Archive for the ‘Joe Biden’ Category

*UPDATE* - Here is the direct link to the Zogby Ziegler media poll that goes along with the video below.

Think that’s crazy?  Check out some of the alarming stats they found in the Zogby poll they commissioned after the leap. (more…)

Mark Kilmer over at Red State wrote a hilarious parody of what it must have been like when the Biden’s dropped in on the Cheney’s yesterday for their meeting.  It’s priceless.  As you read it, you can easily see SNL’s Jason Sudeikis reprising his role as Joe Biden and acting this out.  Too good!

DOORMAN: Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Cheney, the Bidens are here for the tour of the Naval Observatory.

LYNN CHENEY: Show them in, jeeves.

JOE BIDEN: Pardon me, but Jilly and I have taken the liberty of letting ourselves in.

JILL BIDEN: I don’t much like these drapes.

JOE BIDEN: I’m a working class guy, Jill. We’ll buy new ones at Scranton Draperies & Curtains, where I was born, in Scranton, PeeAy.

JILL BIDEN: Don’t much care for Scranton, PeeAy.

JOE BIDEN: The people of Scranton, bless their little hearts, are all morons. Like the vice president, most dangerous people in the history of American history.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: The campaign’s over, Joe.

JOE BIDEN: Oh, I meant what I said, alright. You’re a dangerous man, Dick Cheney. I’m carrying Red Peas and a Crucifix. I’m Roman Catholic, you know, just like the Pope, bless his heart, who doesn’t know historical church doctrine on dangerous men, bless his heart.

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How dare someone in the media actually do their job and question the Obamassiah!  Didn’t this reporter know she was supposed to let Joe off easy and not ask any tough questions?  Well, Joe get’s pretty testy about it and then questions who wrote her questions for her.  Stay classy Joe.  Stay classy.

But wait!  There’s more!

The Obama campaign has officially cut off WFTV from any future interviews or events!

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Honestly, Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving.  First he says he doesn’t think Barack Obama is prepared to president as “the job” doesn’t lend itself to “on the job training”.  Now he backs it even though he’s Obama’s Veep.  What was Obama thinking when he picked Biden?  Oh, that’s right.  He just wanted McCain to stop pointing out the obvious that he’s not ready to be President.  Turns out McCain doesn’t have to.  Biden does it for him.

Turns our Governor Sarah Palin is now “pallin’ around” with the press.  And apparently it’s a lot more time than Joe Biden or Barack Obama spend with the press nowadays.

It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But 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.

By comparison…

…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.

It also turns out she’s also spending more time with the press than John McCain is as well.  But it’s good to see Governor Palin finally opening up and becoming more comfortable with the media.  This was clearly shown during Palin’s guest appearance on Saturday Night Live. The question becomes, in these last two weeks of the campaign, will her time spent with the media pay off?  Can’t say I’m betting on that one.

I thought it was Joe Biden’s job to remind voters why it’s a good idea to vote for Barack Obama, not to scare them by saying if he’s elected America will be in the sights of our enemies.

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“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.”

And Joe, who might be generating these crises?

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The quotable Joe Biden continues.

Joe Biden is enjoying himself so much on the campaign trail that occasionally he gets to thinking he’s about to become president. “In a Biden…an Obama-Biden administration,” he said during an event at an American Legion hall here in Rochester, New Hampshire this morning, catching himself just in time.

The Vice Presidential debate pulled in an estimated 69.9 million viewers on Thursday making it the third most watched debate in history.   It was only bested by the 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and the 1992 second presidential debate between George Bush (41), Ross Perot and Bill Clinton.  (Though word is still out that Thursday’s VP debate could top that)

Unless you’re a political hack (and if you read this site, then you probably are) you may have turned off the TV after the debate and thought to yourself, that was a great debate and I’m sure everything they said was true.  Well, for Joe Biden, he got fourteen lies in during the debate that most people probably missed.  According to Tucker Bounds, the McCain-Palin spokesperson:

“Joe Biden graduated from his trademark verbal gaffe to outright lie in tonight’s debate. Each time Senator Biden was on his heels, he looked directly into the camera and lied — more than a dozen times by our count. He lied about John McCain’s record, his own record, and Barak Obama’s dangerous policies.

So what were those lies?

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”

4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.

5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

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Well, I thought that Sarah Palin did well. She held her own and made no major mistakes. Her only mistake appears to be one of mispronunciation. Biden was wonkish, pompous, and windy.

This being said, I thought it was even. But then, many of the focus groups and talking heads seem to think that Palin won for whatever reason (perhaps low expectations). I thought that McCain wiped the floor with Obama; talking heads thought it was even or lean Obama. Now I figure it was even, and they think Palin came out ahead.

Go figure.

Sarah Palin reaffirmed the support of Republicans and conservatives in her tonight, even if she did nothing else (and I think that she might have, given the talking heads). There were no “wince moments” as there were during, say, the Couric interview. That alone, I suppose, is a big victory.

She was, as many people have said, shockingly ordinary. And for someone so ordinary and representative of the everyperson, she held her own against Joe Biden, the verbose windbag and vainglorious buffoon that is the personification of the Washington establishment.

And in a “throw the bums out” year, this sort of everyperson holding their own against the personification of a do-nothing Congress and a government in gridlock can’t be anything but a good thing.

For only the second time in US history a male and female will duke it out in a vice presidential debate tonight as Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden will square off in St. Louis.  As has been the case with the gubernatorial debates and the presidential debate, we’re going to have an interactive live blog of the debate.

Make sure to come back here to take part.

Click here to participate in the live blog.

Tonight’s debate starts at 9:00pm (Eastern)

The Courier-Journal’s Lesley Stedman gives an optimistic estimate:

“The guys supposedly wearing the striped shirts, the referees, were in fact asleep at the switch, not looking out for us at all,” Biden told a crowd of about 2,300 supporters at Warden Park in downtown Jeffersonville.

The crowd count given by WHAS 11 was considerably less:

Biden scrapped a speech he had prepared for the event near the Ohio River for one about the ongoing crisis in the American economy. Biden spoke to a crowd of about 600 people for around 30 minutes.

Wave 3’s estimate seems to be even less:

Biden drew applause Wednesday from the crowd of several hundred people as he said the troubles on Wall Street had exposed “the failed philosophy of the last eight years.”

A Democrat friend of mine who attended the event told me that there were “probably a couple hundred” people present.

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