Abide in Biden

Abide in Biden
by McCall Taylor

Joe Biden Jr., the Democratic Senator of Delaware, has been selected as the Vice President of president-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet, according to several articles. There has been so much about Obama that I decided a piece on the Vice President would be a good idea since you rarely hear of anyone else in the president’s cabinet but the President. This topic may sound unimportant and useless, but I think if we knew a little more about our country’s leader we could give our trust to them. This article is more or less of a background check on our President’s successor.
Serving as the Senator of Delaware since 1972, Joe has definitely had his experience in the American government system. As a leader in foreign policy, “one of the nation’s most influential voices” in drug policy, terrorism, and crimes, as well as a successful leader in his state; he has “brought real results that matter to Americans.” (http://biden.gov.senator/) He has been the Delaware state senator since he was 29 and has since then given his first priority to Delaware and its people.
On his website it describes some of his accomplishments and from my understanding of the article Senator Biden has done it all to magnify his position. Whether it’s preserving White Clay Creek State Park, fighting for healthcare, or putting more cops on the state streets, Delawareans know that there is nothing he wouldn’t do for the sake of his country as well.
Making colleges and University’s more accessible and affordable for students and their families has always been one of his priorities. His College Affordability and Creating Chances for Educational Success for Students act would “increase tax incentives, Pell Grants, and begin college planning as early as the 8^th grade.” Biden also wrote and passed the Violence Against Women Act which is the strongest legislation that holds batters and participants of domestic violence responsible for their actions.
He, like Obama, has an outspoken opinion on how President Bush handled the war in Iraq. More impressively he has been successful in bringing crime rates to its lowest in a generation by passing his Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1994.
In the short biography on his website it states that prior to his senate position he practiced and set up his own law firm in Wilmington, Delaware(where he currently resides with his family). He practiced law there until 1972 when he was elected State Senator and now we uphold him in 2009 as our new Vice President.