It's semi-official: Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) will run for the Democratic nomination for President, Richard Cowan reports for Reuters:
"It is my intention to seek the nomination, and it's my intention sometime in the month of January to set up the appropriate mechanism to be able to raise money for that purpose," Biden said in a telephone news conference that centered on Iraq.
Read the entire article at the link above. No word from whom Biden stole the wording of his announcement.
Face it: the old saying in DC about every Senator looking in a mirror sees a President rings true. Like most of them, though, Joe Biden has never run any operation larger than his Senate staff. Nothing in his background or experience qualifies him to run for Mayor of Dover, much less President of the United States.
The most a Biden candidacy could hope to accomplish is providing comic relief for what promises to be a long and tedious primary campaign in both parties. Anyone want to wager he manages to attract support in the double digits in ANY primary or caucus (with the possible exception of Delaware, the state with an electorate stupid enough to elect Biden to SIX terms in the Senate) before being forced to withdraw from the race in humiliation?
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Biden, a mental heavy weigh... (Below threshold)1. Posted by ted | December 27, 2006 1:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Biden, a mental heavy weight -------------------------------------------------------------------NOT!
1. Posted by ted | December 27, 2006 1:54 AM |
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Posted on December 27, 2006 01:54
2. Posted by LenS | December 27, 2006 5:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Biden gets reelected in Delaware for the same reason that Carper and Castle do (and Roth before that). It's a small state that's not entirely inside a single TV market. To reach the north, you have to spend a fortune on TV ads in the Philly market. Expensive ads for one county that will be seen by a dozen or more non-Delaware counties. Then you have to spend more money to reach the southern part of the state. So incumbents have a huge advantage. Roth, Carper, Castle and Biden among them have won every election but two in the past forty years -- and that second loss was when Carper beat Roth. Worse, the two parties often seem to pick challengers who have no chance against the incumbents. It's like they don't want to rock the system. This past election, the GOP picked a candidate, Ting, who disappeared after his narrow primary victory. His campaign made all sorts of efforts to contact me as GOP voter in the primary battle. But after that, nothing, not even on election day.
2. Posted by LenS | December 27, 2006 5:56 PM |
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Posted on December 27, 2006 17:56
3. Posted by Kay | December 28, 2006 4:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gee..do you think the media will bring up that old baggage of Biden's..plagiarism?
3. Posted by Kay | December 28, 2006 4:38 PM |
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Posted on December 28, 2006 16:38