“I have reached the tentative conclusion that a significant portion of this administration, maybe even including the vice president, believes Iraq is lost,” Biden told The Washington Post. “They have no answer to deal with how badly they have screwed it up. I am not being facetious now. Therefore, the best thing to do is keep it from totally collapsing on your watch and hand it off to the next guy — literally not figuratively.”
Joe Biden has run for President once before in 1988, when his campaign was effectively derailed because of charges of plagarism in his speeches. Seems that he borrowed heavily from speeches given by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, including details of Kinnock's life that were not applicable to Biden's own life. An aide to Michael Dukakis pointed out the issue to the media and Biden's bid was over.
Biden is the new incoming chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has some solid foreign credentials. However, at this time I have to list his candidacy in the long shot column. I will get his websites updated once his official campaign site launches.
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So, if Biden is in the longshot column, where does everyone else stand at this point in your estimation? And to this date, who is standing out to you, whether they are running or are potential candidates. I mean, come on, give us some good opinion!
I'm in the same boat as you as far as I'm not sure who I will be supporting yet. But I know a few candidates whom I would find it difficult to support.
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