Biden Announces '08 Presidential Bid

Delaware Democrat Says He Can Compete With Clinton And Obama

(AP)  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden promoted his presidential bid on Sunday, saying he thinks he can hold his own against potential high-profile rivals such as fellow Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

"I'll be Joe Biden and I'll try to be the best Biden I can be," the 64-year-old Delaware lawmaker said. "If I can, I have a shot. If I can't, I lose."

Biden said he will set up an exploratory committee by the end of the month that will help him raise money and gauge support for his candidacy.

Biden, who long has made clear his intentions to seek the White House in the wide-open race, has about $3.5 million in his campaign account. He has campaigned extensively in early voting states such as New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada.

"I am running for president," he said on "Meet the Press" on NBC. "I will file for an exploratory committee before the month is out."

Considered one of his party's most experienced spokesmen on international affairs, Biden is the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He plans a series of hearings on the Iraq war and has promoted a detailed plan for peace in Iraq that would divide the country along ethnic lines.

Biden's first presidential bid collapsed 20 years ago amid allegations he plagiarized a campaign speech from then-British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

[bluestardad]

Ok Great Get America out of Iraq! Redeploy to Afghanistan and get Osama Bin Forgotten!

[gladys_over]

Joe Biden will never be President.

There's something about him that turns too many people off.

[gladys_over]

RE: "Joe Biden will never be President."

I should have said "probably" will never be President.

(If Dubya made it to the Oval Office, anything's possible.)

[gladys_over]

"You say Osama, I say Obama, let's call the whole thing off..."

Were Joe Biden "dirty tricks" operatives behind this seemingly accidental mistake ?

"Wed Jan 3, 12:35 PM ET
NEW YORK (AFP) - International news network CNN has apologized to US presidential hopeful Barack Obama after it mistakenly pasted his name on a caption for a story on fugitive Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden."

[Just kidding...]

[random_radar]

Hey, while we're at it, I wonder if Gary Hart and Ted Kennedy are going to run this year, too?

[bellal-2009]

Al Gore should run, everybody else is.

[tibu987]

Jeeeeeez!
Who next?
Groucho Marx?
Red Skelton?
Jackie Gleason?
Ben Blue?
Bob Hope?
Laurel and Hardy?
Abbott and Costello?
Hey, maybe their dead but they are also comedians.

[bellal-2009]

No, I was serious about Al Gore.

[tibu987]

There has to be more than readily meets the eye with the Presidential bid by Biden.
I don't know what it may be but time will tell.
Perhaps to take the votes from Hillary?
But then what?
It is certainly going to be one heck of an interesting election.

[tibu987]

Ya know, the more I see of all the already tainted, trough feeding megalomaniacs throwing their hats into the Presidential ring, the more only somewhat tainted Barack Obama becomes interesting.
It is becoming comical with all these Dems entering the race.
Let the circus begin.

[elgraz]

THIS IDIOT MUST BE KIDDING.

[elgraz]

IT'S TIME FOR DINNER PEOPLE. HAVE A NICE DAY AND NIGHT AMIGOS. YOU ARE ALL IN MY PRAYERS.

[fbrodya]

I heard Biden speak at Hastings Law School in SF about 25 years ago. He absolutely knocked me over with his "presidential mien" at that time. Very smart, very articulate, very knowledgable. Very sure of himself. He's still got all those qualities, with a lot more experience under his belt, especially in the realm of foreign relations. I think he could be a formidable candidate...unless that ego has become his tragic flaw. I can just imagine those presidential debates. Biden will be brilliant, but will he come across as a ego-driven bully? Humility will be an attractive quality in the next election (in contrast to Bush's absence of it). Biden should work on recipes for humble pie. Then he might just have a shot.

[channel88]

"Biden's first presidential bid collapsed 20 years ago"

I don't remember him running in '88.

[randalds]

"Biden's first presidential bid collapsed 20 years ago"

I don't remember him running in '88.
Posted by channel88 at 06:10 PM : Jan 07, 2007

The first time he ran back then he supposedly left the race because of allegations of a plagiarized speech, but it really was because of a medical issue. He had a benign brain tumor removed and was unable to continue the race then. I'm sure the Rove people already have some slander to say about him having brain surgery, but at least Biden, unlike Bush, has a brain to be operated on.

