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Hillary Obama Appointment May Depend On Bill

Bill Clinton's business activities will come under scrutiny if Hillary wants to take the Secretary of State job. Just a... more

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Brothers-In-Law Cuomo, Kennedy Could Vie to Replace Clinton in Senate

Aides close to Senator Hillary Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama say that the former First Lady ’s appointment to... more

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Bill's Foreign Deals May Pose Issue For Clinton As Secretary Of State

Former US president Bill Clinton’s business deals and fund raising for his foundation sometimes put his activities at odds... more

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Republicans praise idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State

(CNN) — Republicans praised the prospect of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday. Former Nixon and Ford Secretary of... more

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Clinton Considered for Secretary of State

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state,... more

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Hillary Clinton Casts Ballot for Obama | NBC New York

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cast her vote for Barack Obama, saying, "Voters have understood we need a serious president... more

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Confession of an Obama Blogger

Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. I work for the campaign and cant wait for this week to be over. The internal... more

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Bill and Hillary campaign

Bill and HIllary ask for volunteers, votes, and contributions.

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Revolution 08

Coldcut vs TV Sheriff "Revolution '08" Music Video

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During visit to Hawaii Obama met with Ahmadinejad

Russian Military Intelligence reports to Prime Minister Putin today are stating that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has... more

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Attack on Syria by Blackwater because of Secret meeting between Obama | Cherada.com

Russian Military Analysts are reporting today that the destabilization of United States Government has reached levels not seen... more

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Poll: Powell endorsement carries weight

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A poll indicated that a presidential endorsement by former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell would... more

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Clinton's rejoinder: JOBS, BABY, JOBS!!

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of "drill, baby, drill." Said the... more

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Sarah Palin Steals Hillary Clinton's Line

Sarah Palin steals one of Hillary Clinton's strongest lines of the primary.

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In some states, it's not too late to register to VOTE!

Do it. And send this reminder to 5 friends. Thank you.

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Offensive? Walgreens pulls election dolls from shelves

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Election-year novelty dolls of Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton have been ordered off the... more

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biden shot at .................. ..... why was hillary taken down for similiar story?

Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about... more

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The ACORN Obama Knows

If you don't know what ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you better bone up.... more

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Why should anyone trust Joe Biden?

Joseph Robinette Biden – known to all as "Joe" – was once the most talked about American politician in Britain. Unfortunately for the senior Delaware Senator, all the talk was accompanied by incredulous laughter. As part of his Presidential campaign 20 years ago, he lifted verbatim and without attribution Neil Kinnock's celebrated remarks: "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to a University ... was it because all our predecessors were thick, those people who could work eight hours underground and then come up to play football?"

Biden told an audience at an Iowa fairground: "I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden's the first in his family ever to go to University ... is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright... who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football?"

Note the overt claim to spontaneity at the outset of the plagiarism; but it wasn't just that which left his run for the Presidency buried under an avalanche of ridicule. It rapidly emerged that Biden was not the first member of his family to go to university, and that the closest any ancestral Bidens came to working underground was a grandfather who was a mining engineer – and during the campaign Biden also told a number of gratuitous untruths about his own academic record.

It would be very difficult for a politician in this country to be taken seriously ever again, after such a humiliation; but Americans are a more forgiving people, and so Biden was able to entertain them once again during the current race for the White House. Thus last year he declared that his then rival, Barack Obama, was "not yet ready for the Presidency", which was not a post suitable for "on-the-job training", but graciously acknowledged: " I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Other African-American politicians were hardly amused by the imputation that they were not "clean", and I don't suppose Obama himself was grateful. Still, the Illinois Senator was happy to choose Biden as his vice-presidential running-mate, for several reasons. He is not married to Bill Clinton; he has a strong following among white blue-collar voters, which Obama desperately needs; above all, he is said to have the experience which Obama lacks – he has been a Senator for 36 years and is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

d.lawson@independent.co.uk

Joseph Robinette Biden – known to all as "Joe" – was once the most talked about American politician in... more