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: