Oh, That Joe! (Number 3 in a Series)
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., stopped by a Marengo, Ohio, fruit and produce stand next to an expansive soy bean field to get some corn on Saturday.
Joined by former Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Gov. Ted Strickland, Biden talked to locals at the stand, really just a small truck, run by Sharon Hildebrand, where corn sells for four bucks for a dozen ears.
"What color M&M’s you like?" Biden asked Luke, a local wearing an M&M NASCAR hat.
The boy said he liked red the best.
"I like the red ones best, too," Biden said. "I like the orange ones, too."
Biden then spotted three young girls.
"You have gorgeous eyes," Biden said. "All of you do. Holy mackerel! Look at those eyes, they’re like beacons!"
"This is the number one thing," Biden said, "how old are you?"
The responses: 10, 11, 13.
"No boys ’til you’re thirty," Biden said, "no boys till you’re 30 years old."
He used the "no boys till you’re 30" line again on the father of a 15-year old girl.
"That’s what I keep trying but it’s a losing battle," said the father.
"It’s a losing battle with my daughter, too," Biden responded, referring to his 27-year-old daughter Ashley.
"I keep telling her they’re highly over-rated," said the dad.
Biden also chatted up a local man who shares Obama’s August 4 birthday.
"By the way, you know what I found out today?" Biden told him. "You’re not gonna believe this. They went back and showed me my Irish lineage and his and they said we’re related," referencing Sen. Barack 0bama, D-Illinois.
"Oh, you’re kidding," said the older man.
"The bad news is that means I’m related to Cheney," Biden joked, alluding to the fact that Obama and Vice President Cheney are distantly related.
Before he left, Biden — brandishing his plastic bag of corn — told the crowd that, "I’m taking the corn and getting the hell out of here. I’m not giving anybody this corn!"
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Joe part 3?….your just kidding us right?
Posted by: Jim | August 31, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Yea Freida Sarah is change alright…A nice fresh face to take away 30 years of gains for women, and a real possibility of teaching the fables in the bible to our children in schools.
Posted by: jen | August 31, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am
Joe who??
Sarah Palin is the hero we’ve been waiting for.
Posted by: Joann | August 31, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am
With Palin in the race, the decision is a no-brainer! Biden is yesterday’s news!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am
Just wondering
People will flock to Palin because she’s a breath of fresh air without Washington obligations and because she’s a doer!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am
Does this guy really think he is funny. What a dud!!!!
Sarah Palin, the one we have been waiting for.
Posted by: newtreena | August 31, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am
McCain and Palin do; Obama and Biden hope!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Breath of fresh air and a doer???
You are seriously mental. We are not talking the new president of the PTA!
We are talking the 2nd most powerful job in the world…a heartbeat away from the presidency….
Posted by: Just wondering | August 31, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am
Just Wondering
Yep – and Palin is twice the candidate Biden is.
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am
I love the references to PTA. Is that sexist or what?
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Give Palin 300 advisors and an experienced VP and she is more ready for president than Obama.
What did Obama do in his 140 days in the Senate? Listen to speeches, vote present 129 times, and spent millions on his earmarks.
What has Palin done? Headed the National Guard,balanced a budget,passed energy bills, made decisions daily, vetoed 300 earmarks.
I’ll trust her judgement over Obama’s any day.
Posted by: cindy in nc | August 31, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Oh Oh Sarah fans this came out and will be hitting the airways soon. Sarah supposive new baby is really her unmarried daughters and not her own. McCain will be doing a redo soon…
Posted by: jen | August 31, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am
The Two Mavericks VS The Two Egos
It’s coming. Biden is getting too comfortable and too folksy. He’s starting to let his guard down.
Biden will come out with a totally sexist remark–probably about Palin’s appearance.
I guess the thought of Biden or Obama becoming president is supposed to be a comforting thought.
McCain/Palin08
Posted by: riley | August 31, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am
What’s up with Obama and Uncle Joe saying “hell” on the campaign trail? What is this, high school? No thanks, I’m voting for the Adult Ticket of Proven Change.
McCain/Palin ’08!!
Posted by: marylou | August 31, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Has anyone heard Palin stammer or studder yet?
Posted by: Just Curious | August 31, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Joe is not praying for Gustav today. What happened? Are these guys really concerned about people in New Orleans or just use colorful words to hypnotize people.
Posted by: Tim | August 31, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Obama and Biden: Hope and hot air.
McCain and Palin: Action and accomplishments.
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am
Some convention bounce we’re seeing here:
According to Rasmussen, Obama was up by 6 points on Friday, 4 points on Saturday, now down to 3 points on Sunday.
Same place they were right before the Democratic Convention started.
Now that’s what I call a bounce.
Posted by: Lee | August 31, 2008, 10:52 am 10:52 am
Like Joe Biden is really going to eat that corn in his hotel room….please, spare me. Bet that corn is lying in a dumpster right now.
Also funny how change, fresh faces and being an outsider was great for Sen. Obama and his supporters when they were running against Hillary, but now it is a bad thing? Bet they are really steamed that they got “outchanged!”
By the way, trying to bring up Gov. Palin’s baby as a political tool is just a cheap shot, and I say that as a former (up until this year) Democrat.
Posted by: dwc | August 31, 2008, 10:54 am 10:54 am
So Joe Biden is able to carry on a conversation at the neighborhood level. Can Obama do that? At the same time I keep hearing that Sarah Palin is just a heartbeat away from the Presidency, just a heartbeat. I’ve got news for you. If Obama is elected he is zero heartbeats away and has no more experience, He is a man, though, right? Does that give him an advantage? Who would win in a fight between Obama and Palin? My money is on Palin.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | August 31, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Sarah WHO??? Howard Gallas, Reno, NV.
Posted by: Howard Gallas | August 31, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Yes, I’m sure that all of the other 40+ parents out there, who also gave birth to a child with Down’s Syndrome, and who understand how much more likely it is to occur when the mother is 40+, are really appreciating all of those cheap shots right now…..
Posted by: Lee | August 31, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am
Sarah is The One we have been waiting for…
Thanks to Mac for having the courage to take make a bold decision. That’s why I love John McCain–his courage.
Posted by: riley | August 31, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am
Howard,
Sarah Who, I’ll tell you Sarah Who – Sarah “Not a Washington Insider” that’s Who. Sarah “Clean up government” that’s Who. Sarah “Obama shoulda picked Hillary Clinton and now its too late” that’s who.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | August 31, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am
Talking about reckless behaviour: did you know Palin kept eating fish and crab when she was pregnant? She got on board of a plane after her waters broke and flew back to Alaska on an 8 hour flight?
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 31, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Sarah Palin is The One we have been waiting for…
Democrat for McCain/Palin ’08
Posted by: James | August 31, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am
Sarah= Guns, babies, God
She is one of us.
She’s tough as nails, genuine, unafraid to fight against the good-old-boys.
Thank-you so much John McCain for not only saying you would support women–you did it!
Posted by: Cindy in nc | August 31, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am
Sarah “Clean up government”.
Yeah. Firing respected officers on behalf of her family (Monegan); and for supporting an opponent in an election campaign (the Wasilla police chief and library director when she was mayor) and installing cronies.
That’s not change; that’s the typical Republican view on “cleaning up government)”.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 31, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am
People who resort to using cheap tactics against Gov. Palin relating to her children are just hurting your candidate. These tactics were used against Sen. McCain in 2000 by Bush supporters, I guess that puts you in the same league as those people doesn’t it! Most decent people do not approve of that type of garbage, regardless of your party. I’ve said it before, if that is the type of people Sen. Obama has supporting his version of hope and change, I want no part of it.
Posted by: dwc | August 31, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am
Anyone including Sarah Palin who thinks abortion should be illegal to victims of rape and incest, that man does not contribute to global warming, and that the bibles interpetation of creation should be taught in public schools, is not only a nut job but is also dangerous.
Posted by: jim | August 31, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am
“Sarah Palin is The One we have been waiting for…”
Hahahaha.
McCain wanted Lieberman. When he had pushed through his own choice, you would have designated him “The One”.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 31, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am
“She stands up for what is right and doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down”
“He is the presidential candidate that actually fought for America”.
McCain/Palin08
Posted by: Cindy in nc | August 31, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am
“Sarah Palin is the hero we’ve been waiting for”
Absurd!!! What have we come to when when a samll time political hack like Sarah Palin is touted as the best candiate for VP? Are we going to be watching the Palin Family fight it out with a brother in law, “The Jerry Springer Show” live and intergrated in our National Politics.
