John Batchelor, known to RBO/RW readers from both earlier articles and his Sunday night radio show (RBO posts each week’s program schedule), writes:
Biden Hearts Georgia
August 16: Washington, DC — Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.) is scheduled to visit the Republic of Georgia this weekend at the request of President Saakashvili. While in country, Chairman Biden will meet with President Saakashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze, the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia John Tefft and Georgians who have been forced to flee their homes.
A sotto voce report early August was that the Obama campaign was polling Iowa for approve/disapprove on Joe Biden for the number 2 position. This polling report is consistent with a Biden candidacy; so is the report that Biden has been keeping unusually still about his chances and ambitions. (There is an unusually good source that notes that Michelle Obama is not joyful about an Obama/Biden ticket.) John Fund reported last Sunday 10 that a nifty record dating back some many decades is that the nominating party does not choose a senator for the vice-presidency from a state where the governor is likely to pick the other side of the aisle for a replacement. The leading contender for VP, Evan Bayh of Indiana, has a Republican governor. This observation does not rule out John Kerry of Massachusetts or Chris Dodd of Connecticut or Hillary Clinton of New York. Nonetheless, Governor Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware is a sound Democrat, and she would clearly keep the seat blue.
The Odd Couple, Mr. Celebrity and Mr. Ramble. The prospect of Joe Biden talking endlessly on the campaign trail is tempting. There is also that peculiar fact that Senator Biden wholeheartedly supported the Iraq War resolution in the Senate that supposedly sank Mrs. Clinton. An inconvenient peculiar fact.
