Oh, That Joe! (No. 31 in a Series) — Biden Loves Dave Matthews?

Joe Biden is a fan of where ever he happens to be at the moment.
He reminds me of my Irish uncle at the pub who, after a few drinks, could always tell a tall tail and “one up” everyone.
Joe said -
“When growing up, I always dreamed of being in the football hall of fame.” Trouble is the football hall of fame didn’t exist until Joe was 21.
“I graduated at the top of my class in law school”. Fact -Joe graduated 76th out of 85.
“Its a three letter word – JOBS”. I count 4 letters.
“…at the Blue Hen” — the dinner has been closed for a long time.
He couldn’t serve his country because he was 4F. Yet he could play football and baseball in school. And Joe did get an “F” in ROTC.
Sounds like Joe takes a litle nip before each speech. Or maybe the botox has seeped into his brain and that makes him shoot off his big mouth.

Joe Biden is the type of guy in your place of work that you avoid at office parties.
And in the office he is always hanging around the coffee machine, so you hate to go get coffee while he is there because he will waste your time talking your ear off about some frivoulous blah-blah-blah about himself.
“Great, Joe, gotta’ go back to work now- great story, maybe you can finish it next time…ha…ha..ha..bye.”

Fareed Zacharia endorses Obama – says McCain, the Best of the Past, Barack, the Hope of the Future!
Obama Endoresements: Kennedy, Gore, Colin Powell, all these Great Leaders know a Healer/Uniiter and not divider when they see one!

Heres a little reminder for everyone.
Between 2000 and 2007 Barak Obama and his wife gave less then 1 Percent to charities on their 1.2 MILLION DOLLAR salary, far below the national average. While the McCain’s gave well ABOVE the national average. I guess spreading the wealth for Obama means everybody else’s money BUT HIS!!!!! And anybody who believes the rich will pay more taxes under Obama just has no clue and lives in a fantasy world. FACT, Jimmy Carter tried the same thing and the rich pulled their money out of the economy and placed it in TAX FREE treasury bonds and into offshore accounts. Inflation spiraled and interest rates on mortgages rose to 16 Percent. The rich paid LESS in taxes then any other time in the history of the US. So, if it makes you feel better to think the rich are getting screwed, go ahead, but it’s just not going to happen, and the middle class will me screwed again. Learn some history before you vote for a fantasy!!!!
If you’re in the fourth quintile, LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE making between almost $66,000 and about $110,000, McCain gives you a $1,487 tax cut, Obama will give you a $1,264 tax cut.
If you’re in the top quintile, LIKE MANY MARRIED COUPLES making above $110,000, McCain will give you a tax cut of $12,144 while Obama will raise your taxes $4,600 more. (To suss this out a little more — the Obama campaign says it will not raise taxes on individuals making more than $200,000, or couples making more than $250,000.)

Klein: Now terrorists swoon over Biden. Hamas says VP candidate will help Obama with ‘right policy’ for Middle East
“JERUSALEM – In an exclusive interview tonight, a senior Hamas official heaped praise on Sen. Joe Biden, calling him a “very nice” person and a “great man” whose record “speaks volumes” and who can be counted on by the terror group to engage in the “right policy” toward the Middle East.
During the interview with WND’s Aaron Klein and WABC Radio’s John Batchelor, the Hamas figure also expressed hope regarding Sen. Barack Obama’s “vision for change,” announcing Hamas will send Obama a letter of congratulation “the moment he will win the election.”
Ahmed Yousef, Hamas’ chief political adviser in the Gaza Strip, called Biden a “very prominent figure when it comes to the politics of the region.”
“I do believe Mr. Biden, he is well known, he is familiar with the situation here in Palestine. I think he is a very nice person. … Yes, he is well aware of the political situation here in Palestine, and I do believe he might do something to change the bad image about America and enhance that image,” Yousef said during the interview.
“His record speaks volumes. I do believe Mr. Biden is a great man. And we do count on him also as a good partner with Mr. Obama to put the right policy regarding how to handle the problems in the region.”
Speaking about Obama, Yousef commented that it’s “good for America to have a new administration with someone like Mr. Obama and his vision for a change.”
“I do believe actually with this administration, with the Bush administration we don’t have luck (ending Hamas’ isolation). …We as Palestinians are thinking that we might have better luck with a new administration, maybe, if Obama wins the election. I do believe he will change the American foreign policy … in the way they are handling the Middle East,” Yousef said.”
worldnetdaily

