Biden’s foreign policy record is dismal. One of his main accomplishments in this area was persuading former President Bill Clinton to use force against the Serbs. Conservatives were hesitant to bomb Kosovo because there were atrocities being committed on all sides, not just by the Serbs. The Republican Policy Committee of the Senate issued a statement expressing concern that Clinton was forming an alliance with the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group of radical Albanians classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

Biden voted against authorization for the Gulf War in 1991. Currently, he believes Iraq should be divided into three separate ethnic enclaves. This has been rejected by Iraq’s political leadership which unified to denounce the plan. Biden is no friend to Israel. In May 2008, he said it was “bullsh**” for President Bush to give a speech in Israel saying that Democrats were acting similarly to appeasing Hitler before WWII. He later apologized.

Biden is a big supporter of “campaign finance reform,” which hurts candidates who are able to raise significant amounts of money on their own. He supports it because having made the Senate his lifelong career, he’s never become a millionaire like half the other members in the Senate. Public campaign financing permits career politicians like himself to run for free for office on the taxpayers’ dime.

Biden’s record on social issues is abysmal. Due to his far left pro-abortion record, Biden has been barred from receiving communion by the bishop in his hometown of Scranton, Pennyslvania.

Last year, while running for the Democratic presidential nomination himself, Biden said Obama was not qualified to be president. "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Now that Biden has agreed to be Obama’s running mate, one wonders whether Biden says these things because he’s not very smart, or if he’s capitulated because he wants the fame and status. Either reason speaks poorly of Biden, and ultimately he brings just more of the same predictable far left views to the presidential ticket.