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Biden His Time

8.26.08 @ 12:01AM

BEAU IDEAL
Re: The Prowler's The Gal That Got Away:

The political hay the Dems expect from Biden's son Beau's deployment to Iraq is totally bogus. He's a judge advocate general in the Delaware National Guard. A lawyer, for heaven's sake! Not some front line soldier.

Pretty risky deployment for Biden's son you say, huh? The only shooting Beau Biden is likely to experience are whiskey shots in the officers mess. Yet, you'll hear moans, groans and sighs from Biden (like why couldn't this son manage a lucrative lobbying and bank deal, like his brother?). Yet sending Beau Biden to Iraq is like sending a Frenchman to fight in an American outfit: more likely to shoot himself than the enemy. Best keep Beau (even his name is French) far from the front lines.

As for Biden as VP pick, this truly is a visionary match: Obama enrobed in his messianic mantra, Biden wearing his crown of hairplugs. Anointed in August...cries of "why have you forsaken me" in November.
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn. New Jersey

Two comments:

1. Democrats expect to exploit the upcoming deployment of Biden's son to Iraq? He is a JAG officer, and will be nowhere near being in harm's way. McCain has a son in the Marine Corps in harm's way. I don't think the Democrats would want to go there, but then, I'm not a Democrat...

2. McCain reminds me of an old Al Capp figure in the Lil Abner comic strip of years ago: General Jubilation T. Cornpone, mythical Arkansas Confederate general, known for his uncanny ability to "Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

McCain has been lucky beyond all expectations. He doesn't have to run against Hillary. Obama is a deeply flawed, inexperienced candidate, probably the least qualified in at least 50 years. Yet, McCain dabbles in support for issues like global warming, and amnesty for illegals, unnecessarily causing unease among the Republican base. If he selects someone who is pro-choice for veep, he risks even more. For once in his life, he needs to "suck it up," and quit rebelling against common sense and the conservatives. This is his last and best, shot at winning the presidency. Let's hope he can avoid shooting himself in the foot.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

According to What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, at one point when Biden was considering his political future, he was worried about the press picking into his sister Val's divorce, Jimmy's bankruptcy and brother Frankie's "troubles in California..." Who was brother Frankie? Was he the Biden's Roger Clinton? Apparently Jimmy, who was in bankruptcy, is now James and is solvent.
-- D. Smith

Let's not forget this is the same Joe Biden who plagiarized in law school and then with tears in his eyes promised not to do it again and was spared expulsion -- he lied. Typical Democrat, a man of no imagination or moral integrity and this is the man Barack Obama hailed "as the next President" of the United States. I guess we know who's going to wear the "pants" in that family -- the cheater and not the madrassa dropout.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq

I'm a conservative and unhappy with McCain's presumptive nominee status, but doesn't it make sense that McCain's group would want Giuliani as Keynoter because he dropped out in West Virginia and swung his delegates to McCain? Wasn't this one of the last primaries where Romney still had a chance to best McCain?
-- Lucille McClure
San Jose, California

Unless McCain picks Palin, Fred Thompson, or Romney, I am staying home. Pawlenty: He can't talk, he can't debate. He smiles like a high school team spokesman. He's Minnesota quality, not national. I lived in Minneapolis, loved it, but hell, it ain't New York. And I'm a New Yorker, where there are as many people living in my building as there are in St. Paul. Or so it seems.
-- Wolf T.

NOT MY BOBBY
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Joe, Mo, Bobby, and Me:

Excellent column, Mr. Lord.

It's interesting to discover that you were a Robert Kennedy fan, all those years ago. So was I. In fact, I can truthfully say he was the last Democrat I was prepared to vote for as President, if he had lived to win the nomination. I saw him in those days as a more principled Democrat than all those around him. I was nearly twenty-nine years old when he was shot. His brother was my first and only Democratic vote for president. Shortly thereafter, the Democratic Party left me and most of my kind, as it veered to the left, becoming ever more socialist and in many cases, even communist, in its outlook.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

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