN HILLARY CLINTON WHOSE SUPPORTERS NUMBER ALONE CAN DECIDE THE WINNER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THEREFORE IT IS EITHER HILLARY AS VP OR OBAMA LOSES THE ELECTION.

How hopeful is this? Finally, a VP with a solid understanding of foreign relations through diplomacy as opposed to one whose priority in his influence evolves around his personal business interests.

We dont want change, we MUST have change!

Joe biden is a good man and will make a wonderful vp.

To all those Hillary voters saying '18 million', you realize that most of them are voting for Obama no matter who he chooses? Unlike you sexists who refuse to believe that a woman could lose an election.

I was very impressed with Buden in the primary. He would make a fine VP.

So what you're saying Joe, is Obama's committee is irrelevant and so useless that it doesn't need to meet,especially when he needs to be compainging for three quarters of his tenure in the Senate. Great experience going on there, guys. BTW Joe, try cleaning up the thugs and crime in your own city of Wilmington-it's a war zone too.

Hispanic for McCain…

You're the only Hispanic on any blog on any website that I've seen so far support McCain. Every other Hispanic voter that I know (and being in Los Angeles I know many) is voting for Obama.

Biden would make the best Secretary of State.

Boy thats a super liberal combo ,Biden and Barack ! America's enemies would quiver in fright from those two flashing the peace sign and bloviating! Oh thats right ; you liberals believe we don't have any enemies just misunderstandings because of nasty dumb Bush!

Wow…talk about trying to get Obama closer to the center….Joe Biden is trying to carry him there??

obama cannot be two places at the same time. obama 08

Yes, McCain is qualified. Upon his return to America, instead of accepting a promotion in the Navy, he opted to undertake studying military warfare…a position normally reserved for the upper ranks of the military.

Now lets compare this to the 'community organizer' who's done nothing since he's gained his sentate seat except campaign.

You all claim that Bush and McCain are adopting his policies…this couldn't be further from the truth.

Biden or Hillary is the only way he gets elected.

Jan - you think Afghanistan is Obama's war? Hello, we've been at war there since 2002. Remember bin Laden and the Taliban, the folks who were behind 9/11?

Obama has NEVER said he was against all war, so if you think that, you're just making it up - he said he was against stupid, unjustified wars, e.g., Iraq.

To the Obama critics:

Please get your facts straight BEFORE you blog!

On Afghanistan: If you would listen, Sen. Obama has been telling us that the REAL battlefront against terrorism is Afghanistan! He has been saying this since last fall. But IF YOU ARE AGAINST HIM, YOU WONT LISTEN.

To Hillary supporters:

What egos you people have! You would rather see another failed-Republican-presidency than vote for Sen. Obama?!

You would rather have a man, like John McCain who "knows how to win wars" and think Czechoslovakia IS STILL A NATION!

You would rather have McCain a man who cares nothing for the issues of women in our country!

Sad.

Olander it qualifies you to be commander in chief more than going door to door in a Chicago neighborhood promising "change"

While I would be very pleased to see Biden selected as Barack Obama's VP running mate, this article gives the false impression that Biden's actions were taken in an effort to boost his prospects. I heard the Meet the Press interview in which Joe Biden was asked about the VP position, and his reluctant acknowledgement that he would accept it only out of a sense of obligation to his party and his party's Presidential candidate seemed entirely genuine. Perhaps his response to Sen. Demint was made only to set the record straight and to deflect a cheap shot from the other side. Just a possibility.

Wow, Obama is actually chairman of a foreign relations sub-committee in the United States Senate. I thought he was just an inexperienced empty suit!!

Hey CNN, this is not the first time Joe Biden has made this point. He already provided this explanation on the NATO-Afghanistan issue back in the primaries - look it up. Please stick to reporting and we will draw our own conclusions from what you report.

Obama/Biden '08

So what I get from this is that Sen. Joe Biden does not trust Sen. Obama to "handle the most complex" problems on his own committee?

