Biden Does Not Reference ‘Crisis’ Guarantee, Attempts to Shift Focus to McCain
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: In the wake of his guarantee Sunday that Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., would be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in office, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., came to Colorado today, electing not to reference his weekend remarks and instead hit out at Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for focusing not on the economy but on tying Obama to former 60s terrorist Bill Ayers.
Appearing on CBS’ “The Early Show” Tuesday morning, McCain had defended robo-calls linking Obama to Ayers, telling Harry Smith that “listen to me, I’m the candidate – and this campaign is about the economy.”
Rather than follow-up on his “crisis” comments Sunday, Biden today jumped on McCain’s remarks.
“I say to my friend John McCain,” stated the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. “If he’s really serious when he said this morning on one of the shows that this election is all about the economy, then I say, John, stop your ads. Bring down those robo-calls. If it’s about the economy, argue about the economy, not about Barack Obama’s character, not about these scurrilous ads. John, stop these calls!”
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stop this stuff, we really have to stop it,” Biden emphasized moments later. “We are one nation, under God, we are an indivisible country and that’s what we’ve got to speak to. The indivisible nation that Barack Obama and I want to serve. And folks, that’s why Barack Obama and I are so confident we can get through these tough times.”
The McCain campaign highlighted Biden’s decision not to follow up on his “crisis” comments as "a startling admission".
“It is clear by his failure to address the controversy stirred by his recent comments that Joe Biden stands by those remarks,” McCain spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.
But Biden’s focus at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley was on tying McCain to Bush, as the six-term senator added a new riff to his “if it walks like a duck” line linking the Republican president to their current nominee.
“If it looks like a Bush, if it sounds like a Bush, if it votes like a Bush, it is a Bush economic philosophy,” he said.
Biden outlined an Obama administration’s first two priorities, telling the crowd of 3,875 that Democrats had boiled it down to a bumper sticker.
“We’ve got it down to a simple bumper sticker, folks,” he said. “It’s real simple. We’re going to restore the middle class and regain our respect in the world.”
To emphasize that Obama is ready to be commander-in-chief, Biden touted Sunday’s endorsement from Colin Powell, noting that he had just spoke to the former Secretary of State an hour before taking the stage in Greeley.
“He has one simple message: ‘Joe, win! Win! Win!’”
In order to win, Biden urged Colorado voters to vote early, cautioning supporters that although the Democratic ticket is leading in the polls, it is votes that really matter.
“Things are feeling awful good right now, but I want to remind you: polls and endorsements do not determine the outcome of an election. Votes do.”
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Biden knows he slipped up. That was sort of playing into McCain’s storyline right there. I suspect voters will pass on it, however.
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Posted by: matt | October 21, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
I love Joe Biden!
Posted by: hang | October 21, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
Don’t forget that Sen. Biden also stated that Sen. Obama has a “spine of steel”. Intellegent people will find the speech and read it for themselves.
Posted by: PMW | October 21, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
The Sec. of homeland Security has said the samething that Sen. Biden said about the possibility of an incedent happening during the transition of a new administratoin, So why havn’t the McCain campaign jumped on Chertoff for saying the same thing?
Posted by: Jams490 | October 21, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Biden knows he made a gaffe. Today he is doing what he should always be doing which is attack McCain.
Posted by: Karen | October 21, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Today Palin apologized for her “pro-America” comment. Everybody gaffes.
Posted by: Karen | October 21, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
ABC-All Barack Channel
Posted by: sam | October 21, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
“argue about the economy, not about Barack Obama’s character”
haha, Joe Biden is afraid to talk about Barack Obama’s character. He’s also afraid to talk about national security. and he’s afraid to talk about Barack Obama’s judgement. Basically, what the Obama campaign is saying is, the less we talk about, the more likely we’re going to win, because the more we talk about, the more likely John McCain is going to win.
Posted by: Obamacrat for McCain | October 21, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
PMW – Biden said first that obama was not ready to be president, just a few weeks before he got the call to be #2.
Posted by: sam | October 21, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Hey Joe here’s a bumper sticker for ya -”It’s real simple: test Obama’s mettle, he won’t know what to do.”
Posted by: no obama | October 21, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm
TJ, THE CLINTONITE: Oh ya, it is a fact also that Obama has more foreign affairs status than Bush or Regean had because they were just Governors of their state and did not serve on the Senate.
Posted by: becky | October 21, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
What’s the difference between the McCain/Palin campaign and the KKK? Lipstick.
Posted by: hamishdad | October 21, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
The McCain campaign thinks they have an issue here. Good luck with this “crisis” thing – I’m sure it will work as well as Ayers and ACORN and Sam the Plummer and every other stupid thing you’ve used.
Posted by: rbyanes | October 21, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
Amazing Biden says Obama is not ready during primaries, and now repeats it again.
Clinton clearly stated Obama is not ready.
If his own party believes he is not ready then OMG wake up America before it is too late.
Thank you Biden and Hillary for your honesty.
Posted by: jlp | October 21, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Hey, let’s bring on Armageddon by electing a total Newbie.
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
The worst of it: Biden assumes that Obama’s response to whatever crisis their administration provokes will not be perceived by the American people as the correct response. “It’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right,” he said.
Posted by: Joe Six-Term Strikes Again | October 21, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Barack Obama is out of touch with hard-working, tax-paying Americans. He wonders why he’s not winning 95%-5% since he’s promising 95% of all workers a tax cut. I’ll tell you why, Senator. Hard-working, tax-paying Americans are already PO’d by the fact that they pay taxes while their neighbors don’t. We’re incensed that Barack Obama proposes that we pay taxes while not only do our neighbors don’t pay taxes, they get the check from the government that we wrote it in the first place!
Posted by: Clintonites for McCain | October 21, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
In his case the time served in the Senate is very limited as he has been running for President since day. Obama,at this time,does not have the experience to be President. I can not see how people can deny that including Biden, Powell and others. It hard to look into the future for anyone including Obama or McCain but I would have likely thrown by vote to Obama in 8 years but now.
Posted by: William | October 21, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
Looks like more ‘the sky is falling’ tactics.. and I’m sure it will hook a few more suckers..
Fortunately, the guy in the White House won’t be subject to knee-jerk reactionary responses and running around like a chicken with his head cut off.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 21, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
it’s all bologne
a last ditch attempt …actually there may be one more “last ditch” attempt
these are just the last throws of a falling slimey empire known as the GOP …that is going to have to get it’s character back… if it can.
throw these right wing nut cases to the curb and realize that we are no longer a right of center nation.
