Biden my time...

Obama has tapped Joe Biden as his running mate. Apparently, flattery will get you everywhere.

In some ways, last weekend's much-ballyhooed announcement did not go quite as Team Obama had planned; the text messages that were supposed to make grassroots activists the first to know was short-circuited by the good old Washington, D.C. insider leaks, and the mainstream media knew hours before the official announcement to ObamaNation.

But overall, the announcement must be considered a success. The Veepstakes dragged on for days as anticipation built. University of Virginia professor/political commentator Larry Sabato called the pick "acceptable," but not a "game-changer." In other words, it would have been a boring pick without the hype machine.