Joe Biden Is a Key Fighter in Dissolving Bush's 'Terror' Myths
By Andy Worthington, AlterNet. Posted August 24, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/96178/

In the end, then, it came down to this: Barack Obama needed a vice-presidential candidate with well-established Washington credentials, foreign policy experience and an ability to connect with blue-collar workers.

And while Joe Biden -- a 65-year old working class Irish Catholic, the Senator for Delaware since 1972, and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — has a far from unblemished foreign policy record (most notoriously in his support for the invasion of Iraq, but also, arguably, in his strenuous support for armed intervention in Kosovo, which, like that of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, paved the way for justifying war on a basis other then that of self-defense), he has since recanted his position on the Iraq war, and has, for many years, also been unafraid to tackle other excesses of the Bush administration's post-9/11 policies; in particular, through his persistent calls for the closure of the "War on Terror" prison at Guantánamo Bay.

Leaders are always taking the chances. To be out front means that you are in a position to be attacked first. One reason the Democrats are having a tough going is they are always going first as the republicans sit back and take shots then play conservative with the added information.