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Dodd, Biden to drop out after Iowa defeatsTwo experienced Senate veterans – Democrats Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut – abandoned their presidential campaigns after very poor showings Thursday night in the Iowa caucuses.Neither mustered more than 1 percent in the intensely competitive contest won by freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Biden was the most promising of the second-tier candidates, in large part because of his extensive national security experience, his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his realist view of the Iraq war.
It was his second run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the first being in 1988.
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Biden Won't Serve As Secretary of StatePORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Joe Biden is complaining that his foes keep saying he'd be a great secretary of state.Permalink [Category: Biden]Nothing wrong with that job, he says, but he's running for president. And if he'd be better at foreign policy than his rivals, well, why in the world shouldn't he be president instead of them?
Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is widely expected to be on the short list for secretary of state if one of his Democratic rivals wins the White House. Maybe if a Republican wins, too.
But he said Thursday, speaking at a forum on Iraq: ''Under no administration will I accept the job of secretary of state.''
Biden-Giuliani Smackdown Enlivens Campaign TrailIn addition to the headline-grabbing Edwards-Obama-Dodd tag-team match with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic debate Tuesday night in Philadelphia had a pretty lively undercard: Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. vs. Rudolph W. Giuliani.It began when Mr. Biden, a Delaware Democrat, proclaimed Mr. Giuliani, a New York Republican, “genuinely not qualified to be president” and declared, to some of the biggest laughs of the night, that “there’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.”
The Giuliani campaign immediately fired back, and hard.
“The good senator is quite correct that there are many differences between Rudy and him,” Katie Levinson, the campaign’s communications director, said in a statement that brought up the accusations of plagiarism that sank Mr. Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign.
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Biden scores with debate zinger....First, he termed Giuliani "probably the most under-qualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency." That garnered some laughter and applause, but Biden was merely setting up the sound bite of the night.Permalink [Category: Biden, Debates, Giuliani Archive]"Rudy Giuliani," he went on. "I mean, think about it. Rudy Giuliani. There's -- there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."
Biden Says Race About Ideas, Not MoneyWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Monday that the race for the White House is more about ideas than the huge amounts of money being raised by many of the other candidates.Permalink [Category: Biden, Money]Biden said voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- states that will cast the first votes of the nominating season next year -- are looking for a knowledgeable candidate who can lead the country.
''I am absolutely convinced that this is about ideas, and it's not about money,'' he told about 900 people at the Delaware Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner. Money and prestige have dominated the race so far, he said, but ideas will matter.
Biden Faults Petraeus' AssessmentWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's war strategy is failing and the top military commander in Iraq is ''dead flat wrong'' for warning against major changes, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]Ahead of two days of crucial testimony by Bush's leading military and political advisers on Iraq, Sen. Joseph Biden indicated that he and other Democrats would persist in efforts to set target dates for bringing troops home.
''The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the security front, there is, in fact, no real security in Baghdad or Anbar province, where I was dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence,'' said Biden, a 2008 presidential candidate who recently returned from Iraq.
Candidates Share a Tragic HistoryWASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential candidates Fred Thompson, John Edwards and Joe Biden belong to a club that no one wants to join. Each has lost a child.Permalink [Category: Biden, Edwards, Miscellany, Thompson Fred]In their campaigns, they raise the subject of their personal tragedies only occasionally and, even then, usually in a tangential way.
Edwards has talked about the death of his 16-year-old son in the context of his wife's battle with cancer. Biden has recalled the people who helped him when his wife and young daughter were killed in an auto accident. Thompson has cited his 38-year-old daughter's death as one of the events that have shaped his outlook.
''It's a sensitive subject,'' said Stanley Renshon, a political science professor and psychoanalyst at City University of New York. ''The loss of a child ordinarily is devastating to families. It ranks up there with loss of a spouse, probably even higher on the life stress rating scales they use in psychology.''
