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Joe Biden steps up for Obama The energized vice-presidential candidate uses Saturday's rally to chain John McCain to George W. Bush and propel the Democratic ticket toward the convention.
  • Above-average Joe

    If the worst thing people can find to say about Joe Biden is that he plagiarized a paper 43 years ago and that he gave a stump speech which in all instances but one he credited to Neil Kinnock, that's a pretty weak case.

    Teddy Kennedy was expelled twice from Harvard for cheating on tests, Martin Luther King was accused of plagiarizing part of his doctoral dissertation and Barack Obama gave a speech very similar to one given by Massachusetts Gov. Duval Patrick.

    Do any of those instances matter to average people worried about losing their homes, their jobs, their health care or their family members in Iraq and Afghanistan? Not in my neighborhood.

    The Bible says "By their deeds you shall know them" and Joe Biden has one hell of a lot of good deeds one can point to.

    I am a Clinton supporter but I don't think the veep job would be a good fit for her.

    If somebody wants to argue that there was a better vice presidential candidate, why not talk about that person's strengths instead of what you perceive as Biden's weaknesses. What name would you have been happy to hear?

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