Posted by: dl | October 21, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
– Obama,at this time,does not have the experience to be President. –
The primary duty of the President is to uphold the laws of the land, and I’m fairly certain he is way more qualified to do that job than most. Given the way the current numnuts in office has handled that duty, it will be refreshing to have someone who has actually read the Constitution in office.
Posted by: Concerned American | October 21, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
i think joe has brain damage and that is why they came out yesterday with his medical records which i would say is bogis
Posted by: rosie | October 21, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
William fropm the last four weeks we have also seen that Mccain obviously doesn’t have what it takes to be President…
yet who acted like a President and who did not
whose actions made things worse and whose kept a calm demeanor in a time when the freak outs made things worse.
this is all a joke
Mccain palin is the worst ticket our nation has ever seen.
Posted by: dl | October 21, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
‘The Sec. of homeland Security said it…And now Sen. Biden said it…
Oooh La La! Does it mean 2012 Doomsday is real.
Posted by: Ned Voly | October 21, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Joe Biden calls John McCain’s ads “scurrilous.” tsk tsk tsk, Obama Capaign. Playing victim again. Barack Obama and his type of people have been perfecting that art for generations.
Posted by: DemMcCrat for McCain | October 21, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
the internet is the downfall of the republican movement. education is free and available and it pisses mccain off like crazy. they can no longer lie and deny its out there on you tube. it makes them look really stupid, educated voters are in numbers this election and obama is the educated persons president!
Posted by: eriq` | October 21, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Here’s alittle SNL Humour,
Biden only spills the beans about the “PLANNED CRISIS”, only when he knows Obama left state side.
Biden can’t keep a secret!!!
Posted by: mstran | October 21, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
#1 There are no Clintonites or Obamaites for MCCain! So,stand up for who you really are and what you stand for. MCCain and Palin are nothing but nasty divisive people who have nothing but power on their minds. If your candidates had a plan to unite this country, they would not have sold out to Karl Rove and other slimballs to win at any cost. Where is your honor Mr. MCain and your ehtics Ms. Palin? Get over it!
Posted by: A Real Democrat | October 21, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
“Hey, let’s bring on Armageddon by electing a total Newbie.”
Hey JLP — you already did. His name was George W. Bush! He’s run this country down the tubes in the last eight years, somehow still not learning a thing in the process!
Posted by: Joe | October 21, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
“Posted by: Joe Six-Term Strikes Again | Oct 21, 2008 5:46:04 PM ———”
So you’re all for McCain’s plan you bail out these forclosed morgages but not for increasing taxes on the top 5% of Americans to get this country out of the hole G.W. put us in? Interesting….
Posted by: IIell | October 21, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Becky – Senetors do not have as much knowledge in foriegn policy because they are the ones sitting in congress. They do not need to know it so they don’t bother. Governors have to actually work for the states they govern, they get more knowledge on how to deal with PR. That is why when given the choice America has traditionally always voted for Governors over Senetors. (i.e. Regan, Bush, Clinton, etc.)
Posted by: concerned | October 21, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Keep going Joe….
I have always said the best thing that can happen to the conservitive movement is to let the left speak often & loudly.
Posted by: mike | October 21, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Joe Six-Term Strikes Again wrote:
>>Barack Obama is out of touch with hard-working, tax-paying Americans. He wonders why he’s not winning 95%-5% since he’s promising 95% of all workers a tax cut. I’ll tell you why, Senator. Hard-working, tax-paying Americans are already PO’d by the fact that they pay taxes while their neighbors don’t. We’re incensed that Barack Obama proposes that we pay taxes while not only do our neighbors don’t pay taxes, they get the check from the government that we wrote it in the first place!<<
I guess we can all tell who was the real writer of this tortured, confused paragraph. The style is unmistakable. Is it an attempt at self-parody, Sarah?
Posted by: Cindy | October 21, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Wake up my little right wing puppets! Obama not ready? Do any of you know that the biggest reason for McCain’s POW stint was that he was such a lousy pilot? He destroyed somewhere in the neighborhood of about 6 aircraft prior to becoming a POW and ranked at the bottom of his class. He is a hot head and his running mate is clueless.
Who is it that is really not up to the task? Shut off FOX news!
Posted by: JM | October 21, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Biden’s comments are nothing in themselves. This is all stupid media hype. All Biden said is there will be an international crisis (possibly by the PLO or Russia or China or al qaeda) to ‘test’ him. The Soviet Union did this to Kenney (referenced in the same context by Biden).
That would be the same if McCain were elected as well. Intentionally or not, ALL new presidents get tested by an international crisis. Bush got tested by 9/11.
Clinton got tested by the WTC 1993 bombing.
Reagan got tested by the Soviets.
Bush Sr got tested by Saddam.
etc
etc
McCain might not be a horrible diplomat (bush jr being probably the worst in history), but Obama will probably be a better one. Is it important for a president to be a capable diplomat? I would say so, since many countries react to the person in power. Reacting favorably can mean good things for the US. Reacting poorly can mean bad things for the US.
Posted by: Disillusioned | October 21, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
Biden’s comments were not a gaffe. They reflect what is almost an absolute certainty.
An Obama presidency will be a signal to nations that America has lost it’s political and military will.
An Obama presidency will mean a very dangerous world for America and for Israel.
Posted by: midgardserpent | October 21, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
Joe Biden thinks the world will be testing Obama in 6 m0nths. But i think it is a plan allready. We have many enemies, and some of our enemies also enemies of some of our enemies. Obama will make some of our enemies our allies against some of our enemies. But that will be a falls partnership,as they will not be our true partner, but we will be they’r partners, and all our old allies will be our new enemies. We will be just a small part of a new force in the World.This is what joe was realy saying, that maybe we will be fighting for the other side. I dont think that would be very smart,It is not the change we need.
Posted by: Joe | October 21, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
McCain = DISHONORABLE; Palin = SCARY!!!
Posted by: Howard Gallas | October 21, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
John McCain- your engine fire warning light in flashing, oil pressure down to zero, flight controls are jammed! Time to pull those yellow and black striped handles alonside the seat. And with your junior student pilot Sarah riding in the rear cockpit, hopefully your ejection system is interconnected to hers or else she won’t back it back to Alaska where she belongs. Time to bailout…mission incomplete!
