After reading Turkana's I am starting to detest Candidate-bashing diaries, I decided to cross post the following from My Silver State - Nevada's progressive community blog. This diary is the first in a eight part series.
It seems the more likely it is a Democrat will win the White House in 2008, the more pathetic, vitriolic and utterly dispicable the attacks on the various Democratic candidates become - from other Democrats. It's become absolutely impossible to write anything on the presidential race around the blogosphere without being attacked or accused of only wanting to advance your candidate.
Therefore, I have decided to write eight diaries here at My Silver State on the eight Democratic presidential candidates and what I like about them. I'm posting the diaries in alphabetical order and my views are totally subjective and in no particular order.
What I like about Joe Biden:
* his superb performances at the debates
* his knowledge of foreign policy
* his plan for Iraq
* that Jack Carter supports him
* his strong stance on education
* that he raised his sons as a single parent for five years after his wife and daughter died in a car accident
* that he commutes to and from the Senate daily using public transportation
* his smackdown of Rudy Giuliani over his obsessive use of 9/11 as a campaign tool
That's my take. What do you like about Joe Biden?