Biden Wraps up Debate Prep in Wilmington, Heads to Washington for Senate Vote

geevill
that has nothing to do with this topic. You should do like us Americans and have a pint before you speak.
thanks for doing youy job senator,well wishes in the debate

McCain stated that he has often turned to Palin for foreign policy advice in the past. this would be the the past 2 months since he first met her I assume. BTW she can’t really see Russia from her house. Will she even be able to name world leaders at the debate?

Sorry.
CNN/Time poll
Florida: Obama +5

I would like to know if Senator Biden thinks we need to bail out Oprah’s mother from that greedy store.

oprahs mother has nothing to do with the bailout package
and geevil are you for or against the bailout package and why

Gwen Ifill should step aside as Moderator of the VP debates. No one with a book on Obama due to be released on Inaugeration Day, no less! can be considered unbiased, or capable of delivering an unbiased moderation. One more example of the MSM in the tank for Obama. We need unbiased news reporting, unbiased moderation. In elected officials, it’s called “the perception of impropriety.” It’s even more important that it not be there in our media.

How do you spell D-U-M-B?
O-B-A-M-A !

Governor Palin does not have a very long record in public service, what about the depth of her record? If you only know three things that Sarah Palin has accomplished as Governor of Alaska, it should be these three:
1) Gov. Palin is a proven fiscal conservative who used her line-item veto to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in spending from the state budget. In considering this accomplishment, keep in mind that the Alaska Legislature is controlled by the GOP, meaning that the funding she cut had already been approved by legislators of her own party. Nevertheless, she made her vetoes stick. Consider, too, that because of the current high price of crude oil, Alaska is enjoying record budget surpluses. It’s harder to practice restraint in times of plenty. And look at her entire record over time (more than as revealed by her position on a single bridge): Although Alaska has traditionally been more dependent than other states on federal funding (since the federal government owns such a large portion of the state’s property and resources), even the often-critical Anchorage Daily News admits that Gov. Palin has “increasingly distanced herself from earmarking” since 2000, and that her having done so over the past year has been “the leading source of tension between Palin and the state’s three-member congressional delegation.” Actually exercising fiscal discipline in a time of plenty, at both state and federal levels and against the will of the members of her own party, is a better predictor for how she would actually govern on a national level than ten thousand campaign promises.
2) Gov. Palin kept her campaign promise to revamp the state’s pre-existing severance tax on oil & gas production, replacing a structure negotiated behind closed doors by ethically challenged predecessors and the big energy companies with one negotiated in full public view — and then rebated part of the resulting surplus directly to tax-payers. Severance taxes are a kind of property tax charged on a one-time basis, at the time of production, on subsurface assets (like oil, gas & minerals) which can’t be quantified and taxed through regular property taxes. There was widespread resentment and distrust over the version negotiated by Gov. Palin’s predecessor with the three big energy companies who’ve traditionally ruled the roost in Alaska (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and BP). The new version negotiated and passed with Gov. Palin’s support was thoroughly disinfected by the sunshine of public scrutiny. Although it’s not a “windfall profits tax” — indeed, the base rate only went from 22.5% to 25% — it did permit the Alaskan people to share in a larger portion of the current high prices for oil by raising the additional, progressive portion of the tax from 0.25% to 0.40% on revenues between $32.50 and $90/bbl. Above that, however, the new law actually cut taxes by dropping the rate on revenues above $90/bbl to 0.1%. With the resulting budget surplus, after contributing to the state’s fund for that future day when its oil & gas wealth is exhausted, she pressed for and got legislation to rebate a healthy chunk directly to tax-payers on a per capita basis, trusting them to spend the proceeds from this sale of the state’s commonly-owned resources rather than trusting government to spend it for them.
3) Gov. Palin broke a multi-year stalemate over the financing and construction of a $40 billion cross-state gas pipeline that will deliver cleaner, cheaper natural gas to Alaska’s own population centers (Alaskans themselves pay some of the nation’s highest energy prices), while also delivering gas to the energy-hungry Lower 48. To do this, she had to break the monopoly power of the big energy companies by opening the project to competitive international bidding. Not only has a development contract with a Canadian company now been signed on better terms than had previously been discussed, but the former monopolists — finally spurred by competition — are cranking up their own plan that would not require any taxpayer investment. How precisely this will shake out remains to be seen, but Gov. Palin’s vigorous action — calling special sessions of the state legislature and injecting herself directly and vigorously into the process — has ended the deadlock in ways that seem certain to benefit consumers. By this accomplishment, Gov. Palin has done more to advance the cause of American energy independence than any other politician — of any party, and at any level of state or federal government — in this century. But the national media have generally ignored this accomplishment.

Gewn Ifel had nothing to hide and if the McCain camp would actually do their homework they would’ve know that the book had been out on the market for a while. She hid nothing. Plus, the questions that she will be asking at the debate are prepared questions that both sides will have to answer. You can’t blame Palin’s lack of knowledge on Gwen. Palin doesn’t know much outside of hockey, how to shoot a moose and Alaska.

Obama has been on Repub turf twice! C’mon people!

Caribou, your hyper-generalization of Palin’s positive impact on energy is baseless. You know nothing about energy politics nor anything about international energy economics. If you did, you’d be appalled at your utter ignorance.

However, Americans have the say,and America will vote for John McCain this year!
Maybe you should have a look at the electoral map before you speak about who america will vote for.

Every. Single. Poll. Obama ahead.

hmn: what is your source?

Joe Biden, were you behind the picket fence, on the grassy knoll, in Dallas on 11/21/63? LOLOL

Earth to hmn — earth to hmn — we sem to have lost contact. what is your source? repeat: what is your source?

uh, historyremembered, the 5% you talk about make about $153,000 year. That’s not RICH. That’s who Obama is talking about being”rich” – I call it upper middle class. Many of those are small business owners who, after the Obama taxes on their social security, capital gains and the like will fuel more businesses to close,unemployment to go up and businesses to leave the US.
As is with his illusion about his ethnicity (choosing to promote his “black” side) so is his tax plan.

William J:
Even if Biden WAS on the grassy knoll on 11/21/63, it wouldn’t really matter.
JFK was killed on 11/22/63.

From Brhandon earlier:
“APRIL
the book was announced well before ifill was picked as the moderator of the debate
both campaigns have to agree on the moderator
so you have two options to play here
1. the mccain camp didnt do their homework and they are incompetent
2. they didnt think it would be a big deal having her moderate the debate but in light of palins recent interview this is a good scapegoat
you can pick
go ahead”
LOl I soooooo agree.

caribou barbie – nice try but that’s way over the liberals’ heads – they’re jusgt not that deep into real issues and (gasp) real accomplishments. Calling palin a whore or slut is more their speed.
Lefty O’Doule: Bet that’s the first and last you’ll hear of the Pelosi Scam. She’s a democrat, so nuff said. Next issue.

Quote: “we have repubs in the senate and house to limit the dems damage….just like in 2002 thru 2006″
Oh yeah, they did a good job.. like killing repeated attempts by the Democrats to close the enron loophole. And once the Democrats finally got Congress and were able to get a bill through, the dingleberry in office vetoed it. Remind me to thank them for that next time I fill up my car.
When will people realize you can’t just base your vote on party. Vote for intelligence and ability to do what’s best for the country.