More political oratory from Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Caroline and Ted Kennedy

Senator Joe Biden last night (morning in Manila) accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president of the United States, as runningmate of Barack Obama.

Biden is also a good speaker who is able to articulate the basic economic interests of middle-class and working-class families. A long-time Senate expert on foreign policy and security, Biden also cuts across the Republican’s fear-mongering on Obama’s competence as a world leader.

Below is a three-part video of Biden’s speech.

Former President Bill Clinton also spoke and gave his “full-throated” endorsement to Obama:

On the first day of the convention, “Liberal Lion” Edward Kennedy, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, came out of sick bed to speak before Democrats in an impassioned speech: