The Biden Factor

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | July 2 2006 | salena zito

[NorthEasterner]

The Biden Factor By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, July 2, 2006

Blunt, charismatic, smart and blessed with a can't-help-yourself appeal that crosses most geo-social-economic-political lines.

Meet Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and 13 key subcommittees, from border security to crimes and drugs.

And Democrat presidential candidate in 2008.

"Am I running? Yes," he told me during an interview ranging from the all-important upcoming midterms to his bid for the nation's highest office.

[Paladin2]

Let's make a horse race out of it. I know which part of the 'Rat horse most suits JB's proclivities.

[Uncle Vlad]

Biden is John Kerry, but without the hairdo. Big whoop.

[Just mythoughts]

Well if old Biden is really really really running for prez then there is nothing that would stop him from LEAKING (whistle-blowing) that report.

So any one of the elected on either side who claim they want to run for prez and do NOT release that report they are jokes!!!!!

[libs_kma]

The Beast will eat Bidens lunch. Not that the Beast is formidable (nationally).

[hosepipe]

[ Blunt, charismatic, smart and blessed with a can't-help-yourself appeal that crosses most geo-social-economic-political lines. ]

Now thats a load of bull squeeze...

[RedRover]

Hope your skin is thick and your undies flame-proof! Pardon the crudity on this thread.

[nuconvert]

Here is the real Biden: >>>

"Biden Taken to Task for Fund-Raiser ('02 fundraiser at home of pro-Iran regime lobbyist)"

Accepted $24,000 from a pro-Iranian regime lobbyist in California.

"several participants who paid to attend the event stated that Biden ... delivered a sweeping condemnation of President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" formula. "

""I can't believe that Sen. Biden would have a fund-raiser at the home of a pro-Tehran lobbyist two weeks after the White House made it abundantly clear that Iran was aiding the al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan," Moore said. "Frankly, I am appalled that Sen. Biden would have the audacity as the Senate Foreign Relations chairman to take money from a lobbyist supporting a country that brutalizes women, ignores human rights and endorses terrorism.""

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391515/posts


See also:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388887/posts

And:
Biden: Consider Iran's 'emotional needs'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336755/posts


AND....Biden says, Defeated America a Good Thing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1260896/posts

[Boston Tea Party]

Someone pointed out the his youngest child is 25. Good grief, do they all still live at home? LOL

[NorthEasterner]

thanks... i am salena zito..excuse me while i go throw up with that thought.

well, i was dead wrong about this place, and it's people

[silverleaf]

(Biden)
I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

(DNC Nominating Committee)
With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln!
If you only had a brain!

(Biden)
Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain !

[NorthEasterner]

haha thanks
pretty brutal but what the hell i have been a republican in Pittsburgh for-ever, worked for Santorum and Bush so my skin...pretty thick...imagine the abuse
:)
cheers

[ClaireSolt]

You go girl. "or just be a single minded buffoon and make blanket statements about nothing." Too many gratuitous opinions here. Some need to realize that just holding and expressing an opinion is a matter of supreme indifference to the rest of us, unless you have some interesting information to back it up that the rest don't have. In this case, actually meeting and interviewing a man, yourself qualifies and should not have to face all this cretin prejudice.

[csvset]

well, i was dead wrong about this place, and it's people

To top it off, you are dead wrong about Biden.

[NorthEasterner]

haha thanks!

will say this, been a republican forever, and when i take my shots against the D's i am never treated this way by them, in fact they ususally agree with my shots...interview an D and i am now Satan's handmaiden, funny, an interesting phenom

I will be interviewing all of them this summer so i suppose i will refrain from posting them here because i become a rhetorical Monica giver...yikes is somegoing to ask me to pass the cigar?
:)

[Clara Lou]

You're getting pretty rough treatment. You have to understand that Joe Biden is completely disrespected around here. He doesn't get the benefit of any doubt. No good comes from Joe Biden, and there is nothing good to say about him. The only service he provides is as the brunt of jokes and the target of derision.

[veronica]

This will keep Hillary up nights. :)

[hershey]

Colin Powell is on the cover of this month's AARP magazine. What will he do next? What if his wife decided his running for President wasn't such a bad thing? Would Dems fall all over themselves in the rush to sign him up?

[NorthEasterner]

thanks
well i was not advocating him, just wanted to show how he is going to run and what he was thinking
i am italian, i think just like they famously say in the godfather, "keep your friends close..."
if the GOP does not know what your opposition is up to or how they plan on staking their claim then they stumble without knowledge, i would rather be informed on what hyperbole is out there and how it going to be presented then just be negative, you glean nothing from that

[fahraint]

Let me put a plug in for Smokin' Joe......on second thought, he's got enough already...

[hershey]

Biden's definitely a dark horse in the Presidential stakes since he's not Hill, not Gore, Obama, or even Edwards. Or Kerry. That said, it's a nice piece. (You were gentle with him.) As for FR, you weren't wrong about this place and its people. Just pull out the arrows and write on!