Biden Bets on Iowa to Boost CandidacyDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, behind in polls and campaign money, is betting the farm on Iowa's leadoff caucuses, hoping a strong showing will rocket him to the top of the field.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iowa Caucus]If not, Biden admits he'll be an early footnote in the race for his party's nomination.
''I'm counting on Iowa a lot,'' Biden said in an interview with The Associated Press. ''My expectation is that I come in first, second or an indistinguishable third. To tell you the truth, if I don't, then this has been a nice exercise and I'll see you again when you come to visit Washington.''
Biden, 64, brings a blue-chip resume to his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He's represented Delaware in the Senate since 1972, and as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he's in the middle of the debate over the Iraq war. Most polls show that's the top issue with voters, and Biden has been an early and persistent critic of Bush's policy -- a strong selling point with overwhelmingly anti-war Democratic activists.
Biden asks: Leave Iraq, Then What?It's easy to tell voters that the United States should get out of Iraq, says Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. It's a lot harder, he says, to be honest about what would happen if we left. That's the essence of a new campaign by Biden to get his Democratic presidential rivals to talk not just about pulling our troops out, but doing it in a way that doesn't send the country further into chaos.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]Biden advocates turning Iraq into a loosely federalized country with three regions divided along religious and ethnic lines: one for Sunni, one for Shia, and one for Kurds. His campaign today unveiled a new website called "You can't duck the question!" The idea is to get supporters to upload 30-second videos on YouTube asking rival candidates to explain how their pull-out plans would affect Iraq. Biden is hoping enough people make such videos that CNN and YouTube, sponsors of a Democratic debate next Monday, will use them for questions.
"I have been touring the country for two years – going everywhere from primary states, to red states, and everything in between. The issue that weighs on everyone’s mind - no matter where I am - is how we are going to end this war," Biden said in a statement. "President Bush will leave the next president with no margin for error in dealing with some of the most critical foreign policy challenges our country has faced in the last fifty years – and ending this war properly is the critical starting point."
Biden Calls Bush 'Brain Dead'During a Fourth of July campaign stop in Iowa, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, known for suffering from acute foot-in-mouth disease on more than one occasion, had some strong words for the president and some GOP rivals in the 2008 candidate pool.Permalink [Category: Biden, George Bush]As reported by the New York Times, Biden said of President Bush, "“This guy is brain dead. I know I’ll be quoted, I’ll be killed for that.”
“This is a guy who is on the balls of his heels, here’s a guy who is lower off in the polls than any president in modern history and he goes ahead and he does something that just flies in the face of the sensibilities of the American people.”
Biden scoffs at millions raised in campaignsPresidential candidate Joe Biden said Tuesday that the millions of dollars raised by so-called top tier presidential candidates are "obscene" and unnecessary to decide who will win the Democratic nomination.Permalink [Category: Biden, Money]"The idea that you need $100 million to run for president is literally obscene. It's obscene," the Delaware senator said. "It absolutely runs counter to every American instinct, that to be able to compete with your ideas that you have to be able to raise, just in the nominating process, $100 million."
Biden aides said he raised $2.4 million in the second quarter and a total of $6.4 million so far this year - far less than the money flowing into the campaigns of fellow senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Obama raised $32 million and Clinton raised $27 million in the second quarter, which ended June 30.
Lessons learned on Joe Biden's second run...Biden's first presidential campaign ended disastrously in 1987, crumbling amid reports that he lifted some of his best lines from other politicians, plagiarized a paper in law school, picked a fight with a voter in New Hampshire.Permalink [Category: Biden]Then 44, he'd already been a U.S. senator for 14 years and, as chairman of the judiciary committee, was leading what would be a historically important fight against President Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. In the crucible that is a presidential run, Biden melted down.
"I didn't deserve to be president," he says while flying between Des Moines and Dubuque on a six-day swing through Iowa over the Memorial Day holiday. "I wasn't mature enough."
