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Biden Vs. Giuliani: Round III

The contender

The presidential campaign for Senator Joe Biden has released a new video concerning current Republican frontrunner former mayor Rudy Giulani’s foreign policy experience. From the email to their supporters:

Round 3. Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani took another cheap swipe at Joe Biden in a morning press conference. But later in the day, Joe Biden again showed why he is far and away the best candidate to take on Republicans next year.

While casually walking down the street in New Hampshire and eating a sandwich, Senator Biden completely and utterly blew Giuliani’s national security credentials out of the water.

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“Rudy was saying that Clinton and Obama weren’t qualified on foreign policy. And here’s a man who several months ago said, in a public statement reported in the New York Times, ‘I don’t know who’s further ahead on nuclear weapons, Iran or Korea.’”

In case you missed the earlier rounds initiated by Biden at the Devil’s night Philidelphia Democratic presidential debate, let’s catch you up to speed.
Round 1:

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Round 1

Clearly the best line of the night.

Giuliani’s communications director, Katie Levinson, responded quickly with a statement. Round 2:

“Senator Biden’s comments were of particular interest. The good Senator is quite correct that there are many differences between Rudy and him. For starters, Rudy rarely reads prepared speeches and when he does he isn’t prone to ripping off the text from others. And, Senator Biden certainly falls in to the bucket of those on the stage tonight who have never had executive experience and have never run anything. Wait, I take that back, Senator Biden has never run anything but his mouth.

“Such a desperate attack from Senator Biden is to be expected considering I – Katie Levinson – have a better chance of becoming President than he does.”

When communication directors describe their opponent’s condemnations as a “desperate attack” it often means that the attack was a success. Biden clearly made a caricature out of the former New York mayor to the chagrin of the Giuliani camp.

With most of the post-devil’s night talk circling around Hillary Clinton’s supposed fumbled stance on illegal immigrants receiving driver’s licenses, sadly Biden’s praised performance and magical moment turned into the B-story of the debate.

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Democratic hopefuls dig into a chink in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s armor

With respect to Sen. Chris Dodd, Clinton did not say she agreed it made sense during her initial answer. Clinton described the reasoning behind New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s plan. What she did say she believed in was refocusing on immigration reform. Only on the follow up question by moderator Tim Russert did she say “It makes a lot of sense”. But that’s all sematics.

And while some erroneously believe Clinton’s chances have lowered due to the scuffle, interestingly enough Clinton is now gaining in the polls following the debate.

The clear loser at the Democratic debate was Giuliani. And picking a fight with the GOP frontrunner bumps Biden toward the top tier, especially with the assault emanating from Biden’s strength against Giuliani’s clear weakness. The Democrats might be infighting and Clinton’s character might be a bit smudged, but Giuliani was clearly the clown of the evening.