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Biden, Joseph R. (1942–)

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August 25, 2008 Barack Obama announced Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
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Information Week

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The Washington Post

August 24, 2008The Obama campaign denied that there was anything wrong with Biden's signing a 2005 bill that eliminated many bankruptcy protections for consumers after Biden's lobbyist son Hunter was retained for $100,000 a year by the financial-services giant MBNA, employees of which have donated $214,000 to Biden over the years.
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The New York Times


November 2009

FINAL EDITION
Twilight of the American Newspaper
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