Obama Leaning Toward Joe Biden as VP?

Maybe he's gotten over those remarks from last year when Joe Biden called him clean and articulate, as this report from Chicago indicates Barack Obama is leaning toward Delaware Senator and renowned plagiarist Joe Biden as his running mate.

I'm just passing on the latest I'm hearing--that Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) is moving up on the list of potential running mates for presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). While Obama's heart may go towards Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine--his head takes him to a more experienced pick, a Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) or Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

I can see the appeal of Kaine--the parallel narrative is compelling. Their mothers came from the same Kansas town, both Harvard Law grads with interests in civil rights; both wives Harvard Law grads.

If you ask me, Kaine disqualified himself permanently from consideration for higher office for his absurd statements the other day saying Russia bent to Obama's will and laid downs their arms.

Otherwise, it seems the candidate of change may be content with someone who's been in the Senate over 30 years. Maybe he thinks it lends gravitas to his campaign.