The idea that anything Colin Powell says is taken seriously is a stretch. The fact that he has – to the surprise of no one – endorsed Barack Obama for president only makes his political impotence complete.
Powell has no standing in the Republican party, or the conservative movement, nor in the Democratic party for that matter (considering how they slimed him with charges of “collusion” with Bush in war crimes).
The press is making this a big story because Powell may still garner respect among some “independents.” But the idea that this endorsement will help Obama is wildly overblown. It has about as much impact as an endorsement by Bruce Springsteen – which is to say little or nil.
Still, it is interesting that Powell did not endorse Obama for his foreign policy views but rather because Powell believes he would be better at handling the current economic crisis: Obama displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge.
If Obama is elected get ready for another attack on US soil. Israel is already bracing for Obama to talk with Iran.

The candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.
By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September.

Has anyone else noticed that Michelle Obama has been taken out of circulation except for a recent appearance on the Daily show?
Could it be that they realize that she is definitely a detriment to their ticket?
To me, she really would be one of the worst aspects of an Obama presidency. To think that she would be carted around on Air Force one is a joke. That she would benefit from all that this glorious country has to offer is sickening. The same country that she has never been proud of. The idea of her sleeping in the White House is preposterous.
It is important that the Silent Majority, all 100,000,000 million of us of voting age, turn out in all our force and send Michele Obama back to Chicago where she belongs. This will be the most important vote of our generation,please don’t leave it up to others to vote for you.

Tapper, your “Oh, That Joe” joke is getting old. And insulting. Would the world explode if you focused on the substance of what Biden says instead of what you perceive to be gaffes?

Personally, I am realyl starting to like Biden! Biden rules!
Jiff

African Press International Insists Michelle Obama Tapes to be Released Within 24 Hours
Update: API retains counsel–Philip Berg–for U.S. distribution of taped evidence
americasright

“Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration.”
Great… we have the smarted cabinet in history assembled with Warren Buffet, Colin Powell on-board.
We are still waiting for you, mayor Bloomberg and senator Luger. C’mon, join this broad bi-partisan coalition, our country desperately needs this.
Forget Joe the Plumber rhetoric, we need brains, experience and wisdom !

“Google CEO Backs Obama
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt’s push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency.
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“But some tech and media executives speculate that he might desire a role in an Obama administration, possibly the chief technology officer post Sen. Obama has said he would create.”
I work in the IT, and Eric Schmidt is one of the respected person in the IT. Google have reshaped the IT industry within in such short time, combining success with a very on of the best working climate.
We have the smartest cabinet assembled in history!
Warren Buffet, Colin Powell, Eric Schmidt … who’s next!

Jake Tapper’s “Oh, That Joe!” series is his little way of trying to act like a balanced, fair, objective reporter.
He can say he has had (now) 31 digs against Joe and an equal amount against Gov. Palin.
But the “Oh, That Joe!” series is just sugar-coated, homespun fluff; whereas the Gov. Palin entries are full out, angry attacks.
Has Jake ever written a real negative, serious critique about Joe Biden in this blog? Just colorful “whacky” anecdotes about good ol’ Joe in between the attacks on McCain and Palin.

CNTD for hero’s benift…
OBAMA: Look, I’m going to have to respond to this just really quickly, but by Senator Clinton’s own vetting standards, I don’t think she would make it, since President Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences of two members of the Weather Underground, which I think is a slightly more significant act…
(APPLAUSE)
GIBSON: Please.
OBAMA: … than me serving on a board with somebody for actions that he did 40 years ago.

Biden is unfit to be president.

EXCLUSIVE: .22 Gunshot, paint balls fired at McCain / Palin Straight Talk Express
October 19th, 2008
(Sunday, October 19 – Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning’s Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday. It arrived with a window shattered by a .22 caliber weapon. It had also been hit by an unknown number of paint balls from a paint ball gun or guns. There were reportedly no injuries and neither candidate was on board.
One local man who saw the damage and spoke with the McCain/Palin staffers said the attack(s) had occured in southern New Mexico that same day. The Express is traveling the country independent of the candidates, handing out campaign materials.
Sarah Palin is stumping in of all places Roswell, New Mexico today and then roughly back the way we came with an event at the Henderson, Nevada Pavilion tomorrow and a stop in Elko, Nevada.

