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Not So Deep Thought About Joe Biden

by: Dean Barker

Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 12:08:34 PM EDT
Sure, he keeps the 60 seat Senate majority dream alive.  Sure, he's as good a debater and "attack dog" as you can get.  Sure, he's from blue-collar folk. Sure, he's Catholic.  Sure, he helps bring in some of the stereotypical Hillary demographics.  Sure, he is the right man at the right time to be an expert on Pakistan in particular and the Middle East in general.

But here's something that just smacked me in the face like a ton of bricks. In the perception game, to many, and especially to those who get their political news through Sunday TeeVee:

Joe Biden is John McCain, before John McCain became George W. Bush.

Duh!

Adding: of course, I'm talking about perception  only. In the real world of policy and outlook, you'll never see McMcansion do this (h/t Tim Tagaris):
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Interesting thought (0.00 / 0)
I think you might be on to something there, Dean.

Re; that video, that's really great. Some people will call it artificial, because Biden gets to go home to the Senate, but it's still valuable. I once wrote a series of columns on people's jobs, and for one of them, I collected trash for a couple of hours -- I wanted to do the whole day, but I couldn't get the whole day off. But I ended up being glad I couldn't do the whole day, because collecting trash is awful. It's amazing what people put out; some people don't bag everything. One trash barrel was full of frozen dinner boxes and cigarettes -- unbagged, just in a heap inside the barrel. The wind blew, and I got ashes in my eyes.

And one thing I learned in the process: three guys collect the trash for my entire town: three guys collecting for 22,000 people.

Good for Biden for doing that. Are there other clips like that?


Aren't those vids neat? (0.00 / 0)
Here are some others:

Obama:

Dodd:

Clinton:

Edwards:

Richardson:


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They even have some senate ones. (0.00 / 0)
There's a Tom Allen one and also a Franken one.

Could Shaheen be in the future?

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Am I the only one... (0.00 / 0)
who noticed Joe's popped collar?  He's in touch with the younger generation fo sho.
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