"Biden is the best qualified candidate"

[smheart78]

"Biden is the best qualified candidate"
Biden's campaign offers the best of everyone else’s campaign in one single package.
EDWARDS: Biden has consistently voted for campaign finance reform and has offered public financing of federal elections, thus, severely cutting off lobbyists influence. Though he has 35 years of tenure, he is considered one of the poorer senators in the Senate. We can trust he's not in it for the money and he is a populist candidate.

RICHARDSON: Biden has been to Iraq and the region more than any of other candidates combined. He is the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Relations committee, he was not given that job. He commands the respect of all the senators, which is why they overwhelmingly support Biden's exit plan for Iraq...not Richardson’s. The Iraqi leaders and other world leaders respect him and his plan as well. He helped end the genocide in Bosnia and presides over any foreign policy conversation in all debates. People look to him for foreign policy answers, because, well, that’s his job.

OBAMA: Biden was considered the change candidate of hope back in '88. He still holds those views today and considers them even more prescient with 20 years more experience. He creates change against the tide as PROVEN with his Violence Against Women Act and having 75 senate votes for his Iraq plan (THE most contentious issue of the day). The whole reason he entered into to politics was for the civil rights movement and (per the Des Moines debate) is 'the most pro civil rights candidate to ever run'....ever. He actually has results of change and commands respect.

DODD: Biden shares a lengthy career providing civil work to our nation. Biden's experience differs in that he speaks closer to the common American. He has the respect of his colleagues to chair not only the Foreign Relations Committee, but also the Judiciary Committee for over 15 years. I guess it is what kind of experience you have. Which leads me to the next candidate.

CLINTON: Biden has 35 years of actionable experience, with proven results. He has negotiated with world leaders (as resulted with the recent Musharraf and Bhutto incident in Pakistan). Biden has PROVEN he can work with the other side of the aisle and not polarize as evidenced in the 90's. He commands this respect. He knows not to start off the healthcare policy by mandating it, he starts by saying let's cover all the children and all catastrophic injuries first. He has worked the domestic issues that she has used.

Lastly, I would like to say, if we agree that no one is more qualified than him to be the SOS (I think John Kerry agrees), than how can anyone be more qualified to be the president.
Please note that I didn't criticize the other candidates, they are all extremely wonderful and the brightest field we've had in decades.

[PatSeg]

1. A very hearty recommendation on this one

Well said! Thanks.

[1corona4u]

2. Yes, he is.

Thanks for posting that.

[Froward69]

3. Now if only

everyone else wakes up and smells the coffee. We would have the Best president since FDR.

[skipos]

4. There are other candidates I like, but I think Biden would be the best Pres. overall

and be our best candidate in the general election.

[smheart78]

5. General Election

If he could anahialate the previous Republican front-runner with a line like "a noun- a verb and 911" think of what he can do with any other Republican.
He has been the most outspoken of any of the Democrats against the Iraqi invasion both leading up to and following the war. He is the only one willing to fund the troops and supply them with MRAPs while the others voted against, knowing the troops ould be there well into the year 2013...

[medicswife]

17. Amen to the MRAPs!

I was in the grocery store here on Fort Campbell the other day, or as we call it in the military, the Commissary. The baggers that work in there work for tips only and range from High School kids to elderly retired military and their spouses. So, I had our two youngest kids with us and the three year old was mad because I wouldn't buy him any candy. The old man that was bagging our groceries looked at him and said, "What you mad about, boy?" And the old man bagging for the register next to us said, "He's mad because of the Democrats!" And I said, "Hey now, his Mama is a Democrat!" And then he said, "Well, no wonder he's mad!" And I said, "No, he's mad because his Daddy's in Iraq for the next 15 months because of some Republicans!" And he shook his head, and said, "Yes, I can see that." And then I said, "But, anyways, I'm not a Hillary Democrat, I'm a Joe Biden Democrat." And that man perked up and his eyes got all shiny and he said, "Now that is one fine, upstanding man. I have only voted for one Democrat in my entire life, John Kennedy, and I would be proud to vote for Joe Biden. He got our boys those Mine Resistant Vehicles, you know, that ma'am?" And I said, "Yes, I did know that and he also tells the truth." To which he replied, "Amen, Ma'am, Amen."

[PatSeg]

20. I keep hearing stories like this

There is something about Joe Biden that has universal appeal to American voters.

[murbley40]

6. Great Job

[jillan]

7. Welcome to DU - especially with such a great post!

[Didereaux]

8. Biden is the man...but too few realize it! sad n/t

[inthebrain]

9. If Biden is the "most qualified candidate"

then we are all surely fucked!!!!!

