Topic: 2008 US Presidential Election
Xinhuanet Washington, November 4 th (Yang Qingchuan, Wang Wei) The preliminary statistics of the presidential election on the 4 th announced by the US media show that it is a foregone conclusion that the Democratic vice presidential candidate and Delaware Senator Joe Biden will be elected as the next vice president of the United States.
Biden was born in November 1942 in a middle-class family in Pennsylvania, USA. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and the Law School of Syracuse University in 1968. Biden worked as a lawyer for a while and then went into politics. In 1972, Biden was elected to the Senate for the first time and became one of the youngest senators in American history.
However, just a few weeks after Biden was elected to the Senate, his wife and youngest daughter were killed in a car accident and their two sons were seriously injured. This heavy blow almost crushed Biden. Persuaded by colleagues and friends, he decided to take office in the Senate. Since then, Biden has been re-elected as a senator. He used to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and is now the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He has rich political experience, especially in the diplomatic field. He is also a part-time law professor at the university.
Despite Biden’s influence in Congress, his two presidential campaigns ended in failure.
Public opinion believes that Obama’s choice of Biden as his running mate can make up for his lack of experience in political and foreign affairs.
Biden is regarded as a moderate liberal of the Democratic Party. He voted for the Bush administration to launch the Iraq war, but later admitted that it was a mistake and has been calling for an early timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Biden visited China twice in 1979 and 2001.
Editor: Wang Jiaolong