According to Ann Gottlieb he is:
Rumor hath it, from a reliable source close to insiders, that Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is very serious about running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Biden has said he was considering it, but from what I hear, consider him a contender.
Read the entire analysis. A few more tidbits:
Back in 1988, the ambitious, prolix young candidate was a disappointment, and not only because of his unattributed “borrowings” from British Labor leader Neil Kinnock and others. But during the run-up to the 2004 primaries, when he appeared often as a talking head on TV, I often found myself frustratedly wishing Biden would run, now that he’s matured.
Be careful what you wish for, ’cause you just might get it!
Unfortunately, my source also points out that in preparation for his run, Biden has begun tacking to the left, making the obligatory play for the “base” that is still believed (against all the laws of baseball!) to be out there in left field somewhere. Both diehard centrists, my friend and I agreed that this would be another huge disappointment and fatal mistake. For God’s sake, Hillary, of all people, is doing just the opposite! (“That’s because Bill is her Karl Rove,” Deep Throat joked.)
Biden was indeed The Golden Boy for many in the press when he ran in 1988. Then he got in trouble for borrowing lines from a British politico, and self-destructed. But in the intervening years he had life-threatening surgery and seemingly matured.
Just think of how exciting 2008 already is — and no one has even officially declared yet. Informed speculation is rampant that New York’s former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Congressman Newt Gingrich may be running on the GOP side (but what about Jeb?). And, on the Democratic side, it’s a given that Hillary will run, John Edwards probably will, too, John Kerry hopes to do a Nixon and get the nomination even though he lost last time. Oh, and the always infallable interesting Dick Morris says the GOP will rush to nominate Condoleezza Rice to counter the expected Hillary onslaught.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.