Yepsen: Biden's vote for war funding a profile in courageDelaware Sen. Joseph Biden is the only Democratic presidential candidate to have voted for the recent supplemental war-funding bill.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]That's not a very popular thing to do in a party where anti-war passions run high. Biden was already struggling to break into the top tier of candidates, and his vote could cost him dearly with some on caucus night.
(Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Christopher Dodd voted against the measure.)
Underdog Biden Banks on Iraq PlanWASHINGTON (AP) -- There's an adage in politics: Only underdogs acknowledge their opponents. Joe Biden not only mentions all his rivals, he lists their Internet sites on his own campaign Web page.Permalink [Category: Biden, Internet, Iraq]Want to hear what Democratic presidential candidates have to say about Iraq? Click joebiden.com.
Chalk it up to classic Biden self-assurance.
Biden: Next president gets no margin for errorAnkeny, Ia. - Forget polls. If Sen. Joe Biden is looking for signs of momentum for his Democratic presidential campaign in Iowa, he can take heart that about 60 people here were willing to wait an hour and a half to hear him.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iowa Caucus]"Don't run for president unless you've got $100 million for a plane," Biden joked to a reporter after his commercial flight to Des Moines was delayed.
Biden: Send Iraq bill back to BushWASHINGTON --Anticipating President Bush's veto of an Iraq funding bill that would set a timeline for troops to be removed, Democrat Joe Biden told a South Carolina voter that Congress should "shove it down his throat."Permalink [Category: Biden, George Bush, Iraq]
Second-tier candidates strive to break through to topJoe Biden wants to ride the wave straight through to 2008.Permalink [Category: Biden, Election Process Archive, South Carolina Primary]It’s a surge he’s feeling after last week’s Democratic presidential debate in Orangeburg.
Biden Camp Hits Richardson for Opposition to Residual Force in IraqABC News' Teddy Davis and Tahman Bradley Report: Sen. Joe Biden's D-Del., presidential campaign took a swipe at Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., a rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, for not wanting to leave a residual force behind in Iraq after combat troops are withdrawn.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq, Richardson]"Richardson is wrong to rule out a small residual force to prevent Al Qaeda from gaining a foothold and to continue training Iraqis," said Biden aide Luis Navarro in a statement released by the campaign.
Biden Bites His LipsABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Sen. Joe Biden D-Del., known for being verbose and for making an occasional gaffe, bit his tongue at the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2008 campaign.Permalink [Category: Biden]Asked by moderator NBC's Brain Williams "can you reassure voters in this country that you have the discipline you would need on the world stage," Biden stared directly at Williams and simply replied "yes." After a long moment of silence and laughter from the audience, Williams continued with his questioning of the Democratic presidential field.
Biden Auditions for VPABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., seemed to be auditioning to be Sen. Hillary Clinton's, D-N.Y., running mate at the conclusion of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina.Permalink [Category: Biden]"Whoever wishes for Hillary is making a big mistake on the Republican side," said Biden when asked by NBC’s Brian Williams if he saw any winners on the stage other than himself.
Biden's complimentary remark was followed by his receiving a big kiss on the cheek from the former first lady when the debate was over.
Biden, Brownback Discuss Plan B for IraqSen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., a Republican presidential candidate, said Wednesday that he is talking with Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a Senate colleague who is also running for president, about the possibility of teaming up to offer bipartisan legislation that would pursue a "three-state/one-country" solution for Iraq.Permalink [Category: Biden, Brownback, Iraq]"You need a political as well as a military solution for Iraq," said Brownback, who believes that the Bush administration is pursuing a strategy in Iraq that is "dominated by the military and Maliki," Iraq's prime minister.
Biden Makes 'No Apologies' for Late-Term Abortion VoteABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Tuesday that he makes "no apologies" for being the only Democratic presidential candidate who voted for a late-term abortion ban which was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.Permalink [Category: Biden, Reproductive Rights]"I voted for the partial-birth abortion ban," said Biden while answering a woman's question at a conference sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council. "I think it’s an extraordinary circumstance, I make no apologies for it."
