NOT A TRICK QUESTION:

History says Obama needs experienced VP: Running mate can tip scales in a close race (Martin Sieff, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL)

Vice President Dick Cheney has been widely reviled by the left for his purported exercise of exceptional power during President Bush's two terms in office. Mr. Bush might not even have squeaked into the White House at all if it hadn't been for Mr. Cheney. [...]

Mr. Cheney could boast an exceptional amount of experience, especially as President George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense from 1989 to 1993. His resume reassured a lot of centrist voters that George W. Bush would be an acceptable choice even though he had no national experience at the time.

While it's obviously absurd to compare a two term governor of a state with one of the largest economies in the world to a junior senator without a single piece of legislation to his credit, just for the sake of argument let us assume that the Unicorn Rider finds himself in a rather similar position to that of George W. Bush in Summer 2000. Mr. Bush chose as his running mate a guy who'd been Chief of Staff to a previous president and Secretary of Defense of the United States in time of war. For all the talk of his "experience," what has Joe Biden ever done that a serious person might consider experience that prepares one for the presidency?

Here's a hilarious example of what we're getting at, from a column making "The Case for Joe Biden":

There's no one in the Democratic Party who knows more about foreign policy and is as comfortable speaking about it as Biden.

Go to any college campus in America and you'll find a Government department full of Democrats who know just as much about foreign policy as Mr. Biden and are just as comfortable talking about it. But what experience do they have applying it? Oh yeah, pretty much the same as the Senator.

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‘Just Words’ That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget: The curse of a loose mouth and Nexis. (Jim Geraghty, 8/20/08, National Review)

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 20, 2008 7:29 AM