Seriously, why does the administration continue to give this guy a speaking part?
And they used to say that Dan Quayle was dumb? Speaking of which, the former VP mispelled potato one time and was marked a moron. How many spelling errors is Obama allowed before people realize that this guy is no genius?
During a conference call with 55 governors, territorial officials or their designees, Vice President Joe Biden enthusiastically effused about Obama's stimulus plan: “In my wildest dreams, I never thought it would work this well.”
Really?
They promised this would prevent unemployment from reaching 8% and we are now pushing double digits. They vowed that it would not require another tax hike but we now know that was a lie. They claimed that the package would avoid special interest and pork spending, but the congressional pet projects in this spending orgy look like a sleazy Webkinz convention. They said it would not create deficit spending but the current projections calculate deficit spending over the next 10 years that is close to equalling the total deficit spending that was created over the past 200 years.
If Biden never thought the stimulus package "would work this well," I wonder what exactly they were planning for this country.
Joe Biden is on the road again and every time he's answers a question on camera I'm amazed that this guy is the VP from a party that claimed to be afraid of having Sarah Palin one step away from the White House.
In his latest misadventure, Biden was asked on NBC's Today Show about travel to Mexico with all this talk about H1N1 and answered,
"I would tell members of my family -- and I have -- I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico in a confined aircraft where one person sneezes, that goes all the way through the aircraft."Way to provide calm leadership in a time of concern, Joe. The fact is that according to the Center For Disease Control 30,000 - 40,000 people die from the regular flu every year. Given that and the so-called "Swine Flu's" current statistics, we are far from pandemic proportions (though it has provided the Egyptians a wonderful excuse to kill all the pigs being raised by those pesky pork-loving Christians in their country). While we should all be vigilant, we should not be in panic mode.
One area where I differ from many conservatives is that I support gay marriage. I wonder if Joe Biden agrees with me. It's hard to tell.
During the Veep Debate Biden said that neither “Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” But earlier this week Biden danced a different jig on the Ellen DeGeneres show saying, “if I lived in California, I would vote against Proposition 8.” (This initiative reads, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”)
Which is it Joe? I mean, I don't really care, but which is it? Can you just give us some straight talk for once . . . or do you only talk straight when you're seeking the straight vote.
What was it Sarah Palin said about these Democrats "saying one thing in Scranton and another in San Francisco"?
H/T: geeeeeZ!
“I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns. . . . I got two. If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem. I like that little over and under, you know? I’m not bad with it.”
--Joe Biden
"I'll tell you what, if that [gun] is his baby, he needs help. I don't know that he is mentally qualified to own that gun."
-- Joe Biden
Given Biden's fatuous understanding of the Constitution, it could be that he just had all those crazy amendments mixed up in his plug-scarred head and was never really sure what he was actually voting for. But whatever the reason, it is certain that when gun legislation is on the docket, good ol' Joe is sitting in his blind ready to unload on sportsmen.
For more on Joe the Dumber's stance on the 2nd Amendment, see http://www.gunbanobama.com/
During the the Veep debate, Joe Biden (who has been in the Senate for a hundred years or so) claimed that the relationship between the Vice President and the Senate is describe in Article I of the Constitution, and since that Article is about the Executive branch of government it proves that the Veep is not really a part of the Legislative branch. Of course, the major problem with Joe's observation is that Article I is actually about the Legislative branch, destroying the premise of his argument. It seems Republicans have "Joe the Plumber" and Democrats have "Joe the Dumber."
Biden went on to claim that the Vice President's role is to preside over the Senate (yes, that same body where ole Joe has been for a hundred years or so) but "only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit." Yes, Joe, the Constitution is explicit, but perhaps you should give it another read . . . or even a first read. The constitution actually says that the Veep is ALWAYS the President of the Senate, but only votes in the case of a tie.
The question is, What does it mean that the Vice President is the "President of the Senate"? Ah, there is the area of dispute. You see, the Constitution never fully defines it . . . though is does provide a definition of the term "President" (that would be found in Article II, Joe).
But while "scholars" may dispute what the term "President" means in Article I, it is clear that breaking a tie vote is not the only role the Vice President has played in the Senate. The Vice President can address the Senate with the Senate's permission, and the Veep can function to interpret senate rules, and his (or her) interpretation can only be overruled by a majority vote of the senate. For Democrats with a lust for history who may be reading this, head to the local library and check out the active role that Thomas Jefferson took as a Vice President.
So then why is the left incensed about Sarah Palin response when an 3rd grader asked what the Vice President does? Part of Palin's response (the part that sparked the latest wave of Palinphobia from folk like Matt Demon . . . I mean, Damon) was,
“But also, they're [the VP] in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom."
The fact is, through their titled role as "President of the Senate" and ability to interpret Senate rules, they are "in charge" of the Senate (as much as anybody else can be said to be in charge of that nest of vipers). And through their ability to cast tie breaking votes and address the senate, they can "really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes."
But left-wing constitutional scholars like, say, Mitch Albom, continue to spend time when they're not writing bogus stories about events that they never actually attended bashing Sarah Palin for her comments?
Why? Why? Why?
I'd suggest two primary reasons:
1) Given their take on the first and 2nd Amendments, we can safely say that liberals are not real big fans of the constitution in the first place.
B) Palinphobia (as Newsmax calls it). They are scared to death of the woman who left-leaning feminist, Camille Paglia, described as "an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism."
Yesterday in Seattle (the birth place of Jimi Hendrix) Joe Biden made an interesting point that must have had Barack Obama asking, "Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?"
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking."
Whoa, wait one minute, Joe. Are you trying to tell us that if Obama is elected some rogue nation is going to try to test his leadership ability? Biden continued,
"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 he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen."
Are these supposed to be words of comfort from the Veep nominee? We are living in the most dangerous times the world has ever known with a terrorist foe who wants to destroy everything from Christianity to McDonald's, from Judaism to Einstein Brothers, and the guy Obama said he turns to for foreign policy advice is telling us that the world is going to generate an international crisis to "test" the mettle of Obama. If this is the case, perhaps the best foreign policy advice that Biden can give Obama is, "For the love of God, drop out of the presidential race."
Biden doesn't know what the crisis is going to be -- another attack on U.S. soil, Russian aggression, Iranian nukes, bombing Israel -- but he is sure there is going to be that "test," and soon. And apparently this generated "test" could mean anything from a simple international disaster to the slaughter of innocents . . . yes, that is comforting.
Of course, this is not the first time that Joe Biden has shown concern over what our enemy's may think of an Obama presidency. It was only a year ago that, when speaking of "the One," Biden said,
"If the Democrats think we're going to be able to nominate someone who can win without that person being able to table unimpeachable credentials on national security and foreign policy, I think we're making a tragic mistake…"
Tragic indeed. And during the democratic debates when George Stephanopoulos asked Biden if he still believed that Obama was not ready to lead because "the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training," Biden replied, "I think that I stand by the statement."
Joe Biden's prediction in Seattle demonstrates that he is still standing by his statement . . . even if he doesn't want to admit it publicly . . . again.
Things getting a little dull around the water cooler? Been a while since you've taken a trip to your company's HR department? Why not try out one of the Barack Obama jokes collected here (to be used at your discretion).
Q: What do Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden have in common?
A: They both have friends who have bombed the Pentagon.
Q: Why did Obama cross the road?
A: To help the other side.
Q: Why won't Obama release his real birth certificate?
A: It shows that he wasn't born of a virgin.
Q: Why won’t Obama laugh at himself?
A: Because it would be racist.
Q: Why do cemeteries have fences?
A: To keep out ACORN vote recruiters.
Q: What’s the difference between Ross Perot and Barack Obama?
A: Ross Perot is a crackpot with big ears; Barack Obama is a crackhead with big ears.
Q: Why doesn’t Obama drink Pepsi?
A: He thinks that things go better with coke.
Q: Why did Obama change his name from Barry to Barack?
A: He thought Barry sounded too American.
Q: Why did Obama say that the madrassa where he went to school wasn’t a “radical” one?
A: They didn’t have live ammo training exercises.
Q: Why does Obama want to take the oath of office in a baseball stadium?
A: So he can deliver his sermon on the mound.
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama Barack all die and go to heaven. God looks down from his throne and asks McCain, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"McCain takes a breath and then replies, "Well, I think so because I was a great leader and tried to follow the words in your great book." God looks down and then says, "You can sit to my left side."
So, McCain takes his seat and then God asks the same question to Hillary, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"Hillary thinks for a second and then replies, "I think so because I have been fighting for the rights of so many people for so long." God again looks down and this time says, "You can sit to my right side."Finally God turns to Barack Obama and asks, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"Obama replies, "You're in my seat."
BONUS JOE BIDEN JOKE:
Q: Why did Joe Biden get a hair transplant?
A: To hide the mark of the beast.
A little while ago I wrote about Katie Couric's calculated interview with Joe Biden. It simply amazed me that the media was in a frenzy over Palin's answers during the Couric interview but never whispered a sound about the absolute insanity broiling in Biden's responses when he took his turn . . . not to mention Couric's southpaw softies to the Senator. Well, I'm happy to see that a number of folk took notice, including Anne Coulter.
Now I know a number of you break out into haloed hives at the mention of Coulter's name . . . but I also know, based on experience, that if this is your immediate reaction that you are probably more familiar with things written about Anne Coulter than things written by Anne Coulter. And though I don't agree with her on every issue, the article below is worth everybody's read because she nailed Biden . . . but not in that way (that would be icky).
So here is the definitive take on VP Joe Biden. I've copied the whole thing here, which I hope doesn't upset Anne. But just in case, go buy her latest book.
PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY
by Ann CoulterOctober 8, 2008
If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?")
These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years."
It turns out that Katie's restaurant, where Biden gets his feel for the average American, closed 20 years ago. The only evidence that he spends any time in Home Depot is that it appears that a pipe wrench fell on his head one too many times.
Palin would surely have been forced to withdraw from the ticket had she said something like that, but most of Biden's errors were not trifling mistakes like these. They were lengthy Lyndon LaRouche-like disquisitions that were pure fantasy from beginning to end.
For example, Biden said about Hezbollah: "When we kicked -- along with France -- we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon." Hezbollah was never kicked out of Lebanon.
He continued: "I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.'" This is madness -- Lebanon is not a NATO country, nor had any NATO country been attacked by Lebanon.
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of foreign policy.
Biden also stoutly denied that Obama ever said he would sit down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Liberals find it hilarious that McCain can't use a computer keyboard on account of his war injuries, but Biden is apparently unaware of the Internet, because there are clips all over the Internet of Obama saying exactly that during the CNN/YouTube debate last year.
Biden might have remembered that debate since: (1) He was there, and (2) he later attacked Obama's answer, telling the National Press Club in August 2007: "Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected president? Absolutely, positively, no."
And that's still not all! Obama's own Web site says: "Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to remember well-known facts.
Biden also gave a long speech at the debate on vice president Dick Cheney's "dangerous" belief that "he's part of the legislative branch." The great constitutional scholar Biden cited Article I of the Constitution as proof that Cheney "works in the executive branch" and has "no authority relative to the Congress." Biden huffily added: "He should understand that. Everyone should understand that."
Palin would have had to deny that Alaska is a state in the union in order to say something comparably stupid.
Article II, not I, describes the executive branch. Someone tell Biden, who is supposed to be a lawyer. Apart from getting the Articles of the Constitution mixed up, what on earth does Biden mean when he says that the vice president "has no authority relative to Congress," apart from breaking ties?
The Constitution makes him president of the senate every day of the week. I realize that Biden may not be able to count to two, but Article I says the vice president is president of one of the two houses of Congress -- the one Biden is in, for crying out loud -- which is what you might call "authority relative to Congress."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of the Constitution.
In one especially hallucinatory answer, Biden authoritatively stated: "With Afghanistan, facts matter, Gwen. ... We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country."
According to the Congressional Research Service, since 9/11, we've spent $172 billion in Afghanistan and $653 billion in Iraq. The most money spent in Iraq came in 2008, when we have been spending less than $3 billion a week. So by Biden's calculations, we've spent only about $9 billion "on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country." There isn't even a "9" in $172 billion.
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of math.
In the same answer, Biden went on to claim that "John McCain voted against a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that every Republican has supported."
