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Choice of Biden Fits the Reality If Not the Starry-Eyed Message

 

Published 8/24/2008 by Dan Balz at Wash Post Elections

DENVER, Aug. 23 -- Sen. Barack Obama moved to deal with two potential weaknesses when he named Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his vice presidential running mate Saturday. Biden shores up Obama's inexperience on national security issues and brings to the ticket a politician eager to lead the attack... (link)

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