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BY | Monday, November 12 2007
We're almost there! We are just $7,370 dollars short of our goal to raise $500,000 by November 16. With the backing of supporters like you around the country, we're not only going to meet this goal, we're going to smash through it. As someone who has not made a contribution to our campaign yet, I'm asking for your help to put us over the top. A contribution of $10 or $15 dollars is all it takes to help us take our message to voters. Put us over the top. Click here to give $10 or $15 to our campaign today: https://secure.ga3.org/03/joebiden/nx73RJFnqhPcv? I wish everyone reading this email could see the response we are getting from crowds as we campaign across Iowa and other early voting states. Below, we're including just a sample of the press we've received in just the past few days. Please join the thousands of people who have become first-time contributors to my campaign by giving today. Thank you for your support, Joe Biden TIME Magazine's Jay Carney: Joe Biden issued a short statement today through his Senate office about his telephone conversation withPakistan President Pervez Mursharraf. It was a real-world example of what Biden is constantly trying to tell voters on the hustings and in the debates (on the rare occasion he's asked a question): to wit, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the committee for many years, Biden has a breadth and depth of experience in the actual practice of diplomacy that no other candidate can rival. http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2007/11/candidate_commits_real_acts_of.html?xid=rss-swampland Iowa Blogger Dien Judge: The Biden event at Taso's in Osky was quite full. He is a very engaging campaigner, and I think everyone who attends a Biden event will give him very serious consideration as their choice in the caucuses. His strength is definitely growing, even though polls don't show it. He is the kind of candidate that will surprise people on caucus night. http://smokyhollow.blogspot.com/2007/11/few-campaign-photos-from-past-week.html The Nation's John Nichols: In the blood-sport competition for the presidency, Biden's flair for finding the GOP jugular ought to count for something among Democrats who grumble about their last two nominees' failure to play offense. Of an old breed of Democrats who fought their way out of the back rooms of urban East Coast politics, Biden beat an entrenched Republican to enter the Senate, held his seat during GOP landslide years, used his Judiciary Committee chairmanship in the 1980s to block some of Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominees and corporate-sponsored tort "reform," and not only wrote the Violence Against Women Act but got it reauthorized by two Republican-led Congresses. Biden is best understood as a relatively rare political archetype: a Democrat who pays less attention to internal party politics than to winning elections and governing. This skill makes him the one Democrat Republicans feel compelled not merely to attack but to answer. That's because Biden has so far been the one Democrat who has consistently understood the importance of taking the fight to the other guys. http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071126&s=nichols Columnist Nat Hentoff: ...he should stand out, to begin with, because since 1991, while serving in the Senate, Joseph Biden has been an adjunct professor of constitutional law at the Wilmington, Del., campus of Widener Law School. Our Constitution is not broken. It is, however, being continually fractured by the Bush administration. Especially important, therefore, is for the next president to deeply understand how we can and must be safe from terrorism while remaining a free people under the rule of law, not according to whoever occupies the White House. Mr. Biden is that candidate. Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Courage is the secret of liberty." Mr. Biden has the constitutional knowledge and courage to both keep our liberties intact while acting within our laws to combat our terrorist enemies.... it's not too late to have the Liberty Bell ring again on Election Day for this professor of constitutional law, who is a forceful spokesman on why we are Americans. And in the crucial field of foreign policy, Joseph Biden's hands-on experience is far beyond his competitors on both sides. http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071112/EDITORIAL07/111120001/1013/EDITORIAL Shailagh Murray, Washington Post: Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) isn't president just yet. But he's practicing this week on Pakistan. In a speech today at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Biden criticized President Bush for mishandling the current political crisis and called for a change of approach in dealing with Pakistan. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/11/08/post_188.html Paid for by Biden for President, Inc. -------------------------------------------------- Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. http://ga3.org/join-forward.html?domain Long message truncated by MailBucket.