“Biden is unfit to be president.”
Biden is part of the team, standing next to giants like Warren Buffer, Colin Powell and Eric Schmidt.
His role is to get the moderate republicans on board. Forget the NeoCon conservatives, they are yesterday’s news. Biden is a good guy, and I’m sure he will do an amazing job in fulfilling his role.

Hero
What no reply to my corection of your statement ?

“Take rock star Dave Matthews, who found the notion of an all-powerful, loving God “more irritating than Santa Claus.” He’d like the idea, but it’s “absurd. It’s just our attempt to be more important than a tree.”
Does Joe Biden agree with that?

Man will people making all these claims show some damned evidence. The tax cut thing is a lie but I’d like to see transcripts at the very least for all these purported quotes. Take everything you read with a grain of salt, liberal and conservative.

Arnie,
No one shoots off their big mouth more than Falin-she made a comment about socialism, and she’s too stupid to know what the word means. If she did, she wouldn’t use it since a Republican president has socialized the banks in the last few weeks. But since she is illiterate and uneducated, she doesn’t even know what she’s talking about.
She should go back to her kitchen window and looking at Russia. She talks down Washington, DC-but she’s doing everything she can in her little Caribou Barbie way to get there!! She’s a panderer and she appeals to the basest of ideas and emotions. She should apologize to Sen. Obama and his family for egging on the crowds, and inciting them to yell threats to his life. She has no right to do this, and she should be ashamed of herself.
Though “If I only Had a Brain” comes to mind.

Th 2008 campaign is showing Democrats to be “real people” and the Republicans “ultimate victims” of their own doing.

Something New Here
Radical? Check. Tied to Liddy? Check.
Tied to Iran-Contra? Check. Tied to Lobbyist Tom Loeffler & Saudis? Check.
Tied to lobbyist Doug Goodyear & military junta in Burma? Check.
Tied to Rick Davis and Freddie/Fannie?Check.
McCain = too radical, too risky, too dirty, too beholden to lobbyists

Hero – I actually get Investor’s Business Daily – through no fault of my own. 1) It is a tabloid, which ran an 18-Part Anti-Obama series, full of lies and innuendo 2) It regularly has Michelle Malkin as a guest columnist 3) It is an ultra, ultra right wing tabloid 4) No one, and I mean no one who is reputable would consider this paper, with it’s pretend name to be a resource for reliable polling. There are good polllsters who lean right, left and center, but Investor’s Business Daily is not one of them. They are also not used by the business community. A npoll in the NYC financial district found that no one had ever heard of them. They are a fraud – on the order of the crap that Scaife tried to do in the 90s.

Joe Biden listens to Dave Matthews Band. His children are fans.
Case closed. No need to say more. This says it all…Anyone who is a DMB fan is ok by me ! The DMB are a matter of taste…good taste. Way to go Joe, I knew I liked you….;-)

I like this series because it does, at least, give some sustained coverage of Joe Biden. Multiple accounts, including most recently Ryan Lizza’s fascinating piece in The New Yorker, have portrayed Senator Biden as the most accessible of all the candidates currently running for an Executive position. Yet he has consistently had to struggle for press coverage, while his rival – who will coast through the entire election without having once given a *single* press conference – luxuriates in such a surfeit of coverage that she feels fine about banishing reporters from her presence.
So even though I sometimes dislike the condescension that Mr. Tapper’s reports seem to carry, and even though I think the name of this series has long since passed its freshness date, I am still grateful for OTJ. Keep em coming, Jake. :-)
On another note, having just attended a James Taylor GOTV concert for Obama in NC – wow, these guys have some serious musician love. Some serious multi-generational musician love. Arcade Fire and Superchunk in NC in the spring (when you need college students’ turnout to win the primary); James Taylor in the fall (when you need their parents and grandparents to win the general). Living in a swing state rocks. Literally.