David, good summary.  Also, thank you for noting Ron Fournier's links to the McCain campaign.  That association is paying off big time.  The early coverage of Biden strikes me as unusually tough from the AP, e.g., this morning AP posted a story listing alleged Biden scandals.  It reads like Rovian talking points.

I think this illustrates the depth of the corruption in DC, where even the nation's leading wire service has succumbed to blatantly partisan reporting.  I hope the major journalism professional associations take a good look at what is happening to the AP.  Society of Professional Journalists:  It's time to grow a backbone.

...if he's been in the Senate for so long.  And he has this great "environmental record" -- why is the climate so wacky?  (At least according to former Senator Al Gore).

Seems like these Long In The Tooth Senators have some 'esplaining to do, since they've been running the country for 35 years -- how can they criticize it?

This data shows Biden having a negative "minimum" net worth:

108    Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del)    $-302,980    $-12,491    $277,997

Does he not know how to use his credit cards or have a bad mortgage or what?

The top 5 richest are all Democrats:

1    John Kerry (D-Mass)    $221,589,484    $267,789,805    $313,990,127
2    Herb Kohl (D-Wis)    $117,798,026    $171,423,011    $225,047,997
3    Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass)    $43,351,040    $102,822,519    $162,293,999
4    Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa)    $55,878,022    $91,713,012    $127,548,003
5    Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif)    $49,392,297    $79,555,657    $109,719,018

Anything "creepy" about Joe would have come out by now.  He has a net worth around 150k, he did not cash in.  

Obama compared Cheney's secret energy meeting to how Joe would handle the VP job.  Is he hinting at a Biden energy meeting?  Public and including our favorite energy gurus?   Lovins, Brown, and other renewable electron energy economy boosters?  Could be.

Now will we see Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel?

Start hinting at an Obama cabinet Barack, and get these people out there.  Energy secretary?  Lester Brown?  That would be good.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

Speaking for Greenpeace here, we based the liquid coal export fact on the Grist interview with Biden, but think it's likely that he indeed was referring to CCS and not clean coal. Feel free to let us know, Biden people!

i.e. after talking with Grist folks, Biden seems to actually have been talking about CCS, not liquid coal.