First Two Questions for Vice Presidential Candidate Biden

—By Jonathan Stein

| Sat Aug. 23, 2008 8:45 AM PDT

(1) You said in the primary campaign that you "don't believe" Barack Obama is "ready" to be president. What has changed your mind?

(2) How do you reconcile your plan for partioning Iraq, which your office said you still support as recently as one week ago, with Barack Obama's withdrawal plan?

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