Biden Warns: ‘We’re Gonna Give ‘Em the Devil’
EmailABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: No sooner had he arrived in Denver for the Democratic convention, Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., threw down a stern warning to Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., presidential hopes.
"We’re gonna give ‘em the devil," Biden told supporters as he stopped for lunch at the Mile High City’s Bodey’s Smokehouse.
"That’s right, you give ‘em hell!" came the cry from a woman in the crowd of about 100 that quickly formed when they learned that the veep nominee would be coming to the downtown Writer Square BBQ spot for his midday meal.
Biden spent about five minutes shaking hands with the onlookers, who swarmed around him as soon as he arrived.
"I’m running with Obama," he said. "I’m running for Obama!" drawing cheers from the crowd.
Then the Delaware lawmaker headed over to the small Hickory Smoked Pit BBQ Express stand to order a handful of pulled pork sandwiches. "Keep five," he told the cashier as he gave a generous tip after paying for his food.
Dressed in a blue blazer and khakis on the hot late August day in Denver, Biden was accompanied by his wife Jill, son Beau, daughter Ashley, and brother Jim as they grabbed some grub.
Only hours before, Biden had touched down in Colorado after flying out this morning from his Wilmington home. Before leaving Delaware, he stopped off at the Amtrak station he uses every day to commute to Capitol Hill. There, he was given a warm welcome by home state supporters who sent him off for the start of a whirlwind few months on the campaign trail leading up to the November election.
On Monday night, Biden and his wife will attend Michelle Obama’s speech at the convention. Two nights later, on Wednesday, Obama’s running mate will take his turn at the mic and address his party as half of the ticket that Democrats hope will win the White House this fall.
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That would make two ‘devils’. McCaint is already the devil for starting that UNPROVOKED Iraq bush war, and inciting and inflaming this latest war in the Caucus, when the other devil, Saakhasvili, pointed his big guns on INNOCENT Ossetians.
Posted by: Patriot | August 25, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
I love Biden!!!
Posted by: vickie | August 25, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
Patriot,
Make that 3 devils. Biden was the strongest proponent for the Iraq War and subsequent surge in the Democratic Party.
Posted by: JA | August 25, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
What a friggin’ loser. Goes to show you that BHO’s grip is slipping fast. He’s panicky so he has to show up the votes from whites. It’s the only time he will admit that he’s not superior.
Posted by: Frustrated Voter | August 25, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Snooze! You idiot– you’re running with the devil!
OUTSOURCE THE PRESIDENCY because they’re all losers!
Posted by: La Chatte, Portland, OR | August 25, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
That’s it, Joe
GO NEGATIVE
- totally destroy the NObama MYTH of a different type of Politics !!!
Bring it ON !!
Democrat for McCAIN in ’08
Posted by: CJB in CA | August 25, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
You open the Convention out with saying “we take pride that the Democrats are strong on crime”…..come on, the man that is running for President is from Chicago that has the greatest CRIME in the country!!!!! What a joke.
Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
Yes, the current Democrats are very strong on crime – they get involved in it as much as possible.
Posted by: Leslie | August 25, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Did you know saying “change”, “change” and “change” doesn’t do much but cause frustration…can’t you define what the changes are going to be.
Posted by: Ann | August 25, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
NEWS FLASH!
The “so-called” angry Hillary supporters are actually Republicans in disguise, trying to thrown a wrench in the works!
Let’s start treating them like the Repuke-licans they are!!! Let’s call a spade a spade, and hammer these idiots!
Democrats must unite or we are going to be “hood-winked” into another 4 or 8 years of the utter and complete failure the Republicans have brought on our country!
Throw the BUMS OUT!!!!
Vote Democrat, Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | August 25, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
Yes, the current Democrats are very strong on crime – they get involved in it as much as possible.
Posted by: Leslie | Aug 25, 2008 6:37:54 PM
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At least they don’t commit crimes like the Bush Republicans do, and McCain did in the Keating Five scandal!!
You Republican losers and your grandpa McSenile are going down in November!
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | August 25, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
As much as I like Biden he CAN’T TAKE THE STINK OFF OBAMA!
AMERICANS VOTE FOR THE TOP OF THE TICKET EVERY TIME!
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!
Posted by: Debra | August 25, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
No there were just 30 murders in one weekend in Chicago and they were thinking of calling out the National Guard…but hey they are mostly kids…so that doesn’t count. Get it straight….if your are strong on crime then what did Barack Obama do all the time he has lived in Chicago to stop the crime or make it less…the crime in Chicago is the highest in the nation. He did nothing but talk.
