’)Unlike many of my fellow Dems, I don’t have a lot of problems with Joe Biden. Biden’s about as knowledgeable as they come about foreign policy, a trait that can’t be undervalued in the era of Bush’s foreign policy incompetency. Biden’s biggest flaw in my mind is that he thinks somehow the Bushies can straighten up and fly right – still. The cons, frankly, don’t see anything wrong with what theyre doing and believe that correcting course is admitting failure. The fact is they’d prefer to be “right” than save lives.
Even Joe can see which way the wind is blowing sometimes:
DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The worst possible thing we could do is what the Democrats are suggesting, and no matter how you carve it, you can call it anything you want, but basically, it is packing it in, going home, persuading and convincing and validating the theory that the Americans don’t have the stomach for this fight.
BLITZER: All right. You want to respond to the vice president, Senator Biden?
BIDEN: No, I don’t want to respond to him. He’s at 20 percent in the polls. No one listens to him. He has no credibility. It’s ridiculous.
from CNN via atrios: http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_06_25_atrios_archive.html#115125886883439187
and
A few minutes before the event was scheduled to begin at 11:00, word got out the Biden wasn’t going to show. The Lieberman folks explained that Senator Biden returned home from Iraq very late last night and then missed his train from DC to Stamford.
from:
http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2021