http://www.metafilter.com/tags/January20CountDown Posts tagged with 'January20CountDown' at MetaFilter. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:12:27 -0800 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:12:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74339/Biden%2DWins%2DVeepstakes <strong>VP newsfilter</strong> (because someone’s got to do it) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/us/politics/24biden.html">The Times</a> just confirmed that</a> the <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/">Obama Campaign</a> has chosen Delaware’s 65-year-old Senator <a href="http://biden.senate.gov/senator/">Joe Biden</a> as the presumptive nominee’s Vice Presidential running mate. With decades of <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121919956426355701.html">foreign policy experience</a> (including a recent <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/18/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4360945.shtml">stint</a> in <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7567078.stm">war-torn Georgia</a>), and as the Chairman of the <a href="http://foreign.senate.gov/">Senate Foreign Relations Committee</a>, can Biden help pull the ticket out of a <a href="http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/08/battleground_poll_mccain_1.html">neck</a> and <a href="">neck</a> tie with Senator <a href="http://www.johnmccain.com">John McCain</a> Biden twice underwent surgery for <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968383,00.html">brain aneurysms</a> in 1988. He fully recovered. Oh yeah, he's also been called a <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/04/opinion/op-chait4">gaff</a> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/joseph-biden.htm">machine</a>. While David Brooks is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html">in favor</a>, some other dude <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2008/08/biden_not_the_faith-based_answ.html">is not</a> "He was just another Joe, Bidin' his time...." tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74339 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:12:27 -0800 BarackObama economy ForeignPolicyCred January20CountDown JoeBiden JohnMcCain PresidentialCampaign2008 VicePresident punkbitch