Friday, November 21, 2008 | 11:27 p.m.

"Change," "Hope" . . . Why, They Must Be Talking About Joe Biden!

by Alexander Cockburn

"Change" and "hope" are not words one associates with Sen. Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about our political system that a computer simulation of the corporate-political paradigm senator in Congress would turn out "Biden" in a nanosecond.

The first duty of any senator from Delaware is to do the bidding of the banks and large corporations that use the tiny state as a drop box and legal sanctuary. Biden has ...

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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #1
Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:19 PM

Well, I guess the conundrum is how to get someone pure enough to meet with your approval anywhere near the helm. Don't get me wrong Cockburn--the facts you report fill a significant void in the fantasy land of political commentary, but they don't offer much of a solution to problems we have in the hard, cold world of reality. You have to work with what you've got, and human DNA just doesn't seem to be built to support the kind of perfection you demand.

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