McCain is a fool and the Republican Pary is foolish.
Posted by: Thinking | August 31, 2008, 11:38 am 11:38 am
Obama and the DNC said No to women.
McCain and the RNC said Yes to women!
Posted by: riley | August 31, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Seriously folks, listening to Biden’s wifty banter, are you really comfortable with Biden being a heartbeat away form the Presidency? Is this the reason why Obama chose him, as insurance?
Posted by: OxyCon | August 31, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am
Old Joe Biden…
Rejected by Democrat party loyalists in both of his serious bids for President…
Able to survive the political arena only as a Senator from a state with three (count’em, 3) electoral votes…
And, now, the same, socialist crowd would have us believe we should feel comfortable when Old Joe Biden is a heartbeat away from the Presidency…
Until now, the Democrats didn’t feel comfortable with Old Joe…
Why should we?
But, I must say, Old Joe does look rather comfortable as an Obama babysitter…
Anybody But Obama…
Posted by: Jayhawk | August 31, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am
Palin is like a Saturday Night Live charicature already. What could they possibly add? I can’t imagine McCain choosing such an unqualified person for VP!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | August 31, 2008, 11:53 am 11:53 am
Old Joe Biden…
Perhaps another of Barack Obama’s “old uncles” and “spiritual mentors”…
Old Joe Biden represents the reason why John McCain didn’t choose “Old Joe Lieberman” or anyone like him…
Governor Palin is a great choice and represents a clear path away from the socialism of Obama/Biden…
Old Joe Biden is just another sore loser from the past…
Anybody But Obama…
Posted by: Jayhawk | August 31, 2008, 11:57 am 11:57 am
Doesn’t anyone wonder what Todd Palin, husband of Sarah was doing using the Governors office to pressure Sarah’s Brother in Laws superiors to fire the brother in law?
Is he going to use the VP office to get back at some other personal vendetta?
This is the experience we need.
Where the hell is the common sense here?
Posted by: Thinking | August 31, 2008, 11:58 am 11:58 am
Sarah Palin is the best VP pick in the whole history!
McCain/Palin ’08!!!
Posted by: Bridget | August 31, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am
As you choose, remember this comparison…
McCain/Palin…free enterprise…
Obama/Biden…socialism…
Anybody But Obama…
Posted by: Jayhawk | August 31, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
“Yea Freida Sarah is change alright…A nice fresh face to take away 30 years of gains for women, and a real possibility of teaching the fables in the bible to our children in schools.”
Such scare tactics, such drama, such histrionics. Followers need to stop watching Chrissy and Ogrebermann
Posted by: hype bites | August 31, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
Obama and Biden: Hype and hot air.
McCain and Palin: Proven accomplishments.
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
Jen, “Oh Oh Sarah fans this came out and will be hitting the airways soon. Sarah supposive new baby is really her unmarried daughters and not her own. McCain will be doing a redo soon…”
In case you haven’t gotten the instructions from the pods-on-a-vine camp, you are suppose to stay off this story. Picking on an infant and a teenager is not in your best interest, according to the camp leader.
Pretty in keeping with Donna Brazile (Rove wannabe), but this isn’t 2000 and it ain’t gonna fly this time.
Posted by: hype bites | August 31, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
Has anyone heard Palin stammer and studder?
Posted by: Just Curious | August 31, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
Unlike Obama, Palin’s office will NOT be above her pay grade.
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
Willem van Oranje, “Yeah. Firing respected officers on behalf of her family (Monegan); and for supporting an opponent in an election campaign (the Wasilla police chief and library director when she was mayor) and installing cronies.”
A helpful suggesting, before you continuing cutting and pasting this written soundbite, do a little checking and note that at the center of the story is a state trooper who tazed his own 11 year old and threaten to kill his wife’s father. A guy carrying state trooper with previous citations.
Between this and attacking the Palin infant and the teenage daughter you followers have reached a new level of scum. And you are what has taken over the Democratic Party?
Posted by: hype bites | August 31, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Obama bloggers have recognized the difficulty of attacking Palin so they revert to lies and hate. A chip off Obama’s blockhead when he reverted to race-baiting. Obama’s bloggers are reason enough to vote for anybody but him. Anybody but him! Anybody!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
jen
What does that make you? Perhaps you like tall skinny men with long fingers and dumbo ears?
