It’s a great testimonial to Senator Obama that he feels secure reaching out to a person of such great stature, and it’s a testimonial to Senator Biden that he’s still willing to go back and contribute some more to government.
The most important thing about the selection of a vice president is not the vice-president himself but what it says about the presidential candidate that did the choosing. And that’s why I think this is not only a great choice substantively for the country but I think it’s a good choice politically because people who are looking at Barack Obama outside of Chicago for the first time are seeing the first real governing decision that this prospective president has made – and that’s what the choice of a vice president is – it’s your first really governing decision—reflected a tremendous stability, a tremendous amount of judgment. It reflected putting conventional political considerations like ideological balance or geographic balance behind you and putting ahead of you somebody who has serious experience in the legislative branch of government foreign policy, the business sector, somebody who clearly can walk in and be President of the United States tomorrow and everybody would be comfortable with it.
I changed the names but Vin Webber wrote this about Bush when he selected Cheney
