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Article: Joebama; Lexington.(What does Joe Biden bring to the Barack Obama ticket?)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2008
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Joe Biden brings both strengths and weaknesses to the Democratic ticket
HIS first run for the presidency collapsed, in 1987, after a bizarre act of plagiarism. Bizarre because Joe Biden not only borrowed the words of another politician, Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party. That is par for the course in modern politics. He borrowed his life-story, too. He claimed that he was the first Biden to go to university and that his ancestors had worked down a coal mine, both untrue. The only thing he did not claim was to be Welsh.
This was doubly damaging because Mr Biden, like the man whose identity he tried to purloin, is a notorious wind-bag. ...