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Bush tax cuts are the root of our budget problems.
But don’t expect the senior senator from America’s corporate tax haven – home to half of the New York and American Stock Exchange listed companies – to promise to root out corporate America’s undue influence in Washington.
This isn’t Biden’s first run for the presidency. His last was cut short by his shortcomings.
In the fall of 1987, at a small gathering for him in Claremont, New Hampshire, Biden responded to a softball question about his academic background and law school ranking with an offer to compare IQs with the questioner.
I guess it could have been worse.
Then Biden boasted that he graduated at the top of his class at Syracuse University Law, which turned out to be a hundred or so spots away from the truth. C-SPAN was there taping, capturing the very moment that was the beginning of the end for Biden 88
Tragically, just before the New Hampshire primary, Biden suffered a brain aneurysm.
His doctors gave him a 30 percent chance to pull through – and he did. With another chance at life and some newly acquired hair plugs, he went back to work in the US Senate, where he’s been ever since.