Maryland state senator Jim Rosapepe, who was ambassador to Romania in the late 1990's under Bill Clinton, today released a piece praising Dem veep pick Joe Biden.
Based on a meeting during a congressional delegation to Bucharest in September 1999, Rosapepe predicts Biden would be a thoughtful vice president with a keen interest in foreign policy details and their consequences.
Rosapepe writes:
On the 20 minute drive into the city, he quizzed me on Romanian attitudes, the status of various government leaders, and the inside story on Romania 's foreign policy toward Slobodan Milosevic, who was still in power next door in Yugoslavia . Because Biden has known all the major Romanian leaders since the dictator Ceausescu, the questions were PhD level, not Romania 101. That was remarkable in itself since he is no specialist no Romania; he could do the same, landing in dozens of nations around the world.
