Archive for 'Joe Biden'

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Biden’s Racial Condescension: The Left Reacts

John McIntyre highlights some of the reaction to Joe Biden’s “he’s so articulate!” gaffe re: Barack Obama from the left’s leading blogging lights.  Short version: I predict Biden will be forced to make some sort of public apology…
UPDATE 4:15 p.m.: From the “remove the log from thin own eye” department…
No one has caught this yet, […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Navel-Gazing, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Biden Declares For President (Again!)

Haven’t we already been through this? How many times does Joe Biden get to declare for president?
Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. Wednesday officially launched his well-expected candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
It’s a bid predicated on one major assumption: that the race will focus greatly on Iraq and other international trouble spots, putting […]

No Comments » - Posted in Barack Obama, Joe Biden, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Friday, January 26th, 2007

A Half-Dozen Strong Candidates? The Democrats?

I join Tom Bevan in his amazement at Kevin Drum’s assertion:
[Just Say No] to whatever Kevin Drum was on when he wrote this about 2008:
“…[T]he Republican field is remarkably weak this cycle. Compared to Democrats, who have half a dozen genuinely strong contenders, John McCain (news, bio, voting record) is really the only high-profile candidate […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Bill Richardson, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Democratic Candidates, Republican Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Election 2008 by Mark

---

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Make Sure You’re Sitting Down…

…and prepare to be stunned: Joe Biden is running for president.

Sen. Joe Biden on Sunday told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
“I am running for president,” he told “Meet the Press” anchor Tim Russert. “I’m going to be Joe Biden, and I’m going to be the […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

A Quick 2008 Snapshot

It’s clear to me that my old candidate profiles and odds are no longer operative, given the recent activity in the 2008 race.  We’ve had some declare, some withdraw, and the odds have shifted.  From where I sit, the quick view is this.
Two candidates, one Democrat and one Republican, hold the keys to this election.  Each candidate […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Al Gore, Mike Huckabee, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Republican Candidates, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Election 2008 by Mark

---

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Moral Victory Watch: Nutroots® Favorite Advances on Lieberman

Credit where credit is due: Ned Lamont has pulled close enough to Joe Lieberman now to move out of the crazy fantasy stage to the serious contender:
Anti-war Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont has gained ground on Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and now trails the incumbent 55 - 40 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, including […]

2 Comments » - Posted in 2006 News, Joe Biden, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Nutroots® Vs. The Center: The Struggle Continues

Good piece today at Real Clear Politics to start out your Friday with. Tom Bevan takes a look at the battle between the progressive and mainstream Democrats and the newfound fire in the belly of the center. Bevan looks at the Jonathan Chait brouhaha, a hawkish statement by 2008 hopeful Evan Bayh, and […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Evan Bayh, Election 2006, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008 by Mark

---

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Robinette?

Eric of Viking Pundit fame, in the type of investigative reporting that has made him a household name, uncovers a horrible secret from Joe Biden’s past…

No Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It’s Official: The Biden Vanity Run Is A Go

Even though he’s got no more chance of winning than I do, Joe Biden will give it the ol’ college try in 2008. The Political Pit Bull has the footage…

3 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, 2008 News, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Euphemism of the Day

Richard Cohen, on Joe Biden:
In 1988, his stump speech was perilously similar to the one used by Neil Kinnock, Britain’s Labor Party leader.
Why, yes, now that you mention it; I supposed a plagiarized piece does come perilously close to its source…

1 Comment » - Posted in Joe Biden, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Kerry Says If Dems Take House, Impeachment May Follow

Is John Kerry the worst politician alive? Is the sky blue? Is the Pope…well, you know the rest.
JFK II had this to say at a little shindig for his campaign alumni:
Kerry was speaking at a holiday party for alumni of his WH ‘04 bid.
About 100 campaign vets gathered at Finn McCool’s bar in D.C. to […]

12 Comments » - Posted in John Kerry, Joe Biden, POTUS, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Joe Biden Announces Support For Bush’s Iraq Policy

Okay, he’d never put it that way. This installment in the excellent White House series ‘Setting the Record Straight’ shows, however, how Biden and most other Democrats are perfectly happy to castigate the President for failure, on the one hand, and adopt his proposals, on the other. In another era, with less access […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Iraq, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Say It Ain’t So, Joe…

The notoriously reclusive Joe Biden has indicated in a fundraising missive that he is running for President in 2008…well, of course, you could knock me over with a feather…
In a related story, scientists attempting to understand the collapse of gravity around points of singularity have shifted their focus from black holes to Biden’s ego, saying […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Biden: Victory Will Be Achieved By My High IQ

In the kind of delightfully snarky piece I can seldom resist, Mickey Kaus has all kinds of goodies on Joe Biden, Senator from somewhere-or-other and Sunday Morning talkshow mainstay. I wasn’t even aware of this, but it’s one more reason to hope Joe Biden gets the nomination (he might be almost as easy to […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Democratic Candidates, Uncategorized by Mark

---

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Sizing Up Biden

Bill Whalen, writing in the Weekly Standard, says 2005 is looking a lot like 1987:
[H]is party was mobilizing to take down a conservative Supreme Court nominee…Dems needed the win: They’d lost two national elections during the decade to a president they were convinced was a lunkhead; opinions differed over whether the party needed to chart […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

Is There An Undisclosed National Security Directive…

…that requires the presence of Joe Biden on television every Sunday morning? Just wondering (along with others)…

No Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, NY Times/Media Watch, Democratic Candidates by Mark

---

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

The Liberal Talking Points on SCOTUS

After watching Joe Biden and Ralph Neas on Face the Nation, these appear to be the three main talking points liberals will use to justify a filibuster:

1 in 5 justices sent up by presidents are rejected by the Senate (Is it true? Who knows? It will be a frequent soundbite, though)…
We can filibuster even […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, SCOTUS, Donkeys by Mark

---

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Kaus on the LA Times and the SCOTUS Debate

Mickey Kaus, one of the bloggers’ bloggers (ahem, I mean, one of the online only web magazine publishers’ online only web magazine publishers), has a hilarious compare and contrast between two LA Times editorials. The message?
…Judges should have a coherent judicial philosophy and follow it to the conclusions they would not prefer … […]

No Comments » - Posted in Joe Biden, SCOTUS, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

---

---

---