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On National Security: From NBC's Chuck Todd: “Joe Biden continues to sound as the authentic voice on national security issues; he speaks with an authority that makes him believable even if you disagree with his policy proposals.”
“Line Of The Night”: From Time’s Mark Halperin. “Had line of the night slamming Giuliani on 9/11 ("There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11. I mean, there's nothing else") and saying the former mayor is unqualified to be president.”
“One Of The Best Lines Of The Night”: From the Philadelphia Daily News’ Dave Davies and Catherine Lucey. “One of the best lines of the night came from U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., after he called GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani ‘probably the most unqualified man to run for president since George Bush.’”
“Biden Brought Down The Auditorium”: From the Los Angeles Times’ Mark Barabak and Peter Nicholas: “Although most of the debate revolved around the Clinton-Obama-Edwards dynamic -- it was 10 minutes before any other candidate got a question -- Biden brought down the auditorium with two of the most crowd-pleasing lines of the evening. He dubbed Giuliani ‘probably the most unqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency.’ As laughter died down he added, ‘There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11.’”
The Weight of Biden’s Experience: From FOX’s Carl Cameron: “For the first time in memory, Sen. Biden takes a tough question (pledge on Iran nukes) and both answers it definitively and recasts the issue expertly by identifying the larger context of Pakistan and a potentially destablized nuke-packing country. The flow of the Iran question changed instantly with Biden’s crisp, anti-platitudinous answer.”
On Being Presidential: From NBC's Domenico Montanaro: “Maybe it's his speaking style, and directness, but Biden is the only one on the stage to stylistically match Clinton's clarity. He laid out the reasons against the Iran vote, the consequences, better than Dodd and sounded stronger than either Obama or Edwards in their openings.”
“Deep Answer” On Foreign Policy: From ABC’s Rick Klein: “Give Biden bonus points for a deep answer as well on foreign policy.”
Biden Offered Contrast: From NBC's Chuck Todd: “‘I'm not running against Hillary Clinton’? So says Joe Biden. Campaigns are about contrast. That said, Biden, once again, has one of the more memorable lines of the night and seemed to hit Giuliani better than any of the other Democrats on stage tonight.”
A noun, a verb, and 9/11: From Politico’s Ben Smith: “Joe Biden gets the first real laugh in the press file with his sharp attack on Rudy Giuliani's suggestion that Democrats don't have the right executive experience to be president. Giuliani is ‘probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency,’ he says. Rudy Giuliani - there's only three things he to make ... a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11. Biden — opening the door to an endless policy argument — also claims that ‘the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill’ (which put more cops on the streets of New York and other cities) was the real key to cutting New York's crime.”
Praise Despite Unfair Time Allotment: From the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: “Through no fault of their own, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden seemed like Statler & Waldorf. Except for Dodd’s remarks on Iran at the beginning of the debate and Biden’s challenge to Rudy Giuliani, the format and moderators deliberately sent them to the back of the stage.”
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