Posted on 08/22/2008 11:41:22 PM PDT by FocusNexus
It's hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain.
His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a "slave state" again? Will he discuss who's behind the counter at 7-11s?
I'm reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him - "Joe's a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time... But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications - he's never run a city, he's never run a state, he's never run a business."
That statement is true for both men on the Democratic ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...
Forget digesting, it won’t even stay down.
And what kind of change is picking a Washington insider as a VP?
Oh, that would be freaking sweet.
This is a Maalox moment.
Pollster: Biden Not As Appealing To Voters As One Might Think
http://blogs.dw-world.de/acrossthepond/michael/1.6988.html
It comes via Jim Wooten at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “If there’s a politician in America who matches Obama for arrogance, it’s Joe Biden.”
According to Silver, the veteran senator’s favorable/unfavorable ratings are almost even and his strong unfavorables exceed his strong favorables. On the upside, Biden scores with older people, a group of voters where Obama is weak, and could shore up Pennsylvania for the ticket. Silver’s verdict: Biden is not “quite as appealing to the electorate as the conventional wisdom seems to hold.”
A statesman known for slips of his tongue (Biden)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12735.html
This year, he managed to blow up his official announcement he was entering the race when he deemed Obama “the first mainstream African American [candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
While preparing for his own run at the party’s nomination last year, he took several shots at Obama’s inexperience, warning that “If the Democrats think we’re going to be able to nominate someone who can win without that person being able to table unimpeachable credentials on national security and foreign policy, I think we’re making a tragic mistake.”
It would be a ticket with no executive-branch experience, right?
Joe Biden, aka “Neil Kinnock Jr.,” is so 1988.
Talk about a little 'roughage in the diet' of that meal ticket could lead to excessive bouts of diarrhea.
From here.
ROFLMAO!
In the Senate since 1973 -- it will be hard for them to criticize McCain.
"Feb. 11, 1988 Undergoes successful surgery after two brain aneurysms are diagnosed." Hmmm -- I hope he is OK now.
Joe Biden’s 1988 gaffe and his explanation: ‘’I exaggerate when I’m angry’’
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/026777.html
Just what we want in a president or VP... (sarc)
Need something with simethicone in it for the Biden gas ...
Judging by the first comments over on the DU from the far left moonbats, it may get ugly in Denver next week.
I like it! Great post. Expresses it perfectly!
I like it! Great post. Expresses it perfectly!
Either that or it will come out in the same state as it went in!
They don’t like their ticket?
Just read a lot of the posts over there. Now that it's "OFFICIAL" the retread heads at DU are telling everyone to just suck it up and take it regarding the text messages.
And the official kool-aid drinking party has started up.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to go scrub the inside of my skull out with steel wool to get the intellectual detrius that has been excreted into my frontal cortex by reading that site. UGH
Even moonbats notice there’s a problem when they’ve been crowing over their candidate’s opposition to a war and that candidate goes and picks a running mate who supports it.
“Even moonbats notice there’s a problem when they’ve been crowing over their candidate’s opposition to a war and that candidate goes and picks a running mate who supports it.”
Don’t you see, this is Obama’s brilliance, this way they can get both the pro-war and anti-war votes. Obama doesn’t have to flip-flop, it’s built into the ticket. (sarc)
Love it!
Check out #15! Crop, and tape onto one of your car, house or apartment windows... ;-)
Maybe B. Hussein Obama wanted ‘balance’ on the ticket.
Lol...
I can hardly imagine a better choice for the Republicans than for Obama to have picked Biden. A bloviating know-nothing who has zero appeal beyond the East coast.
Since he was speaking historically, this was actually accurate. Not only was DE a slave state, it was one of the only two states in which the 13th Amendment actually freed slaves, the other being KY. The other border states having already freed their slaves by state action.
By 1865 there were at most a few hundred slaves left in DE, but the legislature has the glorious distinction of voting down the emancipation of even those few.
National Review, First Take [Peter Robinson]
Before winning election to the Senate three-and-a-half decades ago—Biden ranks fourth in seniority among Democrats, sixth overall; how’s that for a fresh face?—Biden practiced law for three years. That’s it. Three years of fresh-out-of-law school practice represents the sum and total of Biden’s profession experience before joining the Senate.
Obama-Biden? A candidate with an astonishingly thin professional background—Community organizer? Desultory lecturer in law school?—has just named as his running mate a man whose principal professional achievement is to have perfected his skills as a gasbag.
08/23 02:01 AM
Talk about a backward state (I’ve lived here for 34 years), Delaware had a whipping post well into the 60’s - 1960’s, that is.
Now if mccain will pick pewlenty, sanford, barbour or palin we will be in great shape.
It was Biden’s son Beau Biden who had Larry Sinclair falsely imprisoned in Delaware.
it’s doubleplusgood
Well now....IMHO, this should NOW make Larry a viable "topic" for some reporter to start "investigating".
It's really "interesting" that it was Joe's kid that "silenced" Larry for Obama.
I read it as
“Disgusting, an Obama-Biden Ticket.”
Oops, I just plagiarized your post. :)
The fact that Obama thinks a repugnant egotist and professional liar like Biden adds gravitas to the ticket is troubling for a man who might be president. Even more troubling is that Biden seems to be pretty much the best the Dems can come up with.
You make a good observation. McCain questioned Obama’s judgment the other day, and this choice just proves his point.
"Change suddenly makes a whole new kind of sense.
Intellect back in the White House? Could it happen? Yep, thanks to this ticket."
and:
"Biden headlined the college democrats convention and blew the doors off and of course we know what Obama did during the keynote. This is going to be a fun campaign to watch."
Gov. Kaine and Sen. Bayh, and others, may have quietly indicated to Obama that they preferred not to run as VP - notably in view of Obama’s recent poor polling numbers, and the present security of the elected offices they now hold.
Excellent graphic and potential bumper-sticker. A superb summing up...
Yep, McCain is one lucky AHole to face Obama al Biden.
I also think Obama was more limited in his choice than is seemingly apparent, he kept floating names until he got himself into a corner and had no good options. This VP selection process has been a harbinger of just how badly an Obama Admin would react to any and all national emergencies. The BO ticket has got to make a lot of voters increasingly uneasy about the key responsibility of the Federal Gubs...National Security.
Obama bin Biden! HA!
all biden has ever run is his mouth
Not exactly true. You see, Joe Biden was caught plagurizing his speeches by lifting lines from other foreign leaders.......
A snotty, old, new england, ultra-liberal washington insider. Way to go for Change! Nice time winning Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, moron. Have fun with the young female vote. Two pompous jerks do not play well with the estrogen crowd.
At least mccain has better hair and teeth.
Ping in re Biden Gaffes.
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