The last nuclear test ban treaty the Senate voted on was the one Clinton signed in the '90s. As The New York Times editorialized on the Senate vote a few years later: "Last week, Senate Republicans thundered 'no' to the nuclear test ban treaty, handing the White House its biggest defeat since health care in 1994." Forty-nine Republicans voted against the treaty; only four liberal Republicans voted for it. That's the treaty Biden says "every Republican has supported."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to function as vice president.
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When it comes to charitable giving, Joe Biden talks the talk, but Sarah Palin walks the walk.
Of course, when adjusted by the amount of money he wants you to give to others through higher taxes in a redistribution of wealth, well, that's where Joe Biden shines. He doesn't want to give his money away, but for you to do so is "patriotic."
God Bless America, Joe
H/T: American Digest
Joe Biden is a liar.
Not in the every-politician-is-a-liar sense, but in the worms-from-the-bowels-of-hell sense. Oh, one could try to soft peddle the fact by claiming he's just a fibber. Or one could wink like you do about that crazy uncle with the lazy eye who is "prone to exaggerate." But one would be ignoring the clear fact: when somebody intentionally and repeatedly distorts facts, even to the point of stating the polar opposite of said facts, that person has lied. It doesn't matter if that person speaks with authority and confidence, he is still a liar. And Joe Biden, dear and undear readers, is a liar.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. I mean, this is a guy with the audacity to lie about the greatest tragedy of his life, the death of his first wife and daughter, for political gain, so he isn't exactly a powdered wig away from being George Washington. But in the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate he demonstrated an uncanny ability to lie by Pinocchioing virtually every topic. Here is a saddening sampling courtesy of Steve Thomas through alt.news-media:
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 specifically say that, 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 only opposed a bill that included a timeline that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of its 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.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq” because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war [which was a "war resolution" -- another Biden lie] and differed on the surge strategy where John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
And then there were some of the shaky lies that are, at best, debatable. For example, Biden pretended to be a constitutional expert when he attacked Dick Cheny during the debate saying, "The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch." However, if you actually read the Constitution you will find that the vice president is indeed mentioned in Article I, but that Article is actually about the Legislative Branch (as Cheny claimed) and identifies that Vice President as part of the legislative branch by acting as "the President of the Senate." So either Biden lied, expecting that the American people would never actually hear about it, or he's currently reading at about a third grade level.
At one point in the debate "say it ain't so" Joe said, "Drill we must, but it will take 10 years for one drop of oil to come out of any of the wells that are going to begun to be drilled." But that is simply not true. The current Alaskan Pipeline took 2 years, 2 months and 4 days from ground breaking to completion and covers 800 miles over vast mountain ranges. An ANWR pipeline would only cover 75 miles. So unless they plan on sending the current congress to Alaska to do the work, it will not take 10 years to draw oil from this energy rich, desolate piece of unused real estate.
Biden also echoed Obama's claim that the junior senator from Illinois warned about the subprime mortgage crisis two years ago. This may or may not be a lie. We're all still anxiously waiting for the Obama camp to provide proof of that warning.
Now I'm not the biggest Karl Rove fan, but I have to give him a hockey-mom like shout out on this one. If the media actually does its job and exposes Biden's avalanche of lies throughout the debate, it could have a major impact on the election. But, alas, I'm sure they are far to busy wondering what magazines Sarah Palin does or does not read.
Much has been made of Katie Couric's interview of Sarah Palin, where the governor appeared to be a different person from the one we have seen in YouTube gubernatorial interviews, previous debates and VP engagements. What happened? Was it creative editing, lack of preparation, poor direction from the McCain camp, Stage fright, Alaskan bumpkiness, a girly thing? There are plenty-o-questions on this one.
I admit that I may not be the best choice to judge who won the debate. Those of you who are Khaki Elephant regulars know that I was calling for John McCain to add Sarah Palin to the ticket before Tina Fey knew that Alaskans had Midwestern accents. Saying I am biased on the topic of Palin is like observing that Chris Matthews gets the giggles for Obama. So I suppose the question in my mind is not whether I thought Palin won the debate, I'm in no position to objectively analyze that (though she won it handily), but whether or not I think her performance will provide a bump in the polls.
"And that's why Tillerson at Exxon and Mulva at ConocoPhillips, bless their hearts, they're doing what they need to do, as corporate CEOs, but they're not my biggest fans, because what I had to do up there in Alaska was to break up a monopoly."
