Biden on the stump

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: September 6, 2008

The period following the major parties’ conventions is traditionally considered the green flag to the eight-week sprint to Election Day.

Tradition is holding true this year.

Now that the GOP has wrapped up its convention this week, a week later than the Democrats’ big party in Denver, the candidates topping their parties’ tickets are turning up the heat.

Need proof? Watch Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden yesterday on the stump in Pennsylvania.

Engaging, inspired, animated, enthusiastic and focused on issues with a new tenacity, he was simply terrific.

It was a new Joe Biden, a far cry from the candidate he was a couple of weeks ago when he was announced as Barack Obama’s choice for No. 2.

You’ve heard of post-impressionism ... If politics is art, dare we say that Biden has entered his Post-Palin Era?