In retrospect, Obama may have miscalculated by selecting Biden.

I wonder if Obama didn’t repeat the same mistake as Hillary, thinking the election was in the bag. He certainly didn’t seem to put a whole lot of thought into his VP choice, or make a choice that took any particular effort on his part. I wonder if he was just crusing along, figuring any old stiff would do, and then woke up to headlines about Russian troops stomping around on someone else’s soil. And lacking a proper plan, he reacted by picking a Senator with years of experience yaking about foreign policy, thinking that would somehow convince the congregation that he was qualified to face down Putin.