Does Biden help Obama? Well there is a few ways to look at this. For one, Obama didn't have any great options. Hillary would have given him a strong edge but she, and especially Bill, bring some real baggage and talk about a loose cannon, Bill could hurt Obama. I still think that Obama made a real mistake of not choosing Hillary.
John Edwards, we are told, made the short list. Can one imagine if the news of Reille Hunter would have hit today, instead of when it did. It is very possible that Edwards would have been Obama's choice. He speaks to Hillary's Reagan Dems. His wife's story along with his pushing for rights of the poor (though he ignored, or even disdained, his poor neighbors) would have been a better choice for Obama because of the change agent that he engendered.
Biden does bring three things, if not any delegates, and that is an ability to fight and the elder statesman that Obama clearly lacks, and has foreign policy experience. I wonder if he was chosen to help diffuse the Georgia crisis (and any further ones that might materialize) that has affected his campaign.
I must add this. Nearly no one in politics has the youtube trail of gaffes and problems that Joe does. He hit Obama nearly as hard as Hillary did and there is more than one complementary one of McCain. The comment back in '88 of lecturing a voter and that asked about his education is a classic, sure to be up there with the "scream". He tells the voter that he has a higher IQ than him and then goes about exaggerating his own education. He later had to retract some of it and it is all on tape. Does he really help Obama? We will see.
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