Biden Treads Carefully With Palin Comments

Love Biden. He’s the man. Biden08, McCain/Palin08

If she is even still a candidate by then. There is speculation that, with all that is swirling around her, she will drop out.

kitty/moron 08

It really doesn’t matter what Obama and Biden say about the Palin family. The 2,500 paid workers and Obama supporters will keep the attacks coming. Obama does not have control of his workers or supporters.
She is more qualified to be VP than Obama is President. OK

Wal*Mart is waiting for John McCain.

Biden better watch his back and not be too “chivalrous”. If he comes on too strong, the Big Fat Idiot will call him a bully. If he doesn’t fight back, they’ll say he’s weak etc. Damn if you do damn if you don’t.
Biden should put this one way. NO MERCY NO COMPASSION. Who cares if she’s a mommy with a Down’s syndrome baby etc. WHOAAAAAAAA!!!!

On second thought Biden should get some Grecian Formula for the debate. You know he wouldn’t want to look like the gray old man vs. the pretty young thing etc.

Of course Biden is holding his tongue. What else can he do?
http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/NEWS/80824009

What is the deal with Biden and Obama?? There is a republican ticket with nominees who consistently vetoed social services for teenage mothers, is againt birth control education, is against sex education, and anti-abortion (even in the case of rape and incest) – and Obama/Biden is going to sit there and say the daughters unplanned pregnancy is off limits!!!! Wow – so if your rich and get knocked up its not an issue – well duh. Nice to see class-ism alive and well in the good ol’ USA.
Obama/Biden – you better get it together (and hope Palin stays on ticket), because I am loosing faith in your ability to stand up for all those people who are seeing the American dream slip away…

Speaking of tongue, since Sarah is a Pentecostal, doesn’t she speak in tongues??? Tongue action in a debate would be so cool…

pity. Biden should have been the Presidential candidate, not the phony.

I agree, Biden should be on the top of the ticket. But he and Barack seem to genuinely make a good team, and I think they will do a lot of good for this country, but I am afraid of the Republicans and the dirty tricks they use to get elected.

I like Joe Biden but why do people keep saying that he should be on top of the ticket? He ran and barely got any votes. Barack is number uno for a reason.

I think once someone tells Sarah Palin what the VP actually does then she will do a fine job.

“There is speculation that, with all that is swirling around her, she will drop out.”
The speculation is from her enemies who wish her to drop out. And what is swirling around her is mostly evil vicious attacks on her 17 year old daughter, her youngest son, disabled no less, and herself.
You are a piece of work!

As far as a debate with Biden goes….Palin will most certainly provide a backdrop for JB to fully demonstrate what a complete jacka$$ he is.
Principled and courageous people do not run from a bunch of noisy punks and name-callers.
She ain’t dropping out of the race…she’s taking enemy territory.

PALIN DEBATE BIDEN—-what would she talk about –3 moose and 2 bears–or maybe about where the alaskan oil is now going–and possible payoff for more drilling—–let her debate hugo chavez

DONNA
A LOW LIFE —NO JUST A REPUB

Now, the young man involved with Bristol Palin is going to the convention…I thought they wanted privacy…so which is it? Why would any parent want to parade their children on a national stage like that….This whole Sarah Palin episode has got to be a joke….

Gosh Palin saved Obama from declaring the father to be a deadbeat dad! Read his Responible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act or Biden’s Violence Against Women Act. Check at http://www.mediaradar.org

DublBogey:
You Wish! Palin will take stumbling,
bumbling Joe to school in the debate!
I’d like to see him explain his
erroneous opposition to the successful
“surge” in Iraq and his dumb alternative
idea of dividing Iraq into Sunni, Shia,
and Kurd factions!

The faux Palin scandal that the media has promoted, has been a little too loudly protested by the Republican story making machinery, preventing anyone from questioning the infidelity that McCain committed while married to his first wife, his current non-Maverick voting history where he fell in line behind W’s reckless leadership, or even addressing who is the unknown Palin. Most people, Republicans, Democrats, and even Independents, when interviewed about Palin almost always says they don’t know anything about her. Her tough reform stances made such waves that no one, not even her own party, but a desperately lagging beauty-queen-hunting McCain sought her out. True she is an accomplished woman as a mayor, a city counselor, and governor, but does this equate her to other Congressional women, does this imply the females in the House of Representatives and the Senate are less qualified than this strong representative of American womanhood. I hope her flip-flop about the bridge to nowhere and the use of her personal life as a political smoke screen is not all that she truly is. Personally, if McCain dies, I don’t know that I would trust her vast executive experience and current foreign policy knowledge to lead the country, although she is gosh darn cuter and more photogenic than the aging old school 25+ years political player, McCain.