Posted by: Lee | October 21, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
I am truly scared of America today. Quoting manufactured, edited and extremely biased You Tube films to “educate” themselves is crazy. Somehow believing that playing the victim (while throwing out more insults than they are recieving) is the high road. Listening to crazed misreporting of CNN, BSNBC and ABC who either fudge the facts by not including the entire story or plain don’t report stories because they make their candidate look bad. Believing that taking money out of the economy and the security and giving it to people who don’t pay taxes or work is going to fix a system that liberal tactics and policies brought down. Pointing fingers at the wrong side when Rep. Frank and his cronies where behind the collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Posted by: truly scared | October 21, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
mccain is not ready to handle the economic crisis nor will he ever be
Posted by: Bhrandon | October 21, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
what are the chances Palin will be impeached for making her employees use Yahoo to avoid the Freedom of Information Act?
She probably will lose the lawsuit first, then the investigation, once the facts are in.
And by the way, her husband is part of her administration, so she says, and she’s keeping his emails secret as part of the administration, so his membership in the secessionist party is now fair game. She’s sleeping with a secessionist.
That’s worse than Obama meeting a former terrorist who is now a doctor of education and Chicago’s Man of the Year.
Meeting a former terrorist is NOT pal’ing around.
Sleeping with a former secessionist IS playing around.
Posted by: Bruce Becker | October 21, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
Palin’s Un-America comment about Northern Virginia was not a ‘gaffe’.
A gaffe is a stumble, a mistake.
She was clearly attacking Americans in Virginia because they dont support HER points of view.
That’s not a gaffe, GOP partisans. That’s un-American!
Posted by: Bruce Becker | October 21, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
Geez! What Joe said was that it will take courage and resolve for Obama, as a new president, to stick to his own judgement and to turn the Ship of State into a new direction when a crisis comes up instead of over-reacting in some way to show his critics that he is tough enough for the job. In other words, folks, do you want the same old, same old, or do you really want to take this country in a new direction? If you do then stand behind the guy!
There is always some “international crisis” festering somewhere in the world, like the recent confrontation between Russia and Georgia.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 21, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
Ah but just think of all the cool stuff the media can report if there is a crises. Wow, headlines for the journalists for weeks-maybe even months depending on the severity!
Posted by: Kathy | October 21, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
It is sad that experienced politician like Joe Biden is making mockery of his knowledge and experience again and again. If he cannot speak straight, rather keep quiet or behave like Palin, only bark, bark and bark making few barking slogans. Obama and Democrats have thought he will be a sensible barking dog but he is making himself fool and every time, Obama has to sacrifice to correct him.
Posted by: JOHN DAHODI | October 21, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
What Biden is referring to is the fact that every recent president has been confronted with a crisis within the first year…… Bay of Pigs, 1st world trade center bombing, 911, etc……
The Pentagon has a huge transition plan and has been briefing both Campaigns about possible crisis’s, during the transition (to Obama’s Presidency)
Posted by: Nicholas | October 21, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
I suggest that the Obama Administration put The One’s 1st 2 years in office on pay per view. It’d be a ratings blockbuster. The ‘deer in the headlight episodes’ would raise billions for Obama / Pelosi to wealth transfer to the lower class of our country, that is how you keep them there, afterall; that is how you keep them where they want them, as victims.
I personally would pay a few $thousand to pre-screen his first meeting with Putin. It’d be like 1961 Vienna all over, young, inexperienced President shaking in his boots. Remember what happened a few years after that? Bay of Audacity? Nope, Bay of Pigs.
Can’t wait to see you ‘speech’ world leaders into change we need. Kim Jung will surely be moved by your speeches.
Go back to the Senate and accomplish something Senator. Your candidacy is an insult to the average American.
Posted by: Concerned about Idiot Americans Voting | October 21, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
Keep talking Joe!
Posted by: zeke | October 21, 2008, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
The way some of you are twisting and interpreting Biden’s comment seems to suggest that he may have accidentally revealed a top hidden secret:
2012 Doomsday…
If so, he’s done humanity well by alerting in advance and deserve praise. I strongly support his claim that Obama will stand the test than McCain.
Posted by: Ned Voly | October 21, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Who is in real power? Who is controlling the Press? The media? The Internet? Why does nobody dare say anything negative about Obama. Why are the negatives turned into casual references by the media.
Where did Obama get all that money for ads. Why is he the enchanted one, is he the one that the world falls in love with, to our destruction – is he the anti-Christ. Something is wrong here, something is deadly wrong!
Posted by: Ray T | October 21, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
I love how everyone has to tell us what Biden really meant to say. If he’s worried about a post election crisis if Obama is elected, shouldn’t we be?
Posted by: obama=socialism | October 21, 2008, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
Today Palin apologized for her “pro-America” comment. Everybody gaffes.
Posted by: Karen
That was not a gaffe. It was part of a concerted plan of attack. Un-American, pro-American, those are not slips of the tongue. The congresswoman from Minnesota actually proposed to sort out the Un-American congressmen. That’s an attack on people whose points of view are not your own.
THAT’s UN-American.
And it was no gaffe.
Palin got out of the way of the push-back.
The DEM congressional opponent of the right wing Minnesotan received $800K in three days after the GOP woman used the UN-American attack.
It was no gaffe. it was business as usual for the GOP, going back to Nixon who put liar-flyers in people mailboxes lying that the opponent was a commie AND a homosexual. Nixon denied any connection. Dan Quayle called his opponent in his first congressional election a commie too.
Note the slander by McCain about socialism in the DEM party. That’s no gaffe. That’s the usual Republican lies and exaggeration and playing to the right wing base. Fine, Palin takes it back. Northern Virginia is still part of the USA. Thanks Sarah.
It was no gaffe though Ms Karen, make no mistake about it. the Muslim, terrorist socialist slander is all a piece one fabricated lie, with the un-american slander.
Posted by: Bruce Becker | October 21, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
being a POW is not a sure making of a hero, I never pay attention to those hyped politicians who once were POWs and I see nothing of a hero in McCain during this election, he had no bearing, no conviction, no grace but his consistent attack on “eloquence” as all his other stupid targets. He is not even comfortable in his skin, I guess from years of paling around with George W. Bush, he has lost all that had survived him during that 5 years in a far away prison. There is no question why his face twitched and eyes blink like crazy, it is because of his face lift and being self-conscious knowing the camera up-close. His face is so plastic during the last debate it’s painful and his black hollow eyes like chucky. Palin’s glasses framed face has the typical look of porn-loving soccer mom who loves fetish games behind the doors, who are often repressed and subservient to their sex partners. There are two reasons why McCain chose her, of sex and for sex. She is eager to be objectified as a sex thing pleading to the six-packers, she loves that as it comes natual to her. “Vote for that chick” as they shout, so you have it. Palin is the female version of George W. Bush. Republican party produces nothing but the most dangerous horny fools.
