No Ordinary Joe

Here is Biden on the Patriot Act...you know that thing the Dems love to blast Bush on:

Unexpectedly, a call comes in from Attorney General John Ashcroft. Biden picks up the phone and greets Ashcroft like an old Elks lodge buddy. "Hey John, Joe. Howyadoin' pal? What's the sticking points, and tell me if I can be helpful." All day, reporters had been buzzing that Ashcroft wanted to cut a deal with a Democrat, perhaps Biden, to circumvent the stubborn Judiciary Committee chairman, Pat Leahy. . . .

Rather than build up the credentials of a party deeply mistrusted by the public on foreign affairs, Biden often seems more interested in advertising his own accomplishments. In the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Biden did, in fact, champion an anti-terrorism bill similar to the one now before Congress (though it was, as he complains, badly watered down by anti-government conservatives and leftist civil libertarians). And Biden doesn't let you forget it. "I introduced the terrorism bill in '94 that had a lot of these things in it," he bragged to NBC's Tim Russert on September 30. When I spent the day with him later that week, Biden mentioned the legislation to me, and to several other reporters he encountered, no fewer than seven times. "When I was chairman in '94 I introduced a major antiterrorism bill--back then," he says in the morning, flashing a knowing grin and pausing for effect. (Never mind that he's gotten the year wrong.) Back in his office later that afternoon, he brings it up yet again. "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill."

http://www.tnr.com/columnists/story.html?id=ba9b09bb-ed01-4582-b6ec-444834c9df73&k=93697

I am amazed at all the idiots and weirdos posting pro-McCain comments. For some reason he seems to fascinate people with an IQ lower than their waistline.

Biden will help garner some of the Catholic vote not because he is at least nominally Catholic but because of his working class background and his work for the poor. The abortion issue will contintue to plague the Democratic party because on this issue the party is enslaved to the far left that does not represent the views of the country no more than the far right evangelicals represent the Republican party. But, because abortion is more a lightning rod issue, it will hurt more than the generalized right wing issues. When pushed into a corner in debate, if Obama and Biden do not at least register their personal desire to moderate the party's lock step support of this far left issue they will lose votes. It is curious that the Party has allowed itself to be controled by this issue that does not reflect the nation's position. Is their any other "right" in the USA that has such support? Not really. And that clearly is why the continued unbending support of the party for Abortion is the ball and chain that will always cost votes. Hopefully Biden can capture the hearts of the working class and reassure the moderate Republicans to see that overall, the Democratic ticket offers the best chance for the nation to recover from a direction that has brought us to its weakest point in the nation's modern history.

SENATOR BIDEN IS A GREAT CHOICE FOR THE VP ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. HE WILL WORK ALONGSIDE SENATOR OBAMA TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS UNITED. DEMOCRATS MUST COME TOGETHER AND MAKE SURE THAT JOHN McCAIN IS NOT GOING TO ELECTED. THIS COUNTRY CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF DISASTROUS REPUBLICAN POLICIES THAT HAVE NEARLY DESTROYED US. AS FOR THOSE CLINTON PEOPLE WHO INSIST THAT THEY WILL NOT VOTE FOR SENATOR OBAMA, PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. DON'T THEY DESERVE TO HAVE A SECURE FUTURE? WE MUST GET THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY HEADED BACK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. OBAMA/BIDEN IN NOVEMBER IS OUR ONLY HOPE.

Treason is the reason, some, have never trusted the Bush Crime Syndicate.
Paleo-conservatives have always distrusted them. Fruit rarely falls far from the tree.

In the BBC Radio Document program, The Whitehouse Coup, John Buchanan suggests President Roosevelt stopped the investigation for a political deal: "The investigations mysteriously turned to vapor when it comes time to call them to testify. FDR's main interest was getting the New Deal passed, and so he struck a deal in which it was agreed that the plotters would walk free if Wall Street would back off of their opposition to the New Deal and let FDR do what he wanted". [45]
The 2007 BBC radio documentary The White House Coup said that Prescott Bush was connected with the plot.[45]
On July 23, 2007, the BBC Radio 4 series Document reported on the alleged Business Plot and the archives from the McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings. The program mentioned Bush's directorship of the Hamburg-America Line, a company that the committee investigated for Nazi propaganda activities, and the alleged 1933 attempt, supposedly led by Gerald MacGuire, to stage a military coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at forcing Roosevelt to resign (or, failing that, to assassinate him) and at installing a fascist dictatorship in the United States. [5]
Pedigree: Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora (Sheldon) Bush. Samuel Bush was a railroad executive, then a steel company president, and during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors.
Bush attended the Douglas School in Columbus and then St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island from 1908 to 1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, continuing a family legacy as part of the skull and bones society; four subsequent generations of Bushes have been Yale alumni. Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity while at Yale and Skull and Bones secret society.
My Cut n paste bomb.

The Dems Ticket Has Been Set: Obama bin Biden will rule the world!

YEA!!!

On Sunday???the day before the Democratic National Convention begins--the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Barack Obama attracting 46% of the vote while John McCain earns 43%. When "leaners" are included, it???s Obama 48% and McCain 45%. This is the first time Obama has been up by more than two percentage points with leaners since his ???Berlin bounce??? began to fade on July 28 (see recent daily results). Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day.

Yesterday, Obama announced that Joe Biden will be his running mate and the initial reviews are mixed. Polling yesterday found that 39% believe Obama made the right choice while 25% disagreed. Women are less enthusiastic about the choice than men and the McCain campaign was ready with their first ad showing Biden in his own words.

Data from Rasmussen Markets currently gives Obama a 61.7% chance of winning the White House.

McCain is viewed favorably by 57% of the nation???s voters, Obama by 55% (see trends). Biden is now viewed favorably by 48% of voters, up a few points since being selected as Obama???s running mate.

The Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator currently shows Obama leading in states with 193 Electoral College votes while McCain leads in states with 183 votes. When leaners are included, it???s Obama 264, McCain 247. Only three states remain in the toss-up category???Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada. New polling data has been released for Indiana, California, Tennessee, and Mississippi (see 50-State Summary).

Do you guys proof-read articles like this that the DNC sends you, or just print them as soon as they tell you to? Look up "objectivity" one of these days...

One of the most overlooked episodes during the 1987 collapse of Biden's campaign was a snippet of footage captured by C-Span in which the Delaware senator, in response to a question about where he went to law school and what sort of grades he received, delivered this classic line: "I think I have a much higher IQ than you do."

On the day he formally announced his candidacy, a New York Observer story quoted Biden as calling Obama "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy".

"I've had a great relationship [with Indian Americans]," Biden said. "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

Now we have 2 dulls knives in the drawer fighting over the spotlight- Geez- What a mess.

Hillary on the Bench? Now thats a vast left wing conspiracy.