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[Obama] said he is sending a signal by the way he's announcing it -- and that is text messaging supporters -- that this is something different, that he is new, that he's tomorrow, he's not yesterday.

Obama's likely running mate pick
JIM LEHRER: Why do you hope it's Biden?

DAVID BROOKS: Well, I think he -- he gives Obama a lot of things he needs. He gives him some working-class roots. Biden is from Scranton, Pa., Wilmington, Del. He's got a real family connection there.

He's still -- he's been in the Senate for, God knows, decades, but he still is an authentic guy from Scranton, from Wilmington. He's an authentic guy, and he connects with people. He gives them the experience.

He served in the Senate with Mike Mansfield, with Hubert Humphrey, back in the old days when the Senate actually still functioned in a relatively nonpartisan way. He could help him there.

He's also been through the worst life has to offer. He lost his wife and his daughter. He's had his own health problems, his own scandals. And I think somebody like that has perspective.

And when a president -- and I think I've heard Obama people say this -- when a president is in the Oval Office surrounded by people who want to please, surrounded by people with their own agendas, he needs a vice president with absolute loyalty. And Biden, God knows, can be a blowhard, but I do think he has that sort of loyalty.

JIM LEHRER: Somebody else has said, Mark, that Biden also did well -- even though he did poorly in the primaries and the caucuses, he did very well in the debates, as a participant in the dialogue. What would you add to that about Joe Biden?

MARK SHIELDS: I would agree. I would agree with that assessment. And I think there's a couple of things about this decision. And I echo what David said about Joe Biden. I think he has a lot to recommend him.

But it's more revealing about the candidate himself. And Tad Devine, one of the smartest Democrats I know, pointed out to me why he's doing it this way, and it's something generational. He said he is sending a signal by the way he's announcing it -- and that is text messaging supporters -- that this is something different, that he is new, that he's tomorrow, he's not yesterday.

And he said it's a very important message to be sending the way this has been handled and the way he's doing it.

And I'd say the other thing that you have to consider is whether, in fact, the decision made by Barack Obama, whether it's Joe Biden or whoever it is, is a decision that's made by the heart or by the head. That is, is it somebody that he really wants and likes and feels comfortable with or is it somebody they say, "This is going to be the best chance I have?"

I think that it's fair to say that, in 2000, Al Gore acted on his heart and chose Joe Lieberman. It was not a wise decision. Lieberman caved in the debate and did not do particularly well.

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