Posted by: awake after8 | October 21, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm
Concerned about idiot Americans voting, the problem is the average American. The ones that have roofs over their heads, food in their bellies and maybe a few cruises a year. Not quite enough for them so they actually believe that Obama’s gonna go after only those with more than them. Ha
Posted by: Kathy | October 21, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm
Palin epitomizes what we all most despise in politicians. She will say anything to get votes. Whether what she is saying is true or not is of no consequence to her. In fact, she seems to relish in lies and once in while might say something that has a small element of reality to it. Why anyone would take anything that she says seriously is beyond me. Some people are “born ready”. Sarah Palin will never be ready. Electing her and her running mate would spell disaster.
Posted by: Jim Dandy | October 21, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
Biden says something we need to treat very seriously, and you choose to beat up on Palin. Figures.
Posted by: obama=socialism | October 21, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
We all know that any new president will be tested by the World. But Joe Biden said much, much more than that, and it is all very disturbing what he said, and more disturbing the things he did not say.
I hope Obama will not sell our country out, like his cousin Odinga did in Kenya. As Joe Biden talks we may think that is what he is talking obout.
Posted by: Joe | October 21, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
MSTRAN…YOU NAILED IT…LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS…GEE JOE, TRY KEEPING YOUR MOUTH CLOSED…WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW…..
Posted by: socalvoter | October 21, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Itel,
McCain is also not a governor… Therefore, it’s nonsensical to include Bush, Clinton and Reagan as examples of why governors make better presidents.
Sarah Palin, though a governor, is not intellectually qualified to be VP!!! She is no Ronald Reagan. She is no Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Mary | October 21, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm
I knew what Joe Biden said when I read it. I thought if you people didn’t get it then I should try to speak s-l-o-w-l-y and plainly so that you all could understand.
This is only a “story” because the right-wingers want to take it out of context and make it one. I’d tell you all to go to the Chicago Sun Times and read the whole transcript but I know that wouldn’t suit your purposes.
Some of the things Joe says are just too complex to be suitable lyrics for a country song.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 21, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Please do speak slowly and plainly for us Donna so that we can understand how the journalists over at the Sun times spun the story.
Posted by: Kathy | October 21, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm
what’s wrong with re-distribition of wealth when it is generated illegal and unjust? the bail out is re-distribution of wealth, just the other way around. talking about socialism. Bush started this plague and spread it all over the world. He promised wealth and safety by inspiring the worst in us and sucking away our integrity as a nation.
Bush the idiot + power + cheney = global disaster. McCain may not add more misery, he will just sit there enjoy his glorious title before his day ends, mumble and look on as thing slip away deeper and deeper, McCain has nothing erect in him, he is no longer a soldier. His sould is limp as his body and his party.
When you have a lowly and greedy leading with power, the world today is what you get- Republican greed robbed the wellness from our country, rather silently and artfully the past 8 years keeping things feel ok to the mainstreet on the surface – the explosions of crisis are inevitable. the world is as we all get sick
I have been sick for 8 years and I want to breathe again! I want to see blue sky and believe it is blue again. I want to watch TV again and believe my cold is finally gone! We are asking for a chance to be well again for the sake of the world and for the sake of you because you don’t have a freaking clue born a republican soul, and for a while, please don’t fight us now and stay where you are in your pajamas at least for 8 years, or may it be forever.
Posted by: awake after8 | October 21, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm
The draft of our young men into the military will return with Obama. Therefore, all you mothers and grandmothers out there remember your vote for Obama drafted your sons and grandsons into the military. Here is why it will happen:
Michael F. Scheuer, the founding head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit: Senator Obama must have left a couple zeroes off his plan for reinforcements. Two brigades — which is about 6,000 men — will not make a lick of difference in Afghanistan, which is a country the size of Texas, with the highest mountains on earth, a hostile population, and a growing Islamist insurgency. If Obama starts talking about 100 brigades — about 300,000 men — then the public might be able to assume he means business. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke. Obama and all the other candidates in the other parties constantly say that “we have tried the military option and it does not work.” This of course is a bald lie; U.S. military power has been used most daintily in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the military power we have delivered in both places so far is the best we can do, then American taxpayers have been monumentally swindled in the amount of taxes they have paid for their military during the past 25 years. And another billion dollars for aid for Afghan reconstruction would just be another billion wasted. It appears that Obama and his fellow candidates in both parties have not learned that programs for economic recovery, internal stability, and nation-building cannot be started with any hope of effectiveness and durability until the enemy has been definitively annihilated. If Obama is right and the military option has failed, then more aid is just throwing money away because — as all can see — the enemy is growing in size and ferocity and shows no signs of being on the edge of annihilation.
Moreover, Senator Obama has also advocated sending our U.S. military into Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government, invading the sovereign territory of a troubled partner in the war against terrorism. The military must expand to have troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Another reason to call on retired General Colin L. Powell. If you are young and you have cast an early vote for Obama, be sure to have a bag packed and your traveling shoes on your feet. You will be reporting to the nearest military induction center for your assignment to go to basic training. It will make a man of you.
Democrat President LB Johnson used Vietnam to enrich the industrial-military-complex. Moreover, the Vietnam War helped LB Johnson with the unemployment problem. Sounds cruel and unreal, but it is a historic fact.
Then there is the opportunity to draft women into the national service of many different jobs. You never heard of the national service program that Colin Powell and Barack Obama think is a great idea. Obama will be full of surprises because Democrats want to control people. Of course, that is not socialism, but then I do not know what to call it. Demsoism may be a good name.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm
Rep. Barney Frank scoffs at Republican demands that Congress investigate how Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae imploded.
But remember it was Barney Frank who said in 2003:
“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Posted by: Barney Frank Fires Off a Load of Weapons Grade Hypocrisy | October 21, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
I guess you also blame the current crisis, in no small part due to the mortgage backed derivative meltdown on the Bush Administration also?
Guess what bro? Mortgage backed derivatives sank Kidder Peabody in the mid 1990s ( Clinton Lewinsky Administration ). Why didn’t the democrats act then?
Have you seen the footage of Sen. Schumer and Rep. Frank rambling against regulation on fannie and freddie? Truth hurts. You know why the democracts were so for the unabated operation of fannie and freddie? Because it allowed for more funding for banks to issue loans to ‘victims’ that didn’t have the ability to make their mortgage payments, in the event of an unexpected setback ( like rising food prices ). The other thing that it allowed was to allow the banks that made those loans to sell them and it allowed fannie and freddie to package them with other loans and sell them….around and around….worked fine, until people stopped paying.
Make no mistake, the Dems. were the main obstacles to reigning in the GSEs.
This is fact not reported by Ms. Couric, Mr. Gibson or the left wing thinktanks you embrace.
I’ll conclude: Democrats fervently opposed reigning in fannie and freddie because they believed that they effectively created homeownership for those that wouldn’t have had access to the same without their existence, because their risk could not and would not be accepted by a bank directly unless it was able to sell of the loan immediately, which they were able to do, because fannie and freddie were ‘off the rez.’
thats right Concerned Idiot. I am an enrolled member of an American Indian Tribe….a typical blindly pro-democrat victim…only I got a little education.
Of course, don’t forget Sen. Osama’s role in advising Acorn, which, at the time, was protesting in local banks, bullying them, under auspices of the CRA to make home loans to ‘victims’ that couldn’t afford the terms of the loans they wanted the bank to make.
Posted by: American Indian Tribe Speaks | October 21, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm
Biden, face it, you screwed up. Why don’t you handle the campaign efforts in Vermont for the next two weeks. That ought to keep you away from any microphones. Oh, and take Murtha with you.
Posted by: Paul | October 21, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
Here is a real shocker
http://www.dcexaminer.com/ap/?c=y&id=957159
At what point is someone charged for criminal activity.
The worst VP candidate ever
Posted by: hottopics | October 21, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
Racist men and male chauvinist FEAR Sarah Palin because they know she can succeed and that frightens men more than Obama’s questionable terrorist friendships. The world is changing and women are equal to men and men cannot take the competition. In all history, men have been the puppets for women.
There is a long list of successful women business leaders and successful women leading their country.
Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist who is Chile’s first female president and only the second woman ever elected to lead a South American nation, was sworn in last March. Reformer Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president on the African continent, now runs Liberia and is helping to put Charles Taylor, the disgraced former president, on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the conflict in Sierra Leone. And Han Myung-sook, a former dissident who was once jailed as a political prisoner, became South Korea’s first female prime minister in April.
Margaret Beckett became the U.K.’s first female foreign minister in May, replacing Jack Straw, who had been Prime Minister Tony Blair’s key spokesman leading up to the war in Iraq. Also in May, Tzipora Livni was appointed as Israel’s second most powerful politician, adding the vice prime ministership title to her foreign ministry post. Dora Bakoyannis is the first women ever appointed to a senior cabinet position in Greece. Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, after a cabinet reshuffle in June, moved from her post as finance minister to foreign affairs; she is considered a presidential front-runner in the next election. Don’t forget the little giant that runs the Phillippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Women continue to gain ground running foreign affairs. Condoleezza Rice, for example, continued hammering away as the U.S.’s top diplomat, attempting to midwife a cease-fire in the Middle East as well as stitch together an international compromise to get Iran and North Korea back to the nuclear negotiating table.
On Aug. 7, 2008, the Alaska Legislature approved a measure she promoted. The administration of Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin now gives $1,200 to every single Alaskan. This comes to about $741-million for state residents. In addition, each resident will receive an annual dividend of $2,000 from an oil-wealth savings account. That comes to about $741-million for state residents
For a family of 7 (Gov. Palin has 7 members in her family) that means an additional $22,400.00 in income sent from the state of Alaska. WOW, who needs a job! Back to the trailer, Billy Bob!
Sarah Palin is more ready for the Washington, D.C. crowd than Obama. Obama has proven he cannot even take care of a simple housing project. How can YOU expect Obama to run the country?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
Obama gave the people in Illinois broken down housing and dangerous living conditions. Where did the money go? What pockets were filled with tax payers’
money from Washington, D.C.? We know where Governor Sarah Palin’s tax money is. The tax money is in the pockets of the residents of Alaska.
Sarah Palin is four times the better candidate when comparing to Obama. Obama who could not even run a housing project in Illinois. He will never be able to run a country that has a lot more houses.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
No to Obama……..BOOOOOO to Obama
A total of 30 women in our ranking of the World’s Most Powerful Women also have won top spots in government, up from 24 in last year’s ranking. Three of them were elected to the top job within the last year.
Racist men and male chauvinist FEAR Sarah Palin.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Even an idiot like Biden knows that the world loves OBama because he is week.
Posted by: ubu1991 | October 21, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
Somebody should tell Obama that the majority of service members of the Armed Forces dosen’t want him to be their Commander in Chief!!
This guy couldn’t lead a kindergarten class on a zoo trip, let alone the military in time of war.
Posted by: Pee Vee, Long Island | October 21, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
Let’s see, the Democrats cost a financial melt down costing the world financial markets about 10 trillion dollars. Now Democrats talk about Palin’s charges that are legal expenditures. $10,000,000,000,000.00 vs. $21,012.00. Hmmmm!
Obama spends millions of dollars on a housing project in Illinois that is unsafe and falling apart. $35,000,000.00 vs. $21,012.00. Hmmmm!
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
Pee Vee – fortunately for Obama and all of us, you Republicans haven’t set up a military junta as yet.
Posted by: Paul | October 21, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
Hey becky, one serves IN the Senate, not on it.
Remember how the media skewered Dan Quail for “potatoE’?
Where in the world is the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Posted by: James Jankowski | October 21, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
Governor Sarah Palin sells the Alaskan governors jet that cost taxpayers’ into the millions for maintenance costs, inspections and hanger fees. $4,500,000 vs. $21,012.00. You see the children could have sat on the governors jet free, but you betcha Sarah knows that costs more than regular airfare. Sarah sold the jet.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
Obama and Biden are the intelligent voices in a sea of Republican ignorance that is the failed McCain / Bush / Palin campaign. McCain is an angry old man with antiquated ideology and a reckless ignorant nature just like Bush, Bush, BUSH. We don’t need four more years of BUSH failure, McCain = Bush and Palin is a dummy.Obama / Biden all the way!!!
