Joe Biden for President - Yes, You Heard Me

[PatSeg]

From a Biden speechwriter, interesting take from the campaign trail:


All right, I know it's a little late. But as readers know, I've been a speechwriter on a Presidential campaign, and I did not use the Huffington Post pulpit to pronounce my support for my candidate. My candidate was Joe Biden.

I went to work as a speechwriter for Senator Biden several months ago. At first, the work came in small drips, and that allowed me to continue working for my other clients. A dramatic uptick came in July, when a deluge of writing requests came pouring in from the Biden team, coinciding with the release of the Senator's autobiography, and it was at that point that I began working day and night to write and email speeches to Iowa, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.

Not a day would go by when a request did not come my way. Education remarks, talking points, can I speak as a surrogate for the Senator at an event in Los Angeles?

I was happy to do it. Why? Because I truly believed that Senator Biden was the best person to be President of the United States. I wanted to work for him, not just because it was a job, which was important, but because I believed in the cause.

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Senator Biden did not have the celebrity in this race, and because he's from Delaware, where money's not much of an issue when you're running for office, he did not have the fund raising prowess of Hillary (from Chicago, lives in New York) and Barack (Chicago).

I was captivated by the Senator's own life story, which I read in his book, a book that was emailed to me one July Saturday and which I had a frantic six hours to read before I had to start writing a speech about it.

Much more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-littman/joe-biden-for-president-_b_80212.html#postComment

[inthebrain]

1. Biden's speech writer thinks he should be president?

No shit!!!!

[frogcycle]

3. oh grow up

the guy wrote a nice article, complimented the family. Biden has withdrawn. Could you just possibly give it a rest now?

[gateley]

4. He's not on the payroll anymore, so there goes that motive. Nice to see you again.

:hi:

[inthebrain]

7. Yeah I'm sure payroll had a lot to do with it?

Yeesh.

The longer Biden is out of the race the more braincells you all lose.

Did it ever occur to anyone that he liked Biden before becoming the speechwriter for his campaign?

I suppose you really believe this is an objective source.

LOL

[PatSeg]

10. It was just a nice article about Joe Biden

It wasn't promoting anything or anyone. For those of us who supported Biden, it is nice to hear from people who worked for and with him. There was absolutely no reason for anyone to jump in and try to start an argument. I would certainly hope you have better things to do.

[DemReadingDU]

11. nice article

Thanks for sharing !

[youthere]

9. Jeez...

considering his freakish obsession with all things Biden, I hope ITB doesn't live near Delaware...Joe might have to get a restraining order.

[frogcycle]

2. Nice article

I, too, met his family. Only briefly, and only some of them, but I second the comments.

[gateley]

5. I love hearing these on-the-ground stories!

I'm sure missing Joe already. :(

[PatSeg]

6. Me too

And this is a very nice tribute to Joe Biden. I figured he deserved some recognition.

[bdamomma]

8. me three, I really missed hearing and seeing him on Saturday

during the debates, god, we could really use his intelligence and wisdom now. Sorry to say I was falling asleep during the debate.