http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26010055/

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press has learned that Delaware Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama's choice to be his vice presidential running mate.
Biden, who has served in the Senate since being elected at the age of 29, is the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and will add his foreign policy expertise to the Democratic ticket.
In recent years, he has traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan two times and to Iraq eight times. He returned Monday from a fact-finding trip to Georgia.

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I really think had he chosen Hillary he would have easily won the election in November. Now he has an uphill battle I suspect he will lose.

That close.

His verbosity reputation will get him in to trouble.

Biden has a reputation for verbosity. He often prefaces his questions to witnesses before his committee with remarks such as, “All kidding aside…” or “I don’t mean to be cute, but...”

In 2006, Biden said: "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

Sorry...I had to laugh at the last line. My local 7-Eleven is run by some SUPER nice Indian people.

You have to love this line.

"The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning".

Yeah Right. I don't want to pre-empt our promise to inform our supporters first by text message so I'm going to tell you now anonymously so I don't break our promise.

LOL

I can see it now...

"Obama Bi-la-Den"

OK...What took place on January 5th 1911?

Kappa Alpha Psi , a college Fraternity, now comprised of functioning Undergraduate and Alumni Chapters on major campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the late Revered Founders Elder Watson Diggs; John Milton Lee; Byron K. Armstrong; Guy Levis Grant; Ezra D. Alexander; Henry T. Asher; Marcus P. Blakemore; Paul W. Caine; Edward G. Irvin and George W. Edmonds.
It was the vision of these astute men that enabled them in the school year 1910 - 11, more specifically the night of January 5, 1911, on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, to sow the seed of a fraternal tree whose fruit is available to, and now enjoyed by, college men everywhere, regardless of their color, religion or national origin. It is a fact of which KAPPA ALPHA PSI is justly proud that the Constitution has never contained any clause which either excluded or suggested the exclusion of a man from membership merely because of his color, creed, or national origin. The Constitution of KAPPA ALPHA PSI is predicated upon, and dedicated to, the principles of achievement through a truly democratic Fraternity.

The fraternity has over 150,000 members with 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, Japan, and South Africa.

Kool...The only fraternity I'm a member of is the Masons. We don't discriminate either but that has not always been the case as this fraternity is the oldest one on record going back several hundred years. There was and still is a branch called the Prince Hall Masons which is a predominately African American. I understand they have some pretty interesting rituals. If I'm ever in the South I plan on attending a Prince Hall degree.