WHILE IT'S AN INTERESTING ACADEMIC QUESTION WHAT SENATOR BIDEN WOULD DO IN THE JOB...:

The Anti-Cheney?: How Biden would compare to Bush's No. 2. (Michael Hirsh, 8/27/08, Newsweek)

This week, Obama's choice of Joltin' Joe Biden as his vice- presidential running mate, particularly coming after the tenure of perhaps the most powerful veep in U.S. history, Dick Cheney, raises a few serious questions.

...the one comparison we can make at this point is their drastically different experience at the pint where they were chosen as running mates. Dick Cheney was the most qualified vice president upon taking office in the country's history. Not only had he been Secretary of Defense in wartime but was a former presidential chief of staff, the man who actually runs an administration on a day to day basis. Joe Biden has been a Senator....for a really long time.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 27, 2008 7:24 PM