It’s interesting to me that as the VP pick for the Republican elitist party, that Governor Palin has now 2 seemingly adult children that were not steered toward a proper secondary education. Her son, enlisted in the Army on September 11, 2007 whose choice of date reeks of a political play orchestrated by the Mommy and now the next oldest will be saddled with a baby now and as a senior of course should have been looking at college, although there has been no mention of that.

As a woman, I feel it would be reckless to leave our fate in the arms of a woman that does not believe in my right to CHOOSE. We have come too far for that. While Hillary has put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, Sarah Palin will reseal them all in one swoop. PLEASE DO NOT VOTE for this ticket. Our future depends on it, and as women, we have come to expect and we deserve the right to CHOOSE. Having someone like Palin in office will definitely hinder legislation to limit/prevent our right to choose.

So the mainstream media seems to now be letting up on the Palin baby drama, but I’m not. I question whether Gov Palin’s alleged son Trig was born when and where she claims.
I conducted a preliminary search of the Mat-Su Regional hospital’s website (where baby Trig was supposedly born on April 18th), and the website DOES NOT show any record of Trig’s birth. Instead, the site shows that only 2 baby’s were born in the hospital that day – an Isaiah Travis and a Kayden Lexus.
It’s still not enough for us to CONCLUSIVELY say that Gov Palin is full of ish, but we’re getting there. So now let’s go with what we know AS FACT:
1. Palin hid her pregnancy from the media. When she finally announced her pregnancy (in March) she was not showing any obvious signs of pregnancy despite being 7 MONTHS PREGNANT – Source.
2. Gov. Palin mysteriously took her daughter Bristol out of school a few months before the March pregnancy announcement. The “official” reason for Bristol’s removal from school was because she caught a serious case of Mononucleosis.
3. During the time that Bristol was out of school with that “serious case of mono”, Trig was born.
4. No record of Trig’s birth is readily available from the hospital which Palin claims to have delivered.
5. And here is the kicker. Since Bristol is supposedly 5 months pregnant now, she must have conceived her child while she was out of school with that supposed serious case of mono.
So what do we think happened? We suspect that Bristol DID IN FACT give birth to Trig sometime in April. And that she IS NOT currently pregnant. Time will tell whether or not we’re correct in our assumptions.
The National Enquirer has some moe details to this scandal. Here’s what they’r reporting:
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.
Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.
I want to see if that really happends!
If she cannot be honest about a simple thing as that how can she be honest about our country’s affairs?

I watched the speech and I’m still wondering what was all the cheering about? Palin’s performance was shameful. When did it become ok for a born again Christian (Palin) to be engaged in unbridled slander? That is essentially what the entire speech was. Gov. Palin’s bible defines slander as murder. If only she would read it. What makes this particularly disgusting is Gov Palin was willing to ignore the bible and readily murder one who claims also to be a Christian, all for political gain and the vice presidency I don’t know that Obama is a born again Christian, but he says he is and that should have been enough for Gov. Palin or any authentic Christian to exercise extreme caution when referring to him. . Worse, John McCain who is not even a born again Christian. Yet she heaped praise on him while constantly murdering the Christian (Obama). I’ll bet that Gov. McCain would be shocked to find out what the bible calls all those who are not Christians such as John McCain. It calls them liars. Look t up.
Meanwhile, Obama continues to run a clean campaign never engaging in slander and looking very much like the Christian Gov Palin is not and should be. This is an utterly terrible choke by McCain for the vice presidency. Gov. Palin’s teenage daughter is pregnant. Here is a woman a woman who did not known nor was concerned about what goes on in her own house. America, are we to believe then that she is going to know and pay attention to the concerns and struggles of you and I? This pick is so bad that it begs the question, at 72 years of age, has senility begun to set in with McCain?

