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Biden VP Debate Gaffe - His Opposition to Robert Bork (1987) made Roe v Wade(1973) possible?
2008 VP Biden-Palin debate transcript (NYT) ^ | 10/2/08 | Me

Posted on 10/02/2008 8:14:23 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh

Senator Biden said the following during the 10/2/08 VP Debate:

And it didn't take me long -- it was hard to change, but it didn't take me long, but it took about five years for me to realize that the ideology of that judge makes a big difference. That's why I led the fight against Judge Bork. Had he been on the court, I suspect there would be a lot of changes that I don't like and the American people wouldn't like, including everything from Roe v. Wade to issues relating to civil rights and civil liberties.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; biden; bork; gaffe; lie
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To: shoedog
...there are 10 specific instances that Biden was wrong on factually!

I recall when Palin called him out on one of them, regarding the statement allegedly made by the commanding US officer in Afghanistan today to the effect that a surge wouldn't work there.

21 posted on 10/02/2008 9:04:45 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
a gratuitous lick at Dick Cheney

Haha. I spit catcus cooler out my nose when I read that. I hereby nominate this phrase for the Top 100 Quotes from FreeRepublic hall of fame.
22 posted on 10/02/2008 9:13:25 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh (I cling to guns and religion.)
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To: Enchante

You hit the nail on the head when you said Biden “opened himself up” when he mentioned ideology as an important consideration for the Senate in deciding whether to confirm or reject judicial nominees. In fact, one can consider it a gaffe of sorts that he even chose to bring up that subject without any prompting from Ifill. I don’t think it plays very well with voters as a whole, and it reminds people that judicial nominees are at stake in this election, an issue that on balance probably works in favor of the GOP.


23 posted on 10/02/2008 9:13:50 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Cementjungle

I agree I think he meant Bork would overturn it, but that is the same thing they said about every conservative judge appointed. That is the battlecry to scare those who don’t want to be “burdened with a baby”.


24 posted on 10/02/2008 9:21:23 PM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: nclaurel
I agree I think he meant Bork would overturn it, but that is the same thing they said about every conservative judge appointed. That is the battlecry to scare those who don’t want to be “burdened with a baby”.

My liberal mother-in-law was on the phone a few minutes ago with her usual "Palin's going to ban abortions", "she has a funny accent", "she would be a heartbeat away from the presidency". The MSM has burned all these into the minds of their followers.

25 posted on 10/02/2008 9:26:36 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

Palin “has a funny accent”? I don’t think that she has any particular regional accent at all. Well, maybe that’s because I don’t know any Alaskans.


26 posted on 10/02/2008 9:35:31 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
Palin “has a funny accent”? I don’t think that she has any particular regional accent at all. Well, maybe that’s because I don’t know any Alaskans.

My MIL subscribes to the NYT and the LAT, only watches CNN and hangs with very liberal people (many of which are household names). She and her friends are the least tolerent people on the planet when it comes to people who don't think exactly like them (or sound "funny").

27 posted on 10/02/2008 10:07:30 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

They all sound like the robots repeating the same line. Of course you can’t say it too her but it would have been to say “you aren’t pregnant are you if you are we will adopt it”


28 posted on 10/02/2008 10:29:45 PM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: nclaurel
Of course you can’t say it too her but it would have been to say “you aren’t pregnant are you if you are we will adopt it”

She's 92, so getting pregnant would indeed be interesting!

29 posted on 10/02/2008 10:36:29 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: justiceseeker93
Don't embarrass us all: he wasn't talking about the actual Roe v. Ruling - the time - but rather, subsequent rulings that affect it.

I think the guy's a git but even I know that.

30 posted on 10/02/2008 11:14:54 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (By Obama's own reckoning, isn't Lyndon LaRouche more qualified? He's run since the 70's)
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To: Cementjungle

You must have more than your share of MIL problems. (LOL!)


31 posted on 10/03/2008 4:51:52 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Cementjungle

My dad would have been 98 and just never got that the Democrat Party had changed and just wasn’t the party of the people as it had been in his youth! Gets harder to change as you get older.


32 posted on 10/03/2008 5:12:19 AM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: justiceseeker93
You must have more than your share of MIL problems. (LOL!)

Oddly, she likes me a lot (but hates most men). She has a love/hate think going on with my wife (her daughter) though, and that's always rough. I do have to bite my tongue though sitting through dinners with her pals like Huffington, Allred, and various other uber-liberals.

33 posted on 10/03/2008 12:03:42 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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