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Putting the Biden Pick in Perspective
When Joe Biden entered the United States Senate, John McCain was in his fifth year of captivity at the Hanoi Hilton. Barry Obama was eight when Biden began his Senate career. Nixon was starting his second term as President. Barack Obama's campaign says Joe Biden is "not of Washington." Linda Douglass, formerly of ABC News and now an Obama hack (not that it'd be ...
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Not a Washington insider?
Stop The ACLU — ... insider! Washington’s broken, so we need someone fresh and new — a savior , even! — to come in and fix our political system! The thing is, no one denies there are problems in Washington. Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals: we all agree that a lot of changes need to be made. The difference of opinion is on what changes need to be made and how. And if Barack Obama wants to run his entire campaign on the empty rhetoric of “change”, then how does Joe Biden fit into that? As Erik Erickson points out at Redstate: 1. When Joe Biden entered the United States Senate, ...

Not a Washington insider?
Wizbang — ... Washington's broken, so we need someone fresh and new -- a savior , even! -- to come in and fix our political system! The thing is, no one denies there are problems in Washington. Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals: we all agree that a lot of changes need to be made. The difference of opinion is on what changes need to be made and how. And if Barack Obama wants to run his entire campaign on the empty rhetoric of "change", then how does Joe Biden fit into that? As Erik Erickson points out at Redstate: 1. When Joe Biden entered the United States Senate, John ...

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