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Rhetorical Question
The New Republic ^ | October 22, 2001 | Michael Crowley

Posted on 08/24/2008 12:18:19 AM PDT by ari-freedom

It's a bright early October morning on Capitol Hill. Joe Biden is bounding up the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building, wearing his trademark grin. As he makes for the door, he is met by a group of airline pilots and flight attendants looking vaguely heroic in their navy-blue uniforms and wing-shaped pins. A blandly handsome man in a pilot's cap steps forward and asks Biden to help pass emergency benefits for laid-off airline workers. Biden nods as the men and women cluster around him with fawning smiles. Then he speaks. "I hope you will support my work on Amtrak as much as I have supported you," he begins. (Biden rides Amtrak to work every day and is obsessed with the railroad.) "If not, I will screw you badly."

A dozen faces fall in unison as Biden lectures on. "You've not been good to me. You're also damn selfish. You better listen to me..." It goes on like this for a couple of minutes. Strangely, Biden keeps grinning--even fraternally slapping the stunned man's shoulder a couple of times. When we finally head into the building, Biden's communications director, Norm Kurz, turns to me. "What you just witnessed is classic Senator Biden."

(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 110th; alpa; amtrak; biden; tnr
"At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face."
1 posted on 08/24/2008 12:18:19 AM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: ari-freedom

Heartbeat.
Away.
From the.
Presidency.


2 posted on 08/24/2008 12:26:49 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |8|~)
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To: ari-freedom

He’s the Ernest T. Bass of the senate


3 posted on 08/24/2008 12:27:51 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: ari-freedom
Obama BinBiden two most dangerous men in the world.
4 posted on 08/24/2008 12:29:45 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (OBAMA aka Post Turtle the Forest Gump of American Politics ABORTION -Liberal Child Abuse.)
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To: ari-freedom

This must be our time in Comedy of Errors. It’s just so unbelievable that we have these candidates and that goes for both sides.


5 posted on 08/24/2008 12:31:42 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: ari-freedom

It will be even worse when he discovers Alabama lost to Tennessee that weekend. :^)


6 posted on 08/24/2008 12:35:52 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: freekitty

After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said.
"I wish we'd pay as much attention to Pakistan as the saber rattling we're doing with Iran," Biden said.

hmm he must really like iran.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402716.html?nav=rss_print/asection
7 posted on 08/24/2008 12:38:36 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: USNBandit

He’s a nut!


8 posted on 08/24/2008 12:42:04 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: ari-freedom

Nobody else wanted the job...


9 posted on 08/24/2008 12:50:16 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

hillary?


10 posted on 08/24/2008 12:53:36 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: ari-freedom

Well, in that case I guess Obama couldn’t find a food tester.


11 posted on 08/24/2008 12:57:03 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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To: USNBandit

More like Ernest P. Worrell


12 posted on 08/24/2008 1:00:46 AM PDT by GWMcClintock (The last thing the US needs is B.O.!)
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To: freekitty

OBAMA/BIDEN. Poster boys for the pompous and delirious crowd.


13 posted on 08/24/2008 1:13:21 AM PDT by princeofdarkness (Barack Hussein Obama- The Only Candidate Who Makes John Kerry Look Steadfast and Principled.)
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To: devolve

You need to read this!


14 posted on 08/24/2008 3:21:48 PM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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To: potlatch

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OK!

I will!


15 posted on 08/24/2008 3:52:39 PM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: potlatch

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Rush will have a field day with his huge audio archives on Joe Biden

I always figured Biden was a nasty political thug of the lowest order
.

Biden’s instant vicious attack on John McCain about seven alleged homes (that McCain does not own) has given McCain the truth about any alleged friendship that Biden had with him

Expect John McCain to open the floodgates now and give no quarter
McCain is not a person to cross and will authorize Patton instinct responses and roll over the NUTSIES in a relentless devastating offensive campaign

Hillary and her PUMAS will not fall in line for Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR! either - No heads-up to Hillary before Biden was chosen was a stupid move dictated mostly by Michelle Obama

Many of Hillary’s supporters on their blogs and on TV and talk radio keep hammering that Obama is the most far radical leftist in Congress and way too the left of their political philosophy and unworthy of their support -

They are still saying they will vote for John McCain or stay home

The combination of Howard Dean, Barack Hussein Obama JUNIOR!, and now Joe “Fake Master’s Degree” Biden and the refusal to allow any information on Obama’s past and his terrorist mentor Ol’Bomber Buddy William Ayers will sink this Ship Of Tools, Ghouls, and Fools

One innocent question I here pose:

Why is it that Barack and Michelle Obama seem to have picked so many radical leftist homosexuals and bisexuals as friends, mentors, and partners and why do they support the homosexual agenda and lifestyle that is so decimating blacks in America?

It’s almost as if the Obamas and the DNC is encouraging AIDS - perhaps described as very late term abortion of teenagers and adults

The Obamas and liberals encourage reducing the live birth of native born American children (especially American blacks as Margaret Sanger intended!) yet welcome illegal aliens from Mexico, other hispanic countries, Asia, and the Islamic mideast -


16 posted on 08/24/2008 4:34:08 PM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: devolve

YOu listen to all the talk radio shows and hear things that I don’t know.

The liberals are more ‘liberal’ and tend toward the gay lifestyle more. Hillary is much involved in that too.

I can’t speak much about the reduction of black population. They seem to be aborting themselves without any help and the men’s lifestyles promote AIDS.

I’ve written you several times that Biden would give us plenty to work with.


17 posted on 08/24/2008 5:07:44 PM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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To: potlatch

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There has been a brief intermission while new AA batteries were reloaded into the Free Republic fun machine.


18 posted on 08/25/2008 1:07:20 AM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: devolve

Yes, you did post in the middle of the night. Maybe this is when FR came back up!


19 posted on 08/25/2008 6:11:09 PM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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