Posted on 09/03/2008 10:29:39 AM PDT by pabianice
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: While Republicans congregate in the Twin Cities striving to keep their hold on the White House, Barack Obama's running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., sharply criticized the Bush administration Tuesday while delineating the changes Democrats would demand if they rise to power.
"In an Obama-Biden administration, we will not have an attorney general who blatantly breaks the law," Biden said at a town-hall meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida, his voice at times drowned out by applause. "We will not have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution. And I will not be a vice-president who thinks he's not part of any of the three branches of government."
Biden ripped the Bush administration for wasting a chance to unite the nation in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"George Bush and his administration are going to be judged harshly by history," said the Delaware lawmaker. "Not for the mistakes they made, but for the opportunities to unite America and the world they squandered."
Now, Biden said, he and Obama are determined to take control of the West Wing, noting that he would not have agreed to share the Democratic ticket had he not known Obama's commitment to sticking to his values.
"Have you figured out what is worth losing over?" he said. "Because if you have not, it's just raw ambition. Barack understands what is worth losing over."
Earlier Monday, addressing a crowd in Deerfield Beach, Florida, Biden preached the importance of this election in terms of the Supreme Court, noting that the next administration might appoint as many as three new justices.
"The single most important domestic decision that a president gets to make on his own or her own is the Supreme Court," he said.
Looking to the future but with one eye on the past, Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charges if necessary.
"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation," he said, "they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution - out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law."
On Tuesday, the vice presidential nominee continued his 48-hour swing through the Sunshine State with stops in Ft. Myers and Sarasota.
Like his daughter, son, or brother?
The key word is: blatantly
The Donkey AG will stealthily break the law.
Yeah, biden, ‘cause you did SO well with the Clarence Thomas hearings, and the X42 impeachment hearings...
Actually, the US was quite united behind Bush after 9/11, until the media decided it was time to start chipping away and divide us.
susie
Hey Joe, Bush isn’t running for president: JOHN McCAIN IS!~
what goes around comes around Senator...
How about we start combing your practices in Delaware with a fine tooth comb beginning with your son’s hedge fund?
Oddly , as senator he acted as if the President had no say in that "domestic decision".
And if Obama wins, I hope the Republicans follow the Democrat's lead of the last two years and refuse to sit ANY of Obama's nominees until he re-appoints all the nominees from the last year that the Democrats have unconstitutionally refused to vote on.
Joe Biden’s son doesn’t understand the constitution or the Law. Joe raised a fine one there. i wonder, did he get any girls pregnant along the way
ping
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation,” he said, “they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution - out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law.”
“In an Obama-Biden administration, we will not have an attorney general who blatantly breaks the law,” Biden said at a town-hall meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida .....”
Thank heaven for small favors - At least Janet Reno won’t be back.
What a crock! I believe the Democrats have absolutely NO IDEA who and what Barack Obama really is:
“Michelle Obama on the Man that Would Be President”, by Nancy Salvato, of The Hawaii Reporter
August 29, 2008
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?e2e3c6ca-3c75-4a04-9bd6-14d5eebaf47d
I would really love to see the video referenced in this story - the one where Barry swears his devotion to Islam and Muhammed!
Oh no Obama is out on the attack today. He is complaining about Mccains campaign manager wanting to make it about personality and not the issues.
We have young men and women who are willing to die for something (our country). We have a presidential candidate who was willing to die for something (our country). Obama and Biden's ideals are worth "losing over". What a contrast.
Don't worry Joe, you'll never achieve either of those.
Two months outside of an election and Biden is making naked appeals to the narrow interests and blood thirst of the Angry Left on the issues of abortion and criminal investigation of the Bush administration? Shoring up the base as you head into the general election was supposed to be McCain’s problem, not Obama’s. Team Obama is in trouble.
Just keep talking Joe... All the more rope with which to hang yourself AND your running mate! lol!
1. “We will not have a president who doesn’t understand the Constitution.”
2. Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with “a fine-toothed comb” and pursue criminal charges if necessary.
3.”If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation,” he said, “they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution - out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law.”
1. Absolutly correct. We would get a president devoted to eliminating the Constitution and the concepts that brought it to be.
2. We knew that was comming 10 minutes after GWB was sworn in. Where ya been for the last 7 years?
3. Did you clear that through Billary?
The values where your political godfather is the worst slumlord in Chicago?
Have you Emailed Nancy Salvato to ask for it?
Why would he NEED to shore up the base at this moment in time?
So Biden wants another Rat attorney general...
Isn’t that a rather burning issue? Biden must be trying to erect another Gorelick WALL
Good question. From Biden's remarks to a large ad buy essentially warning women that Roe v. Wade is under threat it looks as they have reason to fear significant defections by women.
Why Obama feels the need to throw red meat to the Kos Krazies on prosecuting Bush's administration, though, is a real head scratcher. That is precisely the sort of thing that alienates the independents and mushy middle can't-politicians-all-just-get-along voters that Obama needs to win. Something's up.
Yep, just what the American people want. Not saving Social Security, not saving Medicare, not addressing energy needs, just more of the same crap. McCain ought to put Biden saying this in a commercial, noting all the other problems we have, and have McCain say, "No crap like this on my watch!". The "MoveOn's" will think it's great and the rest of the country will get angry and vote for McCain.
Very good advice.
Joe Biden a 36 year chair warmer and that is all he is.
Joe “Chia Pet” Biden is running on the 2004 talking points campaign.
Now, that's rich.
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