Wow if this isn't a wake up call.

Please, anybody but Hillary! She has too much baggage (hi Bill!) and she's not as universally well liked as she seems to think. The Clintons tend to overstate their own popularity. Chelsea seems like a nice young woman though. She made an appearance at my local farmer's market and was very gracious.

Wow -head of For Comm - 3 meetings and Obama attended only 1 - that is the facts - you obama crazies ( I will be voting for him) but come on why is he going over there and making a speech - he is doing this all wrong - the bottom line he still cannot get ahead in big numbers of McaShame and the reason is he he has NO EXPERIENCE - unfortunately he will be another carter - but maybe not carter could not be controlled by anyone - he truly was an honest president - but Obama has PROVEN he can be CONTROLLED by anyone - OBVIOUSLY

I was hoping Biden would win the nomination - but running with Obama as VP would be a great secondary option. For someone who is on the fence - this would have me leaning towards Obama for sure. With Clinton as VP i may go the other way.

Manuel TX,

If you're capable……… READ THE ARTICLE!

People who are labeling Sen. Biden as a plagiarist need to wash their faces and wake up from sleep.

This man is one of the most knowledgable person w.r.t. foreign policy.

I can not believe we are fussing about how many meeting someone did or did not attend. People our young men and women are dying. We need to get them home. We know John McCain is not going to do it he wants to save face. Because you know he knows how to win a war. Please tell me what our prize will be. To me winning means that we did what we set out to do and did it well. Well America have we? We have lost if all of our young men and women don't come home and are not able to continue a far better life than they had when they left. We owe them and we owe them BIG!!! We all seem to be so party (Dem or Rep) driven than we are people driven. Let's get our priorities straight.

You don't have to be in the middle of a war zone to see the damage it's doing to our soldiers and economy. The soldier's are coming home mentally and physically damaged or in caskets and the economy speaks for itself. Look at all of the foreclosure signs and gas prices. I don't have foreign experience but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that war is going no where!

This is not new NEWS …. Biden said this on Meet The Press some time ago.

If journalists were doing there job, the world would know this.

I'm really suprised that McCain supporter, Jim DeMint, would try such a sleazy tactic in July when it should have been common knowledge, at least among Senatorial staffers, that Joe Biden would hit back HARD like this.

It's a marvel to watch the GOP attack machine sputter and spin. They're spinning so hard they're about to fly off their pivot. When one listens to Obama and Biden speak (which clearly is not something the neocons bother to do), one is struck by the comprehensive nature of their approach. They're not about sound bites or quick fixes or rah-rah symantics. They present a thorough, reasoned strategy that is so refreshing after eight years of Bush-McCain bumbling b.s.

Biden would be the perfect VP choice. Smart as a whip. Fearless about calling out the Republicans hypocrites. And well versed in the intricacies of foreign affairs and matters of national defense.

An Obama/Biden ticket would be a very formidable team. Articulate and tough. And the perfect remedy to eight years of Dummy Politics. How welcome it will be to have people in the White House who can actually string together sentences AND know what what they're talking about!

So then why exactly is there even a subcommittee? I would love to chair a committee that doesn't ever meet.

I can sum this up with one word:

S.P.I.N.

The repubs are throwing anything at the dems (kitchen sink)…too bad it doesn't affect my vote.

I'm clear eyed guys.

I think these so- called Obama haters actually love Obama. They just want the attention. You would never find me on a blog about McCain. I think these nutjobs are funny

We know what our current crop of democrats will do for lobbyist money. See those who voted FOR the FISA bill, including obama. But what will they do to get to follow obama and kiss his butt. Guess biden shows us that……gee how in the devil did we ever elect a bunch of crooked common place bunch of devils as this.

By the way, my boy raised 52 million dollars?? My goodness!! RNC, I told you he could compete wih you guys and as for the DNC, you know what, just stay away, O.K? LOL!! We don't need you….

