Politics – Facing celebrity candidates endowed with hundreds of millions of dollars, the one thing Joe Biden may have going for him with only days to go before the Iowa caucuses are low expectations.
Voters' comments:
"Joe is clearly the most qualified and best choice of any candidate running for President.
For those who do not know much about him -- listen to his response to Tim Russert in Philadelphia debate when asked if he would pledge to prevent the Iranian's from getting nukes. He was cool, calm and gave an answer that blew everyone away...He was absolutly correct"
Fast forward to the 1:50 mark
"Very interesting and informative article. So far Sen. Biden, along with his campaign head honchos sister Valerie and Luis Navarro, have run an outstanding campaign for which they should all be proud. I think Sen. Biden would make the best POTUS of any candidate from either side of the aisle and am hopeful that Valerie Biden Owens, Mr. Navarro and others will come up with the correct calculus to make that happen. I can't wait for Iowa caucuses later this week so we can witness Sen. Biden "shock the world" with his campaign success. Biden '08!"
"People have been kind to say, including even the national press, that I am qualified to be president of the United States, that I could win a general election, but how can he win the caucuses?" Biden told a crowd of several hundred people crammed into an Ames library Monday. "The only thing that I ask you, and the only responsibility to the Democrats in the rest of the country I think you have, is not to be pundits but to pick for them who you believe that the most qualified persons are to be in the finals."
Am i safe in assuming that you like Joe Biden AG? Could this mean you may change your voter status! HAHAHA!
You know, N2N, I was actually thinking about it. And I would only do it for this election! And stop laughing at me.
Not laughing at you, laughing at the thought of you changing your registration!!!!!!!! I never thought i would see the day! ;)
Don't tell anybody. ; )
Too late.
I'd vote for a Dem if they had one that I'd vote for,,,, please point to the nearest conservative or even moderate Dem on the ticket and I'll check them out.
Amen to that. I vote policy, not party.
Does that mean that you didn't vote in the last tow elections?
Why would you call Bush a liberal. Unlike a liberal, he has sliced social programs, lowered taxes for the rich, and tied the hands of the EPA. Where's the liberalism?
Take a look at government spending under Bush. So much for a smaller Federal Government.
I think what you're saying is, "god I wish we republicans didn't have to claim this idiot!"
Bush is a REPUBLICAN!
He's not a conservative, and he's not a liberal. He's a REPUBLICAN.
The group that voted for everything he proposed for the first 6 years were the REPUBLICANS!
We are now paying around 80 million dollars an hour in interest on the national debt. Thanks to the REPUBLICANS!
Remember this at election time!
well in truth Bush is uite liberal, but less so than his opponents. The first one I was fooled, I didn't get a chance to vote the second one.
Please explain which of his views or actions are liberal. He opposes abortion, he is mentioning "GOD" with every other breath. He backs corporate America to the max, He spends on the military like there is no tomorrow, he uses executive privilege more then any pres in history, and he has set record deficit spending.
I think you're just trying to avoid saying he's a republican!
Let's see, he has helped spend like a drunken liberal,,, the drug bill,,, all politicians are pretty liberal when it comes to closing the borders,,,, or would that make them all in the pocet of corps and special interest groups?
The only thing I don't like about Biden is that fact that he wants to let Bush's tax cuts expire. Like him or not, those tax cuts have helped more than people want to admit.
And I'm not sure I'm all excited about him wanting to bring our troops home so fast. I'd like to see his plan that he says both sides of the aisle like.
He also needs to tighten up his immigration plan. It's different, that's for sure.
That said, I still think he's leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the Dem candidates. They should kiss his boots.
; )
AG - those cuts haven't helped near as much as massive deficit spending and the expanded money supply(low interest rates - housing boom).
Having said that, I agree that Biden is probably the most equipped to be POTUS of all in both parties. I certainly like his demeanor, and I also have a higher level of trust in him than I do for all of the other candidates.
BTW, did Biden say all of the tax cuts or just for the top 1% - whom got a reported 40% of the benefit?
Playing poker, I like to keep my cards close to my vest, and sometimes change my hand. The deck seems full of jokers this tournament. Carefully drawing from the deck, Joe Biden could change my hand to a winner.
There are a lot of wild cards out there. Some could be aces. I fear many could just be jokers, or like the deuces we now have in office. (Refer to the phrase "Deuce" in the arcane devil reference).
Joe's biggest liability is his greatest asset. His 'old guard' status. There was one unfortunate statement by him that could be perceived as a cultural cluelessness, when He regarded Obama in an ambiguous phrase. That aside, I think he is the most electable, with some crossover appeal.
