Joe Biden isn't a progressive, which is why he got nowhere in the primaries. He's awful on bankruptcy and puts corporations before people on financial issues. And he voted for the invasion of Iraq.

Even so, he has some good points:

Biden has called the Bush administration “the worst administration in American foreign policy in modern history, maybe ever. … Every single thing they’ve touched has been a near disaster.” And in an interview last year, he suggested that “we should be acquiring and accumulating” information “for possibly bringing criminal charges against members of this administration at a later date.”

Biden is the 30th most progressive Democrat over his Senate career, which puts him ahead of 20 other Democrats including Dianne Feinstein (31), Jon Tester (32), Harry Reid (39), and Evan Bayh (44).

Biden is a good debater with a good sense of humor, and took down GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani with his famous description of every Giuliani sentence: “a noun, a verb, and 9/11.” No doubt he will eventually apply the same formula to McCain: a noun, a verb, and POW.