Joe Biden

Understandably, Joe Biden's campaign-ending bout with plagiarism two decades ago has been getting its share of attention over the past 24 hours, with the Clinton campaign drawing a parallel with Barack Obama's lift of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's words.

Certainly, Obama's delivery of the passage in question was pretty much identical, as the video evidence now available on YouTube clearly shows. So why isn't it being treated with the same gravity?  read more »

Though the Democratic nomination has yet to be decided, Barack Obama and John McCain have begun acting very much as if the general election has already started, exchanging direct criticisms and sizing each other up. And, while neither has talked publicly about it at this early stage, both men are doubtless pondering the running-mate question.

In a matchup with Obama, McCain would face two potentially conflicting imperatives with his choice of a vice presidential candidate.  read more »

He also laid into the Bush White House, calling it the "most arrogant, incompetent" administration.  read more »

Lots of ads, very little negativity over the pre-Thanksgiving weekend:

Mike Huckabee's first ad doesn't have much money behind it, but it does star Chuck Norris.

The latest by Hillary Clinton enlists an old friend, first seen in one of her Senate ads, to send a message about trust.  read more »

LAS VEGAS—Tonight, Hillary Clinton hit back.

After weeks of withering attacks by her Democratic rivals, political missteps by her own campaign and a seeming inability to give a straight answer on the hot-button issue of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, Ms. Clinton took the platform at a debate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, pointed to her charcoal jacket, and said “This pantsuit—it’s asbestos,” suggesting she was ready to withstand any onslaughts.

And they started right away.  read more »

Joe Biden delivered a policy speech today about Pakistan, perhaps the most overlooked issue by either party in the 2008 presidential race.

For months, he's been the presidential candidate most vocal about the national security threat posed by Pakistan. During the Democratic debate in Philadelphia, he suggested that instead of saber-rattling over Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Bush administration should be more concerned about Pakistan's already established nuclear capabilities.  Since then, Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule, suspended constitutional government and clamped down on his political opponents.

Speaking at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm's College in Manchester, Biden offered a plan to help stabilize Pakistan, empower its Muslim moderates and keep its nuclear weapons out of the hands of ideological extremists.

In his speech, Biden reveals that he personally spoke to Musharraf and the main opposition leader Benazir Bhutto about the current crisis.  read more »

In case you missed it, here's a clip of Rudy Giuliani’s recent interview with Brian Williams.

When asked about his personal feelings about Hillary Clinton, Giuliani said he knew her well. In fact, he said, “I got to know her actually, probably the best, during September 11.”

Somewhere, Joe Biden was smiling.

Edwards and Obama leapt at the chance to take Clinton to task for what they said was her inability to talk straight with the American people.  read more »

Just when Joe Biden was cooking up a nice little redemption story, he goes and steps in it—again.  read more »