Posted by: Mike | August 25, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
Davis, probably a paid blogger with the message of the day doesn’t know what he’s talking about. If Obama really had won the majority of Dem support, then his number wouldn’t be tanking in a Democratic year. Angry Hillary supporters are just that – if you are a Democrat and not a paid blogger, then think back to your feelings about stolen elections, say, in 2000 GE. This election will come down to character, not specific issues. The presidency is entirely about character.
Posted by: Leslie | August 25, 2008, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
“Did you know saying “change”, “change” and “change” doesn’t do much but cause frustration…can’t you define what the changes are going to be.“
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After 8 years of disasterous foreign and domestic policy under Bush and McCain offering the same we need a president with common sense like Obama with fresh ideas.
What dont you understand about change?
Obama 08.
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Posted by: kenny | August 25, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
Kenny, which fresh ideas are you talking about? Rejecting campaign finance reform? Supporting FISA? Kowtowing to the large corporations that support him? Promoting the same timetable for getting out of Iraq as just about everyone else? He’s as big a phoney as any other politician and his ideas are as fresh as yesterday’s newspaper. He’s rudderless, and completely without principle. Obama wants to be the first African American president so badly that he’ll sell his soul to get elected.
Posted by: Leslie | August 25, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
Sorry, I also forgot Obama’s vote FOR the Bush energy “plan.”
Posted by: Leslie | August 25, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Hey Joe calm down, you may just pop that vessel in your brain. and be like Ted kennedy and have to have someone wipe the spit off your chin.
Posted by: Hilly-Billy | August 25, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
Just listen to the cynics run like roaches, when actually they’re still whining like b******s.
POTUS OBAMA………
1. You can’t stop it
2. Why try?
3. McCain can’t counter it.
4. He doesn’t have a porkchop’s chance in a piranha tank of becoming POTUS over OBAMA.
4. Keep hope alive in your “lemming polls”. Even a martian knows McCain isn’t even close.
5. ALL THE CROW THE CYNICS CAN EAT COME NOVEMBER.
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
“Did you know saying “change”, “change” and “change” doesn’t do much but cause frustration…can’t you define what the changes are going to be.“
How about going to Barack Obama’s website and reading his policy proposals?
Doesn’t sound like you’ve put any effort into finding out what his proposals for change are.
Posted by: Greg | August 25, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE.
Cynics,
I know you’ll be watching this week when he takes the stage, so go ahead and get a good look at the next President of the United States.
While you’re at it, the future First Lady is on at 10 tonight.
DON’T HATE, CONGRATRATE!
After all, whining is not an effective tool against the OBAMA/BIDEN ticket.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LANDSLIDE!
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE.
Cynics,
I know you’ll be watching this week when he takes the stage, so go ahead and get a good look at the next President of the United States.
While you’re at it, the future First Lady is on at 10 tonight.
DON’T HATE, CONGRATULATE!
After all, whining is not an effective tool against the OBAMA/BIDEN ticket.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LANDSLIDE!
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
“Just words.”
Posted by: Leslie | August 25, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Words that win the White House, lil Leslie.
Sweetie, it’s bee over for you since Clinton.
Time for bed.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE
(You can’t stop it)
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
From UK Guardian
http://mail.google.com/mail/#label/a-TEST+TEST+-+PR+TEMPLATE/11b95680d4e5e8f7
USA Today opinion poll today indicated the challenge Obama and Clinton face in uniting the party. Fewer than half of Clinton’s supporters — 47% — are fully behind Obama. Some 23% say they might change their minds before the election, and 30% say they will vote for McCain or stay home.
Posted by: fsteele | August 25, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
haha the freeper comments are amusing. Your worry is palpable, “my friends”. You should sit this one out. Either that or lose and deal with the frustration that you weren’t able to re-arrange the deck chairs on McCain’s Titanic.
If freepers were stand up comedians you’d be the richest of the lot.
Posted by: STILTON | August 25, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
The Rats are scurrying.
ABANDON SHIP! SAVE YOURSELVES! RICH OLD MEN AND PAIN KILLER ADDICTS FIRST!
This is going to be a landslide, and I’m gonna love it.
By the way, Repugs can’t win a thoroughbred horserace with a an old donkey as their main entry.
Believing that a donkey can win a thoroughbred horserace shows how dufus the cynics really are.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
@fsteele:
You trust the British media to tell us how our elections are going to turn out? Please.
Sure some of the Hillary supporters will be the sour grapes types, but if you look at what’s happening in Denver right now, the PUMAs are getting bashed as “wackos” by *OUR* media (Chris Matthews).
