Joe Biden and the Press: A Case Study in the Absurd
Rather than reward Biden for being open and honest with voters --for being authentic and unscripted -- the press punished him for weeks on end.
Rather than reward Biden for being open and honest with voters --for being authentic and unscripted -- the press punished him for weeks on end.
Reny Monk | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home
Joe Biden was a bad choice from the beginning. The man is "bitter and angry." Biden spoke his mind during the primary, when he stated that Obama was not ready to be president and that the presidency was no place for on the job training. If that didn't tip Obama off, what will?
AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
MESILLA, N.M. — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden mocked rival Sarah Palin's comment in North Carolina that she loves visiting "p...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Psychologist Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain recently spoke with NOW on PBS host and senior editor David Brancaccio about how Barack Obama...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home
The hammering on and on here about troops must be maddening to Democratic foreign policy thinkers like Rep. Adam Smith, who pointed out that one of the smartest ways the U.S. could shore up its security would be to combat world poverty.
Harris McDowell | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
The pundits and politicians who don't know Joe Biden have him all figured out: He's brash. Outspoken. A gaffe machine. People in Biden's home state of Delaware tell a different story.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
The past seven-plus years have shown us that "foreign policy experience," in and of itself, isn't all it's cracked up to be. For Exhibit A of this look no further than George Bush's most "experienced" foreign policy advisor: Dick Cheney. How's that working out?
Joseph Romm | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
It has become increasingly clear that achieving a serious, binding international emissions treaty is even more politically implausible a task than passing serious, binding domestic legislation.
Robert Creamer | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
The odds are very good that the more these voters know about Obama and McCain, the more they will ultimately come home to the Democratic Party.
Scott Shrake | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
After Hillary dropped out, I lost my enthusiasm for this presidential campaign. But I'll tell you what. The fire in the belly that these two guys evinced on that stage today actually got me excited again.
Paul Abrams | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Critiquing Obama for choosing someone who is "better" than he is on certain matters shows the shallowness and lack of patriotism (yes, a patriot should want the best for the country) of McCain.
Beverly Davis | Posted 08.23.2008 | Home
Obama's decision is no surprise to those of us who witnessed how well the Biden and Obama camps worked together during the Iowa caucuses. Biden's many supporters there are jumping for joy.
James P. Rubin | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden knows that America is not just a military power but also a peacemaker. And he knows that American ideals must be tempered by a hard-headed realism about the way the world really works.
David Weinberger | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
If McCain hadn't become Karl Rove's sockpuppet, this is what he might have said in response to the selection of Joe Biden as OBama's running mate...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden's competence will help Obama be able to remain Obama. Insider or not, Biden is liked by the country -- and he's smart.
Scott Swenson | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden understands the American value of separating personal faith from public duty in our democracy, and his positions on sexual and reproductive health issues demonstrate that clearly.
Michael Shaw | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Obama spokesman Bill Burton sends around warm statements about the Biden VP pick from three GOP Senators (who, it should be noted, buck the party's rh...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Where are the disagreements? Mostly over trade and immigration. Biden, initially, was a strong support of so-called "free trade" but he seems to have shifted his position a bit in the past few years.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden told Stewart that the "word that really got me in trouble" was calling Obama "clean....I should have said fresh. What I meant was he's got new ideas."
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Enough with the talk about filling in the foreign affairs gap. This just accepts that we are going to live out yet ANOTHER campaign the way the right wants us to -- on their turf.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Biden gave a fiery speech in which he praised Obama and criticized McCain, saying "these times require more than a good soldier, they require a wise...
Bob Franken | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Unlike Cheney, Biden believes in explaining his decisions and thought processes in public. And explaining. And explaining.
Richard Silverstein | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
When I think of the boring prospect of adding Joe Biden to the ticket, I look back fondly on the vice presidential candidacy of Lloyd Bentsen.
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