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What do you think of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., as Barack Obama's choice for his running mate?

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced that he was choosing Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., as his vice presidential running mate.

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69.1%
Obama picked the right candidate
65,610 votes
25.4%
Obama should have picked someone else
24,082 votes
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Not sure

Hey, it's not even Saturday morning yet!

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  • 13 votes
 - Mike D.
 - 1:05 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

Biden is THE foreign policy go-to person. AND we can be sure that when it comes to McCain's foibles: "this dog DOES hunt!" Get 'Im Joe!

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  • 25 votes
 - UDbmas
 - 1:09 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

I think its great he will go after Mccain strong.

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  • 18 votes
 - 1:09 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

Obama picked Walter?

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  • 2 votes
 - 1:12 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

Smart call. Policy guy to fill the gap. What I expected, and what I hoped for.

{"commentId":2551099,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"mikedossett"}
  • 28 votes
 - 1:15 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

Now, let's get on task with winning in November.
Take nothing for granted and attack by offering the truth!

{"commentId":2551121,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"ArthurSchneider"}
  • 19 votes
 - 1:17 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

I'm okay with it. He wasn't my first choice, but he's fine. Considering John McCain, it would be impossible for Obama to lose my vote.

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  • 15 votes
 - 1:17 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

AWESOME !!! After awful choices in Loserman and Two-Face Johnny the Dems got it right in a huge way !

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  • 16 votes
 - 1:17 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

If not Hillary, Biden was the best of the rest. Great pick.

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  • 26 votes
 - 1:18 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama should have picked someone else

should have picked Hillary!!

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  • 21 votes
 - 1:19 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Not sure

I'm going to die laughing if all this presumption turns out to be a planned distraction by Obama to shock the nation with Gore or Clinton

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  • 2 votes
 - Aaron R
 - 1:19 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

The race is on....Go Obama!!!

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  • 27 votes
 - 1:21 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

Seems like Biden is a straight shooter. (unlike Cheney) He may upset people with his mouth, but at least you know he is being honest!

{"commentId":2551184,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"msmith8978"}
  • 30 votes
 - 1:21 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

whoohoo lets go TEAM

{"commentId":2551185,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"sun-green"}
  • 19 votes
 - 1:21 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
Obama picked the right candidate

if I can't have Hillary I'll be happy with Joe Biden.

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     - jpear
     - 1:21 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama picked the right candidate

    Great pick for Obama! Joe was my pick before he dropped out. This is a great day for the First State to sign the constitution of the US!

    {"commentId":2551189,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"mklez"}
    • 22 votes
     - 1:21 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama should have picked someone else

    I am VERY disappointed in selection of a dated establishment insider instead of someone who would bring meaningful change to DC.

    {"commentId":2551194,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"spirkle"}
    • 15 votes
     - 1:22 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama should have picked someone else

    HE SHOULD HAVE PICKED HILLARY!!!

    {"commentId":2551195,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"adventureguy"}
    • 17 votes
     - 1:22 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama picked the right candidate

    OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) F_ing Awesome. The only words to say.

    {"commentId":2551203,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"tsidkenuadonai"}
    • 23 votes
     - CIH8U2
     - 1:23 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama picked the right candidate

    Obama had any no other choice than a white man; there are too many who aren't ready for a true mixed ticket of a white woman & a black man.

    {"commentId":2551208,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"Pink69"}
    • 10 votes
     - Pink69
     - 1:23 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
    Obama should have picked someone else

    once again the all boys club and i thought this was going to be a change. this really disappoints me and i like biden.

    {"commentId":2551211,"threadId":"337855","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"bjbsilcox"}
    • 11 votes
     - 1:23 am EDT on Sat Aug 23, 2008
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    {"commentId":2579037,"authorDomain":"jyoung-1"}

    Obama: What a class act! Obama/Biden: What a superb team! And...they look great together! Obama showed great leadership ability in choosing Biden! Those of you who think he is an elitist/egotists - get a grip. He left whatever ego he has go and determined it best to "right the ship" by picking a dynamic foreign relations specialist . We are treating "age and experience" as though they are "cuss words"! Along with Biden's age and experience, he is bringing decades of "insideers' history". He knows the roads traveled, less traveled, secretly 'Cheney' traveled....so together they can determine the best roads to be traveled. Besides, Biden can kick McCain to the curb with that ever so sweeeeeet smile. I'm one of the original bra-burners of the '60's and I'm luvin' it!

