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BY | Monday, November 12 2007

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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
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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

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