The New York Observer » Joseph Biden http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:09:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Economic Crisis: Where Can President Find an Adviser Who Gives Good Television? Not long ago, President Barack Obama finally got around to filling three of the top jobs at the Treasury Department that had been vacant since his inauguration.

But even afterward, one top financial job was left conspicuously unfilled—namely, the role of Economic Surrogate in Chief.

A good economic statesman—somebody who can crunch budget projections by day and Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/economic-crisis-where-can-president-find-adviser-who-gives-good-television Just Words? Tell It to Biden Certainly, Mr. Obama’s delivery of the passage in question was pretty much identical, as the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/just-words-tell-it-biden Also-Ran Biden Shows the Way at Debates The Delaware Senator, who was first elected when M*A*S*H was a brand new series, actually announced his plans to run ahead of everyone else—in June 2005—but the head start has done him no good: He can’t raise money, can’t move his poll numbers, and can’t break his Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/also-ran-biden-shows-way-debates Biden Campaign to Edwards: Enough With the Dean Routine Before the last presidential election, John Edwards voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, then spent most of the actual campaign parrying attacks from antiwar outsider Howard Dean. This time around, Mr. Edwards has slipped into the role of perpetually incensed antiwar crusader, questioning the commitment of his competitors to the liberal Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/biden-campaign-edwards-enough-dean-routine A Candidate For Secretary Of State But the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/candidate-secretary-state The Tragic Death of Enlightened Interventionism Consider it a sign of the times: A senior Democrat calls for committing American troops to a new theater of conflict, and the news causes only the gentlest of ripples.

The Democrat in question was Senator Joe Biden, and the benighted land was Darfur.

 “I think it’s time to put force on Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/tragic-death-enlightened-interventionism The Morning Read: Thursday, April 12, 2007 Andrew Cuomo got the nation's largest student loan company to curb its business practices and pay $2 million to educate the public about the industry.

Unlike George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer based his federal PAC in New York.

Joe Bruno promised to a problem with the Saratoga Springs.

Christine Quinn is getting members in line to Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/morning-read-thursday-april-12-2007 Dems Answer to Anti-War Listeners A day after they ditched a planned FOX debate, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards will participate in a "virtual town hall" discussion this evening in the (presumably) more ideologically friendly confines of Air America radio. The Big Three, along with Bill Richardson, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Dennis Kucinich, will engage in a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/04/dems-answer-to-antiwar-listeners/ Elsewhere: Hillary, Spitzer Hillary Clinton spoke privately to a gay political organization today. Hillary is ahead in Joe Biden's home state. Michael Cooper has more details about Eliot Spitzer's fight over health care spending and notes 1199 consultant Jennifer Cunningham's response: "We're not crybabies." There's a small residency question about Eliot Spitzer's upstate economic Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/03/elsewhere-hillary-spitzer/ Letters Biden on Iraq To the Editor: Jason Horowitz’s article—about a man that I like in general and have a difficult time liking re specifics—was a bit disturbing [“Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards,” Feb. 5]. On balance, I agree about the need to partition the ethnic communities, as the Balfour Agreement made by the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/02/letters-13/ Letters Biden on Iraq To the Editor: Jason Horowitz’s article—about a man that I like in general and have a difficult time liking re specifics—was a bit disturbing [“Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards,” Feb. 5]. On balance, I agree about the need to partition the ethnic communities, as the Balfour Agreement made by the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/02/letters-33/ Letters Biden on Iraq To the Editor: Jason Horowitz’s article—about a man that I like in general and have a difficult time liking re specifics—was a bit disturbing [“Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards,” Feb. 5]. On balance, I agree about the need to partition the ethnic communities, as the Balfour Agreement made by the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/02/letters-114/ Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards Senator Joseph Biden doesn’t think highly of the Iraq policies of some of the other Democrats who are running for President.

To hear him tell it, Hillary Clinton’s position is calibrated, confusing and “a very bad idea.” John Edwards doesn’t know what he’s talking about and is pushing a recipe for Armageddon in the Middle East. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/politics/biden-unbound-lays-clinton-obama-edwards Biden Talks To Sharpton I went to Al Sharpton's radio studio yesterday to watch him chat with Joe Biden, who phoned in to assauge Sharpton by expressing regret over his remark's describing Barack Obama as "clean" in yesterday's Observer. Sharpton welcomed Biden to the program and then praised him for not trying to backtrack or wiggle out of his Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/02/biden-talks-to-sharpton/ Elsewhere: Biden, Rudy, Molly Ivins Is Joe Biden a brilliant tactician? Time wonders is Barack Obama is black enough. Hillary Clinton likes bloggers so much, she granted an interview to one. Eliot Spitzer is spending his own money to promote the budget he proposed. Rudy Giuliani's alleged ex-girlfriend is throwing him a fund-raiser. San Francisco Read More

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