    {"commentId":2579037,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"jyoung-1"}
      Reply#1241 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:46 PM EDT
      {"commentId":2579064,"authorDomain":"jyoung-1"}

      Obama: What a class act! Obama/Biden: What a superb team! And...they look great together! Obama showed great leadership ability in choosing Biden! Those of you who think he is an elitist/egotists - get a grip. He left whatever ego he has go and determined it best to "right the ship" by picking a dynamic foreign relations specialist . We are treating "age and experience" as though they are "cuss words"! Along with Biden's age and experience, he is bringing decades of "insider's history". He knows the roads traveled, less traveled, secretly 'Cheney' traveled....so together they can determine the best roads to be traveled. Besides, Biden can kick McCain to the curb with that ever so sweeeeeet smile. I'm one of the original bra-burners of the '60's and I'm luvin' it!

      {"commentId":2579064,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"jyoung-1"}
        Reply#1242 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:47 PM EDT
        {"commentId":2581982,"authorDomain":"cin2125"}

        Here we are...still talking about HRC. Did you hear that lady on Hardball? She is one unintelligent individual. Please don't give any more TV airtime to these people who want to spread lies...I'm sorry but HRC has a lot to do with her supporters thinking this way...however, maybe we should let these people speak, they make themselves look like fools! On national TV! I'm sure when the undecided voters get to see them, they'll make up their minds quickly...for OBAMA! For every HRC supporter that will vote for McBush, Senator Obama and his supporters will have registered twice the amount with new voters and defected Republicans! Join the movement! Obama/Biden 08'

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          Reply#1243 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:14 PM EDT
          {"commentId":2582518,"authorDomain":"jvm"}

          By your own words all over the net you O-bots have told us to go away and now we have and you are still not happy ! Whats wrong children are you now realizing you can't have it both ways? Well boo hoo now that Oego can't even get a decent lead after his vp speech you want us to fall in line? Go screw yourselves! after all the crap I have read I wouldn't support anyone who draws supporters like you! And until the party gets rid of Pelosi, Dean and Donna I will not support another dem! Oh and I live in VA the swing state I will be phoning for Mac just like I would have for Obama if you people weren't such asses!!

          {"commentId":2582518,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"jvm"}
            Reply#1244 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:54 PM EDT
            {"commentId":2582520,"authorDomain":"omom"}

            Can you believe the temerity of Barack Obama announcing, after all the lecturing to Americans that we need - "change" - that's right - c-h-a-n-g-e and then somehow aligning himself with JOE BIDEN? A dem man OF OLD through and through. A player. A partisan strong man. A re-victimizer of Anita Hill. Proudly so. A man of so low a measure of decency HE (Joe Biden) has refused to ever publicly and humbly apologize to Ms. Hill, to all African American women, to the entire country - for wrongfully and unethically attempting to discredit and defame her - as to her sworn testimony in regard to Clarence Thomas sexually harassing her. A fact that was corrorborated by witnesses who attested Ms. Hill told them about Mr. Thomas unacceptable behavior. A fact that Ms. Hill continues on, in her role as a law professor today, attesting to as being ABSOLUTE and complete truth - so help her God. And yet Joe Biden felt compelled to play the role of unconscionable judge and jury in regard to her testimony from his position as a member of the Senate Confirmation Committee- and how did he justify doing so to Ms. Hill at the end of the day - how indeed - simply because she rightfully had a complaint and valid concerns and truthful eyewitness encounters with Mr. Thomas that all Americans deserved being able to judge for themselves any and all of it - without Mr. Biden acting in so lowly a fashion as to in every essence REVICTIMIZE Ms. Hill in so lowly and completely wrong a fashion as was his CHOICE. Never to be forgotten. Never apologized and/or atoned for. A truly despicable man. In my opinion - until and if he rights his wrong with Ms. Hill.

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              Reply#1245 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:54 PM EDT
              {"commentId":2582535,"authorDomain":"whoshe"}

              This Hillary supporter has been a Democrat all of my life but because of the way the Obama supporters have treated the Clintons I have left the party and become an Independent.

