It may not help Joe Biden’s presidential bid, but it speaks to his stature as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Robert Novak reported that before either Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf or opposition leader Benazir Bhutto spoke to President Bush, each phoned Biden to discuss the deepening crisis in their country.
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It may not help his presidential bid, true, but it is often valuable for there to be a trusted person serving in the government not sitting in the White House for those from other countries to consult, and to act as a conduit of information to the administration. Not all issues of diplomacy need to be discussed under the bright lights always focused on the President, the Secretary of State, and others of high profile.
Senator Biden is filling an important role here, and the fact that President Musharraf and Ms Bhutto felt comfortable in discussing the problems in Pakistan with him IMHO speaks volumes.
Biden should be Secretry of State.
In fact, I think there would be a tremendous advantage to the presidential candidate who announced his/her choices (or perhaps a short list of potential nominees) for key Cabinet posts.
If, say, John Edwards were to express his admiration for a Biden as Secretary of State, a Wes Clark as Secretary of Defense… maybe an outside-the-box suggestion for Attorney General such as Morris Dees or Ralph Nader… we could get away from the cult of personality presidential elections deteriorate into.
Yes, we’re electing the *Chief* Executive, but not the *only* executive.
It’d probably be an asset for Edwards, who is running an essentially anti-Washington campaign. Approach the job in a different way, have even more members of the team to campaign more places.
Just a thought…
Either that or the two Pakistanis are hedging their bets and guessing that the next President will be of the Democratic Party and are hoping to line road with rose petals.
Biden just might become Sec State.
Nader, however, would be a loust choice for AG.
lousy – can’t type
Mark my words….Joe Biden will go from underdog in the primary to heavy favorite in the general election.
Powerful. Capturing. Truthful. Practical. Knowledegable.Respected (Domestically and Globally).Experienced. Accomplished. Electable.
Why are people looking anywhere else???
Andrew – unless he can find a way to break from the pack by January there is no way for that to happen.
Why do people want to vote for the canidate with the best chance to win? What kind of democracy is that? In fact its not. In our country, the way the media reports on the canidates, we don’t get a fair look. If you choose to feed on that by voting for the person the media tells you is most likely to win, just so your vote will “count”, then your vote didn’t count for anything democratic. Because if what people say cannot change your vote, your vote only counts to promote the status quo. And doing nothing but promoting the status quo is what kings do.
I submit that they just wanted an intelligent discussion, so of course they called biden before bush.
Interesting that BOTH sieds consulted with Biden.
Sen. Biden is a sharp guy, and as I have found him on several occasions, a good listener. The fact that Musharraf and Bhutto both called him is not that big of a surprise.