Predictably, the Alaskan Governor really hit her stride when talking about"is to have universal government run program and unless you're pleased with the way the federal government has been running anything lately, I don't think that it's going to be real pleasing for Americans to consider health care being taken over by the feds."
energy. She pointed out that she oversaw the construction of "a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline which is North America's largest and most you expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets." She then talked knowledgeably about the amount of available oil and natural gas, explained the environmental footprint of extraction, chided Biden's comments about "raping the outer continental shelf," rebutted Biden's call for "clean coal" by reminding him that he had previously said there was no such thing, and even took the time to correct the Senator's misquote of the rally chant "Drill, baby, drill."when we talk about the Bush administration, there's a time when Americans are going to say, "Enough is enough with your ticket," on constantly looking backwards, and pointing fingers, and doing the blame game.
There have been huge blunders in the war. There have been huge blunders throughout this administration, as there are with every administration. But for a ticket that wants to talk about change and looking into the future, there's just too much finger-pointing backwards to ever make us believe that that's where you're going.
Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future.
Oh, yeah, it's so obvious I'm a Washington outsider. And someone just not used to the way you guys operate. Because here you voted for the war and now you oppose the war. You're one who says, as so many politicians do, I was for it before I was against it or vice- versa. Americans are craving that straight talk and just want to know, hey, if you voted for it, tell us why you voted for it when it was a war resolution.
Darn right it was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception there, and there was greed and there is corruption on Wall Street. And we need to stop that.Again, John McCain and I, that commitment that we have made, and we're going to follow through on that, getting rid of that corruption.
One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day American people, Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars. We need to make sure that we demand from the federal government strict oversight of those entities in charge of our investments and our savings and we need also to not get ourselves in debt. Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don't live outside of our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all of
this.It's not the American peoples fault that the economy is hurting like it is, but we have an opportunity to learn a heck of a lot of good lessons through this and say never again will we be taken advantage of.
It brings to mind a number of those old sayings. "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then." "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." The fact is that Barack Obama has made a habit of bad decisions: he kept a hate-mongering pastor as his spiritual guide for over 20 years, befriended a terrorist who had declared war on America, and became politically involved with convicted felon Tony Rezko. And while those decisions may not have hurt him politically (yet), the murky morality of his choices have left many wondering what this guy might do when facing an important call. Would he pitch to Kirk Gibson with the game on the line? But when it came to choosing a running mate, he made the perfect choice.
Biden was the guy I predicted would get the slot . . . I predicted it like, oh, roughly 80% of those who cared enough to predict. My reasoning was as simple as Obama's silent whisper, "Joe, you complete me." Obama needed Biden because the man from Delaware is everything that Barack is not.
Joe Biden has experience. He first became a senator in 1973 while Obama was sporting leis at the plush Punahou Private School in Hawaii. During his time on the hill, Biden has been a key player for the Committee on the Judiciary (chairing two confirmation hearing biggies: Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas) as well as the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Biden knows foreign policy. This background was an absolute need for the Democratic ticket after the party nominated a presidential candidate who has demonstrated a phenomenal ignorance on the subject. Joe Biden can speak candidly and knowledgeably about the world with such conviction that it will allow Obama some slack as he continues to bungle stories about WWII, European geography and Middle Eastern history.
Joe Biden is a working-class guy. While Obama disparages folks like blue collar Pennsylvanians for clinging to guns a religion, Biden walks among them. In fact, he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a working class family . . . and may well help the Democrats carry that key swing state. And while Joe Biden is many things, nobody will ever accuse him of Ivy League elitism.
Biden will speak his mind and say what he believes (or at least what he is told to say as if he believes). And this is exactly what the Obama camp needs to continue perpetrating their myth that "the chosen one" will not sully himself with negative campaigns. Instead they will send in his pitbull. Joe Biden is not the kind of guy who votes "present" on controversial bills. And he is not the kind of guy who attempts eloquence to mask uncertainty. He is a fighter and he will go after the Republicans with furious fists.
Of course, Biden's penchant for speaking his mind will also create some hurdles for the Democratic ticket. The plain talking style that makes him so endearing has also made for some frightening press in the past. Just in case you've forgotten, here are just a few Joe Biden quotes that may come back to haunt him:
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