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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: DixieBelle on August 23, 2008, 02:09:50 PM
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Sen. Biden has been talking about this for over 6 months. Dating back to January 5th, Sen. Biden said America Should Surge Troops in Afghanistan. He told the Washington Post, “If we’re surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan,†Biden said. Adding troops there would give the United States “the moral high ground†in its quest for more forces from NATO allies. [Washington Post, 1/5/07]
“We find it a little disingenuous that Sen. Obama is hailing this as a new bold initiative when he has neglected to join his colleagues in the Senate when the opportunities have been there to redirect our forces into Afghanistan†said Biden for President Campaign Manager Luis Navarro. “It’s good to see Sen. Obama has finally arrived at the right position, but this can hardly be considered bold leadership.â€
Loose Lips Sink . . .
Biden's Leadership Is Lost in All His Talk
By Richard Cohen
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Page A21
The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth. That, though, is no small matter. It is a Himalayan barrier, a Sahara of a handicap, a summer's day in Death Valley, a winter's night at the pole (either one) -- an endless list of metaphors intended to show you both the immensity of the problem and to illustrate it with the op-ed version of excess. This, alas, is Joe Biden.
SNIP
The seniority that makes Biden so knowledgeable on foreign policy -- a conversation with him is always instructive -- is also what cripples. He has been in the Senate since 1973 and suffers, as nearly all senators do sooner or later, from the conviction that he and his colleagues are the center of the world. After all, no one -- with the possible exception of family members -- ever tells a senator to shut up. They are surrounded by fawning staff and generally treated as minor deities. They lose perspective, which is why, now that you've asked, they talk and talk at these hearings. They are convinced the world is watching. Actually, it's only a half a dozen shut-ins on C-SPAN -- and, of course, the nearly catatonic press corps. Everyone else is playing computer solitaire.
Biden ran for president once before -- and then, too, his mouth went off on its own. (In 1988, his stump speech was perilously similar to the one used by Neil Kinnock, Britain's Labor Party leader.) This time seems no different, except the loss is greater. Foreign policy, Biden's specialty, is the number one issue. He has much to say -- and then too much to add. He is an anatomical disaster. His Achilles' heel is his mouth.
:bow: to Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/
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:lmao: Talk about a comprehesive topic. I don't know which one to pick, so I'll go with the "smug elitist" choice:
The tape, which was made available by C-SPAN in response to a reporter's request, showed a testy exchange in response to a question about his law school record from a man identified only as ''Frank.'' Mr. Biden looked at his questioner and said: ''I think I have a much higher I.Q. than you do.''
He then went on to say that he ''went to law school on a full academic scholarship - the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship,'' Mr. Biden said. He also said that he ''ended up in the top half'' of his class and won a prize in an international moot court competition. In college, Mr. Biden said in the appearance, he was ''the outstanding student in the political science department'' and ''graduated with three degrees from college.'' Comments on Assertions
In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ''I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.''
As for receiving three degrees, Mr. Biden said: ''I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors - I said 'three' and should have said 'two.' '' Mr. Biden received a single B.A. in history and political science.
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/026777.html
:whatever:
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Check out the Biden wiki shenanigans -
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/08/24/more-biden-wiki-wackiness-whole-year-disappears
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJXJUjAKLk[/youtube]
I missed this last year!!!
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aIb-IplqY[/youtube]
This one had my blood boiling when I saw it earlier this year.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJXJUjAKLk[/youtube]
I missed this last year!!!
I was about to post this. I wasn't laughing before I watched it... now I am.
"I GOT TESTED FOR AIDS! BARACK GOT TESTED FOR AIDS!" :lmao:
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aIb-IplqY[/youtube]
This one had my blood boiling when I saw it earlier this year.
what a twit. I wonder what kind of weapons his security detail use? I'm sure whatever they are, it's just a-okay in Biden's book. Asshat.