Biden says Iraq requires a 'rational' planDubuque, Ia. - Delaware senator and presidential candidate Joe Biden predicted Saturday that within six months, every one of his Democratic rivals would adopt his position on the war in Iraq.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]In front of more than 100 people, Biden spoke passionately about the need for a middle road between the plans proposed by his Republican and Democratic counterparts.
Biden Gets It WrongSenator Joseph Biden, still promoting the increasingly inappropriate notion of partitioning Iraq, declares that for every positive development in Iraq that can be reported, there are at least as many negatives. In an op-ed in this morning's (April 12) Washington Post, he identifies four examples:Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]
Biden's Web Site Looks at Iraq PositionsNEW YORK (AP) -- Casting himself as the candidate best positioned to end the Iraq war, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden has launched a new Web site, www.headtohead08.com , to contrast his statements on the Iraq conflict to those of his opponents for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]The Biden campaign scoured YouTube and assembled videos of each candidate speaking about the war, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The campaign said the videos they selected were those that best represented each lawmaker's views on the war.
Biden Dismisses Low Standing in PollsDemocratic Presidential hopeful Joe Biden of Delaware says he is not frustrated with his low standing in the polls and label as a "second-tier" candidate.Permalink [Category: Biden]As a U.S. senator for nearly 35 years, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman has far more experience in Washington than his party's Presidential front-runners, Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.
Next president must understand world, Biden saysAmericans must not vote for inexperienced, likable presidential candidates, then hope the candidates can get up to speed after the election, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden said in Des Moines on Saturday.Permalink [Category: Biden, Foreign Policy]"The next president of the United States better be as smart as his or her advisers," he said. "The next president of the United States better know what he or she believes. The next president of the United States better understand their view of the world before they take the job."
Biden, Dodd, Richardson battle star powerNEW YORK -- Call it the second-tier lament.Permalink [Category: Biden, Dodd, Richardson]At a recent house party in the early voting state of New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd became exasperated as he talked about being overshadowed by front-runners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama
Sen. Joe Biden Calls Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'Madman'ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "madman" and raised the possibility that he could be assassinated by foes within his country.Permalink [Category: Biden, Foreign Policy]
Senate's vote trims Biden's visitAmes, Ia. - Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden's first trip to Iowa as a 2008 candidate for president ran into its share of snags, as weather and Senate business forced him to abandon big chunks of his inaugural campaign swing.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iowa Caucus]But the longtime Delaware senator made an impression at the one public event he was able to salvage before quickly returning to Washington, D.C., Friday evening.
Biden, now chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used the Story County Democrats' annual soup supper in an Ames church basement to call for stripping President Bush of the authority to send more troops to Iraq.
Joe Biden on MSNBC HardballThe House is voting on Iraq tomorrow. When will the Senate? Hardball host Chris Matthews asks Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and talks about picking the next president.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq, Video Links]
Biden Seeks To Repeal Bush Troop AuthorityDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden said Thursday he would move to repeal the authority Congress gave President Bush in 2002 to send U.S. troops into Iraq and replace it with a narrower mandate.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the legislation was based on the idea that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was designed to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Biden Urges Congress to Narrow Bush's Iraq AuthorityABC News' Teddy Davis and Matthew Zavala Report: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a Democratic presidential candidate who voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, called on Congress to revisit its 2002 grant of authority in a Thursday speech to the Brookings Institution.Permalink [Category: Biden, Iraq]"The 2002 authorization is no longer relevant to the situation in Iraq," said Biden. "I am working on legislation to repeal that authorization and replace it with a much narrower mission statement for our troops in Iraq. Congress should make clear what the mission of our troops is: to responsibly draw down, while continuing to combat terrorists, train Iraqis and respond to emergencies."
