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Joe-mentum of Another Sort

Kevin Drum and Jonathan Cohn are giving Joe Biden the Veep nod (could Obama be far behind)? Drum calls Biden “a good choice” and notes, “Big...
August 20, 2008

Kevin Drum and Jonathan Cohn are giving Joe Biden the Veep nod (could Obama be far behind)?

Drum calls Biden “a good choice” and notes, “Big plus here — the press likes him, motormouth or not.”

I’d say, scratch the “or not.” “The press likes him, motormouth.” TNR’s Cohn, in a post titled, “Biden? Yeah, that works,” notes, “you get the feeling that [Biden’s] always on the edge of saying something imprudent. Like I said above, if Biden is the choice, the Obama communications staff will have many anxious moments.”

Political reporters’ favorite sort of moment.

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.