Biden on Front Page of Concord Monitor!!!

[1corona4u]

Holy crap! Some great exposure!!!!

Today's (12/19) Concord Monitor has a front-page story by Ethan Wilensky-Lanford about Senator Biden, an outgrowth of his meeting with Monitor editors and reporters earlier in the week. What jumps out about Biden, again, is his incredible knowledge and understanding of world affairs, and in particular, his ideas of what we as a country should be doing to enhance our own standing and interests in the world.

Biden offers simple, no nonsense solutions to complex problems. He's the only candidate who's offered a specific plan for Iraq, which the Senate finally approved overwhelmingly a couple of months ago. The situation in Iraq is developing along the lines that Biden has proposed.

Biden's plan for health care is not for what is commonly called universal coverage, which is something not likely to pass Congress in the next few years, regardless of what other candidates promise. Biden would provide universal coverage for all children and for catastrophic medical events, which he says can be done for only $50 billion and which is supported by most Americans. If most Americans support it, it can get through Congress. That makes it a campaign promise that can be kept.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/primaryvoices/2007/12/biden_on_front_page_of_monitor.html

http://www.concordmonitor.com/

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. (LOL I assumed you were talking about your computer monitor.) That's good news.

[1corona4u]

2. Ok, I edited it, LOL..

to add Concord.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. "Biden stresses complexities "

Biden stresses complexities
Senator talks foreign policy at 'Monitor'


Democratic presidential candidates hold a short-sighted, simplistic view of how to solve problems abroad, Sen. Joe Biden said earlier this week. Moreover, he said, the view resembles that of the current administration.

Bush and most of Biden's competitors for the presidential nomination in his party share the tendency, he said, to view each problem abroad in "splendid isolation." Biden called this view "incredibly naïve" while speaking Monday to editors and reporters at the Concord Monitor. He said that the world has changed since the 1990s and that America's credibility abroad has suffered under an administration that has failed to consider other countries' viewpoints.

Several times, the Bush administration could have better protected America's interests by working harder to reach a consensus with its allies, he said. If the president had brokered an agreement with Turkey to allow troop passage before invading Iraq, Biden said, the domestic insurgency that followed Baghdad's fall could have been stymied. If the president had established a policy toward Russia with Europe when President Vladimir Putin began to move toward authoritarianism, his rise could have been curtailed. And if Bush would endorse Biden's plan to support local governance in Iraq, the country could stabilize.

"We don't try to connect the dots," he said. "There has been a tendency to think you can deal, in isolation, with single countries." (snip)

[Think82]

4. kickin' for joe

[Tashca]

5. Great news!!

I am so glad to see this kind of coverage. Finally the press is catching onto this campaign.
His experience in world affairs that this article mentions......is the main reason I first looked at Joe. The more I look.....the more I like!!!

[gateley]

6. "Simple no-nonsense solutions to complex problems".

He's learned you can't just yank the tablecloth out from under the place settings and just have the plates settle gently back on the table without breaking.

His health care approach is an excellent example. Step one is DOABLE - and doesn't re-invent the wheel. We could immediately begin working on health care for every single child in the country, and every single citizen would be covered for catastrophic illness. Two important needs addressed with out much wait to implement them.

THEN we could work toward a universal health care program, which we've learned from our friend in Canada, took YEARS for them to implement.

I'm afraid with some of the other plans, no agreement could be reached, and it will end up with NOTHING being accomplished. Kind of like with Biden's plan for Iraq. He submitted a workable, doable plan and they keep going back and forth arguing and meanwhile PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING KILLED.

He's given much thought and attention how to actually ACHIEVE our goals. We need to start taking ACTION.

[PatSeg]

7. And as a DU'er here from Canada explained

it took three decades for them to get to where they are now on healthcare. This does not happen overnight. It starts with the first steps and progresses from there. I have no doubt that we can do it in less time than three decades, but we have to keep our objectives realistic and as you say "doable".

[Think82]

8. They seem to really like Biden. Has the paper endorsed, yet?

[1corona4u]

9. Not that I'm aware...