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Poor Joe Biden

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 01:26:19 PM EST
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He says he is going to run for President but he can't seem to remember he is a Democrat:

Biden resonates with Republicans as he sets up S.C. ground game

COLUMBIA, S.C. | U.S. Sen. Joe Biden heads into his quest for votes in a 2008 presidential primary in South Carolina with a well-exercised sense of what to say and what to leave unsaid to Republicans and Democrats alike.

. . . He's not shy about talking about South Carolina's Confederate history either. . . . Biden noted Delaware was a border state and "a slave state that fought beside the North. That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South - there were a couple of other states in the way."

Oy. But wait there's more:

. . . Club member Bruce Rippeteau, who says he's on Genghis Khan wing of the Republican Party, said Biden kept the crowd's attention by being nonpolitical. And his Iraq message resounded because "what we've been doing hasn't worked," he said. Biden told the crowd he needs the GOP and its supporters to put Nov. 7 behind them. "American needs - I need - the Republican Party to get back up," he said. "Not a single change in direction can be done without a bipartisan consensus in this country." . . . "I don't find a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats right now," Biden said.

I like Biden. I really do but man does he seem in outer space politically. h/t TPMCafe.

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    We (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by aw on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 01:38:37 PM EST
    need to boot these blind and deaf incumbents before their egos destroy us all.

    aw.... (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 05:37:51 PM EST
    Right on bro.  Not that I needed another, but Biden has provided yet another reminder of why I so dislike politicians.

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    Reaffirming (none / 0) (#14)
    by aahpat on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 06:19:32 PM EST
    This report is very reaffirming of my opinion of Democrats. That their leadership is too much a part of the problem to ever be part of the solution for what ails America.

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    He's always struck me as one of those... (none / 0) (#17)
    by Bill Arnett on Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:50 PM EST
    ...crazy Uncle's who everyone tolerates and sympathizes with and is nice to because the poor man doesn't know he's insane.

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    If I Wanted A Republican President, (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by MO Blue on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 01:46:31 PM EST
    there are several Republican candidates to choose from without voting for a fake one. A candidate with the head of an ass, excuse me donkey, and the backside of an elephant just doesn't quite appeal to me.

    There ya go (none / 0) (#3)
    by Kitt on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 01:52:44 PM EST
    Plus - just about the time I get past how unpresidential his hair is, I get around to listening to him and I'm like, "Joe, Joe....waddya goin' do? No, no....WHO are you?"

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    I Think He Plagiarized That Civil War Bit... (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by norbizness on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 03:18:54 PM EST
    ... from somebody who had suffered 28 concussions.

    or from Trent Lott (none / 0) (#8)
    by Molly Bloom on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 03:33:05 PM EST


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    For a smart guy Biden (none / 0) (#4)
    by Molly Bloom on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 02:06:02 PM EST
    says some of the dumbest things.

    He's a (none / 0) (#5)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 03:18:16 PM EST
    Corporate tool. See Bankruptcy legislation.

    Jim Crow Democrats (none / 0) (#7)
    by aahpat on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 03:29:43 PM EST
    I have never liked Biden or any of the other Jim Crow Democrats. Right wing thugs all of them. Its the Biden's of the Democratic Party that systematically drove me and millions of other progressive/liberal/left wing Americans out of the Democratic Party.

    Kerry, Biden, Clinton, Emanuel and too many other right wing drug warrior creeps are why the Democratic Party must have GOP supporters to win elections today. They have designed it this way. The rest of us can just plain go to hell.

    Biden's support for the drug war amounts to treason against the United States of America. And he knows it. His drug policies have caused the proliferation of stateless terrorism in the past three dozen years concurrent with the growth of the prison industry state. The drug war is how authoritarian Jim Crow Democrats are working with fascist Jim Crow Republicans to put an end to real democracy in America.

    Biden needs a prison cell for his Jim Crow career not a promotion to president of the United States.

    I refuse to ever vote for treasonous Jim Crow drug warrior Democrats and Republicans like Joe Biden.

