Beau Biden

Beau Biden

He looks a little like Dad. He notes that he and Dodd have a lot in common as Senator's sons. "He'd be a great VP for my father." Crowd thins a little as Dodd leaves.

Biden is single most qualified person to be President. Career retrospective: Vietnam, Reagan's judges, Robert Bork, Violence Against Women Act. Since this war began he's been the leading voice standing up to Bush administration. Seven trips to Iraq. Goes to get sense of what's really on teh ground. Hears things Bush refuses to hear. Joe Biden got the ball rolling to get us out of Iraq.

"The easy thing to do is get out. But what's next?" Only Joe Biden has a plan. Standing up to genocide in Darfur, in Yugoslavia.

Iowa will choose the next president: not the news media. The caucuses let you know "what makes them tick." How they've handled the tests life gives us. Talks about the death of his mother, and how his father almost did not take office as a result. But he was persuaded and commuted to Washington, which he still does. "He wanted to be there to take care of me and rebuild our family."

I've never seen my dad flinch in a 34 year career. Life's not about how many times you get knocked down, but how fast you get up. That defines my dad, and America, and what we need in a president. We can't have a president who needs on the job training.