Posted by: Democrats 08 | October 21, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm
Fortunately, America had Republican presidents D.W. Eisenhower and Nixon to put Democrat Wars to rest, even Nixon with all his faults new better than a Democrat about war.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
Joe Biden is sooooooo right!
Joe Biden said he would be honored to run on the ticket with John McCain because, quote, “the country would be better off.” And here we have some common ground. I want a president who spent 22 years in uniform defending our country. I want a president who isn’t afraid to use the word “victory” when he talks about the wars we are fighting. I want a president who’s ready on Day One. I want a president with the experience and the judgment and the wisdom to meet the next international crisis – or better yet to avoid it. I want John McCain as our commander-in-chief.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
Anyone voting for McCain and Palin is out of their mind and illiterate.
McCain is too old, too weak and very confused and uneducated to be President.
Palin is unqualified, uneducated, confused and unsettled to be a VP.
Are these two people what America has? No wonder the world laughs at America.
Obama and Biden are highly educated, intelligent and well focused.
What else do we need ….another illiterate, confused, drunken Bush?
Posted by: Ned Voly | October 21, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
Joe Biden is soooooooo right!
Barack Obama wasn’t up to the job, and that, quote, “the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”
Moreover, Obama still smokes cigarettes and Obama used illegal drugs that have warped his mind. They say that there are not much of his thinking processes remaining for useful calculations.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
The ONLY reason Biden and BO look intelligent is because the media covers up there gaffes.
Why didn’t the media talk about this from Bimbo Biden…
(paraphrasing since the media won’t reprint it) Barack is all about one three letter word; JOBS.
I guess that is Democrat intelligence!
Posted by: Jim | October 21, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm
Jobs created by a military draft and a national service program supported by Powell and Obama.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm
Posted by: Ned Voly | Oct 21, 2008 9:47:55 PM
++++++++++++++++++
You must have read Bidens version of his resume, because the real one reads like this:
Failed ROTC
Failed English Lit due to plagerizing a paper
Said he went to school on a full scholarship, but didn’t
Said he graduated at the top of his class, actually…
he graduated 76 out of 85.
Dropped out of race in 1988 in disgrace because he was caught plagerizing his “Biography” speech of all things. Real guy was a guy running for office in Great Britian.
Posted by: S Adams | October 21, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Hey, give Joe a break. Senator Biden did not put his foot in his mouth this time; the McCain-Palin campaign is using his comment out of context. Look up the full text — Biden said that a President Obama would be tested because history shows that each of the last seven presidents has been tested. For those who miss the point, a President McCain would be tested also. Biden qualifies that Obama is brilliant, which implies he can handle this unknown test. No one calls McCain brilliant, especially since all McCain talks about is carrying a big stick. That would be the same “big stick” that has already helped destroy our economy and over-extended our troops to exhaustion.
Posted by: gingersnap1951 | October 21, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Blackjack:
Fortunately, America had Republican presidents D.W. Eisenhower and Nixon to put Democrat Wars to rest, even Nixon with all his faults new better than a Democrat about war.
———
Odd that throughout American history, it’s the Republicans who ‘know’ war. hmmm… Does that tell you anything?
Posted by: Realdaddy | October 21, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
Biden basically admitted Obama is not experienced for the job.
Congrats Biden, you say the truth once in a while.
Posted by: Greg h | October 21, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Biden is right. There will be an international crisis and the new President of the United States will be tested. Biden spoke of Obama because that is who will be president. Past presidents have all been tested. McCain would probably be tested even more than Obama because the world views McCain as a lackey of the Bush Administration. The rest of the world prefers Obama over McCain.
Obama (like Bill Clinton) has the brains to deal with any crisis. He also has the presidential temperament. And, unlike McCain, Obama can multi-task. In a crisis, we are in trouble with McCain who is impulsive, impetuous and impatient” “perilous qualities in a commander in chief.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28kristof.html
Posted by: Rachel | October 21, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
There you go again Joe.
Posted by: Missy | October 21, 2008, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm
Realdaddy |
Does not know history and is just like all Obama supporters that speak without reference. I lived the history as it was happening.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
Democrat Harry S. Truman enters the Korean Conflict and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower ended the Korean Conflict. Democrat John F. Kennedy Started Vietnam War, Democrat President LB Johnson expanded the war and Republican Richard Nixon ended the Vietnam War.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm
Obama did not handle a simple housing crisis in Illinois and Obama cannot handle an international crisis of any magnitude, not even back fence gossip.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm
The only thing clear here is that the right wingers want to milk all they can from Joe’s remarks!
You want to hear about the REAL McCain?
Last summer in Iowa we had all of this flooding in eastern Iowa, out by Cedar rapids and Iowa City. Both campaigns had events scheduled for the areas, and were asked to stay away because they didn’t want anymore going on over there than they already had to cope with.
Obama’s campaign said, “Sure, we’ll honor your request.” McCain came anyway.
Now McCain is running ROBO CALLS telling people that Obama didn’t care enough to stop and tour the flooded areas like He (Mccain) did!
McCain is a despicable liar. We don’t want this creep in the oval office!!!!
He’s running the sleaziest smear campaign imaginable!!
GO TO HELL, MCCAIN!!!
Posted by: Donna Hughes | October 21, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm
Michelle is one ugly ass, angry militant racist gorilla, dontcha think?
ugggghh, go back to Kenya b*tch!
Posted by: MONKEY HOUSE | October 21, 2008, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm
Obama is a despicable liar. We don’t want this creep in the oval office!!!!
He’s running the sleaziest smear campaign imaginable!!
GO TO HELL, Blobama!!!
Posted by: BUCKY NOBAMA | October 21, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm
Joe Biden tells the TRUTH and Obama supporters call Joe Biden a liar. It is hard to keep up with all the Obama lies.
Posted by: BlackJack | October 21, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm
Terrorists? Voter fraud? International crises? Liberal buds in Congress screwing up the economy?
Who cares…
I want my FREE MONEY!
Obama/Biden/ACORN
“Voter early, vote often!”
Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 21, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
I’m a typical lazy a$$ black on welfare, and my man Obama is going to give me more free money, like slave reparations from you white folk!
