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Biden can bee seen as helping

to change the "mindset that got us into this war," even though he voted for it.
Compared to McCain/Scheunemann, he's a staunch realist, and he'll forcefully endorse and explicate Obama's foreign policy vision (even while working to strengthen and tweak it here and there). He can be a crucial part of how we change the foreign relations face of America to the world.

Also, his experience could be spun as "changing Washington from the inside out." Of course, so could Clinton's, but that'll just have to be glossed over. And anyway she will be a full partner in finally securing the change we need in health care.

Cottle's good profile of Valerie Jarrett in TNR shows just how much Obama is more comfortable with attempting to reform institutions from the inside, as opposed to challenging them from the outside. Biden fits into that comfort zone.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/st...

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by: along @ Mon Aug 18, 2008 at 12:56:31 PM CDT