Posted on 11/02/2009 1:04:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Vice President Joe Biden and the woman who ran against him last year did some long-distance sparing today.
Biden, at a rally for New York congressional Democratic contender Bill Owens, took a verbal shot at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who's a supporter of Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in Tuesday's crazy special election for New York's 23rd district (where Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava has dropped out and endorsed the Democrat).
Using energy as an issue with which to score some rhetorical points, Biden said that "the fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy is 'drill, baby, drill,'" according to The Hill. "It's a lot more complicated, Sarah!"
Palin, on her Facebook page, writes that "as the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence. ... There's one way to tell Vice President Biden that we're tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation's progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!"
Our buddy Ken Rudin is following Tuesday's elections at his Political Junkie blog.
Uh, no, Sarah, I'd be very careful assuming that Biden knows anything...
>>Uh, no, Sarah, I’d be very careful assuming that Biden knows anything...<<
He knows that FDR was president when the market crashed in ‘29.
;)
And also that he reassured the country via televised fireside chats.
“...did some long-distance sparing today.”
Sparring, perhaps...
Wasn’t much of a fight, was it?
Wasn’t much of a fight, was it?
I can’t tell whether initiating a debate with Sarah was a WH planned strategy or whether Joe just went off the reservation again. I can’t see how elevating Sarah to equal status with the WH is going to help the obammunists. Especially if she can claim some credit for Republican gains tomorrow. I have noticed that the VP and SOS have both had their chains pulled by the WH repeatedly when they err, will wait and see if Joe is admonished by nasty gibbs in the next couple of days to figure this one out.
The fact is that it is no more complicated than “drill, baby, drill”. Funny, huh?
“Vice President Joe Biden and the woman who ran against him last year...”
Ah, NPR. That woman.
Plugs seems to know little about the energy business.
He'll next take on an assignment to repeal the second law of thermodynamics.
In the case of Biden, when it comes to debate, his arms are too short to box with anyone.
I think FDR’s Twitters were probably even better than the fireside chats.
I liked FDR’s speeches on TV.
You’re right; they kept an anxious nation informed, hour-by-hour, of the pace of the economic recovery.
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