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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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Someone Else's Child

Before Andrew Leonard's paean to paying taxes (inspired by his house catching fire) sparked me to write a different post on Friday, I'd intended to write a wrap-up post, comparing Mitt Romney's NAACP speech to Joe Biden's speech. Something Vice President Biden said in his speech reminded me of something else I heard from a speaker at the closing plenary of the Take Back the American Dream conference this year; something brings into focus the stark choice facing voters in November, and why the NAACP audience responded so differently to Romney and Biden.
Vice President Biden got to the meat of his speech right from the beginning.
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This is about more than any other office in the land, the presidency is about character - the character of your convictions, whether you put country above politics.
Vice President Biden merely paraphrased what the president has spelled out more explicitly in his speech to Congress about health care reform, and his speech in Tucson, AZ, following he shooting there that left six people