If the Hillary supporters want to be sore losers, have at it. Obama’s going to beat McCain by +10 points once the Independents come out, and they more than make up for Hillary’s whining sore losers.
Posted by: STILTON | August 25, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
Sorry, garbled url for the Guardian in my post above, here’s the right one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/25/hillaryclinton.uselections2008
Posted by: fsteele | August 25, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
pumas?
I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROA………ER, SQUEEEEEEEEEAL!
Note to Dumas……Midol is on isle 7.
Take 200 and check back in November when Obama is POTUS.
You can’t stop it. Whining never works for anything.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
I agree, 100%. You do have a devil, a little one, compared with Chairman Mao, who declared “Revolution We Can Believe In!”. The small devil is only dare to say “Change”.
Posted by: Atom | August 25, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Give um the devil? Does he mean Michelle?
Posted by: James | August 25, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
For context, the margin of victory in the 2004 GE was 3 million. This spring 18 million voted for Hillary, so even a fraction of them voting for McCain can give the GOP the victory this November — and they aren’t budging!
47% of Hillary’s supporters currently backing Obama (per USA Today) is the lowest figure I’ve seen. Pew had 52% recently iirc — and said Obama had made NO progress with this group all summer. All the polls seemed to be holding steady all summer, with at least 3 million Hil’s voting for McCain. In July Op Res had 9 million total Hil’s not supporting Obama, some voting McCain and more staying home.
Opinion Research had Obama losing about 10% and McCain gaining that same amount last week.
Posted by: fsteele | August 25, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
I can’t wait to see the Rednecks roll over and die when a Bi-racial man becomes POTUS in this beautiful country of ours.
One dimensional thinking is incapable of handling 3-dimensional change.
TIME TO ROLL OVER AND DIE.
POTUS OBAMA – Cynics, you can’t stop it!
(How does that make you feel?)
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigt, Dumbsteele.
Man, didn’t you know that tricks are for kids?
Didn’t you know you can’t win a thoroughbred horserace with a donkey as your hope for winning?
Didn’t you know OBAMA is going to blow McCain’t off of the map?
Didn’t you know you’ll be eating ALL YOU CAN EAT “Blackened Crow”.
You’re funny, but denial will soon turn to REALITY. Your mommy won’t be able to help you then.
Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are out of the office this time.
You, McCain and all other cynics are hurtin Grasshoppa.
Strap on a Depends. It’ll minimize the damage.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE
Posted by: Nat Turner | August 25, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
@fsteele:
>>For context, the margin of victory in the 2004 GE was 3 million. This spring 18 million voted for Hillary, so even a fraction of them voting for McCain can give the GOP the victory this November — and they aren’t budging!
That’s a well worn canard and it’s patently false. They are budging. They will continue to budge.
From the NYTimes 8/24/08 (“Delegates for Clinton Back Obama, but Show Concerns”):
“Still, more than 80 percent of the delegates surveyed said they enthusiastically supported Mr. Obama, and about as many (including more than two-thirds of Mrs. Clinton’s pledged delegates) were confident he would win the election. Majorities across all regions except the South said Mr. Obama held an edge in their state.”
Two-thirds = 66%.
Posted by: STILTON | August 25, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm
Hello!! joe biden!!! Hello!!! were are you?????? I’am calling you out you stupid fraud and habitual liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joe biden be a man(be a man)of your word! you said you did not want and would not except the vp position if it was offered to you!!! you said you would turn it down!!!!!!!!!
so freakin turn it down already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joe biden are you a man????? are you a man of your own word????
if you are a man of your word than turn down the vp position already!!!!!
you said john mccain is a good man and that you would be happy to run on a ticket with or against him becauase the world would be a better place with a great man like john mccain!!!
and than you go a bad-mouth him!!!
so i ask again are you a man????
are you a man of your word????
maybe you are just tooooooooo old to remember what you say from day to day!! huh??? therefore you have no reason to take the vp position!!!huh????
you know what would be a great winning presidential ticket???? john mccain and colin powell!!! yeah two great men running on the republican ticket!!! i’am sure you will agree with that right mr.biden??????? but than again you do change your mind every two seconds like that horrid excuse of a man barack(insane)obama!!!!!!!
i will never vote 4 another worthless democrat again!!!!
Posted by: no more dnc 4 me | August 25, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
you know what is really sad?????
you obama supporters that have the nerve to call him a black man or even a man for that matter!! you insult the black population when you call him a black man!!! what race would want to lay claim to an awful person like barack obama???
there are bad folks in every human race although i’am not sure barack is human!!!
barack is a bad white man,a bad black man and just a horrible waste of space!!!!
