It's Biden for VP

Today's news unhealthily fixated on speculation about Barack Obama's choice for Vice President. While MSNBC got a pass thanks to Olympics coverage, CNN was covering the story every single hour of the day almost, with Larry King even staying up late for a midnight (on the East Coast) broadcast once they thought all the puzzle pieces were placed.
Does the Secret Service know something we don't? Not in this case, because we know it, too:
Longtime US Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) is Obama's pick to join the White House ticket this fall. This comes after the Associated Press reported that both Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and US Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) were out of the running.
Why Biden? The Associated Press spells it out fairly well in a story by Liz Sidoti and Nedra Pickler:

"Biden brought the most experience in defense or foreign policy -- areas in which Obama is rated relatively poorly in the polls compared with Republican Sen. John McCain."

Definitely don't take my word on political speculation this year, because the best odds I gave Biden in my Democratic "Veepstakes" was 8-1... and he wasn't even on my proposed shortlist (yet John Edwards was, but that was before he admitted to the affair).
By the way, the National Review online has a nice rap sheet of supposed Biden gaffes. Sure, there's a little ammunition for the Republicans to use here, but I think most voters have already made up their minds... except for the plethora of forum posts I've seen on political blogs purportedly from Clinton supporters wondering whether they should vote for John McCain since their candidate has been "snubbed."