Beau Biden, Joe Biden’s son, introduced his father to the Democratic Convention. Below is the text of the speech he gave.
The party was unified and happy leaving Boston in 2004. The difference between this year and four years ago is that many of us voted against George Bush rather than for John Kerry. When casting our ballot this year many will be voting for Barack Obama.
The question many undecided voters ask is can Obama lead? They point to his time as community organiser and state legislator as not being ready for national office because the ultimate choice must run a multi-trillion dollar US economy in some trouble.
Many will deride your selection as ‘old politics as usual’ but from this chair you bring more straight talk than McCain now seems capable of doing as well as balance, compassion, every day common sense and gravitas to the ticket. You also can be a pit bull when needed capable of gnawing a leg or [...]
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]
The media’s pack of baying wolves have been camped outside the doors of three people for the last 72-hours wondering who is The One? In one of the most extraordinarily disciplined news management efforts of equal parts anticipation and teasing, the families of Indiana’s Evan Bayh, Virginia’s Tim Kaine and Delaware’s Joe Biden are sequestered [...]
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