Do you like fruit?
Now let me make the statement that will prick up AG's latent fears. Cabinet choices. If H. Clinton headed up HEW, Gore, the Interior, and W.J. Clinton Sec. of State, I would be happy, while many conservatives might be aghast. Fear not. Cabinets are advisory posts, and I like an equal counterweight in the same capacity. B. Cohen for Defense. Perhaps R. Wagner (GM) for Treasury, for example.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I forgot... Obama for VP.
How do ya like them apples?!
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"Biden is betting that he will reach that magic 15% number in his eastern strongholds and in enough rural caucuses, he has personally visited 94 or Iowa's 99 counties, to place fourth even though New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is currently polling ahead of him.
Ultimately, Biden thinks enough Iowans will make a late decision to throw their support behind him that he'll be able to go to New Hampshire with a fighting chance. "People are coming up handing me their Hillary buttons, handing me their Edwards buttons. Last night two Obama precinct captains walked up to me and said 'You know, we're switching.'"
Joe Biden is a bought and paid zionist traitor to America. He has already supported zionist plans for Iraq, which turned out to be a total failure, and is regarded in the mideast as an incompetent. America does NOT need a Biden that will continue to kill Americans in the mideast for zionist crimes against humanity.
The DLC and Israel
Zionist Democrats
... ..... These neoconservative Democrats include: Governor Tom Vilsack, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Joe Biden...
http://counterpunch.com/carmichael05302006.html
An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq
Finally the Imperial Senate calls for Iraq's partition.
US lawmakers voted Wednesday to split Iraq into a loose federation of sectarian-based regions and urged President George W Bush to press Iraqi leaders to agree. [dpa]
The proposal came from Senator Joseph Biden, the smart-ass who heads the chamber's foreign relations committee...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382195.html
Iraq: Biden Backfires
... "Senator Biden's motion [in congress calling for the partitioning of Iraq] has already backfired. It was condemned by the great majority of the Iraqi people and the political personalities, including high-ranking officials of the US installed government."..
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/10/ir...
Why a plan for Iraq's soft partition would backfire
... Unfortunately, the idea that soft partition offers a way out of the Iraq maze is wishful thinking. Any effort by Congress to press this plan on Iraqis will boomerang...
..outside pressure that appears aimed at dividing Iraq will create hostility there and in the region. No matter that Biden insists it isn't aimed at formal division; most Arabs will regard it as a neocolonialist plot. This is why Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki - and the US Embassy in Baghdad - were quick to condemn the Senate resolution.
As Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari told me by phone, the resolution has "led to an uproar," with Arab media claiming it represents a "Zionist plan" to divide the country....
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/trudy...
Lets be clear that Biden would be a repeat of the American disaster of letting zionists direct our foreign policy in the mideast, and particularly in palestine (think Ross, Indyk, Abrams, etc.).
SENATOR BIDEN: My son married a young woman whose mother and whole family is a very prominent Jewish family in the state of Delaware, the Bergers.
When I was a young Senator, I used to say, "If I were a Jew I'd be a Zionist."
I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/phpbb/viewtopic.p...
Really want to elect someone who betrays the principles of American democracy by supporting the robbing, killing, expulsion or placing in concentration camps of over 7 million christians and moslems?
He should stick to something he's good at, like plagiarism.
by that logic, Duh-bya oughta stick to drinking, snorting coke, and being some villages Idiot. you people kill me, with all the obvious failings of your brainless leader, you still sling mud at others...
all joe did was to use a quote in a speech and not mention the author.. thats done THOUSANDS of times here every day.
tell me, have you ever heard that people who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones?
by the way, your nickname is offensive and just goes to show typical conservative values....
now THATS an oxymoron if ever there was one - "conservative values" LMAO!!!
He's committed plagiarism multiple times, not just once...and he's stupid. I thought that doing drugs was a requirement for a Lib. So what's your problem with it, Mr. thinskin?
No thanks. I don't get out to the hog pens of Iowa that often. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia article on plagiarism. Biden actually defines the term:
"Delaware Senator Joe Biden was forced out of the 1988 US Presidential race (but remained in the US Senate) when it was discovered that parts of his campaign speeches were plagiarized from speeches by British Labour party leader Neil Kinnock and Robert Kennedy."
Biden also flunked a class in law school for plagiarism. He actually has an entry on the Famous Plagiarists website
http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm#b...
He's also ripped off Hubert Humphrey. Anyhow, see the website above for all the details.
naw..you come on out to the hog pens..personal invite.
You'll have to settle for your sister...again. Can't question my facts, eh, so you resorted to a personal attack?