Posted by: no baracka 4 me | August 25, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
That right we will go negative becasue it works with most stupid people like the ones that are voting for McShame!
Posted by: gl | August 25, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm
Go Biden and Obama !
I have to admit it makes me worry regarding how many uninformed people their are that comment online when they know NOTHING ! This country needs Obama and Biden to fix 8 years of a president that has RUINED our reputation and standing in the world. Go Obama ! Go Joe ! You make Delaware proud !
Posted by: shane | August 25, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Yeah Biden, you and your loosing partner are the devil, but save your energy cause you ain’t going near the White House. The voters will make sure you pay for all the lies, arrogance and deceiving ways during the primaries and now.
Posted by: NoToObama | August 25, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
yeah, Joe Biden -the loud mouth arrogant mean spirited hair transplant loser we have been waiting for.
Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 5:24 am 5:24 am
We’re gonna give ‘em the devil,” Biden told supporters as he stopped for lunch at the Mile High City’s Bodey’s Smokehouse.
Obama is the devil? can’t argue with Biden.
Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 5:26 am 5:26 am
Hey Ann…
Just a note a spade is a shovel not a hammer.
Oh, thats what the DÉMs call change.
Posted by: Sledge | August 26, 2008, 7:21 am 7:21 am
Hey Nate I shouldn’t have to research what a presidential candidate is proposing. They should tell me. Make me believe.
Posted by: Wayne | August 26, 2008, 7:26 am 7:26 am
gl, you strike me as very young and naive. We have always been dis-respected in the world. We are taken for granted over and over again.
And let me tell u the world likes the weak minded DEMs
Posted by: seen_it_all_b4 | August 26, 2008, 7:37 am 7:37 am
Poor, stupid, big mouthed, foot in your mouth, Joe Biden would do anything, say anything, to get attention because he’s such a pathetic looser. Last in the primaries, apologetic plagerist, and two faced when it comes to demonizing his friend McWinner. I believe If Obamas uncle Osama was running for office and asked Obiden to be on the ticket he’d accept, just for the lime light. Get it while you can Joey because when Obamabiden looses in Nov it’ll be Joey who?
Posted by: bombem | August 26, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am
Poor, stupid, big mouthed, foot in your mouth, Joe Biden would do anything, say anything, to get attention because he’s such a pathetic looser. Last in the primaries, apologetic plagerist, and two faced when it comes to demonizing his friend McWinner. I believe If Obamas uncle Osama was running for office and asked Obiden to be on the ticket he’d accept, just for the lime light. Get it while you can Joey because when Obamabiden looses in Nov it’ll be Joey who?
Posted by: bombem | August 26, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am
Isn’t the phrase “give em hell”
Pathetic! Biden is going to give
McCain and the Republicans “the devil”?
Well we Republicans don’t want
Senator Robert C Byrd, former KKK
Member, you Dems can keep him!
Didn’t Biden suggest that we divide
Iraq up into 3 sections instead of
supporting “the surge”?
Some foreign policy expert! No Thanks!
Just Say No to Obama/Biden!
No You Can’t!
Posted by: reaganfan | August 26, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am
Nat:
The only thing that’s inevitable
is Obama losing!
A million posts won’t change that!
Posted by: reaganfan | August 26, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am
Ya sure Biden…we can see the devil and he is Obuma! Your the guy that has to sell him now!!
Posted by: HP Boston | August 26, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am
The hatred that boils out of these comments is part of the reason we can’t get anything done in this country. People like Limbaugh and O’Reilly don’t want to take responsibility for the murderous rhetoric they use on air, which whips a certain type of personality into a froth, and for a few, into taking action.
The murders in the Knoxville church, in the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters, and the three refugees from Deliverance who were tweaked out on meth and guns when they were arrested in Denver–these are all logical consequences of political dialogue that consists of threats, insults, and demonizing other Americans.
If you love your country, if you are a Christian, these activities should be unacceptable.
Posted by: Susan | August 26, 2008, 11:03 am 11:03 am
Susan is right! Besides, the Republicans have destroyed this country for the past 8 years, who can dare to vote for the same party that has taken us to war and bleed our economy? Evenmore, there are true Americans, also Republicans that have endorsed Sen.Obama, such as Ms. Eisenhower..all of the RNC vicious and ridiculous ads are intended to distract people from real issues and keep ignorance blatant in America..
Posted by: carmen | August 26, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
When did we start voting for rulers? I thought that this is a presidential election!
This is “2008″, not the year of 100 BC…take the columned stage down!
SCAARRYYYYYYY!
Posted by: Mary | August 27, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am