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Biden on Obama
Swampland —
As long as we are digging out Biden sound bites, take a look at this one from July 15 at the Center for U.S. Global Engagement. I think he pretty well nailed the job interview right here:
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
Joe Klein writes:
Biden on McCain: Biden's opinion of his old friend John McCain has changed significantly--for the worse--during the course of this campaign. Biden called me in June to express his amazement that McCain continued to insist that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the leader of Iran, even after I pointed out--during a press ...
Spine of Aluminum: Big Bad Obama Wags Finger at Norks
JammieWearingFool —
The man with the spine of steel pleads with the North Koreans to cut it out. Kim Jong Il may die of laughter. President Barack Obama said North Korea should refrain from further provocative actions after that nation’s government made good on their promise to launch a long-range rocket. “I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council,” the president said as the council approved an emergency session Sunday to deal with North Korea’s rocket launch. North Korea will not find acceptance in the international community “unless it abandons its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction,” Obama said. Obama called North Korea’s latest act a ...
'Therapy Isn't Going to Cause Terrorists to Change Their Mind'
JammieWearingFool —
Sure, maybe not therapy, but that smooth Obama charm no doubt will. Won't it? Mr. Bush weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, and his administration's interrogation policies of terrorists held there and elsewhere. The former president has not commented on Mr. Obama's decision to ban "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, which the current president has called "off course" and "based on fear." "The way I decided to address the problem was twofold: One, use every technique and tool within the law to bring terrorists to justice before they strike ...
