Now for some humor - "The Case for Joe Biden" (From newsweek)

[fujiyama]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11115989/site/newsweek/

:rofl:

The Case for Joe Biden
A long time political consultant argues that the senior senator from Delaware is the Democrat’s best shot.

Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Ron Goldstein
Newsweek
Updated: 6:19 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006

"As the Democrats cast about for a candidate who can win in 2008, I want to make the case for Joe Biden. After 34 years in the Senate, Biden can appeal to voters on nearly all of the above criteria. He’s familiar to many voters—from his (admittedly verbose) questioning during the Alito hearings to his passionate arguments in favor of U.S. intervention in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. In fact, Biden has held public office far longer than any of the new crop of possible presidential candidates (he was elected at the age of 29) and is an influential member and former chairman of both the Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees."


"The senior senator from Delaware has an appealing media persona: he’s not a bad-looking guy, and his performances seem real, not wooden like those of the last two Democratic nominees. Unlike Howard Dean, his outrage and passion is controlled, not manic. His voting record is appealing to centrist America: according to National Journal, his liberal-to-conservative voting on social and foreign issues is in the 60-30 range. As for geography, how about Delaware? It may be small, but it is a state stuck smack in the mid-Atlantic area, a gateway between the Northeast with its great metropolitan areas and the critical Southeast. Together, the region is the most populous in the country."

"Biden’s tough, compassionate, experienced, left-of-center political profile may be just the answer for the Democrats and the country.

Of course, there’s the black mark. Twenty years ago, during another presidential campaign, Biden apparently lifted substantial portions of a speech by a popular British politician for an address of his own. Subsequently, Biden resigned from the race instead of battling the charge.

Are we still going to hold that against him? A far more important measure of his character happened in 1972, five months after he was elected to the Senate, when he lost his wife and daughter to a car crash. From then on, he commuted home by Amtrak every evening to raise his two boys. He was never linked with actresses, models or late-night carousing. Five years later, Biden remarried and had another daughter."

[Bluebear]

1. Well that settles it! GO JOE BIDEN!

Go to hell, for your slimy bankruptcy bill maneuverings.

[DanCa]

2. I am more enthusatic by a Dick Gephardt Melissa Bean ticket.

Joe Biden's hair plugs scare the heck out of me. Whenever I see them, they look like a giant squid's tentacles, I said tentacles, thats are about to come thru my tv screen and pull me into the world of Sunday morning talk shows.

[karynnj]

3. No, No, No and by the way, no

There is no way. As a candidate they will put him on talk shows and he will tell his meandering stories usually involving the fact that he grew up Irish Catholic. The stories will meander until someone asks his point. After about 3 months of primaries, well over half the country will be sick of the stories - even if they're Democrats. I can't even contemplate him as President. It would save the networks a fortune in programming - they could just broadcast their new reality show, THE PRESIDENCY.