Posted on 09/25/2008 10:58:06 PM PDT by pissant
Valerie Biden Owens isn't a candidate in this year's presidential election, but those who came to hear her speak in Altoona Thursday didn't mind.
Owens stopped by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's local office to campaign for Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, her older brother.
"I'm OK with either," Tyler Mentzer of Duncansville said, of seeing the candidates or surrogates. "I'd love to see Obama and Biden."
Mentzer said he already knew the ticket's issues; he liked Owens' personality and lightheartedness.
"I think we need more of that," he said.
It was standing room only as more than 50 people gathered to hear Owens speak, about a half-hour after the event scheduled for noon.
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Owens did not disappoint, telling stories of her childhood with Biden and their other brothers, before reminding attendees of the issues Obama and Biden will fight for.
"In the face of struggle, a better life is possible," she said.
"That's the lesson Barack Obama and Joe Biden learned from the women in their lives."
Owens placed the "tremendous responsibility" of this year's election in voters' hands.
"Check 'em out, Barack and Joe, to see if they measure up to your standard," she said. "This is so much more important than if Barack gets to be president and Joe gets to be vice president. It's a tremendous responsibility for them and for you, because you get to pick."
Owens elicited loud applause when she referred to a repeated remark by Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"Joe and Barack are not gonna build that bridge to nowhere," she said. "They're gonna build that bridge to you."
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Yo, dingbat, your brother and his marxist concubine BOTH voted - Three Times, to keep the bridge to nowhere ALIVE.
...and, Tom Coburn, THE senator who fought Plugs, his marxist concubine, and the rest of the dimwitted senators in trying to kill it credits PALIN with its death.
OOHHH...a whole 50 people! I can make a phone call and in five minutes have 50 people show up to hear ME speak. Geez...
Palin needs to rip Biden’s balls off and shove them down his throat in the debate.
Whoa! Don’t hold back, man. LOL
“They’re gonna build that bridge to you.”
Are you calling me nowhere?
By the way, how come the headline didn’t have her speaking to 50 people instead of saying “standing room only”? What sort of venue only hyas 50 seats? Elementary school lunchrooms have more than 50 seats.
“Palin needs to rip Biden’s balls off ...”
You an I both know Sarah Palin is totally incapable of ripping Bidens balls off........it’s becuase Biden doesn’t have any.
Was this rally held in my basement while I was at work?
What an ugly couch. (i hope it’s not yours!)
I hope he didn't invite Chuck then :-)
Standing room only. 50 people. OK. Boy this woman sure knows how to draw a crowd. (s)
I used to have one just like it. It was ugly! I dumped it off on my daughter in law and she dumped it off on her sister in law. LOL
Standing room only = someone forgot to rent the chairs
That was funny.......I suppose I could make the same claim by saying I spoke to a SRO crowd too. Afterwards, the four of them left my closet and headed to the kitchen for coffee........
Wowee—50 people—in a campaign office, no less.
Wonder how many of that 50 were already being paid to be there.
Going to start calling him six fingered Joe; got to be some co-sanguinity there somewhere.
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