From Staff and Wire Reports
When a Daily O’Collegian reporter took to the streets Sunday afternoon to ask students their thoughts on Barack Obama naming Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, the responses he heard were about the same
“Who?”
A head shake.
“Yes, but I’m working right now.”
A shrug.
“I don’t care.”
A sigh.
“I’m voting for McCain anyway.”
Out of about 30 students, not one had a strong opinion on Biden’s selection.
Obama introduced Biden of Delaware on Saturday as “a leader ready to step in and be president.”
Before a vast crowd spilling out from the front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Obama said Biden was “what many others pretend to be — a statesman with sound judgment who doesn’t have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong.”
Democrats united quickly around the 47-year-old Obama’s selection of a seasoned veteran of three decades in the Senate — a choice meant to provide foreign policy weight to the party’s ticket for the fall campaign against John McCain and the Republicans.
Polls show Obama rates relatively poorly against McCain on foreign policy issues, and Biden is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with extensive experience in that area.
The 65-year-old congressional veteran emerged as Obama’s choice after a secretive selection process that reviewed at least a half-dozen contenders—but evidently not Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady who was Obama’s tenacious rival across the primaries and caucuses. winter and spring.
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