"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis. Read more
Let me throw some ponderous thoughts into the mix.
There's quite a lengthy article today at The New Yorker which explains how Palin got into the halls of Capitol Hill by way of their back doors. In "The Insiders : How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin", we have a shrewd and ambitious woman using every little stepping stone she can to get herself out of her "small town state" and into the big scene of Washington DC.
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