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Originally Posted by TheBig3
This is not right. He picked Biden because Biden was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Obama had little to no foreign relations experience, and it was to quell the fears that were emerging against McCain who had significantly more experience.
The Senate doesn't have a dearth of white guys. But let's not attack short memories while we're inventing rational.
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I mean you're right that there were other reasons and perhaps I over simplified, but I believe it's fairly well known that Obama wanted an older white moderate to downplay the racial tension.
Perhaps there were credentials that set Biden apart from the other older white moderate liberals but even the reasons you gave have nothing to do with issues that would necessarily endear him to the black community. That is basically something he just inherited by proxy of being associated with Obama.