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VP Joe Biden: Watch Video Highlights
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Now that Joe Biden has officially been tapped as Barack Obama's vice president, it's worth looking back on some key video highlights from Biden's career.
1) Biden dramatically rips into the Bush administration's policy on Iraq on the Senate floor, shouting, "Mr. President, you're leading us off a cliff. Stop."
2) Biden blasts Rudy Giuliani: "Noun, verb, 9/11"
More Giuliani mocking
3) Biden talks foreign policy, rails at Iran legislation, at a ...
On Biden
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com —
I'm not going to act as if I'm a genius here, becuase it was just a simple guess, but I made roughly one single post back in March where I mentioned that Biden (along with Mark Warner) was pretty much the only logical choice for Obama's running mate. I suppose that, compared with certain people who have written, let's say, eight posts a day for the last four months about how Obama is going to pick Hillary Clinton and/or if he doesn't pick Hillary Clinton it's the end of the world, that casts a light on who has a better grip on reality, so the revelataion of what anyone who wasn't a complete idiot knew- that it was never even ...
Biden
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The clip above explains the rationale, I'd say. The biggest emerging problem with the Obama campaign is Obama's reluctance, lack of talent and lack of will to get into lively, feisty, pissing matches with his opponent. This was brought home in the Saddleback forum. What he needs is a plucky, fun, free-wheeling attack machine, with the necessary gravitas to express adequate contempt for the Bush administration's fatally misguided foreign policy without in any way seeming defensive.
Two further quotes: "I refuse to sit back like we did in 2000 and 2004. This ...
More (Against the New Target) Please
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
As Ezra says, this probably sums up the case for Biden as well as anything: In theory, his knowledge of foreign policy and refreshing willingness to take the fight to Republicans should be somewhat undermined by his vote on the war. But in the strange calculus of the Beltway media, being wrong about the war seems to give you more foreign policy credibility...
Bidenmania continues
Political Animal —
BIDENMANIA CONTINUES.... As part of our ongoing coverage of the big political story of the day, here are a few more Biden-related items of note: * At BeliefNet, Steve Waldman has an interesting item ...
Biden time
The Reaction —
By Libby Spencer Well, I'm glad I didn't stay up all night waiting for the big surprise announcement since Obama went with the safe pick. You can find hundreds of reactions on Memeorandum but from the places I've cruised this morning, the reaction from the progressive lefties to Biden appears to be a collective -- meh. That was my reaction. I'm not thrilled or inspired, but I'm not horrified either. It's a good enough pick and it makes sense in many ways. More importantly, anecdotal evidence would suggest that it's playing well with senior citizens, ...
One House, One Spouse, Obama/Biden 08
Newshoggers.com —
By Libby
All of Blogtopia has weighed in on Biden and I've posted at The Impolitic already, so I'll just recap the positives on an unexciting but pragmatic pick.
Lefties are not wildly excited but neither are they unduly alarmed. I'm hearing their parents like the pick and it's moving the senior ...
