Positive: Juan Cole.
Not: Colonel Patrick Lang.
Both men report their personal encounters, specifically re: Biden's Middle East stance. Col. Lang emailed me privately that his encounter happened in about 1996 or so. Let's hope that Biden has or will evolve on the subject of Israel/Palestine and ...
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... is (drumroll): Make up your minds!
This descriptor has been applied to too many groups, making it overused and tired. According to Kerry's former campaign manager, the Catholics will determine the outcome of the US presidential election. Ergo, Biden is a good VP choice and an asset to the D...
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Amira Al Hussaini
· 3:08 am
· Canada · Croatia · Cuba · India · Iran · Iraq · Israel · Thailand
First, there was a lot of speculation. Then the world got its answer in 3am SMS text messages this morning. Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden, the Delaware Senator, as his running mate in the race to the White House. Here's a quick review of what bloggers from around the world have to say about the selection - and how it will impact their countries' relations with the US should the pair make it to the Oval Office.
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I’m guessing it’ll be less than 48 hours before scandals or scrutinies (real or imaginary) of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Biden are jammed into our faces.
Here are three I guarantee will come out of the gates early:
Military service record: At the height of the Vietnam war in 1...
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The newly anointed Democratic VP hopeful Joe Biden conducted an interview in 2007 with “Shalom TV”, a mainstream Jewish cable television network:
During the interview conducted by the Jewish ‘Shalom TV’ Biden said, “I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” He als...
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I am totally stoked that Obama’s Vice President is Senator Joseph Biden. I have known Biden and his wonderful aides, Dennis Toner and Ted Kauffman for years. Biden is considered the third senator from Pennsylvania, my home state. I worked on his 1988 campaign for president.
Dennis, in fact, ga...
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John Liebhardt
· 6:08 am
· Cuba · Egypt · Israel · Lebanon · New Zealand
Since the former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extra-marital affair, bloggers from around the world following the story have largely focused on two major issues: First, the sad irony of a politician having an affair while his wife, Elizabeth, fights breast cancer; Secondly, the role the mainstream press played in keeping the story silent.
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John Liebhardt
· 3:45 pm
· Ethiopia · Israel · Kenya · Liberia · Rwanda · Senegal · South Africa · Sudan · Tanzania
It’s difficult to keep Bill Clinton out of the spotlight. Whether it was helping his wife, Hillary, campaign for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States or, most recently, his decision to get back to work on the Clinton Foundation, which works around the world to diminish greenhouse gasses, pushing low-cost drugs for those suffering from HIV/AIDS and battling childhood obesity. He most recently made news for a recent six-day trip to Africa took him to Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia and Senegal.
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· 3:35 pm
· Israel · Kuwait · Palestine
Earlier this week three Palestinians, recipients of prestigious Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States, had their visas revoked by the US, preventing them from taking up the scholarships. A fourth, a high-school student on a separate programme, was also stopped. Yet two and a half months ago, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had personally intervened to make sure that the grant winners would be able to go. Why the last-minute change of heart? Bloggers from around the Middle East have a number of theories.
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