You, Sarah Palin, are no Joe Biden. Or some such mixed metaphor. Because there really aren’t all that many of us small-town mayors (maybe 10,000 nationwide at any given time), Sarah Palin knows that most people don’t know what a small-town mayor does – and doesn’t do. So she has, so far, been allowed to show her best Rethug qualification – her ability to lie easily and completely without conscience – as she vomits forth her false and insulting claims of leadership credentials. (blue in NC’s diary :: :: )
Other diarists on dKos are right: we need to shift our foucs back to Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the positive direction our country must turn toward if we as a people are to survive the next four years.
We need to shift our focus away from Sarah Palin’s daughter and her mooseburgers and her snowmobiles. But we can’t let her get away with whitewashing her governmental failures: failures so abject, so major, so complete, that the fact that she accomplished so much failure in a 12-year political career is amazing in and of itself.
If she’s going to use her stint as small-town mayor as a prop for her vice-presidential aspirations, then we need to remind the voters exactly what she did as mayor.Let’s use her own words against her. As she said in that verbal spew that passed for a “speech” last night, as mayor she was “like a community organizer” but with “actual responsibilities”.
The voters need to be reminded – every day – how badly she failed at exercising those responsibilities. Because we small-town mayors do have actual responsibilities. Chief among them is the responsibility to exercise fiscal responsibility with the citizens’ money. Sarah Palin has demonstrated complete failure at that basic responsibility. She took a town of ~7,000 people that was debt-free in 1996 and ran it over $18 million into debt by 2003. And, while we theoretically do not have sole authority to do such things – only the town council has such authority – a bad and dishonest and self-serving mayor can, and frequently does, accomplish such glaring misfeasance by either intimidating of misleading her town council.
Sarah Palin has done both.
She implemented a 25% increase in the most regressive tax possible – the sales tax – to finance her hockey rink project. Yes, the Queen of the Common Man sure likes to stick it to the common man…every man, woman and child in Wasila is still paying for her self-promoting delusional expenditures. She was taking a $68,000 per year salary in 1996 for her job as mayor, and yet used additional taxpayer funds to hire an “administrator” to do her job for her while she enjoyed her “regal” salary for a sinecure job. Most mayors of towns less than 10,000, nationwide, are practically volunteers with salaries generally below $10,000 per year. In fact, the job of the Wasilla mayor, according to the city code, is as follows (this is typical for most small-town mayors):
The Mayor shall preside at Council meeting, act as ceremonial head of the city and sign documents on the city’s behalf upon authorization by the council.
Pretty easy work for $68,000/year, isn’t it?
In 2002, Pailn used city employees (on the clock), city equipment, and city facilities to work on her campaign for Lt. Governor. I mean, come on…this is small-town government 101: Thou shalt not use municipal assets for personal campaign purposes.
By 2003, the city of Wasilla owned $741,599 worth of office furniture and equipment (from the city’s own Comprehensive Annual Finance Report; I assume that is net of depreciation). Now that’s a whole lot o’ desks and staplers for a town of 7,000 folks. Well, the town only owned $342,449 worth of that stuff when Palin started in 1996. More than double! Word among locals has it that she had her office lavishly redecorated at least twice while mayor. So much for her stupid story about selling the governor’s jet on ebay.
After our almost-sacred fiduciary responsibilty, we mayors are responsible for ensuring the safety of the people who have entrusted us with the office. Palin placed the financial success of campaign-donor cronies above public safety.
She opposed an ordinance changing the closing time of bars in Wasilla from 5:00 AM to 3:00 AM. The Wasilla police chief at the time, Irl Stambaugh, supported the change as a public-safety measure. Palin, who had accepted numerous campaign contributions from local bar owners and the liquor lobby, fired Stambaugh immediately upon taking office.
Palin opposed adopting basic building codes within the city. In 1997, she broke a tie in a city council vote to kill building codes. Even some area homebuilders supported the building codes.The bottom line is: yes, we small-town mayors do have responsibilities…and Palin demonstrated a complete lack of ability or inclination to handle these limited responsibilities.
Meanwhile, I’d be the first to say that I don’t consider my own experience as a small-town mayor to in any way qualify me to serve as vice president of the United States, much less serve in a situation where the president is a doddering old man bordering on dementia who may well cause invocation of the 25th amendment.We preside over council meetings…the VP theoretically presides over the Senate. There’s a world of difference.Our responsibilities are limited. Very limited.And, we’re not a mere heartbeat away from the US presidency.
I have known small-town mayors like Sarah Palin and, trust me, it ain’t purty. They exemplify ego-gone-wild, are uncannily susceptible to corruption and influence peddling, and are notorious for abuse of power.
The Sarah Palins in the small-town mayors’ offices are, unfortunately, all too common.
These United States of America do not need one in the office of the vice president.Palin is now, in true Rethug fashion, attempting to distort people’s concerns with her lack of experience, accusing us of “insulting small towns” and being “elitist”. Nothing could be further from the truth. We’re not criticizing small towns; I live in one and serve as mayor in one and love and respect small towns.What we are criticizing is, first: Palin’s lack of national experience and, second: her complete failures at exercising responsibility and integrity during what limited “executive” experience she has.
She is the worst of both worlds: she is corrupt and incompetent. The voters need to know that.

Palin Media Coverage
ABC and NBC continue to trash Republican election candidates with their clever multimedia capabilities. The latest aired on the NBC Today Show at about 7:15 AM Monday morning was a representation of the Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin. This example of manipulated news just aired on the Today Show showed a double graphical image of Sarah with a single picture of shown twice on the display while playing a doubled audio clip of one of her recent speeches (two identical audio playbacks one delayed by a few seconds from the other) to present a confusing perception of this candidate. This is media manipulation to distort her image in a negative manner. There’s no truth here just the media using a multimedia editing tactic to present the truth.