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Biden's Beliefs: Obama's Running Mate Calls Energy America's Top Issue

Posted on August 23, 2008

Forget, for a moment, the motorcade of big SUVs that ferried Sen. Joseph Biden this morning from his Delaware home to the airport and a flight to veep-candidate stardom. Energy, according to the veteran senator from Delaware, whom Sen. Barack Obama announced early this morning as his running mate, is the single most consequential issue facing the country. If I could wave a wand, and the Lord said I could solve one problem, I would solve the energy crisis, Mr. Biden said at a campaign appearance last year, when he was running against Sen. Obama to become the Democratic presidential n...

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