For Lawyers, No Clear FavoriteIn the last presidential election, John Edwards had the powerful support and deep pockets of the nation's trial lawyers behind him. But when the lawyers gather for their winter conference today in Miami Beach, it will be Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) delivering the meeting's keynote speech.Permalink [Category: Biden, Edwards, Election Process Archive]Edwards, a trial lawyer who became a senator and now a presidential candidate, will be there, too. But the North Carolina Democrat no longer has a lock on the backing of the lawyers. This time around he will be battling it out with others in the Democratic field, who are seen as sympathetic to plaintiffs and their attorneys.
John Nichols: Biden's run doomed from the startThe Capital Times (WI) has the story.
The remarkable thing about Joe Biden's botched announcement of his second presidential run is not that he said something outrageously inappropriate and - if we are to assume that Democratic caucus and primary participants retain even minimal standards with regard to the competence of contenders - electorally lethal.Permalink [Category: Biden]The senator from Delaware has a long history of lodging metatarsals in his oral orifice. And his reference to a more popular senator and presidential contender, Illinoisan Barack Obama, as a "clean" African-American was, while spectacular in its senselessness, oddly Bidenesque.
Hillary, five others to attend Nevada forumThe Union Leader has the AP story.
Las Vegas – Sen. Hillary Clinton has agreed to attend a Nevada forum for Democratic presidential candidates later this month, state party officials said Tuesday.Permalink [Category: Biden, Debates, Dodd, Hillary Clinton Archive, Nevada Caucus, Richardson, Vilsack]Clinton joins five other presidential hopefuls already confirmed for the Feb. 21 event in Carson City, including Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, officials said.
Sharpton takes Biden to task on remarksNEW YORK - Civil rights activist Al Sharpton on Thursday took Sen. Joe Biden to task for calling Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama "articulate" and "clean," questioning how the description reflects on other blacks.Permalink [Category: Biden, Sharpton]Biden, still trying to deal with the fallout from his remarks, spoke by telephone on Sharpton's radio show. The Delaware lawmaker spent his first day as an official presidential candidate Wednesday explaining his statement that Obama is "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
S.C. shrugs off Biden’s blunderU.S. Sen. Joe Biden’s foot-in-mouth moment in describing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as “clean” and “articulate” is unlikely to damage his chances in the 2008 S.C. Democratic primary, state party leaders said Thursday.Permalink [Category: Biden, Obama Archive, South Carolina Primary]Biden, D-Del., formally launched his presidential campaign Wednesday, but the day’s focus was less on his views on Iraq than on his description of Obama, a fellow traveler on the road to the White House who happens to be a black man.
Joe Biden's Obama dramaIn the YouTube age, the motormouthed senator's not-so-clean comments may have already shorted out his '08 campaign.Permalink [Category: Biden, Obama Archive]Feb. 2, 2007 | WASHINGTON -- Short of publicly appealing to St. Jude, Sen. Joe Biden could not have more dramatically signaled his distress. Asked by Jon Stewart Wednesday night on "The Daily Show" about his ill-advised putdowns of his presidential rivals -- especially a racially patronizing comment about Barack Obama -- Biden, a Catholic, responded by crossing himself. Stewart's deadpan response: "By the way, he doesn't have jurisdiction here, so that's not going to help."
Thursday afternoon, continuing his self-abnegation tour, Biden appeared on Al Sharpton's radio show to express his "regret" over the way his comments were perceived, and to reiterate his "love" for the preacher turned perennial protest candidate.
Biden At War With His MouthJoe Biden has spent a lifetime in the shadows of Democratic presidential candidates, wondering why the spotlight wasn’t on him. The Delaware senator, now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is perhaps his party’s most senior statesman on foreign policy. He was a fixture of the Senate Democratic cloakroom before anyone in Washington knew who Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama were. With a heavyweight legislative record, Biden, like so many senators, has looked in the mirror and wondered why he is always a bridesmaid, never a bride.Permalink [Category: Biden]
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