[melcarnahan]

Well, he didn't get his funding from the people who funded Arbusto, he didn't get his job from his father's CIA connections and special tricks, he didn't abuse children for a cheap photo op while the WTC was burning, he didn't turn America into a surveillance state, he didn't make an incompetent mess in Iraq and New Orleans, he didn't waste the American taxpayer's money on no-bid contracts and oil industry payoffs and fossil fuel subsidies, he didn't steal an election, he didn't rig voting machines, he didn't squander Clinton's budget surplus for welfare for the richest 1% of billionaires, he didn't soil the White House with Ted Haggard and Mark Foley, he didn't appoint Ashcroft to unelected public office, he didn't let Osama bin Laden get away from easy capture to create terrorism in a country that was fighting Al Qaida (Iraq), he didn't gut the constitution, he didn't underfund police, even after 9/11, he didn't waste his time worrying about Janet Jackson's breast and Sponge-bob, he didn't operate rape rooms and renditions and illegal prisons abroad, he didn't violate the Geneva Convention, he didn't burglarize Kerry's leading supporter, he didn't cause his American critics to have sudden medical conditions, he didn't ignore warnings like "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", he didn't criticize Clinton for firing cruise missiles at bin Laden by complaining that the cruise missiles were too expensive to waste on bin Laden in a tent, etc. Clearly, Biden would make a fine President.

[libhater]

He is a lib yellow belly assdog.

[gladys_over]

RE: "He is a lib yellow belly assdog." - Libhater

Even if he were all those things, he'd still be a vast improvement over the degenerate, incompetent Dubya.

By the way, what is an "assdog" ? Is that a new breed ? I didn't see any at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last year.

[mh4cbs1]

Biden is your typical spineless Democrat. He comes across with about as much integrity as a used car salesman. He is in bed with corporate America just as much as any of the corrupt Republican scum. Hillary isn't much better.

[thisandthat1]

Whose speech did he steal to use for his announcement?

[gladys_over]

"Whose speech did he steal to use for his announcement?"

Not sure, but it began with the words:

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

[katia327]

Joe Biden doesn't NEED to steal anyone's speech.

He is very intelligent, very focused, and has very clear ideas, on the direction this country should take.

He would make a GREAT President.

[mjv2944]

Sorry Joe, but your just another business as usual politician. Bring on Edwards and Obama. We need fresh faces and ideas. What we don't need is far left, stay in the middle where most Americans are at.

[gladys_over]

If Biden is to have a chance, he needs to lose that quick grin that he uses to underline serious points.

That gets old fast.

[lieberman18]

Hail to the chief plagarizer...and blank check for defeatism.

This guy didn't have a brain before his brain surgery, and he doesn't have one now. Another "cut and run" defeatist Liberal - or a neo-fascist's darling.

Just like Princess Plastic.

I wonder how Biden will look with a beard and head scarf. Because, just like Princess Plastic Surgery, the future hajibi babe Nan, he has the goods to give those of us who survive future Iranian nuclear attacks and Al Qaeda terror a Sharia-based puppet state here.

Have fun, circus clowns.

[lieberman18]

Ozilot, for once you've made some sense. Maybe there's hope - or maybe you realized sharia doesn't look so good.

As for an ol' ho like gladys - well, she's applying the greasepaint as we speak. Of course greasepaint and a hajibi don't go well together, but please don't tell the ol' hag and clown that.

Tee Hee. Step Right Up and buy your tickets for the dog, pony, plastic, plagarizer, amos and andy show.

[gladys_over]

libelman18,

Knock off that anti-Semitic body language.

(Arabs are Semites, libel man)

[mh4cbs1]

Joe Biden is a spineless Democrat, and as sleazy as any Republican. He is in bed with corporate America. He comes off like a used car salesman.

Biden's latest: Congress can do nothing Constitutionally to bring the troops home - that they are stuck in Iraq as long as the President wants to keep them there.

This is ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! The congress can specifically appropriate funds in such a way that they are used only to bring the troops home. Congress has the power to Declare War, and that means to STOP IT also (Duh!)

Biden has COMPLETELY and TOTALLY caved-in to Bush. Disgusting and Sickening. If Dems nominate Biden we might as well have one big "Republicrat" Party.

I'll vote GREEN PARTY gp.org

[jimfinster]

lieberman18:

Go look in the mirror for the CLOWN.

[randalds]

Biden is a solid candidate, which means he probably won't make it. He's smart, has the country's best interests in mind and would make a wonderful, intellectual, though non-flashy, president. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat, but he might be too intelligent to gain any party's majority support. With the obvious exception of Clinton, we tend not to elect geniuses for president.

[agnim]

1,200 Peace Activists Make Giant "Impeach" Sign on Beach
And in San Francisco, about 1,200 peace activists gathered on the beach Saturday to spell out the word Impeach in giant letters visible from the sky. The protest occurred in the district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Advocates of impeaching President Bush have criticized Pelosi for saying that impeachment is off the table.

Agnim here is the url for the sign, pretty cool
http://www.beachimpeach.org/

[agnim]

"Agnim here is the url for the sign, pretty cool
http://www.beachimpeach.org/

Posted by ncolsens at 05:38 PM : Jan 08, 2007"
Thanks!
Cool. LOL

The worthless mass media will do everything to distract Americans from useful information.