Hillary/Biden, Obama/Biden - Both Winning Tickets

I've been paying some attention to the race for the Democratic nominee and I've begun to notice a recurring theme lately in pundit rhetoric. Many are beginning to acquiesce to the idea of a possible Hillary/Obama ticket, or vice versa, as if this is really the only winning team. The argument in favor of this is that since Dems can't decide who should be their nominee, and since both are so overwhelmingly popular, why not just make them running mates. In Jonathan Allen's article "Superdelegates Ponder a Clinton/Obama Ticket," he outlines a good dozen or more who feel that this should absolutely be the case.

One such person, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy , D-R.I., a superdelegate and Obama endorser, said “We’ve got so many people so vested in both candidates that you have to find some way of vesting each candidate in the final endgame somehow.”

However, I'm not so sure this is necessarily the only winning ticket. I've been mulling around the idea of a possible Clinton/Biden or Obama/Biden ticket, not because I necessarily like Biden, but because the man really has become quite a scholar on foreign policy and the Iraq war. He could bring to the table exactly what both camps are missing, someone intelligent enough to deal with the chaos in the Middle East and who has a decent track record meeting with foreign diginitaries.

Keep in mind, Biden also has good relationships with both Clinton and Obama. Dems would not feel the tension that would come with a possible Clinton/Obama ticket when all this mess is over and done with.

And my final point is that despite being a bit windy during debates and interviews, Biden can debate the issues well. This is exactly the person Clinton and Obama want facing Governor Romney, the golden boy whom McCain will ask to be his running.