Should it have been someone else? Well, too late now, but two stories to start the first week of Obama-Biden bat the new ticket around:

From USA Today:

Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters in the presidential primaries say they definitely will vote for Barack Obama in November, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, evidence of a formidable challenge facing Democrats as their national convention opens here today.

In the survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, 47% of Clinton supporters say they are solidly behind Obama, and 23% say they support him but may change their minds before the election.

We'll have to see what the polls say after Biden's had a chance. But this is just one of many signs that pointed toward an Obama-Clinton ticket. Obama avoided it, seemingly at all costs, and for some good reasons, but ignoring some others.

Elsewhere, the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

No matter what help Barack Obama might get from Sen. Joseph Biden, his newly named vice presidential running mate won't give Obama much cover on the Tony Rezko front.

Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who's pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in Chicago and is awaiting sentencing.

It' never a good thing to have your running mate's name in the same lead as Tony Rezko.