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Joe Biden is a Democratic senator who has represented Delaware since 1972 and is the candidate for vice president on the ticket with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Biden has served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a member of the Senate Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee and Senate National Security Working Group. He grew up in New Castle County, Del. Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. Before being elected to the Senate, Biden practiced law in Wilmington.
Joe Biden is a Democratic senator who has represented Delaware since 1972 and is the candidate for vice president on the ticket with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Biden has served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a member of the Senate Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee and Senate National Security Working Group. He grew up in New Castle County, Del. Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. Before being elected to the Senate, Biden practiced law in Wilmington.
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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: Mitt Romney, George Washington, Graduation, Olympia J. Snowe, Brian Williams
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'CBS This Morning' the thinking person's way to start the TV day
The Baltimore SunI have been meaning to write a big piece about CBS News and "This Morning" for two weeks. But other assignments took precedence, so now I'll have to write a much smaller piece a day late after the network has already celebrated 100 days of its revamped...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Meet the Press (tv program), NBC (tv network), Television Industry, ABC (tv network)
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Demise of a centrist nominee dream
That pop you may or may not have heard the other day was the bursting pipedream of a centrist presidential candidate outside the establishment parties. The organizers of a group calling itself Americans Elect decided to close shop after failing to find...
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Super PACs: How did the Supreme Court not see this coming?
Maybe what this country needs on the Supreme Court is a real politician or at least a sensible political scientist or two. Perhaps they would help the court's majority understand how it has allowed unlimited big-donor money to contaminate and almost...
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Generational nonsense at commencement time
This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more...
Tags: Brett Favre, Orrin Hatch, NPR, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Democratic Party
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Bush's pithy endorsement of Romney
Former President George W. Bush uttered his endorsement for president the other day as an elevator door was closing on him. To a question shouted by a reporter, he was said to have answered, simply, "I'm for Mitt Romney," and that was it. It was sort...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Mitt Romney, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump
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Same-sex marriage seals Obama's fate as a one-term president
Barack Obama made himself a one-term president last week by telling ABC, "I think that same-sex couples should be able to get married." Up till now, he was politically savvy, saying his position was "evolving." But in repealing the military's "don't ask,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Christianity, Illinois General Assembly, John McCain, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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The tea party's war on common sense
Tea party advocates in Indiana are congratulating themselves on the Republican primary victory of one of their own, Richard Mourdock, over six-term Senate veteran Richard Lugar. But the rest of the country should be mourning the departure of the epitome...
Tags: Richard Nixon, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Richard Mourdock, Sam Nunn, Democratic Party
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Obama evolves, with a nudge from Biden
Vice President Joe Biden was accused of committing another gaffe the other day when he declared on a Sunday television talk showthat he was "absolutely comfortable" with the idea of same-sex marriage. His crime supposedly was that he embarrassed his boss,...
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Maybe CBS News, not ABC, should have taken victory lap on Obama same-sex interview
The Baltimore SunThursday morning, ABC senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper posted a TwitPic of "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts with the cutline "woman of the hour." I can appreciate a newsperson congratulating a colleague, and I have to admit I...Tags: Meet the Press (tv program), NBC (tv network), Family, Marriage, Television Industry
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Gay marriage and political expedience
Former NPR and current Fox News political analyst Juan Williamsmade an excellent point recently on "The O'Reilly Factor." Mr. Williams said the major reason President Barack Obama had not endorsed same-sex marriage is because of the strong opposition...
Tags: Christianity, Minority Groups, NPR, Civil Rights, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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'Money primary' pushes Obama to the left
For most of 2012, President Barack Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he's essentially running unopposed. Though don't tell that to West Virginia Democrats, who cast nearly half of their votes for Keith...
Tags: Primaries, Richard Nixon, Family, Marriage, ABC (tv network)
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