But in July, Biden said he would choose Obama's judgment over McCain's war record and foreign policy experience.

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President BUSH: Yet history will record today's judgment as an important achievement on the path to a free and just and unified society.

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Which means for all the talk of sexism, the campaign seemed most livid about the challenge to McCain's judgment, not Palin's record.

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