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Posted on 09/23/2008 10:03:40 PM PDT by BAW
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to undermine Barack Obama's backing of clean-coal technology when he told voters in Maumee last week that neither he nor Obama "are supporting clean coal."
In a video circulated today by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign, Biden made his comment as he mingled with the crowd when a woman voter asked him about clean coal. Biden told the women, "We're not supporting clean coal. Guess what? China's building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States. It's causing people to die."
When the same voter asked if Biden supports wind and solar energy, the senator said: "Absolutely. Before anybody did." But then Biden added that China is "going to burn 300 years of bad coal unless we figure out how to clean their coal up."
"No coal plants here in America," Biden, a Democratic senator from Delaware, told the woman. "Build them, if they're going to build them over there (in China), make them clean because they're killing you."
Republicans pounced on Biden's comments, which left Obama's aides scrambling to control political damage in the coal-rich states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia.
"I think Sen. Biden over the years has been an opponent of coal, and he basically said he doesn't want any coal plants," Sen. George V. Voinovich, R-Ohio, told reporters in a conference call arranged by the McCain campaign. "I don't think he really understands that we have 250 years of coal in this country, and it would be ridiculous not to use that supply."
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Good grief. Is he being paid by McCain? LOL
Seems like the Invisibiden cannot be out of the spotlight for long.
Obama’s team can’t mock up Biden’s X-rays and CAT scans fast enough.....If they were smart, they’d take Joe off the campaign trail to “prep” for the VP debate, even though that would be a tacit admission that Palin is fully capable of holding her own in a debate with Biden.
Fantastic!
Is Biden purposely trying to tank the election?!
New Mexico is a coal producing state, as well as Colorado.
I don't think so.
As I said on another thread, Biden's hair plug implants were set too deep, and he's got fur balls growing inside his skull.
The Clintons paid him off.
If you look up the definition of “loose cannon” in the encyclopedia, his picture is in the entry.
Stand up, Joe. God love ya.
What am I talkin’ about? Come on FReepers! Stand up for Joe!
Joe Biden's from Scranton, PA. The heart of coal country, where they learned their values young: home, family, faith, the UMW, the Molly McGuires.
Say it aint so Joe!
Why, somebody would think you ditched Pennsylvania 60 years ago the way you talk now.
Kentucky, Utah, Wyoming...the list goes on.
What an a-hole.
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He doesn’t even make sense. We can’t use clean coal because China uses dirty coal, but they can build coal plants as long as we clean them up. Since when are we supposed to clean up after the Chinese? And why can they use clean coal but we can’t? That’s a lot of absurdity in a very few sentences.
>>>>>He doesn’t even make sense.
That’s usually the takeaway when Biden gaffes, pretty much whenever he speaks for any length of time.
I think when folks tune in to the Veep debate, it will dawn on a great many minds:
“Why, he’s just plain dumb. And full of himself.”
Biden is the Dems village idiot. He has in the past and will continue to be an idiot.
Which was after 0bama said "Sit down, Joe. God love ya! just sit the heck down!"
And this was the first presidential 'decision' made by Zer0bama.
Bet he wishes he voted 'present' instead of yes.
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