[ToeBot]

23. Agreed. nt

[mrigirl]

10. Great post! Welcome to DU!

More and more people are realizing that Biden is the candidate who can unite this country under one leader and get the U.S. back on the right track. Biden has the ability to make our government actually function again in a bi-partisan effort and do what's best for us and the world. The only candidate who can reach across the aisle is Biden. With him in office we'll start to see some positive change. He has the power and the genious to make this one of the greatest presidencies in history!

[maximusveritas]

11. Biden a populist candidate? He would feel insulted by that description

He's disparaged the populism of Edwards and Obama.

Here's an example:
"I am, quote, liberal as it relates to social issues," he said. "But you've never heard me make a populist argument about the rich and the poor," a key aspect of the Edwards-Clinton-Obama approach. "I don't believe it, number one, and I don't think it's how you win.

[mrigirl]

13. I've heard Biden call himself a Moderate Democrat who can reach across the aisle.

What I meant was that he's capable of getting bi-partisan support. He's said it plenty of times and he's also said that he is capable of getting Republican voters who don't like what the Repubs have to offer. Why do we always have to have Dems over here, Repubs over there? Why can't we have a leader who can unite this country like it used to be? I know alot of Repubs, including my own parents who are voting for Biden because they hate thier own guys. There's TONS of Repubs who feel the same. No other Dem candidate is capable of luring voters over to the other side like Biden. I don't think he'd be insulted at all by my saying that he appeals to the masses, because he does.

[PatSeg]

21. Last night I heard about a couple

who are life-long republicans to the core, but they're behind Joe Biden too. Biden in the general would mean a landslide victory, something that would turn our country around in ways we desperately need right now. Imagine a president with a REAL mandate.

[1corona4u]

22. I think you're taking it out of context....

he also said this;

"In a Biden administration, families will come first," said Sen. Biden. "I won't turn my back while people struggle to keep their homes. I would take four steps immediately to restore our economic strength: end the war in Iraq; deal with the crisis in the housing market; get health care costs under control by providing catastrophic coverage and invest in education."


I think he's disagreeing with using it as pawn to garner votes. Pitting the rich against the poor. Not that he's not concerned with the poor, just don't use it to pit one against the other.

PS. Biden is the 2nd poorest senator. If you think he can't relate to the poor, I think you need a cat scan.

[Kurovski]

12. K&R. (nt)

[youthere]

14. Amen! Kick for Joe!

[sellitman]

15. Biden lost me when he wouldn't try to stop bushes Supreme Court appointments. N/T

[1corona4u]

18. OH WELL....

Know why Edwards lost my vote? Google "John Edwards Cayman Islands".

[sellitman]

25. Walking the walk

SNIP<"John Edwards believes offshore tax shelters are wrong," Bedingfield said last week. "As president, he will end them. By voluntarily going public, Fortress has ended the practice of using offshore tax shelters for deferred compensation and has committed itself to a whole set of transparency and disclosure obligations that no other hedge fund has committed itself to before.">

http://tinyurl.com/33nv8p

All he can do is move forward. I believe what John has gone through with his wife has profoundly changed his mind on a number of things. None of the candidates are "egg free" but I plan on voting for the one who has learned from his mistakes and is moving on in a positive way. I like the message.

[1corona4u]

26. Whatever...

he won't get my vote. Ever.

[sellitman]

27. So what will you do in the GE?

What if he wins?

You going to give the Repugs your vote?

On edit...Biden would get my vote if he wins the primary.

[1corona4u]

28. I just won't vote.

Unlike you, I use to like John, a lot. But after I took a good, hard, objective look at him, I saw him, the way he really is. He tells people what they want to hear, nothing more. Read; fake.

I'm an Independent, turned dem, to vote for Joe. Not John, Not Hillary, Not Obama. For Joe. I will register back to Ind. when this election is over.

[sellitman]

29. So......you prefer a Repig to any other Democrat.

I guess the past 8 years have been fine with you.

How sad.

[1corona4u]

30. I don't think the loss of my vote would cost any candidate the election..

thanks for playing the drama queen/king though.

[sellitman]

31. If your vote doesn't count then...

Why bother switching parties?

[1corona4u]

32. DUH....

primary vote.

Stop with the coy bs. And, by the way, if you notice, this WAS a Biden thread. I'd like to return it to THAT topic, not JE, or MY vote.

[Steely_Dan]

16. Great Post!

I try to imagine what ANY Republican could say about Biden. They would have absolutely nothing to fight him with. His 35 year record is too strong. This is another reason why he would draw bipartisan support. Can you say "UNITE?"

-P

[medicswife]

19. No kidding!

I'm awfully tired of all of the bipartisan bickering that has been the norm in D.C. ever since I can remember.

[PatSeg]

24. And it wasn't always as bad as it is now

There was a time when republicans and democrats in congress disagreed on many major issues (which is as it should be), but they compromised to get thing done. Ideally right and left keep a balance in government, so a country doesn't go to the extreme right or left. Years ago, democratic and republican congressmen would argue by day, but often were friends when their work was done.