Joe Biden in Davenport

[Omaha Steve]

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Great TV coverage on the video.

Senator Biden's recent visit to Iowa is getting amazing reviews from the Iowans he met there. We've included links to local television coverage on the Biden YouTube channel and photos from the trip, as well as an article from the Quad City Times below. We'd like to thank all of our friends and supporters who made the trip such a success.

Biden Lays Out His Plan For Iraq at Davenport Barbecue

Quad City Times
May 8, 2007
By Deirdre Cox Baker

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden's plan to solve America's problems in Iraq had the rapt attention of more than 100 people who crowded the hillside of the former St. Katharine's School in central Davenport on a pleasant Monday evening.

The meet-and-greet presidential campaign event attracted those who believe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has the credentials and the ideas to lead the United States. The Democratic senator from Delaware was at the end of a three-day campaign tour through Iowa.

"This is a time when we need someone in the White House with foreign policy credits, and he's the best," Dan Kuhn of Bettendorf said.

Officials -- including Iowa Sen. Joe Seng, D-Davenport, who hosted a barbecue at the historic school building he bought last month, Rep. Jim Lykam, D-Davenport, and Scott County supervisors Jim Hancock and Roxanna Moritz -- announced public endorsements of Biden.

"Nothing happens until we deal with the war in Iraq," Moritz said. "I feel the urgency among the people, even working in my last election. They want change in Iraq and they wanted it six months ago."

"This man needs to get in front of the people," Seng said. Biden is considered a second-tier candidate behind the Democratic front-runners, U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., but Seng thinks the field is flattening and that Biden will move up in the polls when more people get to know about him.

The senator's Iraq plan features specific geographic regions for Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite factions, as well as a central government to distribute oil revenues and administer some services. Some American troops would remain, but most of the 160,000 soldiers deployed there now would return home soon.

JoAnna Graller of Davenport said she used to support former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, a Democrat from North Carolina, but hearing Biden speak at a Democratic fundraiser has changed her mind. "That $400 haircut solidified it," she said, referring to a recent brouhaha in which Edwards got a very expensive trim in California for which he has since apologized.

Biden believes ending the war in Iraq and stopping tax cuts for the wealthy would provide $185 billon per year to deal with domestic issues such as health care and education.

The single biggest challenge is to re-establish America's credibility in the world, he said, pointing to potential problems in India, Pakistan and Russia. Biden added that his depth and breadth of knowledge leads all of the candidates in terms of national security issues.

The next president will change the direction of the world, he said, adding that that is why he wants the job. "It will be my chance to make hope and history rhyme."

[PatSeg]

1. Biden just needs more exposure

A lot of people aren't familiar with Joe Biden, but if they could hear him speak, I think they will be impressed. In 2004 I was watching him on Meet The Press and my grown son came in the room while Biden was speaking. After listening to him talk for only a few minutes, my son said "Why isn't HE running for president?" He has been a Biden supporter since that day.

A few weeks ago, my daughter came over and I showed her Biden's speech to the Fire Fighter's Association on YouTube and now she is a supporter as well. It was one of best political speeches I have ever heard and he got a standing ovation, something that neither Clinton or Obama could do.

A lot of money or being a front runner are not guarantees this time around. Voters are very serious now and I think the issues will determine the election's outcome, not star quality. People want real answers, not slick slogans.

[jillan]

3. Hi Newbie for Biden

I too have been a Biden supporter since 2004.

He won me over when he was out campaigning for Kerry. And ever since then I have been keeping tabs on him.

It's very frustrating right now how he gets no respect from the media, and very little from the bloggers.

pm me anytime :)

[Britethorn]

2. Nice Video

Could someone at the Biden Camp put up a sharper video? it's really not that hard!