Biden Seeks Moral High Ground
EmailABC News’ Brian Wheeler reports: Senator Joe Biden made an impassioned plea this evening for Democrats to try and recapture the moral high ground over the Republican party, which has dominated the public debate on the topic for at least the last two presidential elections.
Speaking at the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Biden, a practicing Catholic, relayed a story about how after recently attending church in Council Bluffs, a parishoner confronted him claiming Republicans were more moral than Democrats.
Tonight the Senator said he asked the man, "Didn’t we all just hear the same Gospel?" When the man confirmed they had, Biden said he replied, "I don’t remember hearing that part in the Gospel that says waterboarding and torture is ok! I don’t remember hearing that part!"
The crowd began to clap as Biden continued. "I don’t remember hearing the part, sending our boys and girls to war without the proper equipment, I don’t remember if that’s moral!" More applause, and by this time Biden was fairly howling. "I don’t remember where it’s moral bringing our troops home and not taking care of them! I don’t know where that’s moral!"
The Senator told the crowd they could count on him to fight back when Republicans tried to claim the moral high ground as they had done, with great success, in recent elections.
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Biden has it right. Was the invasion of Iraq (no real threat to the US) “moral high ground”? Bush may claim to be a born again Christian (& may well even believe it), but his actions have been anything but Christ-like. Also consider: aren’t Huckabee & former AG Ashcroft cut from the same cloth? Huckabee might well be a sincere, moral man, but one with quite insufficient qualifications to be President. Jimmy Carter was a sincere, moral man, but was a disaster as President.
Posted by: Bob Moon | December 30, 2007, 2:46 am 2:46 am
Biden should be the next President
Posted by: FV | December 30, 2007, 3:14 am 3:14 am
Joe Biden as chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee failed to address the genocide in Africa in the 90s effectively because it was not in our national interest (maybe they were not European in blood line enough for you Joe). Joe Biden stated he worked closely with the Clinton administration for eight years with regards to foreign policy (God love him) but the Clinton administration’s foreign policies were considered laughable by most foreign policy experts around the world at the time as they are in hind sight. An use of a moral compass which Richardson advocates will take us down a road with no regrets, no failures, no occupations, or no genocide of people unlike the foreign policy tenure of Senator Joe Biden as chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Posted by: threeriverscrossing | December 30, 2007, 3:29 am 3:29 am
….for Democrats to try AND recapture the moral high ground…..should be ….try TO recapture….a common mistake.
Posted by: Brian | December 30, 2007, 4:06 am 4:06 am
Has Biden dropped his campaign hjopes and started anew career as a stand up comic?
Posted by: jangleling | December 30, 2007, 5:25 am 5:25 am
Republicans are funny. They think Jesus is a white guy in a 3-piece suit carrying a brief case and packing heat. They like to believe that He is blessing them for discriminating and waging war against everyone who isn’t a white evangelical conservative.
What’s really funny is that he wouldn’t even be allowed in their churches if he came today. He would have to shower and shave, and get a hair cut too.
They proclaim to love Him, yet they have no problem discriminating and advocating violence against those who are of different religions.
They believe in a new cult religion called prosperity preaching, and ignore the passages in the Bible where Christ EXPLICITLY preached against a love of money and power. Christ could have come as anyone, yet He chose to come into this world as a homeless pauper. Joseph and Mary made Christ an illegal, going to Egypt to avoid persecution. Republicans have fallen sway to all of the things that Christ warned against.
I wonder what their answer will be when God asks them the question: “What did you do for the least of your brethren?”
I don’t think He will like the answer of “We couldn’t help the poor because we wanted to build you magnificent temples so you could see how much we love you.”
Posted by: John | December 30, 2007, 8:06 am 8:06 am
Joe Biden has the experience and the statesmanship so desperately lacking in the anointed front runners…Mrs C’s baggage with her own highly questionable past is aside from her total lack of the experience she claims…C’mon Iowa, do us all a favor and caucus for Biden…
Posted by: John Shea | December 30, 2007, 9:33 am 9:33 am
Joe Biden? He’s the one nailed for plagerism last time he ran for president.
As for his little speech? It’s a typical liberal “feelings trumps logic and common sense” with a few of the regular lefty lies thrown in.
It’s enough to know that of the three presidential candidates on the left, one is a thief who tried to steal furniture and art the last time she was in the WH, another one was involved in a shady real estate deal and has the middle name of HUSSEIN, also rumored to be a Muslim and to have attended a Madrassa, and the third is an abulance chaser who gets $400.00 haircuts yet runs on his pledge to help the poor.
No doubt that with the horrible on national defense liberals and their do nothoing Congress, we will see the Republicans make a clean sweep in 2008.
Posted by: joev | December 30, 2007, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Will somebody please ask Rush to give this guys his brains back ?
Posted by: TYSPOCK | December 30, 2007, 11:12 am 11:12 am
Biden’s is a liberal’s understanding of proper church-state relations: no church in politics, but politics in the church.
Posted by: John L Romjue | December 30, 2007, 11:28 am 11:28 am
The ignorance of some people just speaks volumes! To begin with, Joe Biden doesn’t “howl.” Only someone with an agenda of his own would have written that.
Joe didn’t plagerise anything. He mistakenly omitted to give credit one time, although he had always done so before, and there happened to be a Dukakis operative there who taped it and sent it out to lots of media people. This guy was later fired and apologized, but the damage was done. Joe accepts the responsibility that he had not been well prepared that day and sort of inserted that speech, which he had used elsewhere, and forgot to accredit it. IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL! GET OVER IT!
Joe Biden is as honest as the day is long. He is the second poorest senator, after 35 years there, during which time he has never accepted money from corporations or special interest groups. He doesn’t think it is right to profit from being in public office. He’s true middle class – heavy on the “Class.”
He has steadfastly supported our troops and fought for the funds needed to produce Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAPS)vehicles when the other Democratic presidential candidates were backing away from supporting the troops. He did this regardless of the political consequences to himself.
YOU MIGHT EVEN CALL THAT MORAL HIGH GROUND!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | December 30, 2007, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
Biden’s the only candidate that has the foreign policy credentials, and demonstrated leadership to take on the problems we all face. He brought together bipartisan support in the Senate for a real plan to end the war in Iraq He has earned my vote and my support.
Posted by: Stacy Shaw | December 30, 2007, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
Let’s hope Iowan’s don’t fall for media hype of the anointed front runners. Why is it that all of the news reports only on the names of the three people they have preselected? Joe Biden is getting scant attention for a person with the established record of statesmanship and service to our country. Same applies to Dodd, who also far outpaces the top three names in terms of actual experience.
Posted by: John Shea | December 30, 2007, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
Anyone who believes that any GOP candidate has a prayer of winning must be praying in the Church where Bill Clinton taught Barack Obama how to immitate Martin Luther King, while John Edwards robbed the collection plate.
Biden will win this thing hands down.
Posted by: S J Fallon | December 31, 2007, 3:09 am 3:09 am
Amen, Biden! Anyone claiming that Republicans are more moral is out of their mind.
Posted by: Chris | January 2, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm