This brings back a sharp memory for me of Biden saying in a hearing in 2004: "That's WHY we don't torture - to protect my son." It was a hearing about the torture memos that Ashcroft's "Justice" department had put out. Joe was VERY intense when he said that. Anyone else remember that?
His son wasn't serving in Iraq at the time, but deployment was a possibility. And now it's here.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/son-would-vote.html... Beau Biden, who followed his father into politics and serves as Attorney General in Delaware, is also a JAG Captain in the Delaware National Guard. His unit, the 261st Signal Brigade, was notified last year that they would deploy overseas.
While the exact date has not been set, Beau Biden's yearlong deployment to Iraq will start sometime in September or October, with a short introductory posting, probably in Texas, according to Officer Candidate Nathan Bright, spokesman for the Delaware National Guard.
As a serving elected official, Biden could feasibly apply for a waiver, but Bright said Biden has not done so and is set to deploy.
Beau Biden is the Senators oldest son. He and his brother Robert were both badly injured in the 1972 car accident that took the lives of his baby sister Amy and mother, Neilia Hunter, Sen. Biden's first wife.
I think Biden is a great pick for VP. His personal story is compelling and he seems very clean of baggage. (The one - relatively minor, anyway - thing that is perennially dredged up, is also a potential attack on McCain, so as baggage goes, I'll take it.)
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