DELAWARE: Biden not ready to endorse Obama or Clinton

[livvy]

Article published Jan 13, 2008
DELAWARE: Biden not ready to endorse Obama or Clinton
The News Journal

DOVER -- Democratic Sen. Joe Biden said Saturday the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination has emerged as a race solely between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but also said he is unlikely to endorse either for now.

"My strong inclination at this point, unless something substantive changes, I don't plan to endorse anyone," Biden said in Dover during his first public appearance since dropping out of the presidential race Jan. 4.

"But I'll support whoever the nominee is when it becomes clear that that's the case, and that will become clear long before the convention," Biden said outside Delaware Technical & Community College after a wide-ranging talk on foreign policy before the Delaware National Guard's 9th Annual Leadership Conference.

About 500 Army and Air Guard officers and senior enlisted members attended the event at Dover, and heard Biden call for a drastic overhaul of foreign policy. That change, Biden said, must include a clear recognition that Pakistan has become "the single most dangerous nation in the world," and that foreign-policy problems often require regional and global approaches, rather than a focus on single countries.

Saw it coming

After his speech, Biden said that he suspected as early as August that Clinton and Obama had captured a commanding share of press and public attention.

"Here you have for the first time in all American history a woman or African-American poised to be the next president, and there's no way to break through that," Biden said.


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http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/NEWS01/80113005/1002

[gateley]

1. Ellen posted this a few threads down with "Biden Will Be Doing Important Work"

subject line.

I am SO GLAD he's not endorsing either of these candidates - they're both behaving like children. I hope he keeps neutral through the election.

[livvy]

7. Ooops. Missed that. Sorry, Ellen! n/t

[jillan]

2. Did you guys see this?

"Unless we straighten this out pretty quickly, I predict you're going to see the subcontinent of India become the most dangerous place in the world, on a hair trigger, for the next decade," Biden said.

omg - what now? What does he know?
And whatever it is, you can be sure the three stooges are as much in the dark about it as I am.

[gateley]

3. SELF DELETE - changed my mind. I'll be back when I change it again. nt

[gateley]

5. And in answer to your question, P, I think he ALWAYS knows more that

the other candidates and OBVIOUSLY the administration.

I posted an link to an article about Musharraf saying that if America sent in the military they would be unwelcome. I just got smart ass replies like "Musharraf is our boy -- our people are already there". Stuff like that.

I'm not denying that, but I'm not that confident about it, either. I think Musharraf might figure we're so stretched now, militarily and monetarily, that he can do whatever the fuck he wants. I'll see if I can find a link to it. Makes Joe's statement even more ominous.

Okay you guys -- read this --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4055663&mesg_id=4055663

[AspenRose]

6. This makes me nervous

My sister in law just married an Indian national. She's living over there now. Crap.

:scared:


I'm glad (but not surprised) he's not endorsing anyone either. Can you blame the man?

I sure can't.

[gateley]

8. They seem to be more concerned about Pakistan than India. It may be

because of the civil unrest that's going on there. Also, I got the impression (rightly or wrongly) that much of the fear is about Al Q-types. If they got ahold of the nukes, I think they'd go after US before they'd go after India :shrug:

But come to think of it, if that DOES happen, we're ALL fucked.

How is the situation in India?

[AspenRose]

9. I haven't talked to my sister in law about the political climate there

She has some health issues that are of primary importance so it's not an opportune time to discuss it....

[gateley]

4. PS -- I reported the commenter who just used the forum to post endorsements

of his/her candidate. Pissed me off.