Obama, Biden 2008

This election year the choice is clear… One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need… “Barack America!” Senator Joe Biden Obama-Biden Rally Springfield, Illinois August 23, 2008 The One is ready to lead… Well, at least Joe Biden thinks so: (18 seconds) Senator Joe Biden in Springfield, Illinois: This election year the choice is clear. One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need. A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next president of the United States– “Barack America!” Woo-Hoo! . via &&id; Read Full Story

NEIL KINNOCK at Welsh Labour Party conference May 1987: "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand" JOE BIDEN IN Sept 1987 during his first presidential campaign: "Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go a university? Why is it ... Read Full Story

A memoir by Senator Joe Biden, once as forgotten as his presidential run, is now a best seller. A day after Senator Barack Obama chose Biden as his running mate for the Democratic ticket, Biden’s “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics” was in the top 10 on Barnes & Noble.com and in the top 40 on Amazon.com. It was so in demand that today it was listed as out of stock by both booksellers. The Random House Publishing Group released the memoir in the summer of 2007, several months after Biden announced his candidacy for president. But, like so many campaign works, “Promises ... Read Full Story

Reidar Visser is research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs with a background in history and comparative politics (University of Bergen) and a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies (University of Oxford). He's the author of Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq (Lit Verlag, 2006) and co-editor of An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? (Columbia University Press, 2007). The following commentary was originally posted at www.historiae.org In many ways, Barack Obama’s approach to Iraq is strikingly similar to that of the Bush administration and John McCain. In theory, the addition of Joe Biden to ... Read Full Story

By Michael Moore For years now, nearly every poll has shown that the American people are right in sync with the platform of the Democratic Party. They are pro-environment, pro-women's rights and pro-choice. They don't like war. They want the minimum wage raised, and they want a single-payer universal health-care system. The American public agrees with the Republican Party on only one major issue: They support the death penalty. So you would think the Democrats would be cleaning up, election after election. Obviously not. The Democrats appear to be professional losers. They are so pathetic in their ability to win elections, they even lose ... Read Full Story