Obama Picks Biden as Running Mate

Experience Is Double-Edged Sword for The Ticket
Article | DENVER, Aug. 24 -- A week after a young state senator named Barack Obama stood in Chicago's Daley Plaza and denounced the move toward a "dumb war," Joseph R. Biden Jr. took to the well of the U.S. Senate to make a much more nuanced argument, both for a resolution that he knew could lead to the...

Obama Calls His Pick, Biden, Both a Statesman and Fighter
Article | SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 23 -- Sen. Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his vice presidential running mate here on Saturday, embracing him as a "statesman with sound judgment" who had never forgotten his humble roots or lost his fundamental decency.