Posted by: bobo | October 21, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm
Wow,you know we need to move the elections to may,know why?Cause think of all the jobs that would be lost if the media didn’t have to hire people to cover the Great Gaffing Duo of Obama Obiden.We could fix the economy with a couple cameras and Buds.Employment would soar through the roof.First he say obama is unfit for the fob and has no experience,then he tells a paralyzed man to stand,flip flops six ways from sunday,promises a major crisis within six months of Obama taking office(I wonder were he gets his information)and all the other gaffes he has made.I wonder what will be next,claiming to be the next VP of the “United Socialist States”?
Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 22, 2008, 2:50 am 2:50 am
Hey grand old party,remember that money is not all just for you.You have to share it with John Smith,Mickey Mouse,Elmer Fudd and anyother disney character that comes along.
Posted by: Obama for Latrine Cleaner '08 | October 22, 2008, 2:55 am 2:55 am
I don’t believe it was a slipup by Biden.
I believe it is deliberate and an entrapment tactic to drag McCain and Palin to raise it up as an issue in their campaign messages. That is one reason why Biden did not address it.
I thought it was a stroke of genius by the Obama campaign to have Biden to talk about a crisis in an Obama Presidency.
Here is the Obama strategy:
1.Obama campaign knows Biden’s reputation for his foot in the mouth.
They have briefed him, and ensure the messages he need to speak out.Obama runs a tight ship. A very tight ship.
2.Having Biden talking about it to donors and then allowing the conversation to leak out.Biden is no fool not to know that what he says will come out.
3. It is arrogance to talk about an Obama presidency and what will happen. That is NOT the style of Obama and totally out of character of the strategist in the Obama camp.
4. The need to find a diversion to the economic issues… too much on the economy for the next two weeks have a downside — voters get bored, you have only so much to say for 14 days and there will be slipups on an issue that is Obama’s strength.
5. The issue they chose was foreign policy/national security… McCain’s strength.
6. If you notice, Biden was talking about the RESPONSE to the international crisis. Biden did NOT say how the Obama Presidency will respond.
7. The aim is to let McCain and Palin to take the bite on the issue raised by Biden. Let the media run it and let McCain and Palin to make a campaign issue.
8. Once McCain and Palin raised it too often in their rallies, voters, especially the independent voters, will start to compare who is best suited to respond to an international crisis? McCain or Obama.
9.Immediately, voters will be reminded of how McCain respond to the financial crisis, his erratic behaviour, his Angry-Old-Man persona during the Presidential debate, his impetuousness and irritability, impatience etc. While Obama had sold himself as a cool-hand, level headed, steadiness, tough and unruffled. Colin Powell best encapsulates that view.
10. Voters will ask themselves, who can I trust to RESPOND to a criss if there is one involving foreign leaders and protecting our national security?
11.If McCain and Palin pushed this issue further, Obama campaign or its surrogates will hurl it back on McCain and Palin (who has zero foreign policy experience.. reminding voters of McCain’s behaviour and response to the financial crisis and his attitudes to his opponents. Not forgetting that Biden himself is a foreign policy oldhand. Palin is not.
I thought it was a brilliant move by the Obama campaign with only 14 days to go.
Whoever thought this out is a real genious!!! Hats off.
Posted by: FrankMelbie | October 22, 2008, 7:35 am 7:35 am
Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather says there is a huge double-standard in the media when it comes to coverage the Barack Obama campaign receives, which is clearly made evident in the lack of scrutiny given to comments Obama’s vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden made earlier this week.
On Sunday, Biden said that electing Obama president will generate “an international crisis” within the first six months of his new administration because America’s enemies will want to test Obama.
“Watch — we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy,” Biden assured. “I don’t know what the decision is going to be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history, and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it is going to happen.”
Rather, speaking today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” cable program, told host Joe Scarborough that if Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had said such a thing about her running mate John McCain, it would be “the top story in every major American paper and on every network.”
Rather says the Obama campaign “can’t be happy” about Biden’s comments and is surprised there haven’t been more political ramifications to Biden’s gaffe.
“Certainly if Sarah Palin had said this, it would be above the fold in most newspapers today,” Rather said. “But let me point out that what happens on the Internet may be as important, or more important, than what’s happening in newspapers,” he added, referring to the spotty mainstream media coverage.
“I’ll be surprised if this doesn’t have a run on the Internet, because if Sarah Palin had said this, the newspapers would have jumped all over it, and so would the major television outlets.”
Posted by: Mark Garnett | October 22, 2008, 8:58 am 8:58 am
Biden is right;
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a7MuiagBPMz4&refer=us
Posted by: Georgia | October 22, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am
As all of you far left radicals bask in the glow of your new MESSIAH, I want you to remember the following:
1) Regardless of what Obama is currently saying we ALL will see our payroll taxes go up, a new 45% death tax, a reduction in deductions, a temporary ONE YEAR $1500 tax break, NOT A CUT. (For proof, please check out Barney Franks comments. He said forget the deficit, we can grow it now with massive NEW spending, then tax folks more later on to make up for it.)
2) Sen. Biden states and PROMISES that Obama will be tested by an International incident, maybe an attack on American soil, maybe Iran on Israel… And Biden says, not knowing it was being recorded, that WE WILL NEED YOUR SUPPORT BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL NOT LIKE THE RESPONSE FROM OBAMA! What does that mean? Will he allow our security to be dictated by the U.N.? We Israel be attacked and we just “watch it happen”? Why very little MSM coverage? ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN did NOT even report Biden’s comments on their news… DOES ANYONE on this site believe that Palin would have gotten the same pass? Dan Rather, a far left lib, even said that the MSM was in the tank for Obama and this story is huge and should have gotten coverage and demanded answers to what exactly Biden said.
3) And remember my Liberal friends, when the “fairness doctrine” is imposed Conservative Talk Radio will be dead, and freedom of speech, which even most Democrats believe in, will have been eroded. Maybe some rights that you Democrats find important will be the next in line to go. Maybe guns and some Liberals do hunt. Maybe freedom to assemble and we know how Libs love to demonstrate. The little children’s choirs singing praises to THE LEADER are just the beginning. Obama plans to “Change the World”, but he has a very divided Country and 44% of us do not trust him to protect America, American values nor Freedom of Speech.
I wish you all well with your Messiah, I for one, along with 44% of the Americans that still have PRIDE and RESPECT for America will be praying that it’s not the end of a wonderful Country.