Hey look guys!! I see John(King) on ESPN(Mike and Mike)! Bust out John!! Bust out!!!

I think Joe Biden would be a great VP but he will probably end up being Secretary of State due to the intense media scrutiny for any past issues. Acutally, he would probably prefer it. Thanks Joe for supporting our next president

The present Senate Foreign Relations Committee leadership of Biden and Lugar functions as the framers of the Constitution desired.
Different parties, sometimes different ideas, but the same goal (i.e. the safety of the U.S. and promotion of our national interests abroad).

Joe Biden's "fessed up" to the Neil Kinnock "plagerism" issue of 20 years ago. Yes, he would make a great Secretary of State or he should say where he is. Delaware will go for Obama and why stick a bright guy in a job with nothing to do except the President's biding, preside over the Senate and go to funerals. What a waste! This also applies to HIllary Clinton, by the way.

Joe Biden teaches a Constitutional Law seminar at Widener Law School in Wilmington. Don't know about you, but we've had scant experts in this field in the executive branch these last 8 years. That says enough for me!

People will be checking this all out but to me immediately addressing all these issues at the full committee level is the right call. I guess however the problem is that while the Rep senator is the top dog on the subcommittee he isnt in the full one. It's politics and power, and he wants some co-chair actions on the record.

And btw, neither candidate can have too many elected officials coming to his defense and Biden is merely supporting his party's nominee.

But the big question is was Obama there when these full committe meetings were held, that he didnt chair?(why didnt he? wasnt that his job?) What was the point in giving him the chairmanship if he was not going to hold hearings? Oh yeah to beef up his resume.

Anyone who still believes Joe Biden the BS from the 88 campaign about Biden is not a serious student of modern electoral history. Biden was cleared on all allegations by the media and competing campaigns. In fact, Dukakis was so shamed by his campaign manager and long-time advisor's smear on Biden that he fired him.

I'm all for Obama/Biden '08.

Biden would be a bad choice. His foreign policy credentials would overshadow Obama's, making Obama look weak and inexperienced.

HILLARY LOVERS LIKE CHRIS…

Get a life. The Senator is just a senator; shes gone; she's not even in the news; she and her husband are old news but in debt and begging for help to get out of it; she was fun while it lasted, would have been a good second choice, but was indeed the second choice which is being shown by the way Barack is edging ahead in Indiana and Ohio and other swing states. Go vote libertarian or for Nader, all you Hillary mopers who got your feelings hurt and won't get over it!!! The democratic party is stronger than ever and uniting to win in November–get on the train or risk being left behind for the next four years just like Hillary and Bill risk it if they pout and cry over bygones…:)

we didnt realize that Obama needed others to defend him…

Oh well, there goes my image of "Obama can walk on water"

Biden did the right thing. If the full committee which Biden chairs has covered this matter in 3 meetings, there is absolutely no reason for their subcommittee to meet and discuss. That would be a waste of taxpayer money and Congressional time.

Jim DeMint is just grandstanding. Biden was right to set the record straight. Someone needs to explain to Jim DeMint how subcommittees interface with full committees.

"The McCain campaign, like Hillary Clinton's, has noted Obama has yet to hold a hearing dealing with Afghanistan since he became chairman nearly two years ago."

Why is Hillary still talking, huh? Can someone explain that to me??

And by the way guys, this election is gonna come down to one thing and one thing only……..TRUST!! You look at one aisle and look at the other, is no secret. Is that simple guys, I'm gonna tell you the truth. If my boy doesn't become President, is not because he lacks national security issues or is naive, is because they don't think he can handle it. This election has to do more about psychology than anything else…..in the end, the person who will win will be the person that they like…

I see Obama and his supporters are whining about his wife being picked on by the "conservative press". lol. The HUGE Leftist press has been attacking Republicans for decades so get over it whimpy.

Just because Joe BIden is defending Obama doesn't mean he is up for the VP but he should be the VP. COme on get a grip, CNN! Biden is tough guy who believes he fight for the right cause it has nothing to do with him being a VP.

Biden doesn't play games with these people. I like that in a VP!

Obama/Biden

This is politics as usual. A Washington insider for many years is defending Obama's non participation in these committee meetings. This is shameful. So what makes Obama qualified to be president of the United States? It is abundantly clear that his so called community work on the abestos issue was minimum and lhe tried to appropriate to himself credit for work that other people did. His judgement on Iraq, it lhas been show that his mentor and pastor criticised the Iraq war from the pulpit before Obama made his speech. The ball is in Obama's court: what qualifies him to be president? What tangible achievements can he cite to advance his claims?Speak loudly, clearly and unambiguously so that people would know. Time for a change from rhetoric to substance.

JO-JO BIDEN July 17th, 2008 2:03 pm ET

defending OBAMA ? why little boy blue cannot fend for himself ?

DEMOCRATS YOU ARE HOPELESS………….FOR SURE!!!!!

yahoos…………..yahoos
———————————————————————————————–Excuse me JO-JO BIDEN???? I think you're really talking about your candidate McCain. Poor McCain's surrogates probably don't even have time to eat every day because they have to be on every news show correcting every single McCain blunder, flip flop, or misstatement for that particular day. I think huffington post should have a McCain flip flop counter. Right now I think it's at 65 flip flops for McCain.

It will be Obama/Gore.
Remember you heard it first.

DeMint is considered to be a good-old-boy, fundamentalist, right-wing puppet in South Carolina. Biden has every right to speak his opinion, just as DeMint had a right to release a scripted, McCain campaign blast.

Joe Biden would sell his grandmother for political gain.

An Obama Biden ticket is a great choice! I like to really see it, please make this happen. Its not everyday that you have a ticket where one man is a master at flipping words while the VP is a master at flopping words. Sweet!

Obama/Biden would be good. Whomever Obama picks as his VP is okay with me.

I think these people stating "Hillary for VP or no go!" ought to seriously think of what you are giving up, and what you will get if you do not vote for the Presumptive Democratic Candidate. Can I say "I told you so!" when McCain gets to pick 3 Supreme court Justices, we sign a lease for Iraq for another hundred years, and nobody has health care, except the Congress. Oh that's right, we can get medicaid!

I like Joe Biden — and he's actually qualified to be president should he need to take that position. What a concept for selecting a VP candidate!

Way to go JOE!!!!!!!!!!

That is all Obama needs…that gaffe machine at his side.

Excuse me JO-JO BIDEN???? I think you're really talking about your candidate McCain. Poor McCain's surrogates probably don't even have time to eat every day because they have to be on every news show correcting every single McCain blunder, flip flop, or misstatement for that particular day. I think huffington post should have a McCain flip flop counter. Right now I think it's at 65 flip flops for McCain.

For those who think that being Republican is an obligation to vote for the Republican party despite what Bush's done to this country in the past 8 years, I feel so sorry for you. You are the most unpatriotic people that any country in the world has ever seen.
Patriotism means loves for the country not for the party.
Thank God there more independant than stupid Republicans

I love the way Biden talks, when he talks people listen and act, Mr Joe Biden nickname should be Mr. Get Right. Obama for leadershipship coupled with Biden's experience = the Dream Ticket, Get Em Biden, RNC can't hold a flame to this guy.

How can anyone who loves there kids, even consider voting for the Republicans. They are a joke. The only people voting for them should be Rich people making ove $200k a year. They don't care about the avg. American citizen at all , they will lie and say anything. Its Amazing how people spend all this time complaining about BUSH. but still will vote for the SAME Policies again, then will complain in 2yrs about how screwed up the country is. Grow up Folks!!

Yeah, and John McCain jumped on the bandwagon and said he would send THREE more battalions to the Afghan war–only problem is, there are not THREE to send, so he had to get back up in front of the mike and say he would send TWO, the same as Barack announced earlier…how droll this old man is becoming:)

Whoooo Hoooo !
Nothing says you want to change Government like getting a pat on the back from Ted Kennedy and a VP like Joe Biden. Now that's change we can believe in (cough, cough). Yea buddy, Old Obama will be a rubber stamp for the Democratic congress for sure.

He would be a good VP, but he's got to want it.

Democrats are hopeless! That's a laugh. We have lots of hope…we believe we can still save this country, and we believe Obama is just the man to do it. It is Republicans who are hopeless, they see the US crumbling and STILL they support a candidate who will not change one darn thing! Now, that is hopeless resignation.

I thought Obama was against war for any reason! Truth is, he wants to pursue his own war in Afghanistan after cutting and running from "Bush's" war in Iraq! what gives? This man's ego knows no bounds!

Lets have some debates.

let Obama and McCain have at it.

No reporters, no prompters, no media.

Let the American people ask the questions.

I know the real american will win all debates

McCain 08

Republican spin equals Republican lies! You can't hide 8 years of GOP incompetence. All you offer is 4 more years of the same failed policies in McCain! Seems to me that Bush has heard Sen. Obama's calls for new Foreign Policy strategies, his calls for a new approach. What has McCain outlined, what are his policies? …

Did anyone ever stop to think that the media is driven by the people, and that the people want to know more about Barack. If the people were clammering over John McCain, the media would talk more about him.

Just look at these post, they fill up twice as fast for Barack than John. Sometimes John's post take all day to close. Look at whats happening around you, don't just blame the media. The country is interested in Barack, and the media is giving us what we want.

send your man out as a speaking tube why doesn't he explain his own absence……why doesn't o bama debate mc cain…. is a afraid the truth might get out it is hard to theorize a debate isn't it… i hear o bama is planning a 20.000.000 dollar ad during the olympics ….money well spent……your money demopcrats

It will not take much for Obama to win! McCain has set the bar to the standard of well….if you actually know which country you are talking about, then you're already ahead of the Republican nominee.

News to the so-called great foreign-relations expert, John McCain - Czechoslovakia no longer exists!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So last August Biden said Obama was a "johnny come lately" on afghanistan, now he "has displayed great leadership on this issue'. Was Biden lying then, or is he lying now? These are mutually exclusive statements.

no doubt, HUGO CHAVEZ!

Must be alot of BEES flying around the news media with all this "BUZZING". The news media is getting just as annoying as a swarm of bees.

Listen you wimpering little Democrates. All of you were better off when the Republicans ruled both houses before your people were voted in back in 2006. Now look what you have done! In 1+years of your control of one house you have trashed this once great country.

I can't wait for John McCain to step up to the plate and take what is rightfully his.

on Nov 4 …SAY NO TO MC-COPYCAT BUSH

At least the Republicans are not shirking their duties to defend this country.

Wow how Crazy this great country is now OBAMA winning 75% of the White votes that is what the media is saying!!! Crazy that means that for every 20 white voters15 are voting for OBAMA that is what the media is portraying. 75% PERCENT of the Nation white population is voting for OBAMA. Now we all know that the media is crap, I mean a big crap, Folks in this blog it that true or what? I know for a Fact that Latinos in bunches are voting for McCain and that is a Big Fact!!! but I don't know about the 75% of white people voting for OBAMA. The truth is that Latinos will support John McCain!!!

Hispanic for McCain!!!

I will no longer be posting comments on these pages. The level of "discussion", if you call it that, frightens me. Half of the comments make it obvious that the readers haven't even read the full article, the other half don't even seem to be commenting on the article at all. Please keep your partisan, elementary and overly-simplified responses to yourself or keep them quarantied to your private blog of choice. You are not contributing to any public discussion and moving the dialogue forward at all. Thank you.

defending OBAMA ? why little boy blue cannot fend for himself ?

