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Remember This When MSM Calls Biden a Moderate
NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 08/19/2008 11:05:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If Barack Obama is looking for an elder statesman with national security credentials as his running mate, my two cents say he should pick Sam Nunn. The conventional wisdom, though, has Obama leaning toward Joe Biden. If the senior senator from Delaware is indeed tapped, we can expect that mere milliseconds will elapse before some MSM outlet labels Biden a "moderate" or a "centrist."
We thought it might be useful to do a little prophylactic exploration of the Biden record. Given his long tenure in the senate, he's earned literally hundreds of interest group ratings over the years. But here is a representative sample, as culled from the invaluable Project Vote Smart. Although his "grades" have of course varied from year to year, overall we find—surprise!—that Biden is a standard-issue liberal.
* NARAL - A [2006] * Planned Parenthood - A [2006] * National Right to Life Committee - 0% [2005-06] * National Taxpayers Union - F [2007]
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008veep; barackobama; bidenrecord; bloviator; de2008; hairplugs; joebiden; liberals; vp
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Pre-emptive strike on Biden the “moderate” ping to Today show list.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
He’s not a woman or a minority.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:06:35 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Biden is about as moderate as a venereal disease.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:06:39 AM PDT
by
xc1427
(It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Biden is one of those guys who can argue either side of a case and mean it. Maybe both sides at once, and mean it.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:06:45 AM PDT
by
marron
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
But is he “clean and articulate?”
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:08:11 AM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I didn’t think his Iraqi “Segregation Now” plan was very moderate.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:08:30 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: marron
Isn’t he also an experienced plagiarist?
To: Free Descendant
Was Biden always a turd or did the hair plugs make him one? Enquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:09:58 AM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Biden is a moderate when compared to Obama.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:10:22 AM PDT
by
MBB1984
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ah yes.....Old Corn Rows Biden the plagiarist who likes to badger the military witnesses....
Old Corn Rows Biden - the most arrogant and least accomplished white male asshole in the Senate....
Delaware should be ashamed..
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:10:34 AM PDT
by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: river rat
He really is an icehole. I can’t believe anyone would pick him.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:11:35 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Calling Biden a Moderate is like calling Pres. Bush a Conservative.
If you repeat the lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:13:17 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Democracy is the road to socialism.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Do you think they will drag out the remarks he made linking Indian Americans to 7-11 and Dunkin' Donuts?
Somehow I doubt it.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:13:54 AM PDT
by
capydick
("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid".)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Biden is a lock-stepping leftie blowhard. He doesn’t add a thing to the Obama ticket except more hot air.
The fems love him, though - maybe he’ll snag some PUMAs.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:13:58 AM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I heard Delaware is a conservative pro-gun state. How does this fruitcake keep getting elected?
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:15:18 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: AppyPappy
Shhhh. Let’s encourage them.
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:18:12 AM PDT
by
Tex Pete
(Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
To: river rat
"Old Corn Rows Biden - the most arrogant and least accomplished white male asshole in the Senate...."
,
AHhhhh. cum'on....the race is still on and SEVERAL DEMS are tied for first place....LOL....And that don't count the real winner congresscritter---NANCY BELAGOSI !
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:19:05 AM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory tooooo long)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Old Uncle Joe is an Extremist Liberal
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posted on
08/19/2008 11:19:09 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(Russia has always been an aggressor nation)
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