Anybody home?

[gateley]

Braden will be on CNN's Late Edition tomorrow (today, actually)

Also --

Biden talks frequently to Obama, Clinton, but stays neutral

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Senator Joe Biden says he's remained in constant contact with the remaining Democratic presidential contenders, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But even though he'll be a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention in August, Biden hasn't expressed a preference between the two. He's keeping a promise he made to Clinton and Obama to remain neutral.

Biden says he talks to Clinton once a week on average and Obama about three times every two weeks. On foreign policy Biden's area of expertise he considers them ''not that very far apart.''

Delaware's senior senator says he believes the primaries, and not the superdelegates, will ultimately determine the Democratic nominee. If they don't, he says he'll base his decision on who's most likely to beat Republican John McCain.

Information from: The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, http://www.delawareonline.com


Glad he listened to our advice :7.

[Muttocracy]

1. thanks for that update. Biden is a smart cookie.

I'm pet-sitting at the moment and actually have access to a TV so just turned it on - Lugar talking...

[WheelWalker]

2. A smart cookie. Where does that originate, anyway? Is that what they call an "idiom?

[Muttocracy]

4. now that you mention it, what a strange phrase!

I often catch myself before using figures of speech that don't really make sense but I guess I've never thought much about that one.

It turns out the OED is now online - will wonders never cease.

Under "cookie"

2. slang (orig. U.S.). a. A woman; esp. an attractive girl. b. A man, often with defining word.
1920 Collier's 6 Mar. 42/3 That girl friend of yours is a cookie - hey, what? 1928 Chicago Tribune 7 Oct. (Comics) 2 What a swell bunch of cookies you turned out to be. 1942 Amer. Mercury Oct. 436/1 Just about the toughest cookie ever born. 1948 F. BROWN Murder can be Fun (1951) x. 146 A smart cookie, that Wilkins. 1953 W. R. BURNETT Vanity Row xvi. 110 He's a real tough cookie and you know it. 1959 R. LONGRIGG Wrong Number ii. 27, I met a cookie I know... She said you'd said Faustus was like Oklahoma.

[WheelWalker]

8. A woman. I suspected as much. "Smart" cookie. "Tough" cookie. Implying "cookies"

do not have those qualities by "definition" and the attribute must be specified. Origin in misogyny, I think.

[Muttocracy]

9. I'm afraid so - I had thought of it as a sweet nice thing! nt

[WheelWalker]

3. Joe's going to wait until you and I have voted, Gateley. I'm May 20. You're

a bit earlier, aren't you?

[Muttocracy]

5. Must be nice for a change to feel like your vote might make a difference! nt

[gateley]

7. Yes -

This is actually the first time I'll be voting in a Primary. I wasn't interested enough before -- left it up to the "Dems who were into that shit" to decide who the nominee would be.

I was kind of hoping for the opportunity to Vote for Joe -- as tsegate said -- it'll be the only time in our lives when we can do that, but I've moved into Obama's camp far enough to where I do want to support him if he still needs it.

But who knows? It MIGHT be over by then. (We keep hearing that every primary, don't we? :))

[gateley]

6. Yeah - May 6.

If he really endorses who he thinks would be the best President, I'm really curious as to what he believes.

I know he's a good friend and admires HRC, but he's also been saying complimentary things about Obama.

I thought it was interesting that he "promised" both of them he wouldn't endorse. Wonder what that means, as I'm sure they're both courting him.