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Biden's Stock Rises in Obama Vice Presidential Speculation
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ABC News' Ed O'Keefe reports: Sen. Barack Obama still isn't saying who he's picked as his vice presidential running mate, but speculation surrounding Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has increased as the Democratic ticket's unveiling in Springfield on Saturday nears.
On his blog, Marc Ambinder first reported on an in-bounded private charter from Chicago Midway (KMDW) to New Castle, Del. (KILG). The flight -- EJA863 -- took off at 6:05 p.m. ET and arrived one hour and 28 minutes later at 7:36 p.m.
Just as the Raytheon Hawker 800 took to the sky, ABC News has confirmed that Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va., had both been told by Obama that they were not going to join the Democratic ticket.
Reached by phone by ABC News' Teddy Davis just after 8 p.m. ET, former Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., father of Evan Bayh, was not in a position to either confirm or deny the report that his son had been scratched off Obama's short list.
"Tim and Evan aren't in the mix? I don't know anything about that," the elder Bayh said.
Activity outside Biden's home in Delaware has increased this evening.
Biden's son Joseph R. "Beau" Biden, Delaware's attorney general who served in Iraq in the Army National Guard, arrived at the residence as had, for a short while, both his state director and driver.
Biden, 65, first won his job in the Senate over 35 years ago and has been re-elected five times. The Delaware Democrat has chaired both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Judiciary Committee, and has cast more than 12,500 votes during his political career.
A Biden pick, so goes conventional political wisdom, would bring gravitas as a running mate to the 47-year-old presumptive Democratic nominee.
Earlier this week, Biden told reporters outside his home, "I'm not the guy."
The long-awaited text message from the Obama campaign confirming or disproving that statement has yet to arrive.
ABC News' Justin Anderson, Lisa Chinn, Matt Jaffe, Jay Shaylor, and Jake Tapper contributed to this report.
August 22, 2008 in Biden, Joe, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (481)
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Gravitas? heh. I can think of many words to describe Joe Biden. Gravitas would not be one of them.
Posted by: slick | Aug 22, 2008 9:19:37 PM
no hillary no go,he doesnt choose her his arrogance will cost him the election
Posted by: Michael | Aug 22, 2008 9:21:44 PM
Please dont be the other Edwards. Now is not the time for a get to know you tea. We need experience, drive, guts and tennacity. We need Hillary on the ticket. Obama/Hillary 08
Posted by: roberincharlotte | Aug 22, 2008 9:24:08 PM
Biden would be 74 when Obama's 2 term ends. That is to old to carry on what is supposed to be a presidency that could change America. There is no legacy to carry on in this guy !
If Obama goes Biden, he's lost my vote.
Posted by: Scott NH | Aug 22, 2008 9:25:51 PM
oh you sore loser hillary supporters.. she is backing obama and so should you other wise we will have more evil bushies like mccain .
Posted by: tom | Aug 22, 2008 9:27:13 PM
It's Biden, because it's the one guy I like and I'm voting McCain. I love Hillary but knew he was never even considering her.
It's just going to look wierd with #2 so much stronger and experienced and puppet head gets the crown.
SORRY, THIS HILLARY SUPPORTER WILL STILL VOTE McCAIN.
D-IC-K MORRIS SAID McCAIN SHOULD GET A STRONG WOMAN ON HIS TICKET AND I AGREE, (OR ROMNEY WHO STILL HAS FISCAL CRED)
Posted by: Debra | Aug 22, 2008 9:27:32 PM
When the Dems got together early on and had all of them debate together, I remember one of the last things the moderator asked was for each one to look at the candidate next to him/her and say what they liked about him/her. Biden turned to the person on his left and said he liked the guy's wife. Hilarious.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson | Aug 22, 2008 9:29:05 PM
Slick, than obviously you do not follow politics or read the congressional record. Or maybe you are just another right-wing partisan lemming who ignores facts and choses instead to distort facts and use fear-mongering.
Biden would be a great choice for VP.
Posted by: miles1967 | Aug 22, 2008 9:29:40 PM
They are playing tape on H & C of Biden saying he would not accept a VP offer, some months back. Wish he would stay true to his word.
Posted by: Debra | Aug 22, 2008 9:34:07 PM
we dems always find a way to lose. biden has a big mouth and is out there. hillary could unite the party but obama is too proud to select a strong woman. obama has made his decision; so have i; this dem is voting mccain.
Posted by: ron | Aug 22, 2008 9:36:02 PM
we dems always find a way to lose. biden has a big mouth and is out there. hillary could unite the party but obama is too proud to select a strong woman. obama has made his decision; so have i; this dem is voting mccain.
Posted by: ron | Aug 22, 2008 9:37:14 PM
Joe Biden supported Obama when Bush slammed him in his speech before the Kenesset, in Isreal. This was months ago, before he won the nomination. I respect Joe Bided because he will stand his ground - when others are just looking at polls. The VP must always be a STRONG candidate - working with the president and strong enough in his own right to assume the presidency should he be called upon to do so.
For that reason I am aginst HRC as VP- she spent billions trying to convince us that Obama would NOT make a good president - I would question her loyalty. Yes, she has party loyalty and I respect her - her best position to serve our country at this time
would be Secretary of State.
Posted by: White Mountain | Aug 22, 2008 9:37:50 PM
Biden has no economic experience.
Obama and Biden have never been governor, never run a business, never been on economic committees.
Obama should have picked someone with business and economic experience because Obama has no economic education.
Posted by: James | Aug 22, 2008 9:39:27 PM
Obama should have picked governor kaine or convinced governor warner of virginia.
Kaine has economic experience.
Biden and Obama both have no economic experience.
Posted by: James | Aug 22, 2008 9:44:02 PM
No matter who Obama picks please understand that it will be Obama who people do not vote for and Biden will be a temporary bounce next week. Biden will be a riot in any VP debate tying to limit his answers to the actual questions asked (Joe has a big problem with diarrhea of the mouth).
Hillary supporters are ready to cause problems next week, should be fun.
Posted by: Matt, Delaware | Aug 22, 2008 9:44:15 PM
Years ago, Biden was running for the nomination when a reporter questioned his qualification/credentials. Biden angrily responded that he won moot court, but he had to eat his words later on when the truth came out that he didn't win. I'll never forget that moment when this guy was so arrogant. It would be fitting for him to be BHO's VP because their combined arrogance would cause the room to burst.
Posted by: Frustrated Voter | Aug 22, 2008 9:45:15 PM
Biden had the lousy idea of splitting Iraq into three parts for the sunnis, shiites, and kurds which would have been a disaster.
Kirkuk would have had an all out civil war under Biden's plan to split up the region from the kurds, shiites and sunnis.
Posted by: James | Aug 22, 2008 9:45:40 PM
Same old politics - two males to run for President and Vice President.
Posted by: lordy lordy | Aug 22, 2008 9:47:33 PM
Debra
Like I said last night debra, who cares? Like Hillary, you're a loser! You can vote for anyone you like but Obama is going to win! Your posts are so boring! I'm voting McCain....I'm voting McCain! It doesnt' matter! Like Hillary and McCain, you're a loser!
Posted by: roxanne | Aug 22, 2008 9:49:27 PM
slick -
I'd take Biden's gravitas over Cheney's gravitas any day. Come to think about it, I'd take his gravitas over McCain's.
Posted by: 63tango | Aug 22, 2008 9:53:17 PM
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