’08 Comeback Kid should be Biden

[gateley]

By Wayne Woodlief
Thursday, December 6, 200

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, ever the realist, admits he must “run one, two or three” - or maybe a closely bunched fourth - in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses to stay in the Democratic presidential race.

He still believes he can do it, Biden told me Tuesday in a phone interview from Iowa. “We’ll have a serious TV buy in Iowa in the next week or two,” he said, “and if we surprise people here, I think the same boomerang effect that helped John Kerry, after he won Iowa in an upset in 2004, would help us raise big money.”

If wit, grit and excellent credentials were enough to be elected president, Biden would be lifting his hand at next January’s swearing-in ceremony. But even if he falls short, he says he will have “given it my best shot and did it my way.”

That way would be:

• Speaking truth to power, warning President Bush that if he took the U.S. into a war in Iran without congressional assent (especially after the new intelligence reports that Iran froze its nuclear program in 2003), “I would lead an effort to impeach him.”

• Risking an unpopular stance among his party’s liberal base by voting for an Iraq war appropriations bill and proposing the most workable solution in Iraq - a federal-state system, close to our own, which would separate warring ethnic factions.

• Stumping from early morning to late at night in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Biden doesn’t just roll in, make a speech and shoot off to another event. He’ll shake every hand, answer every question and listen intently, even if he’s a bit late getting to the next stop. (Hmmm, that’s just the way Bill Clinton did it in his come-from-behind win in 1992).


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[aquart]

1. Absolutely. Digging up well-preserved dinosaurs is already a trend.

Run with it.

[gateley]

2. Believe me, we will!

Thanks for your support! :hi:

[cali]

3. great article

on Biden. I don't think I'm alone is saying I really hope he surprises everyone by doing well in Iowa.

[Occam Bandage]

4. You're certainly not alone. A Biden surprise in Iowa would be the best possible result, IMO.

[PatSeg]

8. Welcome to DU Occam

Another new face! :hi:

[ellacott]

6. You're not alone, I'd love for him to do well also

Our campaign would be so different if he were getting more media coverage.

[PatSeg]

7. It won't be a surprise for me

I've believed for a long time that Biden will do well in Iowa and the pundits will all be scratching their heads, like they do every four years.

[CreekDog]

16. you aren't alone

he's becoming a consensus #2 for lots of people, which is making some of them re think their #1.

will be interesting to see what happens.

[1corona4u]

5. And it will be...wait and see...

[ginchinchili]

9. I still have faith...

that Joe Biden can pull this thing off.

[Hieronymus]

10. To "comeback" indicates that one was once there.

[polichick]

11. There's one sure fire way for Biden to get the nomination...

He shouldn't wait until Bush bombs Iran to move on impeachment ~ he should make the impeachment of Bush and Cheney a signature issue NOW.

That would show TRUE LEADERSHIP, and the base would be thrilled to support him!

I also think it would help with Indies in the general election ~ he'd be seen as a strong principled Dem, rather than a weak or enabling one.

[1corona4u]

14. You know..

I've said this before, but I have a feeling it's not that the democrats are going to let Bush & Co. get away with things they have done, but, something tells me they just have a different plan to deal with it. I know most people would rather just impeach him, and get on with it, but I feel as though there IS something else in the works, right beneath the surface. Possibly more like criminal charges...

[polichick]

15. Hope they don't wait 'til Cheney leaves office due to his heart and moves to Dubai...

I think it's pretty naive to believe that either Bush or Cheney will stick around for legal proceedings ~ Halliburton didn't.

[Think82]

12. I hope so! Kick

Biden's been getting good press lately...

[polichick]

13. k&r

[jillan]

17. He's already in 4th place in Iowa - anything could happen.

[youthere]

18. I believe he's going to surprise everyone at the caucus.