Biden And His Rosary For Vice President

It's being reported that Senator Joe Biden is receiving Secret Service Protection; it seems he'll be Senator Obama's running mate (H/T: RedState):

The United States Secret Service has dispatched a protective detail to assume the immediate protection of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a source tells ABC News, indicating in all likelihood that Biden has been officially notified that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, has selected him to be his running mate.

There's just so much one can say about Senator Biden and his run for Vice President, but I'll settle for reminding you of this remark of his, from just under three years ago:

Biden said that [if] he chooses to make a second presidential bid, he will aggressively defend his own values as well as those of the Democratic Party.

"If I'm the nominee, Republicans will be sorry," said Biden, a Roman Catholic who ran for president in 1988. "The next Republican that tells me I'm not religious I'm going to shove my rosary beads down their throat."

At the time, I remarked that

I, for one would be delighted to hear Senator Biden discuss his Catholic faith, his deep reverence for the Pope, the inherent beauty of Catholic moral teaching, his own conversion and how Catholic teaching informs all his political positions, and of course, his favorite places to find weapons-grade rosaries.

Threatening to shove one's rosary beads down others' throats is not the sort of thing one says when one has the benefit of the many graces that are promised to those who daily pray the rosary. So it makes me wonder. On the off chance that Senator Biden is not keeping up with his daily praying of the rosary, I would encourage him to have an aide get it onto his daily schedule, and never miss it. It will only strengthen him for the many trials that face him each day.

Still, I'll admit that most days I'm carrying three rosaries on my person, and that doesn't in itself make me religious. I'm pretty sure that attacking someone with a rosary wouldn't make me religious either. Still, I'm not too worried, because I honestly don't believe that the Senator carries a rosary with him every day. Not that that in itself makes him irreligious. But it does undercut his threat.

So we now have a Catholic candidate for Vice President whose long record of support for killing babies (not to mention threats of violence using sacramentals as weapons) should provide ample fodder for Catholic bloggers.