Posted on 09/14/2008 12:05:30 PM PDT by Chet 99
Bungling Joe Biden could wreck Barak Obama’s chances of victory in November’s presidential election, senior Democrats feared last night.
Even the 65-year-old veteran senator conceded last week that Hillary Clinton was better qualified to be Mr Obama’s running mate.
It was just one of a series of gaffes that have seen Mr Biden become a liability while his Republican counterpart Sarah Palin has invigorated and transformed John McCain’s campaign fortunes.
Just a day after musing that Mrs Clinton ‘might have been a better pick than me’, Mr Biden left an audience cringing in Columbia, Missouri, when he urged a paraplegic state official to stand up and be recognised.
‘Chuck, stand up, let the people see you,’ he shouted to State Senator Chuck Graham before realising, to his horror, that the local politician uses a wheelchair.
‘Oh, God love ya,’ added Mr Biden. ‘What am I talking about?’
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OK, here it is.....Prior to the Biden announcement, a loss was certain.
Biden was picked to have a guranteed the scapegoat
When he calls John McCain - whom he has known personally for a quarter century - "George McCain" it seems like a deliberate attempt to link Senator McCain to President George Bush.
When he calls Senator Obama "Barack America" it seems like a deliberate way of equating voting for the senator as a form of patriotism.
When he calls Governor Palin "Lieutenant Governor Sarah Palin" it seems like he is deliberately diminishing her status and qualifications.
Critics point to his absentmindedness by mistakenly telling rallies he’s campaigning as president, not vice president. He referred to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the state’s lieutenant governor.They need to leave poor Joe Biden alone!
I despise all of the rats, but I think that they are simply saying stupid things because they are off teleprompter and under stress. God knows I say some idiotic things in the course of a day, and I sure try to watch my words. It is not their words so much as they ideas that shock and offend me. Their ideas are so fiendish they are never articulated, lest their party whither away.
‘Oh, God love ya,’ added Mr Biden. ‘What am I talking about?’
This is easily my most favorite line of the election thus-far.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
I wonder if Bi-den had been the arresting officer he might have said: “Walk a straight line, Chuck”
I agree it was an honest mistake, understandable in the whirlwind of a campaign. But - what was deadly about it was what he said immediately in the aftermath of it - in trying to extract himself from the blunder. It exposed the "used car salesman" Joe Biden that we all recognize is there, but don't always explicitly acknowledge. And he laid it right out there. And since it was funny that he handled it so badly - it will be repeated over and over and over, and it will drive home the point about him. He is a phony. It was a moment of self revelation, and it wasn't to his benefit.
Just leave ol Joe alone. He is very good at putting his foot in his mouth and he will run on and on while impressing everyone within ear shot of the exuberance of his verbosity!!
I totally agree. Biden made a clumsy mistake; Obama purposefully insulted a good woman.
I agree! With any luck at all, 'ol Joe will get the blame for the 0bama fiasco, and they will delud... No, convince themselves that 0bama should have a second chance! ;)
I’d say those gaffes are sign of old age getting the best of him.
At least Biden didn’t mock the guy for not being able to run.
Biden just made a mistake. Obama deliberately ridiculed a wounded veteran for his disability.
And the media is almost completely ignoring it.
Stand up, Chuck ... dammit!
hmmm he will be “Bidened” just as he “borked” Bork.
badum chhhhhh!
Just a day after musing that Mrs Clinton ‘might have been a better pick than me’, Mr Biden left an audience cringing in Columbia, Missouri, when he urged a paraplegic state official to stand up and be recognised.‘Chuck, stand up, let the people see you,’ he shouted to State Senator Chuck Graham before realising, to his horror, that the local politician uses a wheelchair.
‘Oh, God love ya,’ added Mr Biden. ‘What am I talking about?’
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