Slow Joe" is in.
Slamming Bush, Biden declares candidacy
UNION LEADER
By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter
9 hours, 39 minutes ago
Bedford – After more than 30 years in the United States Senate and nearly 20 years after his first try for his party's Presidential nomination, Joseph Biden has no doubts about making another run for the White House.
"I'm in," the Delaware Democrat said Friday as he began a five-day visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state.
"I know I'm supposed to hedge, but I'm in."
Biden dropped out of the 1988 nomination race amid allegations of plagiarism. He then suffered a cerebral aneurysm virtually on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.
He recalls being given a 30 percent chance of surviving.
"I'm lucky," he said. "I'm a respecter of fate. But barring something like that happening to me or my family, I am in."
Biden said he won't be surprised if, as the fourth longest-serving member of the Senate, he's labeled the "consummate insider."
But, he said, the label doesn't really apply.
Biden, 63, realizes that among the hard left activists in his party, his stance on the Iraq war — to stay and fight until the job is done — is unpopular. But he is asking for their trust that a "neo-isolationist" foreign policy is the worst possible alternative for the country at this point in history.
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