Selected Biden articles

I don't have time for an extended discussion of the many ways Biden strengthens the Democratic ticket (and I already gave some of them last week), but I wanted to link to a couple of articles that help convey Biden's experience, and especially his foreign policy expertise. The long New Yorker article, from 2004, is the must-read article of the three - an extended George Packer piece on soft power and the potential for a reinvigorated liberal approach to foreign policy. The WSJ op-ed features the former US ambassador to Romania's take on Biden. Finally, David Brooks made the case for Biden in his NYT column from the morning before the announcement, and for once, he was right about what would happen.

"A Democratic World: Can liberals take foreign policy back from the Republicans?" [New Yorker]
"On Diplomacy, Biden Knows Who or How" [Wall Street Journal]
"Hoping It's Biden" [New York Times]

UPDATED 8/28/08:

Long interview about foreign policy from 2004 [Talking Points Memo]
WIRED on Biden: strong on civil liberties, but very pro-Hollywood in the copyright wars [WIRED]