DEMOCRATS YOU ARE HOPELESS………….FOR SURE!!!!!

yahoos…………..yahoos

Well at least most of us are semi-literate

I have to first comment on the post above: OBAMA OR DIE!!!. Are you serious? If you're joking that kind of "humour" has no place in this democracy? I am voting for John McCain, should I then be executed or persecuted? The last time I checked this was not Zimbabwe, please keep that in mind.

As to the article, I want Obama to lose so perhaps Biden would be a good choice. If he wanted to win he needs to pick someone like Evan Bayh or Ed Rendell from a state that supported Hillary.

is biden as clean and articulate as barry?

I would be very happy with Biden as VP. I like that he has guts and seems fearless.

I think…therefore I am liberal!

Joe would be an excellent choice

Why is it that Obama has to defend everything he says and does and Mccain gets away with explaining himself for major blunders. Remember Bomb Iran, Viagra, Winny Americans, the many flip flops..etc. Oh wait… Obama is black, young and gifted and intelligent, something that has been missing from the presidential race since the history of the race.

Sen. Biden is a great man, a great public servant, and he'd make a far better VP for the Dems than ANY of the alleged GOP "shortlisters." However, I'd still like seeing Gen. Clark as VP; I still agree with him on his comments about McCain.
To those who want HRC as veep — are you REALLY ready for the baggage she carries? You'll all be the first ones to scream when Bill gets himself into more hot water.

OBAMA FOR TWO!

The VP will not help Obama, he's toast. Sick to death of him and Michelle. I turn the TV off when they come on. Can you tell I use to call myself a yellow dog dem? Now thanks to the DNC I have to vote for McCain.

I love to see Republican sweat they are trying to throw everything at Obama and it is not working keep trying Republicans it will not work this time. Obama/ Biden 08

Who voted for Biden in the primaries…can someone remind me??

Clinton or bust.

Right on Cherrystrawberry!

not this time…not THIS ELECTION!!!!!!!

Go Bama

not this time…not THIS ELECTION!!!!!!!

Go Bama

not this time…not THIS ELECTION!!!!!!!

Go Bama

I am honestly baffled how anyone can still think McCain is superior in foreign relations. He has made numerous errors in this field (Sunni v. Shia x 2, Czechoslovakia x 3, Putin being President of Germany, Sudan v. Somalia). The President has finally realized we need to talk with Iran, the Iraqi president is interested in talking about US withdrawal, and McCain is even following Obama's plan for Afghanistan. Obama has been right on these issues for several years and knows where other countries are. Although he mentioned 57 states, he obviously was talking about 57 primaries and he did not make that mistake on numerous occasions. The gaffes by McCain on these topics are numerous and repetitive.

How can anyone trust a man who wants to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran or kill its citizens with cigarettes. Even if those statements were jokes, they are extremely inappropriate, unpresidential, and unhelpful to foreign relations. We know what happened last time the country elected someone who was predispositioned to 'take out' an enemy - he started a war under false pretenses.

Wow! This is too funny! Foot in mouth Biden and obfuscating Obama?

Dem mouthpieces keep trying to cover for the guy with no intestinal fortitude, no priorities other than to win, no moral center and no core principles!

How stupid do you think Americans are?

I agree with J. Richter. It's amazing that even now the Bush administration is adopting Obama's foreign policies, with Afghan and also attending talks with Iran, effectively pulling the rug out from under McCain. Why don't we hear more about this on tv news? I'm looking forward to the debates when Obama can lay McCain's blustering to rest.

Amusing, not a single committee meeting on Afghanistan. It obviously wasn't important. Or was he hiding behind Big Mamma's skirts - Joe Biden. He better choose him as a running mate because very obviously Obama can't do it on his own. Obviously Biden didn't trust Obama with the big issues or the complexity, don't blame the man. Hopefully America won't trust him with the presidency

I remember Joe Biden's mistruths way back when… but do you remember Dubya's and Cheney's and Rummies and Rove's mistruths. You know the ones… the ones that have caused over 4000 deaths of our GI's and 10,000 serious injuries? HMMM…. they are almost the same…. NOT!!

