Posts Tagged ‘Joe Biden’

Sen. Arlen Specter has Defected

Republican Senator Arlen Specter has decided to change parties and run as a Democrat in 2010.  One more sign that the Republican party is dying.  The bad news is that this might cause Coleman to dig his heels in even harder in the ridiculous fight to prove he won the Minnesota election against Al Franken [...]

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News This Week

Well, obviously the biggest news this week is that Barack Obama is the new president-elect.  Here’s a few articles about that: Talking Points Memo, NY Times, NY Times on the future, Fox News, Reuters, CNN International, Huffington Post, Associated Press, BBC, eTaiwan News, China Daily, Deutsche Welle, World Politics Review, 
Just to mix it up a bit, [...]

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News This Week

A reporter asks Biden if Obama is a Marxist because he wants to give the middle class more tax breaks.  Biden responds as he should: “Is that a real question?”
Alaska senator Ted Stevens is found guilty of breaching proper ethics in receiving gifts from an oil company after a long, very strange trial.  Aren’t we glad that [...]

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The Vice Presidential Debates

It’s fitting that my post about the VP Debates happens to be my 100th post, I think, though it’s hard to believe that I’ve written 100 of them.  
Anyway, on to my impression of the debates.  As you can imagine, I wasn’t impressed at all with Sarah Palin.  However, I will say that she didn’t [...]

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Let Us Compare

Joe Biden response to the Republican National Convention:

Sarah Palin’s speech upon the announcement that she was the VP choice:

Notice a few key points: Palin’s giant notebook is hanging over the edge of her podium and she’s looking down at it constantly, Biden’s conviction and specific points, Palin’s [...]

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