              Please don't say I was never a true democrat because I have probably voted for more Democrats and campaigned for them in 36 years than some of you that are new to the political system. You think you are wise to vote for someone that tells you he will bring about change because you have been disgruntled by the Bush Administration and their policies but you are acting the same way voters were fooled into electing George Bush. Once he was in office he screwed everything up because he was an idiot.

              At least we knew for a fact that Bill Clinton could fix our economy and leave our country with a surplus. Good luck on your roll of the dice with Obama.

              You can't even give the Clintons the respect that they deserve and the only thing I can think of is you must be former Republicans that had no choice but to leave your party when George screwed things up so bad. You just must still hate the Clintons.

              {"commentId":2582535,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"whoshe"}
                Reply#1246 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
                {"commentId":2583208,"authorDomain":"mtabbara"}

                Former president Clinton was always referred to as the first black president . Sen. Obama

                should have picked Sen. Clinton as his VP not only for her popularity but also for what her

                husband have contributed to the african-american cause .

                {"commentId":2583208,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"mtabbara"}
                  Reply#1247 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:46 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":2585593,"authorDomain":"needlescape"}

                  Joe Biden never got the coverage he deserved in the primary race. It was as if the press decided on his fate rather than the American people. I have long been a fan of Joe Biden as I've listened to his insightful commentary on the world, its problems, and viable solutions. He is a practical man with a great depth of knowledge of the world which makes it difficult for him to stop talking - he has too much to say and it's all well founded on facts. It is said that he talks too much but personally I never tire of listening to the man but then I am the kind of person who likes to learn from experience. And the way he conveys his knowledge is engaging, humorous and extremely insightful. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing this man in action as a Vice President.

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                    Reply#1248 - Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:38 PM EDT
                    {"commentId":2586854,"authorDomain":"blareout11"}

                    Who wants to vote for a half white/Muslim that was raised by a white family and can't come to grips with who he is. Barrack Hussein talks a lot and says absolutely nothing but CHANGE. If he gets in office all you will have is a little bit of CHANGE in your pocket. The Russians said they would defeat the USA without firing a shot. On it's way. God help us. Hope his wife will be proud the USA next year. Bless her heart. HA

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                      Reply#1249 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:26 AM EDT
                      {"commentId":2596603,"authorDomain":"NHClassyLady"}

                      As a supporter of Hillary Clinton, I believe that Obama definitely should have chosen her as his running mate. He would have won by a landslide and I can't speak for the other supporters of hers, but I will not be voting - he will probably be more supportive of the blacks (not being prejudiced but realistic) and I will not vote Republican especially since McCain is for War! God Bless America - it is going to need it!

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                        Reply#1250 - Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:49 PM EDT
                        {"commentId":2597192,"authorDomain":"nowayhussein"}
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                        {"commentId":2621071,"authorDomain":"gabytarlescu"}

                        One more time Obama shows is an hypocrite, talking about change; Because J.Biden is in Washington, DC over 35 years, he is pretty close the same age as others, he has voted for Iraq war anytime... and as "inteligenzia" he is an average person !

                        {"commentId":2621071,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"gabytarlescu"}
                          Reply#1252 - Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:52 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2622797,"authorDomain":"greentrees-466"}

                          I am a firm Barack Obama supporter, and I trust his judgment. He picked the person that met all of the qualifications that he was looking for. I don't think that Hillary would have been right for him for all sorts of reasons.

                          {"commentId":2622797,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"greentrees-466"}
                            Reply#1253 - Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:08 PM EDT
                            {"commentId":2651799,"authorDomain":"jkil127"}

                            Obama illustrated his lack of experience and capacity in politics by throwing Hillary Clinton to the curb. He sidestepped Ms Clinton, I believe, because of his own ambitions to make history as the first black nominee for president and did not want to share the spotlight with a woman candidate especially Hillary Clinton who is 100% more qualified to be president than he is. Well, he will now be in the history books for his accomplishment. Obama is also a good orator but the fact is many people are wonderful orators however, the facts are that he is so weak on experience and so not ready to be president of these United States. Obama, at the end of the day, is a socialist liberal who would try to lead this country into a socialist state. The very being of America is to be free to choose - not to have government telling us what we should do and how we should live.

