Biden Calls Clinton Plan "Disaster"

While Biden this morning said that Hillary Clinton was fully qualified to be President, he also labelled her plans to withdraw funding from local Iraqi forces, a "disaster". Biden was speaking on ABC as he launched his bid for the Democratic nomination.

Biden is calling for a political solution and settlement between the Sunnis and the Shias, and said that a diplomatic resolution was the only way forward for the region.

Also in this morning's news was an interview Biden conducted with the New York Observer, where he launched attacks on fellow contenders, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

Biden said that he didn't think that Edwards knew what he was talking about on the Iraq issue, and regarding Obama, said he wasn't sure that America would elect a one term Senator.

Biden also said of Obama, that he is "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." That's an unfortunate choice of words by Biden, let's hope he has been misquoted - because the tone of that sentence is very troubling indeed.