Joe Biden: An Unwise Choice?

Vice President nominee Joseph Biden has led a distinguished career as a U.S. Senator from Delaware, including legislation which helped create a "drug czar" and significant measures to combat domestic violence.

Biden has unsuccessfully run for President twice, including this year. However, he has come one step closer by being tapped by Barak Obama as his running mate.

But I wonder if he really wants the job.

Many wonder why Obama chose Joe as the Vice Presidential candidate. Earlier in the campaign, Joe said that Obama was clearly not experienced and that the Oval Office was not a good place for on-the-job training.

He was later quoted as saying that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice for Vice President.

Joe Biden appears to have the enthusiasm of a block of wood when it comes to the possibility of being Vice President. The polls show it.

Obama may have scored a slam-dunk if he had chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate. That would have united the Democratic Party. Instead, it is quite possible that Obama made a fatal error and his campaign is - at least for the time being - sputtering.

By the way, in light of the crisis in our financial markets, Joe Biden was a sponsor of the new bankruptcy law - which helps the banks (many of which are based in his home state of Delaware) but not the consumers. Banks don't vote. Consumers do.