Posted on 01/12/2006 7:08:58 AM PST by Angel
The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth. ... snip
The tragedy is that Biden, who is running for president, is a much better man and senator than these accounts would suggest. But his tendency, his compulsion, his manic-obsessive running of the mouth has become the functional equivalent of womanizing or some other character weakness that disqualifies a man for the presidency. It is his version of corruption, of alcoholism, of a fierce temper or vile views -- all the sorts of things that have crippled candidates in the past. It is, though, an innocent thing, as good-humored as the man and of no real policy consequence. It will merely stunt him politically.
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LOL! How true!
Proverbial Broken Clock Joe Biden said that the Judicial Committee hearings are a waste of time and candidates should go right to the Senate for an Up or Down vote.
Seems like most of the Dems are bitter and angry.
All they got in life is their pitiful power-hungry egos.
At least Joe Lieberman is a gentleman.
I should think that would derail any chances he might have to become President.
Not only that, but he also recounted (as if it were his own) some deeply personal story that had been told by someone in the Kennedy family years earlier within about a week of the plagiarism of the Kinnock speech, which he had prefaced as sharing some things that were on his mind. These two instances of plagiarism derailed his candidacy in the democrat primary race for the presidential nomination in 1988, so Dukakis should probably have sent him a plagiarized thank-you card. Of course, Biden tried to reassure his campaign workers by saying, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
Biden probably said it too. He does tend to "quote" people (usually without proper attribution).
He didn't just plagiarize Kinnock's speeches, he plagiarized his life.
What finally was so bad even the liberal press narked him out was his use of a Kinnock speech about his youthful poverty as the son of a poor coal miner.
So9
Like Bill O'Reilly, Joe Biden sometimes says things I agree with. But like O'Reilly as well, if Biden were a package delivered to my door - I would not sign for it.
This morning on Katie Couric, she actually brought up this article and Biden responded by rambling on for 5 minutes.
At the risk of sounding like a pedantic nit-picker, it was KerrEy, as opposed to Kerry.
I just sent Biden, Kennedy, and Schumer a thank you note for showing the rest of America why electing any liberal from the North East for President, Senator, or Representative is a bad idea. Those three pomposs windbags were the best campaign commercial we can have in flyover country of why not to elect Democrats period.
However bad I thought the RATs in the Senate were, they managed to go even lower. Just think, the three windbags get out in front, make a fool of themselves, and ms. clinton sits back behind the scenes calling the shots. They are all part of the same cloth -- liberals who will do and say anything to get their few minutes of fame.
Now THAT's good! LOL!
They are trying to spin it seem harmless, but people who can't shut up usually end up saying things they shouldn't.
(But even before that vote, Biden was urging the president to seek international support for the Iraq effort, not to move precipitously and to have a postwar plan.)
Sick and tired of history rewrites. Bush kept begging the UN for over a year to give him international support to no avail. It just gave the Saddamites time to prepare for us. There is a difference between trying to receive international support (which by liberal definition only means France and Germany) and giving other countries effective veto power over our foreign policy if they decline to give us that support.
So it would seem, CH!
But then, they've nothing left but their egos.
The Senate Democrats have no agenda - but whining and complaining like spoiled children.
Hey, have you heard about the most dangerous place in DC? It's the space between the lens of any camera and Sen. Schumer!
Dickie Cohen almost had me going, then he dropped that little pearl.
Sensible center in the Democratic Party?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, isn't it amazing when the Democrats put up their "best" to ask questions about ethics and morals with the likes of Joe "Plagiarizer" Biden and Teddy "Chappaquidick" Kennedy?! Un-frigging-believable!
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