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
Kim
You’re probably wasting your time trying to reason with Obama supporters. Better to try to teach a snail to fly!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | August 31, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
My 85 year old Republican neighbor isn’t voting for McCain/Palin. Her reasoning was that Sarah has 5 kids and one a baby with special needs. She said Sarah should stay at home and raise that baby instead of putting the job off on somebody else. I will be driving my neighbor to the polls.
Posted by: Trish | August 31, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
Noun/Verb/POW
Noun/Verb/She is a women
What a joke, and this will go down as being the worst VP pick particularily after the vetting is completed.
Posted by: jim | August 31, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
The Republicans are now going to play the gender card just as hard as they play the POW card. What a joke. This party should audition for American Idol.
Posted by: Kevin | August 31, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
PUMA for Palin- I know, just thought I would put it out there.
Posted by: Kim | August 31, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
You just have to love Biden, a real breath of fresh air.
Just one quick thing on Palin. And I mean this with all respect. Has she thought about the pressures of raising a child with downs syndrome so publicly? Its all happened to her very quickly, and has she thought about the pressures it will put on her and her family? Sincerly I hope she has considered it and is prepared to take measures to protect her young child.
Posted by: markymark | August 31, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
Trish-it’s women like you and your neighbor that will continue to keep women back, what is her husband there for, did he not have just as much responsibility in this decision. Women do it all and have been doing it all for decades, I respect my elders however, your neighber was raised in another time when women stayed home and took care of the children, but she should know better than any, they also were the ones that ran the household and made the important decisions, so God Bless her heart but it’s a new day. I hope that you don’t have a daughter, let’s see how you like it when society tells her that she can’t be a mother and go out and work and make a difference.
Posted by: Kim | August 31, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm
The fear is palpable. Palin has the Obamabots scared spitless. They have no idea how securely they have fallen into the McCain trap. This will be highly amusing in a very short period of time.
Posted by: Buford Gooch | August 31, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
I have watched Sarah Palin move up in our state with some degree of respect – However, she has left many projects partially finished to take on a major challenge elsewhere. She really is still unproven here. Alaskans took a gamble on her for governor and we have not yet had the chance to find out if it was really a good choice. Yes, she has been part of a shake up in the state’s politics but a lot of that was coming with or without her. She is just leaving the job partially finished – and her second-in-command has also been competing for the US House seat – at her suggestion and encouragement – against Don Young. It is possible that all these exciting opportunities to run off and play elsewhere will cause Alaskans to surprise everyone and start voting in Democrats. Just out of curiosity I stopped in at the local Obama office the day McCain made the announcment – so many people had stopped in to get information, sign up to volunteer and get involved that they had run out of yard signs
Posted by: An Alaskan | August 31, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm
An Alaskan,
There is something ulterior in that story.
“exciting opportunity to run off an play”
Is that what you consider the executive branch of our government does?
You stopped in a local Obama office, in a state where the governor, Palin, has 80% approval rating and Obama signs flew off the table? Really?
By logic one would think that just like Illinois, Obama’s state, yet a state where Hillary was born, went totally for Obama. And New York, Hillary state, went totally for Hillary. But the Alaskans are different you are saying? how odd.
Posted by: hype bites | August 31, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
What is at all incendiary about Biden’s comment?
Posted by: Go Joe | August 31, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Palin has a voice that would rival that of a yowling cat and an annoying “perkiness” that make just watching and hearing her abrasive as far as we are concerned. Add that she is a right-to-lifer and believes that Chrisitan mythology should be taught in school and you’ve got a real “winner”. We laughed ourselves silly when McCain introduced her, and thought he must finally be showing signs of dementia to choose someone like her for a VP!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | August 31, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
What a dufas. Biden is embarrassing.
Posted by: Jake | August 31, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
My question is how does Palin flipflop. She has got to be a skilled flipflopper to be on the same ticket with “THE MASTER”
Can’t be a grasshopper flipflopper”
Posted by: Omentum | August 31, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Biden is a creep. I wouldn’t want some strange old man telling my daughters they have beautiful eyes and talking about dating. Ages 10,11 and 13? I wouldn’t want some strange old man to say anything, really, to my daughters.
