Posted on 07/02/2006 6:18:08 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
"well i was not advocating him"
Excuse me, but attributing characteristics like, "smart" (LOL) and "charasmatic" are YOUR subjective labels. They were totally unnecessary if all you were reporting was " wanted to show how he is going to run and what he was thinking"
Those subjective descriptions have Nothing to do with "know(ing) what your opposition is up to or how they plan on staking their claim"
Your 'nonsense' is well written. Good for you!
No, they've already got their Great Black Hope, Barack Obama(Sp?).
Well, don't give up on FR, although you may need asbestos undergarments now and then. You're right on the "keep your friends close" part.
Yeah, I'm sure GOP presidential candidates are shaking in their boots.
point well taken
he is smart and he is charasmatic
my point would be there were others that were not good people (or good presidents, think Billy boy) that were smart and charasmatic and successfully came from no where and won,
so as republicans be on your toes
be aware
and be prepared to be able to combat wit and charisma it is a potent component of any candidate, an abundance of it has won races for non-qualified candidates , a lack of it has lost races for stellar candidates...
get it??????????????????????
****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*****
Ps: The last time I checked " i " is always supposed to be capitalized. Except of course at the DU, where all grammar rules are optional. Ta-ta.
Go post your BS on another Forum. It ain't welcome here.
Then may I respectfully point out an example of the "nonsense" to which I referred:
Had Democrats wisely embraced national security as their centerpiece, Biden would have been tailor-made for the 2004 election cycle. He seriously considered making a run in 2004. The moderate hawk chock-full of experience and mojo, who was not about to flip or flop on any vote, would have made a serious contender for President Bush.
As to your premise: Had Democrats wisely embraced national security as their centerpiece.... And abandon "choice" and "kumbaya" as their twin pillars of domestic and foreign policy? Not likely. Not ever. We here in the red states may have just fallen from our turnip trucks but we still can spot a scam.
Tailor-made? Serious contender? Tell that to all the incumbent senators who successfully parlayed their "tailor-made" and "serious contender" status into the presidency. But for Kennedy and Harding, the 20th century would have produced none. A Biden candidacy would go nowhere.
I wonder from whom he plagiarized that line? Well, it seems to be from Fritz Holling...
"I've got 4 1/2 years to go on this term, but reporters still want to know, 'Am I running?' Yes, I'm running," Hollings told cheering South Carolina delegates during a breakfast meeting at the Democratic National Convention
Has Joe no original thought?
how bout...NO?
:)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/zito/
The first time I interviewed Joe Biden was in 1982. I didn't like him then and dislike him even more now, more than 20 years later. However, I do agree he has charisma, in a sleazy sort of a way. Why the people of Delaware keep re-electing him is beyond me. But even after 20 years in Delaware politics I was never able to figure out Delaware voters.
Joe Biden: Cannon Fodder with bad hair plugs. Soon to be the first victim of Hillary's political Arkan-icide.
He'll be toast by November of this year. Without the opposition's need or desire to fire an opening volley!
Jack.
From Delaware. Believe me, you do NOT want to vote for this guy.
Apparently, you didn't get it, and seem to be taken-in by someone who pretends to be "smart' and "charasmatic".
Biden is neither. He has made so many "unsmart" statements, it's a joke around here. And charasmatic?? Please. His phoney smirk is nauseating.
Clinton, on the other hand, is a master flim-flam man, which requires charisma and cunning. And he is very smart, outside of his personal life. The people who never voted for him recognized what he was.
Biden isn't in the same ballpark, not even in the same city as Clinton.
Now how about something more important like an article on Diana Irey please?
haha i agree
same with Pennsylvania
for the life of me after 15 years working on campaigns in PA i never really got some of the voting trends of this state...for instance who knew that Toomey would bring home Pittsburgh and the rest of western pa and he would lose in the ultra conservative "T" to Specter...???
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