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Joe Biden is easily the most qualified American to be president of the United States. Moreover, to recover from this Trump presidency, we will need to inaugurate a president with the experience and character to restore competence to and respect for the office of the leader of the free world. Like me, you probably thought… Read more.
All of Washington was atwitter yesterday over excerpts the New York Times and Washington Post published from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s forthcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War. Significantly, President George W. Bush nominated Gates in 2006 and President Obama retained him until he retired in 2011, evidently, as a thoroughly dismayed… Read more.
Vice President Joe Biden set Republican tongues wagging on Tuesday for injecting the following not-so-subtle dog-whistle about race into a speech he delivered that day before a predominantly Black crowd in Southern Virginia: Romney wants to let the, he said the first 100 days he’s gon’ let the big banks once again write their own rules.… Read more.
It really should surprise no one that Republican Sarah Palin surpassed expectations in her vice presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden last night. After all, her poor performances in recent interviews had influential members of her own party calling on her to withdraw from the ticket – not only to spare herself further embarrassment but… Read more.
It’s time that normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency (sic). This was Gov. Sarah Palin’s folksy attempt to justify her inability to speak intelligently in recent interviews about anything except hunting moose and drilling oil pits. But this populist spin is patent nonsense. Because any normal Joe Six-pack would… Read more.
Washington has been abuzz this week with speculation about who presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, will choose as his vice presidential running mate. And the consensus seems to be that Obama will choose Delaware senator, Joe Biden. I agree. Frankly, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Georgia 10 days ago, Obama had little choice. But instead… Read more.