Posted by: Erin | August 31, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Erin
this guy has grown kids and grandkids. maybe he knows a little about raising children.
Posted by: Omentum | August 31, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Democrats need to say thanks to McCain.
Leave McCain be Dems
He just sealed the deal for us with this lame pick for vp.
John McCain
On behalf of all Democrats Independents and enlightened Republicans, I say thanks for making this presidential election a cake-walk for us.
Thank you for your service and thank you for your love for this country.
sincerely,
Omentum
Posted by: Omentum | August 31, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
If Obama loses this election, it won’t be because of Joe Biden, it will be because Obama is simply too aloof and exotic for regular people to connect with him. People connect with Joe Biden, when they actually see him and hear him, instead of the endless stereotypical spin of the media. Media spin is sort of like watching the toilet flush. Most just repeat what they have heard the last guy say instead of doing their own original research. Unfortunately most people don’t get the opportunity to meet Joe and hear him in person so they can see that in reality he is not what the media make him out to be.
When Joe gave his acceptance speech the other night, he mis-spoke, and said Bush instead of McCain, which is hardly a mistake anyway. It was John Kerry, I think, who did the same thing. Did anyone mention afterward that it happened twice? No. All of the media people who mentioned it only said that Joe Biden made this “gaffe”.
It should be the media who are under scrutiny. They lie and spin and try to fashion reality to suit their corporate ownership, which usually means that they are NOT liberal media (another spin) but conservative media, because it is the conservatives who give corporations and fat cats all of the tax breaks. If you think the mainstream media are liberal then you’ve all been hoodwinked!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | August 31, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
Jake – Isn’t this fairly standard small talk among fathers? I don;t undertand why you are even mentioning it. If you think it is bad, can you please explain to us why, so we know what the heck you are talking about?
Posted by: jock59801 | August 31, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Joe Biden is one creepy guy. Obama/Biden misogyny we can believe in!
Posted by: geevill | August 31, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
“An Alaskan” -hey really an Obama supporter living in South Chicago, did hey ever even amke an attempt to find the murderer of your Don Young. You know, gay chior director at Obama’s church.
Posted by: geevill | August 31, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
I’ve seen a lot of history and I’ve studied a lot of politics. Unlike some of you, I know how to research and where to go to check fact from fable. It used to amaze me to hear people repeat bold faced lies, but no longer. Am becoming more misanthropic in my old age. I voted Republican all of my life, right up until 2000, when I decided that anybody would be better than Bush. Everything I feared came to pass.
Do your research, people. Read everything, pro and con about your preferred candidates. Open your minds and make your own decisions instead of parroting talking heads who get paid a lot of money to stir the pot. If you can not separate truth from fact, then you have not earned the privilege to vote.
Posted by: fragan4 | August 31, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
His comments…Biden then spotted three young girls.
“You have gorgeous eyes,” Biden said. “All of you do. Holy mackerel! Look at those eyes, they’re like beacons!”
He sounds a bit “scary”.
Posted by: John T | August 31, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
Come on Jake, this article is a waste of space. Biden joking with “children,” flattering children, what is the deal? Joe was just making conversation.
Early last week Obama made a funny statement about his daughters. He said the reason for becoming President was to get Secret Service protection for his daughters to keep the boys in line.
Posted by: Julie | August 31, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
John T – He sounds very relational in his campaigning, not scary. It really is okay for him to compliment young girls. Having come from a potential vice president, it’s something they’ll remember for life in certainly a positive way. Hopefully, the eyes of many young people will serve as beacons.
Posted by: kat | August 31, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Well i think biden is a genuine man.
he speaks his mind and does not waffle.
o, famil values, morals?? and knocked
up at 17?? tell us, who manages the family
if she had REAL responsibilities?!
Posted by: dino | September 1, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
He’s funny and grown up at the same time. I have a feeling he’s the best grand-dad ever.
Posted by: Beth in VA | September 1, 2008, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm
Why did the author of this post write “Obama” with the number zero instead of the letter O?
He does it in the following passage:
“By the way, you know what I found out today?” Biden told him. “You’re not gonna believe this. They went back and showed me my Irish lineage and his and they said we’re related,” referencing Sen. Barack 0bama, D-Illinois.
Posted by: Chris | September 9, 2008, 1:18 am 1:18 am