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...killed Joseph Biden's presidential campaign? The Delaware Senator, announcing last week that he "will stop being a candidate" for the Democratic nomination, singled out one person. Said he: "I'm angry with myself for having . . . put myself in ((this)) position." Indeed, he could hardly blame anyone else for passing off the eloquent words of other politicians as his own and thus starting the media furor that drove him out of the race...
...Biden stupidly loaded a metaphoric gun and pointed it at his forehead, he had help in pulling the trigger. It certainly was not Biden who alerted the press to those unattributed word-for-word quotations, and it strains credulity to think that reporters for two influential newspapers just happened to discover them simultaneously at the precise moment when the Senator was about to make his big bid for national attention by presiding over hearings on the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court...
...make the transition from living under authority to becoming authority yourself without breaking loose for a while, as Joe Biden knew. And besides, danger...
...American public is very traditional, and in times of crisis, such as during the Iran-Contra hearings, traditional values take greater prominence," said Jan C. Smith, assistant to Marttila and Kiley Consultants, Biden's political consultants. "But the expectations that people have about candidates are too strong and too burdensome...
...significant part of Dukakis's support comes from his ability to prove himself in other candidate's home turf, Goldman said. "Biden was predicted to raise the most money, but Dukakis eventually did, Gephardt was supposed to get the majority of labor support, but both [candidates] are closely battling [for the labor vote], and Babitt was expected to get the Hispanic vote in the South, but Dukakis came in, spoke a few words of Spanish, and walked away with a straw poll victory," Goldman said...