Barack Obama chooses Joseph Biden as VP
Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 1:28 pm
WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has chosen his Senate colleague, Joseph Biden, as his vice presidential running mate, US television networks reported early Saturday.
The channels cited unnamed Democratic Party sources, but did not offer any details.
Biden, 65, emerged on top after Obama, according to unidentified sources, broke the news to two other contenders Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine that they were no longer under consideration.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden brings decades of national security experience to the Democratic ticket, having first been elected to Congress at the age of 29 in 1972.
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