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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (40426)8/19/2008 10:56:09 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) of 224744
 
Not so Moderate Biden:

Remember This When MSM Calls Biden a Moderate

By Mark Finkelstein | August 19, 2008

If Barack Obama is looking for an elder statesman with national security credentials as his running mate, my two cents say he should pick Sam Nunn. The conventional wisdom, though, has Obama leaning toward Joe Biden. If the senior senator from Delaware is indeed tapped, we can expect that mere milliseconds will elapse before some MSM outlet labels Biden a "moderate" or a "centrist."

We thought it might be useful to do a little prophylactic exploration of the Biden record. Given his long tenure in the Senate, he's earned literally hundreds of interest-group ratings over the years. But here is a representative sample, as culled from the invaluable Project Vote Smart. Although his "grades" have of course varied from year to year, overall we find—surprise!—that Biden is a garden-variety liberal.

NARAL - A [2006]
National Right to Life Committee - 0% [2005-06]
National Taxpayers Union - F [2007]
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