Some observers are beginning to wonder why Barack Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate considering the praise he has heaped on John McCain over the years.

From the Politico.

Within three hours of the announcement that Joe Biden would be Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate, their Republican rival John McCain was up with a striking ad highlighting Biden’s praise for McCain.

And there’s plenty more where that came from.

Republicans have at their disposal a long trail of Biden quotes speaking fondly of — and affiliating himself with — McCain.

The Delaware Democrat and the Arizona Republican have served in the Senate together for more than two decades. And Biden, a prolific talker, has rattled off in recent years a string of testimonials to McCain’s character and stances that the GOP can be expected to roll out to undercut Biden’s critiques of McCain.

Biden has called McCain a personal hero and proclaimed that he would run on a McCain ticket. Perhaps more substantively, Biden has praised McCain’s stances on climate change and troop levels in Iraq and has acknowledged that McCain’s approach to foreign policy differs from President Bush’s — all assertions that fly in the face of lines of attack that Obama has been pursuing against McCain.

This only makes the Obama campaign’s job tougher as they try to paint McCain as a Bush clone and try to explain what Biden meant when he praised his felow Senator.

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