slate.com - 8/26/2008
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Comment from the Fray As someone who works in an academic library, I find the comments in the Fray dismissing Biden's conduct as insignificant and a distant memory to be really, really sad. It is not just the nonsense that criticizing Biden--or Obama for selecting him--is somehow the equivalent the supporting McCain or Bush, but the belief that being a dishonest person is fine as long as it is ...
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Obama-Dullsville '08
Ross Douthat —
I was feeling a little bad that I'd abandoned Washington (and this blog) during the week when Barack Obama was due to announce his running mate, but I shouldn't have worried, since he went and made the dullest of all possible Vice-Presidential picks. Not that Joe Biden is personally boring - he has a major tragedy and a deeply bizarre scandal in his past, and a garrulous barfly persona that makes him by turns entertaining and insufferable, but rarely dull. But as a political figure, he's one of the least interesting veep picks in recent memory. He's ...
Wishful Thinking?
Sound Politics —
... , also likes Biden, but doesn't mention his plagiarism in their editorial. They do say he has "straight-talking charm", which may cause some to chuckle. There's some interesting background on Biden's plagiarism in this Jack Shafer column .) Posted by ...
Working in a word mine
Power Line —
... should Biden's past behavior matter. "In and of itself," he asserts, "the plagiarism episode shouldn't automatically disqualify Biden from regaining favor and credibility, especially if in the intervening two decades he's not done more of the same, as seems to be the case." Greenberg nevertheless leaves open the possibility that the episode may be indicative of a man with a deeply troubled soul. Jack Shafer also revisited Biden's weird appropriation of the life of Neil Kinnock in "The wacky plagiarism of Joe Biden." Shafer considers the forethought that went into Biden's ...
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