This is such a bizarre choice that I wonder if it was supposed to be edwards. Something really strange must have happened.
Joe Biden is a bright, clean dipstick!
In order to win, his best bet was a redneck with military credentials and centrist social leanings. Jim Webb, Weasley Clark, that kind of guy. Instead he picked someone even more arrogant and elitist than he is, and liberal, and from the northeast.