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Biden: Does He Know Something We Don't Know?
thewashingtonnote.com - 8/20/2008
Biden: Does He Know Something We Don't Know?
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(Senator Joe Biden and the masked Senator Chuck Hagel Make Policy Work Fun on Halloween, October 2007) This strange little piece just popped up at ABC: ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf and Jennifer Parker reports: As Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was leaving his house in Wilmington this afternoon, he slowed down and said to the gathered news reporters outside his home: "Hey guys, I'm not the guy. ...

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Firedoglake:  Biden’s “Not the Guy”–Unless He Is…

The Reaction:  Veepstakes: Biden denial

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Biden’s “Not the Guy”–Unless He Is…
Firedoglake — ... Did Biden mean that Obama told him that he was out of the running? Steve Clemons of the Washington Note speculates that Biden's just going to keep saying he's not the guy until he gets some positive indication that he is. ...

Veepstakes: Biden denial
The Reaction — ... today, "I'm not the guy. See ya." Of course, such pre-announcement denials are predictable. Maybe he already knows he's not the one, but maybe he's "heard nothing," as Steve Clemons suggests. And, well, he just got back from Georgia -- the one near Russia, not the one that spawned Newt Gingrich. He's got the gravitas, he's got the experience, he's Catholic, and Obama just ...

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