Joe and Jill Biden prepared to depart their home yesterday in Greenville, Del., to join Barack Obama in Illinois.
(Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated Press)
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Biden brings vast experience, a history of verbal blunders
Joe and Jill Biden prepared to depart their home yesterday in Greenville, Del., to join Barack Obama in Illinois.
(Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated Press)
WASHINGTON - Over nearly four decades on the national stage, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware has earned a uniquely contradictory image - part statesman, part gaffe-maker - and so it is no surprise that his selection as Barack Obama's running mate can be assessed in similar terms. (Full article: 946 words)
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