You GOP plants LOVE to point fingers at every Dem little thing when your own FLOODGATES are wide open and stinks of manure. ANYTHING the Dems bring in the next election will be 1,000 times better than anything that has the GOP label on it. Time for the GOP party to crash and burn.

When is McCain going to be held to account for his lack of leadership and desicion making skills in the international arena? HE is the ONE that backed Bush's illegal invasion of a sovereign nation … NOT Obama. MCCain is simply too unsophisticated to lead in the 21st Century … he is a relic when it comes to foreign policy!

sorry chris,but,obama is winning without any1 right now.he will win with whomever he chooses,because its all about the prez .as for hillary?she has no foriegn intelligence compared to joe biden.until she releases her delegates,she will not get the offer.too many folks out there,like you, that cant be trusted to maintain your loyalty to the party of sen. clinton.

hillary is a serious lightweight compared to biden.
obama/biden 08

I'd rather see a republican VP than Biden. And I am still counting on Hillary. Biden didn't fare so well in the primarys as I recall and I'm one of Hillary's 18 MILLION!.

Senator Biden would be the absolute BEST CHOICE for VP. He is extremely knowledgeable of foreign affairs and could really help Obama on that score. I sure hope he gets the nod!

McCain doesn’t look far ahead beyond the next day; his embrace of Bush policies helped him clinch the GOP nomination this year from a crowded field of flawed candidates. But it came with a steep price, for his tie to the President now has proven more costly than he ever thought. Look at him now trying to get back on the “express talk”. Sorry McCain that bus let you and you can’t catch up with Obama because you’re out of shape since you rarely go to the gym.

Biden would make a good VP. Since Hillary has never stepped up to the plate to fix her misspeakings. Obama is smart, young, ripe, and in touch with America.
McCain is old, confused, and out of touch with the USA(and the world). I guess that's what all of those years in a senate office will do to you!
Barack Hussein Obama will make a fine president no matter who he picks for his VP.
Wishing November was here
Obama in 08!

Dear Solan Rai,

Rest in peace.

I love this guy. Slap them down hard Joe. He wuld make a great VP!

I think Obama is a smooth talker who is a racist at heart and at this point, even though I have been a life long democrat and have not voted for a republican, I won't vote for him. Having said that, if he chooses Biden I'll reconsider, otherwise Nader will get my vote.

TO SOLAN RAI.
TAKE THE SECOND OPTION

joe your good on policy issues but the mainstream is looking for Hillary why, because who in this race has earn that nod, she did and if we are going to change things in d.c., lets do it right woman have been on the broken end of the bottle in this country and from this ol wasp point of view they have always been there in peace and war if not Hillary than we are just going to buck the hoopla and go demo congress and repug. pres

Good combination. Someone who plagerizes with someone who says nothing.

Mr truth teller
if I'm not mistaken wasn't Hillary caught lying also? This man is only telling what is truthful. You haters need to get a hobby. We don't want Hillary as VP, we don't want hillary as nothing as far as I'm concern she and Bill can high tail it back to NY.

Obama

I'm a "recovering republican" and am become more and more ashamed of my voting for republicans for the past 50 years. Republicans are shameful!!

Joe Biden should have been the nominee and either Hillary or Obama should be fighting for V.P. Not the other way around.

In other words, Biden.(like in Biddin' your time hoping to get a VP nod ) you have no faith in Barak's abilities. If he is Chair of the Subcomittee that is in charge of European affairs why have you been handling matters at a full committee level instead of letting him do his job?. It sounds to me like you don't trust him being able to do his subcommittee job.

i don't see how Biden's remark backs up OBAMA in any way. The charge was that OBAMA has not been in attendance at most of theses foreign relations committee meetings. The Charge stands as Biden said nothing contrary to that point. Come on CNN let's get the facts straight this man OBAMA know nothing about nor intends to do anything about foreign relations. I hope he does select Biden as his running mate. That will only convinc