约瑟夫·拜登竞选总统的研究

约瑟夫•罗比内特“乔”拜登，约瑟夫•罗比内特是目前美国的第47届副总统。他于1942年11月20日出身在斯克兰顿，宾夕法尼亚州，他在27岁开始涉及政治生涯，，后来在1970年当选为县议员的职位。他是从特拉华州来的美国参议员，从1973年1月3日作为参议员，2009年1月15日辞职，之后被当选为副总统。

2008年乔拜登参加的总统竞选是他第二次参加。在此之前，1988年的总统竞选他已经做出了承诺。但是，在竞选之后被指控剽窃英国工党领袖尼尔•金诺克的演讲，并且错误低向公众报告了他的学术成果。

乔拜登在2007年1月7日的美国总统记者招待会上宣布他要参加2008年的美国总统竞选，这是由NBC制作的每周一次的美国电视新闻和访谈节目。他这次竞选主要集中在美国人民的人身安全上，而不是恐怖威胁，他的重点是健康援助的缺乏，犯罪和世界不稳定地区可再生能源的依赖。

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is currently the 47th Vice President of the United States. He was born in November 20, 1942 at Scranton, Pennsylvania and start involving himself in the politics when he was 27 and was later elected to hold a position in the county council on 1970. He was a United States Senator from Delaware and started his serving as a Senator from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following by his election to the Vice Presidency.

 This was the second time where Joe Biden participated in the presidential campaign on the year of 2008. Before this, he has already committed himself in the previous of presidential campaign which happened on 1988. But, he ended his campaign when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech made by Neil Kinnock who was the leader of the British Labor Party and also falsely report his academic results to the publics.

Joe Biden has started his 2008 presidential campaign when he announced his participation in becoming the United States President on 7th January, 2007 edition of Meet The Press which is a weekly American television news and interview program that are produced by NBC. His major aim for this campaign is to centralize his campaign on the dangers to the security of average American, instead of the terrorist threat, he focuses on the lack of health assistance, crime and also the renewable energy dependence on the unstable parts of the world.

Joe Biden has declared his candidacy officially when he filed the papers with the Federal Elections Commission and start his campaign by attacking Hillary Clinton who was one of the frontrunner in Democratic presidential nomination. He began to criticize Clinton's plan about the War in Iraq by claiming that her plan is a military solution which is a disaster that act against the achievement of aim while holding his plan is a political solution. In February 2007, he speaks out his dissatisfaction about the new surge policy of Bush administration in Iraq by questioning his decision in approving the authorization going to war in 2002 which end up being triggered in a civil war. Before he ends his campaign in the first quarter of 2007, he came up with a strategy which attempt to convince the citizens in Southern primary state of South Carolina to vote him to the nomination.

Joe Biden continues his campaign in April 2007 by criticizing the Republican presidential candidates, John McCain that he is fundamentally wrong in supporting Bush's surge policy for Iraq. Instead, they should decentralize Iraq by giving their own region the power to rule their domestic laws, administration and internal security according to the ethics group. In the following month, he release a statement by believing that Bush was right to enact economic sanctions against Sudan which can pressure the government to end the genocide in Darfurt, but he later argued that Bush's decision in calling for a No-Fly Zone over the region is almost impossible. Besides that, he speaks about the issues regarding the funding of the troops and illegal immigration of foreigners. He came out with a solution where the criminals should be sent back to their own country while offering a pathway for the rest to gain citizenship. Before June ends, he talks about the issues faced by the African- American in terms of education, civil rights and also the reproductive safety to prevent the spread of AIDS.

When the campaign enters the third quarter of 2007, Joe Biden says that voting for the "No Child Left behind Act" introduced by the United States Act of Congress was a mistake and it should be discard as useless. On August 20, Biden's first campaign advertisement is aired in the first Caucus state of Iowa. The main purpose is to gain trustworthy from the citizens so that they will believe Joe Biden is the only candidates that are can end Iraq war. In the early of September, he was counting on the Caucuses of Iowa by saying that he will leave the trail if he was unable to get the first, second or third lead in the poll. On the same month, he criticizes the President Bush for not having any intention to solve the Iraq war. In addition, he explains his plans in reforming the Social Security by raising the cap. Before the debates end, he strongly claimed that smoking should be ban in public places.

On October 23, he reveals the health care plan by expanding the protections which has encourages wellness and modernization of treatments for every citizen in United States. This action has already increases the State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that includes 300% children that are still living in poverty state. On the 30th October, he gains laughter from the audience when he spoke about Rudy Giuliani by claiming "There are only three things he has mentioned in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11." On November 15, he attacked all the opponents at the Las Vegas debate. On the last month of the 2007, he was questioned why he feels uncomfortable when he speaks about race. Joe Biden claimed that his commitment about the race relation and the civil rights he fought for the African-American. will only be understand by those that knew him well. When the former of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were assassinated, he states that Pakistan is the most dangerous nation in the planet. This statement has given Biden who has past foreign policy experience an advantage in gaining a momentum in the opinion polls.

However, this was not enough for the Caucuses of Iowa, Joe Biden was completely defended by other candidates by gathering one percent of the total vote in that event. As a result, he withdrew himself from the presidential campaign that seems hopeless for him to achieve his dream in becoming the President of the United States.

In conclusion, Joe Biden has made full use of media for his presidential campaign. This was proved when he uses television talk show to announce his candidacy (Meet the Press), gave his opinion about Clinton's plan in solving the War of Iraq in Good America Program and attends an interview in Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer where he criticizes the new surge policy introduced by Bush for his administration in Iraq. Besides that, he uses daily newspaper as a media to express his opinion towards the attitude of John McCain being fully supportive in Bush's policy. Moreover, John Biden has joined a forum sponsored by The Des Moines Register where he was asked to answer his commitment in civil rights and the relationship among races. Thus, media has been used by Joe Biden as a pathway where he entertains and informs their audiences.