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Obama hopes Biden can fill in the blanks

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is hoping Joe Biden can be all the things he's not in this campaign.

Experience versus change. Blue-collar versus Harvard Law. Foreign-policy hand versus fresh face. Maybe even impassioned versus cerebral.

And don't forget attack dog. Obama barely let the name John McCain pass his lips yesterday in Springfield, Ill. Biden couldn't stop talking about McCain,...

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