Joe Biden is a pre-Reagan liberal.

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Obama's choice of Biden, in addition to the uplift Biden brings to the ticket, the campaign, and the governing afterwords, also is a signal by Obama that he envisions 'government' as a pre-Reagan, pre-Poppy, pre-Dubya entity of, for, and by the people.

IMO it reasserts that image of the country as a nation of communities from many walks of life from which the impulse to govern of, for, and by the people emerged and which was on the ascent from John Kennedy's administration forward until Reagan began to heartlessly dismantle it.

I think Barack Obama and Joe Biden is a Sunday fastball of a ticket and I think John McCain is likely spending his weekend kicking furniture and dogs.