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Biden is making his foreign policy expertise a centerpiece of his campaign. Though he voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman has led his party’s opposition to President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq and has called for the division of Iraq into three autonomous states. Since winning election to the Senate in 1972 at age 29, Biden has voted a generally liberal line – pro-labor, pro-abortion rights, among others – though his support for Delaware’s credit card industry and other businesses has stirred criticism among some Democratic stalwarts. The 2008 presidential race marks Biden’s second White House bid. He was initially considered a leading candidate for the 1988 nomination, but he dropped out months before the first primaries, after allegations that a speech he delivered plagiarized remarks made by a prominent British politician.
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