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Biden’s speech last night was not perfect - it was however, moving, honest, heartfelt and hit all the right notes. His son’s introduction brought tears to a lot of eyes, including Michelle Obama’s.
Then Biden arrived, did the thank yous, launched the attacks and laid out the economic argument.
Almost every night, I take the train [...]

I’ve been watching Joe Biden work and speak for many years. C-Span is on 24/7 in my world.
More important than the promise he will crush his republican counter-part in debates, Obama and Biden will govern really well.
Biden ranks in the bottom 1% in personal wealth within all of Congress [...]

This morning, 105 Democrats voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, including our own Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT) (R-UT). This legislation is unconstitutional and a total capitulation to White House claims of unlimited executive power. It also stymies future efforts to investigate the full extent of the Bush administration’s illegal surveillance activities. [...]

Red Dog suggests that gravitas sounds like a thyroid disease. While the quotation that always stays in my mind and my heart doesn’t directly deal with our discussion of presidential candidates with gravitas, allow me to suggest for your reading a brilliant book by a brilliant and courageous woman who wrote on the topic.
Simone [...]

I was challenged on my position that Joe Biden is the best person we could have in this time of the importance of waging war, ending war, and strengthening our human rights and our economic well-being. There are many opinions, but one suggestion by one reader of my earlier post said, I assume humorously, [...]

From the day martial law was imposed on Pakistan, a few weeks ago, Joe Biden became the obvious candidate for the presidency of the United States. Pakistan has real nuclear weapons. Pakistan is not Iraq or Iran. We’re still looking the wrong way as we step off the curb. While it’s been [...]

The United States of America has not selected or elected a senator to be president, in three decades. Now is the time. With the advent of Pakistan, a REAL threat: with hundreds of nuclear weapons and no real democratic tradition or, for that matter, democratic government, however onion-skin the garments of government, into [...]

Real Courage - Straight Talk
“Mr. President, you have not only put us in harms way, you have harmed us.”
The president is leading us off a cliff. Everyone knows it.
Republicans, but for a few “real men”, are running for cover.
Biden demonstrates why Democrats should be in power and will remain in [...]