                            Same old democratic program. Two unqualified candidates...one running for president, one running for vice president.....which is most dangerous in our time? Barack Obama is scary. Scary.

                            I will vote for John McCain, a true American hero. A man who has proven what he would do for this country and a man who DESERVES TO BE PRESIDENT.

                            Note to MSNBCTV..... why are you so incredibly biased in your newscasting? Is that true journalism? Why don't you try at least to be fair. You are not a good example to upcoming journalist.

                            {"commentId":2651799,"threadId":"337857","contentId":"1775710","authorDomain":"jkil127"}
                              Reply#1254 - Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:45 PM EDT
                              {"commentId":2675970,"authorDomain":"prudencerussell"}

                              God forbid something happens to Obama. Obama has my vote for choosing Biden as his running mate. At least I am confident that he is leaving this great nation to a good hand. With Biden, I am rest assured that my country is safe, sound and well. With both of them running the country, my hopes are high, my expectations are in place, and the well being of my country is first and foremost with them. Thanks be to God. God bless them both.

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                                Reply#1255 - Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:55 PM EDT
                                {"commentId":2689054,"authorDomain":"gldngrl1"}

                                I was first inspired by Barack when I heard him speak at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and I continue to be inspried by him. And by Michelle, a classy lady ! Do you all remember when JFK ran for president, many were against him because he was a Catholic, and I hear those who are against BO because he is black. COME ON, IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY PEOPLE!!! I have done alot of reading into BO's background and admire all his hard work for those who needed a hand up . As for Hillary, I admire what she has done as a Senator, and believe she will continue to do so, BUT she should not have been chosen as VP candidate just because she commanded 18 million votes by mostly women. I also believe she does not wholly believe what she says about supporting BO for president; I believe she hasn't gotten over her loss, BUT she should hold her head high and be proud of what she did achieve. And there's always 2016 to try again, having made even more inroads with her background in the Senate and supporting the party.

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                                  Reply#1256 - Tue Sep 2, 2008 12:11 AM EDT
                                  {"commentId":2797695,"authorDomain":"horace-mills"}

                                  I am upset that Obama did not pick Hillary. I have stated along that without her he could not win. Why would pick someone who could not get out of Super Tuesday as your running mate. Weather anyone agrees with me or not, picking Hillary could have turn South and some other key states that Bidden will not. This race would be over right now if he had pick Hillary. Now that McCain has chosen his running mate, you will see change in the next month and believe me McCain picking a woman will affect this election greatly. The media needs to stop blasting this woman and I wonder if they would have blast Hillary the same way. I say not.

                                  I do agree with Sarah Palin, Obama does not have the government experience that is needed for the highest office in the United States. Being a 1 term senator just does not cut in my book and being a community organizers does not cut it. The economy is in bad shape and we need somebody who can be bipartisan and get things done.

                                  It doesn't matter what Obama promises, If both houses are not control by democratic, he will become just another democratic with broking promise. The media and America have got caught up in this personality race that we don't know how many seats are up for re-election.

                                  Obama, needs to come clean on some things and he needs to talk about his Voting Record, his position on Civil Rights, his position on Affirmative Action and stop saying what White America wants to hear and speak about all the issues. We need to hear what and how he plans to combat the economy, the war in Iraq, about the immigration law, Social Security and who will carry the biggest Tax Burden-The Rich or as in the past The Middle and Lower Class.

                                  I'm an African American Democratic will vote Democratic and not because of Obama. The Republican Party has shown over the years that they don't care how the Middle and Lower Class Citizen live, as long as their pocket books are not affected.

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                                    Reply#1257 - Sat Sep 6, 2008 4:20 PM EDT
                                    {"commentId":3395980,"authorDomain":"eml-1"}

                                    The NY Times revelation of voter registration fraud stinks with Republican interference and involvement. If the past two elections have taught us anything it should be that they will do and stoop to anything, even illegal means and fraud, to win an election at any cost. I hope the Obama campaign is on top of this and are using and pursuing all available legal avenues NOW to stop this from happening before it's too late. EML-1

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                                      Reply#1258 - Thu Oct 9, 2008 8:36 AM EDT
                                      {"commentId":4891025,"authorDomain":"halaswanson"}

                                      Vice Pres. is a fairly harmless office. Thank goodness he isnt being picked for Sec'y of State.

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