Our Man Joe Biden on the Tonight Show
Friday, March 23, 2007
With all the primaries jammed into that February 5th Super Duper Tuesday, the political process has been compromised, because now if you don't have $100 million going into '08, you can't buy enough TV time in the big states to compete. Whereas when Iowa and New Hampshire were the on-ramps to the national campaign, any good grass roots politician with a message and a personal touch could get on the map early enough to be a player by faring well in the two tiny bellwether states. Sadly, no more, and American politics is that much more about big money and name recognoition, that much less about ideas, ideology, and qualifications.But we still like Joe at APW. Check him on Leno.
Labels: Joe Biden, The politics
Posted by: --josh-- @ 1:18 PM
When did they move the primaries? and why? Noone tells us anything.
Girlfriend, you gots to watch you some more CNN. All the states are vying to be earlier in the process in order to have more say; Cal-ee-- FOUR-nee-ya (as pronounced by its governator) has moved to February 5 from June, making that state waymore important, and there are a ton of primaries that day; the nominations will likely be decided by February 6th.
Sorry, we've been busy being a 21st-Century woman...think they'll ever ratify an amendment to change the rule about an American President having to be born in this country? We don't want to advance the cause of President Shwarznegger or anything, but pretty soon an immigrant president will be a good idea for this country. Think that can happen?
Well, since President Soaring Eagle, they've pretty much all been immigrants, if you see what I mean... don't know if it will happen in out lifetime, because sentiment to change eligibility requirements for president are always associated with a person; that is, now Reps are in favor of the change because they have a guy, so the Dems would oppose; and if the Dems had a guy, vice versa. And ammending the constitution which I believe is what it would take) is no mean feat.
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