    Here is some American sperspective from a real American lawyer, Ira Glasser.
    Drug Busts = Jim Crow by Ira Glasser

    Democrats will escalate the drug war now. They gotta look tough for the '08 election cycle. Even though they know, for fact, that collateral damage of the drug war that keeps them in power is that drug war economics creates the "largest source of terrorist income" according to terrorism experts. SEE: "Our drug policy grants huge subsidies to our enemies"

    Biden, like too many Democrats, is a proven racist. A right wing appeaser. And a treasonous supporter of the Taliban and alQaida against America and our troops!

    The Democratic Party is nothing but the liberal wing of the GOP.

    Well, at least you're not, like, bitter... (none / 0) (#18)
    by Bill Arnett on Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 01:44:53 PM EST
    or anything...

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    Plagiarist, too (none / 0) (#9)
    by dutchfox on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 03:39:40 PM EST
    Biden is also a plagiarist. He took a speech word-for-word from Lord Kinnock (Neil, former Labour Party leader).

    Not true, not at all (none / 0) (#16)
    by MuchoMaas on Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 06:07:12 AM EST
    He gave a speech in which he didn't say "this is from Kinnock." The problem is that he had given that speech 11 times in the two weeks prior, and cited it everytime. Dukakis actually fired the staffer who leaked the story to the press.
    Wikipedia:
    Controversy broke Biden's candidacy for the U.S. presidency in the 1988 Presidential campaign. He was found to have plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. The speech included adaptation of some details of Kinnock's life which were not true in Biden's case. For example, Biden's speech recast Kinnock's words to say, "Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines in northeast Pennsylvania and who would come up after twelve hours and play football for four hours? It's not because they weren't as smart. It's not because they didn't work as hard. It was because there was no platform on which they could stand." After Biden withdrew from the race, it was learned that he had correctly credited Kinnock on other occasions but failed to do so in an Iowa speech that was recorded and distributed to reporters by aides to Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee. Dukakis fired the senior aide responsible, but the damage had already been done to Biden.


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    'Jim Crow Joe' Biden (none / 0) (#10)
    by aahpat on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 04:16:14 PM EST
    Need I say more? No.

    But I did anyway.

    'Jim Crow Joe' Biden from Delaware

    Thanks for posting the article.

    Go to the south, play the race card (none / 0) (#11)
    by atlanta lawyer on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 04:33:04 PM EST
    You used to hear that a Republican couldn't win the south without playing the race card (I can't recall the 1980 example, I believe in 1984 he talked about "state's rights in Oxford Missippi", in 1988, Bush I had Willie Horton adds, caught hell, didn't race bait in '92 and lost, I don't recall Dole pulling it in 96, in 2000, Bush talks about states rights at Bob Jones University (Greenville, South Carolina, long fought the IRS over the ability first to exclude minorities, then more recently, to prevent inter-racial dating" while simulataneously maintaining tax free status.)Maybe some Dem's are thinking you have to go to the south and look like a racist to get elected president.

    1984 (none / 0) (#12)
    by atlanta lawyer on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 04:33:44 PM EST
    "he" of course was Reagan.

    smokin' joe (none / 0) (#15)
    by oldtree on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 11:25:51 PM EST
    joe is like, well,  lint.  maybe lint is too harsh.  fungus?  at least fungus does move as it grows.  
    wait a minute,  which senator joe are we talking about again?
    George Allen? (none / 0) (#19)
    by squeaky on Sun Dec 03, 2006 at 10:33:17 PM EST

    The audience: predominantly Republican.

    Biden humorously took note of that in his opening remarks.

    "I want to thank you all for allowing me a trip here to speak to only Republicans. It's like my hometown. I just won every district in my state except the one I live in," he quipped.

    The crowd howled.

    The senator then pounced on a member's announcement that the club would hold its annual Christmas party at the state Department of Archives and History where members could view the original copy of the state's Articles of Secession.

    Biden asked, "Where else could I go to a Rotary Club where (for a) Christmas party the highlight is looking at the Articles?"

     Probably not many places, no. More yuks:

    Biden was on a roll.

    Delaware, he noted, was a "slave state that fought beside the North. That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way."

    The crowd loved it.

    atrios

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