It seems like a shrewd pick if Obama is interested in sending a reassuring signal to Dem centrists (not so much for the netroots, of course, but what are they gonna do? vote for McCain?).

I like Ann Althouse’s take:

I discussed this a couple days ago, and I was guessing that maybe Bob was reflecting his Baptist background, and I my Episcopalian background, while McCain was had a basically Episcopalian orientation, but had, more recently switched to Baptist, and perhaps this could help us understand McCain’s varying levels of expressed religiosity. And now, here is Biden showing what I’d theorized was the Episcopalian style. Biden is Catholic.

Episcopalian, Catholic, whatever… I like this modesty about religion in public life.

Yep, that’s important to me, too. This is a secular society, and I like it that way. Plus, Biden is a liberal hawk, and so am I.