Why Democrats Should Consider Biden
by WayneInSF
Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 03:55:33 PM PST

I posted this endorsement on the diary pages last week. However, with the news coming out of Pakistan today, I feel the urge to repost my reasoning and ask that Iowa Democrats reflect on Bhutto's assassination before heading to their caucuses next week. I ask that, when they arrive at their caucus, they consider casting a vote for the one man whose experience and statesmanship are beyond reproach...the one man who would be the best steward of American foreign policy in the post-Bush era...Senator Joe Biden...

WayneInSF's diary :: ::

As current polling stands, the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is between three people: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. But it would do you well to remember that just weeks before the 2004 Iowa and New Hampshire contests, Howard Dean and Richard Gephardt were leading in the pre-election polls. The two men who would eventually make up the party's ticket - Kerry and Edwards - were mired in single digits at the bottom of the pack.

That little fact gives me hope for my candidate: Senator Joe Biden, of Delaware.
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Democratic National Committee:

Yesterday, McClatchy Newspapers reported that officials at the Department of Justice put partisanship ahead of the American people by delaying the prosecution of a key Republican official under investigation for the Republican Party's criminal phone-jamming scheme in New Hampshire.

According to the report, "an official with detailed knowledge of the investigation" said officials delayed the indictment of James Tobin, the northeast regional coordinator for the Republican National Committee, in order to protect "top GOP officials from the scandal until the voting was over." In defending GOP officials prosecuted for the scheme to block calls to GOTV centers in Manchester on Election Day 2002, the RNC paid more than $6 million in legal fees. [McClatchy Newspapers, 12/19/07]

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement:

"After turning the Department of Justice's voting rights division into a voter suppression unit and pushing voter ID laws that disenfranchise seniors, young, low income, minority, and disabled voters, we now know that Republicans even used their clout to block legitimate criminal investigations to protect their cronies. This latest example of the Bush Administration putting politics over the law shows the lengths Republicans will go to hold on to ...   more »

Democratic National Committee:

Yesterday, McClatchy Newspapers reported that officials at the Department of Justice put partisanship ahead of the American people by delaying the prosecution of a key Republican official under investigation for the Republican Party's criminal phone-jamming scheme in New Hampshire.

According to the report, "an official with detailed knowledge of the investigation" said officials delayed the indictment of James Tobin, the northeast regional coordinator for the Republican National Committee, in order to protect "top GOP officials from the scandal until the voting was over." In defending GOP officials prosecuted for the scheme to block calls to GOTV centers in Manchester on Election Day 2002, the RNC paid more than $6 million in legal fees. [McClatchy Newspapers, 12/19/07]

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement:

"After turning the Department of Justice's voting rights division into a voter suppression unit and pushing voter ID laws that disenfranchise seniors, young, low income, minority, and disabled voters, we now know that Republicans even used their clout to block legitimate criminal investigations to protect their cronies. This latest example of the Bush Administration putting politics over the law shows the lengths Republicans will go to hold on to ...   more »

Democratic National Committee:

Sliding in the polls and struggling to overcome his image as a serial flip-flopper, the New York Times reports that smooth talking Mitt Romney is trying to shift attention away from ideological issues and toward his business record. In light of recent revelations about his leadership at Bain Capital, he might want to reconsider.

This week, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Romney used "shell companies in two offshore tax havens" to help clients "avoid paying U.S. taxes." At Bain Capital, Romney reportedly steered clients toward tax shelters in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, attracting "billions of additional investment dollars" to Bain Capital, boosting profits for Romney and his partners. The Times also reported that Romney continues to earn money from at least one of his Cayman Island tax shelters, including more than $1 million last year from BCIP Associates III Cayman, "a private equity fund that is registered at a post office box on Grand Cayman Island." [Los Angeles Times, 12/17/07] On Romney's watch, Bain Capital also developed a reputation for extracting "jaw-dropping" consulting fees out of companies, sometimes just shortly before those companies collapsed and workers were left jobless. [Los Angeles Times...   more »