Who’s Tough Enough?

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

WASHINGTON

Joe Biden is always ready to jump in as a character witness for Barack Obama.

In the last presidential election, he offered effusive testimony that Obama was not too snooty to appeal to skeptical working-class voters.

This time around, Biden is talking up Obama’s spine, aiming to show that all traces of Obambi are gone and that the president is pure BAM! now.

“I just want to tell you, this guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod,” the vice president assured House Democrats last week at a retreat in Cambridge, Md.

He repeated a line he’d heard to sum up what his party should campaign on: “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

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