Mark Garnett
Mgarnett25@aol.com
Posted by: Mark Garnett | October 22, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am
The Republican arguments are no different than they were 4 and 8 years ago, and look what they gave us. Like McCain, Kerry was a war hero, too-remember swift boat? The only true heroes (and Americans) must be Republican. Yet look what they have done to our country the last eight years. And now it’s more hate, fear and polarization.
This ain’t about executive experience, or being a former POW. It’s about leadership and intelligence, two characteristics sorely lacking in today’s Republican party.
Posted by: Former Republican | October 22, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am
If you voted for Bush in either of the last 2 elections, then you have no business professing to have any idea about what is good for this country. You’ve already proven yourself to be an idiot.
Posted by: Former Republican | October 22, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am
When the MESSIAH speaks everyone listens,
was that not s slogan for EF Hutton????
Posted by: Lizzie | October 22, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Both parties have mortgaged our futures and Bush has been the icing on the cake with his form of socialism to wall street. Obama won’t fix this mess in fact what he is proposing will make things worse. I’m tired of hearing all the promises that both parties spew every 4 years. We need a strong third party in this nation to level the playing field and fire most of these JOKERS.
Posted by: Hippie Smasher | October 22, 2008, 11:53 am 11:53 am
Donna,
Gaffe or not, no spin is necessary here because Obama, as we’ve all been told, is a unifying force in this dangerous world. He has the intellect and tools necessary to bring the world together in its time of need. After his inauguration, we will no longer have any enemies to fear and the rest of the world will have our best interests at heart. So obviously, we have nothing to be concerned about, right Joe?
Posted by: Doug | October 22, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
They’ve both been tested over the course of this long campaign. Obama remains a calm thinker. McCain runs around hair on fire waving a couple of six shooters at anything that moves.
Posted by: RueDee | October 22, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm
Subject: Missionaries in Kenya know Obama!!!
Missionaries in Kenya know Obama
Thought you’d find this interesting. Celeste and Loren Davis are missionaries in Africa and can shed some firsthand
light on one of our Presidential candidates.
Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. We are living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don’t know the last count of the dead.. Obama, under ‘friends of Obama’ gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened
to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in east Germany … He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily.
As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying ‘rigged
election’ if he doesn’t win, and possibly cause a race war in America .
What we would like you to know is that the American press has been keeping a dirty little secret. Obama IS a Muslim and he IS a racist and this is a fulfillment of the 9-11 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only true Muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is world wide jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the Muslim infiltration into their countries.
By the way, his true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won’t that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran!?
God Bless you.
Pray for us here in Kenya . We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, including America , is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya , not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down,
some with people in them, burned alive.
Jesus Christ is our peace, but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and survive. It won’t be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I’ve tried to say in a few paragraphs.
Posted by: Ralph | October 22, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm
A divided nation, a non experienced, silly Veep,joe the plummer, a very dirty campaign,Bush’ backed up policies background, an old,and exhausted Iraq, even tipical Bush “don’t talk policy”, then how republicans expect that the average Joe like me have the certeinty MCainn-Palin are the right ticket for America.
Hey wake up, 21 century, massive media exposure, we average Joe know what we wants. The candidate that make America Strong again, to lift the pride to live Democracy and Freedon.
The same reason why Hillary is not the one, because we do not vote just because is a woman, therefore Mcainn made a big mistake choosing Palin, and on November 4, we will teach a lesson the the Maverick, this is a new America and we are thirsty for change, and change has a name: Obama-Biden.
Posted by: alba | October 22, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
MY WIFEY WAS JUST TRYING TO SAY, SHE WOULD ONLY BE PROUD OF AMERICA IF GOOD OLE BUCKY WAS ELECTED PREZ. NOW DON’T BOTHER ME ASKING ABOUT ISSUES ANYMORE. (yes but mister president, it’s time for the State of the Union Address). WELL, JUST RUN THAT HOPE AND CHANGE CAMPAIGN SPEECH BY THOSE SUCKERS AGAIN.
Posted by: . | October 22, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
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Biden: Gets away with endless idiotic comments because his media-elite pals “know” he’s no idiot.
Posted: 4:08 am
October 22, 2008
Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden’s propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to “gird your loins” because a young president Obama will be tested by an international crisis just like young President John Kennedy was.
Scary? You betcha! But somehow, not front-page news.
Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden’s statements.
There were a few exceptions. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski flipped incredulously through the papers, expressing shock at the lack of coverage of Biden’s remarks. Guest Dan Rather admitted that if Palin had said it, the media would be going nuts.
So what gives?
The stock answer is: “It’s just Biden being Biden.” We all know how smart he is about foreign policy, so it’s not the same as when Sarah Palin says something that seems off.
Yet, when Biden asserted incorrectly in the vice-presidential debate that the United States “drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon,” nobody in the US media shrieked. (It was, however, covered with derision in the Middle East.) Or when he confused his history by claiming FDR calmed the nation during the Depression by going on TV, the press didn’t take it as evidence that he’s clueless.
And Biden is the foreign-policy gravitas on the Democratic ticket, so his comments are actually even more disconcerting.
The outakes of his Sunday remarks don’t begin to capture the magnitude of what he said. After warning the crowd that there would be some sort of international incident – Biden could think of four or five scenarios – he told the donors: “We’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
What does that mean? Obama’s election would provoke an international incident because of his inexperience and even Obama’s biggest supporters won’t be reassured by his response?
Then there were Biden’s predictions on the economy: “I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? . . . Why is this thing so tough? . . . I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point, because you’re going to have to reinforce us.
“There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision.’ ”
Biden is teling us that, at a time when Americans need to feel confidence in their government, they will be going “Oh my God.” Not a great message.
Needless to say, if Sarah Palin said this about a McCain administration, the media world would be exploding.
Whether you believe Biden is exaggerating, as he is known to do, or is providing real insight, the double standard in the media does even more damage to their lagging brand.
Part of the problem is their “Obama love,” but we’re also seeing the media elite’s belief – prejudice – that anyone with an R behind their name is dumb. So, if they say something dumb, they must be dumb. A Democrat, like Biden, can make wildly inaccurate or outrageous comments and they are ignored because the TV and press insiders feel they “know who he really is.”
On the stump recently, Sen. Biden declared he had “three words” for what the nation needs: “J-O-B-S.”
Lucky for him, his name isn’t Dan Quayle, or that would have followed him for the rest of his career.
Game Over. McCain/Palin 08!
Posted by: reaganfan | October 22, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm