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To: John Carragher who wrote (4085)	7/31/2003 2:14:53 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793622

Those underpaid teachers in Philly don't seem to have any problem about getting people to apply for their job, do they? CBS POLITICS: Another Joe For President?: Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware continues looking, and sounding, like a potential addition to the field of Democratic presidential candidates. From his perch as ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden, who voted to give President Bush authorization for military action in Iraq last fall, is now emerging as a leading critic of the administration's Iraq policy. Earlier this week, he blasted Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a hearing on U.S. plans for post-war Iraq. On Thursday, Biden made a speech at the Brookings Institute in Washington in which he criticized neo-conservatives like Wolfowitz for their influence over Bush administration foreign policy. Setting himself up as the perfect leader in the middle, he also took a swipe at members of his own party "who haven?t yet faced the reality of the post-9-11 world and believe we can only exercise power if we act multilaterally." "There?s a war being waged in Washington to determine the direction of our foreign policy," Biden said in remarks prepared for delivery. "In my view, the stakes are too high and the opportunities too great to conduct foreign policy at the extremes." Of the neo-cons, Biden said, "They seem to have captured the heart and mind of the president and they?re controlling the foreign policy agenda. They put a premium on the use of unilateral power and have a set of basic prescriptions with which I fundamentally disagree." Biden continued, saying "the neo-cons and the knee-jerk multilateralists are both dead wrong. What we need isn?t the death of internationalism or the denial of stark national interest, but a more enlightened nationalism, one that finally allows us to use military force, without apology or apprehension if we have to, but does not allow us to be so blinded by the overwhelming power of our armed forces that we fail to see the benefit of sharing the risks and sharing the costs with others? In addition to policy speeches at Washington think tanks, Biden is reportedly taking a few concrete steps toward running. Sources tell CBS News that Biden, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988, has been making money calls for a possible repeat bid. He?ll need more than he thought following the arrest earlier this month of his longtime Delaware aide, Roger Blevins III, for allegedly embezzling the $350,000 leftover in Biden?s Senate re-election account, which could have been a nice nest egg for a presidential bid. Biden has just $7,000 in his coffers now. cbsnews.com