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Vice president Joe Biden told CBS that he didn’t expect detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to be released inside a U.S. “We won’t release people inside a United States because all but one, I believe, is not an American citizen,” said Biden.
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SNL spoofs Joe Biden & John Murtha for doing what Democrats do best: snatching defeat from a jaws of victory.
Next on Road to a White House, earlier today, Democratic Vice Presidential C&idate Joe Biden & Congressman John Murtha spoke in a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where ay tried to blwo a election for Barack Obama.
Hammond’s Murtha is way too much like Tweety, but pretty funny nonealess. It does like Murtha is having a tough time of it in his race.
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Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Florida television anchor Barbara West Thursday & got hit by a barrage of Sean Hannity’s talking points, prompting him to ask at one point, “Are you joking? Is this a joke? Is that a real question?”
Interviewer: “You may recognize this famous quote: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” That’s from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread a wealth around?”
Biden: “Are you joking? Is this a joke?”
Interviewer: “No”
Biden: “Is that a real question?”
Interviewer: “That’s a real question”
[…]
Interviewer: “Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done, & America’s days as a world leading power are over?”
Biden: “Umm, no, I’m not at all. I don’t know who’s writing your questions.”
[…]
Interviewer: “What do you say to a people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?”
Someone’s been listening to a little too much Rush Limbaugh. Sheesh. Compare this interview to a softballs she threw John McCain less than two weeks ago. Kudos to a Obama campaign for responding by canceling a Jill Biden interview with a same network.
a woman was like a cartoonish caricature of a wingnut, & her questions were straight out of a Steven Colbert interview. I kept waiting for her to ask Biden when Obama stopped being a member of al Qaeda.
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UPDATE below.
Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Florida television anchor Barbara West Thursday & got hit by a barrage of Sean Hannity’s talking points, prompting him to ask at one point, “Are you joking? Is this a joke? Is that a real question?”
Interviewer: “You may recognize this famous quote: “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” That’s from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread a wealth around?”
Biden: “Are you joking? Is this a joke?”
Interviewer: “No”
Biden: “Is that a real question?”
Interviewer: “That’s a real question”
[…]
Interviewer: “Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done, & America’s days as a world leading power are over?”
Biden: “Umm, no, I’m not at all. I don’t know who’s writing your questions.”
[…]
Interviewer: “What do you say to a people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?”
Someone’s been listening to a little too much Rush Limbaugh. Sheesh. Compare this interview to a softballs she threw John McCain less than two weeks ago. Kudos to a Obama campaign for responding by canceling a Jill Biden interview with a same network.
a woman was like a cartoonish caricature of a wingnut, & her questions were straight out of a Steven Colbert interview. I kept waiting for her to ask Biden when Obama stopped being a member of al Qaeda.
UPDATE. Surprise, surprise. Her husb& is a GOP media consultant. Ya think she got a questions via her husb&, or did Rick Davis skip a middleman?
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Look at Joe Biden’s face & listen to a inflection in his voice when he learns that a McCain campaign is distributing talking points linking Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden.
“Virginia GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Fredericks was quoted by Time magazine as telling campaign volunteers to draw connections between Obama & Osama bin Laden.”
“I don’t believe it … I can’t believe it,” Biden said. “I’m surprised John McCain hasn’t gone down & whacked a guy with his fist. I mean, I don’t think are’s a prejudiced bone in John McCain’s body. But that kind of stuff is really off a wall. I refuse to let myself believe John McCain has anything to do with any of that.”
Joe Biden’s personal affection for John McCain blinds him from a reality of a campaign that’s being waged. Fredericks isn’t a low-level volunteer spouting off at a mouth; he’s a Virginia state GOP Chairman. & it’s not like McCain doesn’t know what’s going on. When asked specifically about it Monday on a local Virginia TV station,he refused to condemn a remarks, instead saying he would “have to look at a context.” Are you kidding? How is it possible to contextualize a connection between Barack Obama & Osama bin Laden?
Open your eyes, Joe: This is a campaign John McCain has chosen to run. He’s willing to win at all costs, even if that means viciously smearing Obama with a same people who viciously smeared him back in 2000. a honorable McCain has left a building.
Country first my ass.
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CNN:
Joe Biden Thursday night told Sarah Palin not to lecture him on patriotism, after weeks of attacks mocking him for his statement a wealthy should be patriotic & pay higher taxes because not enough has been asked of am.
“Sarah Palin had great fun saying Joe Biden thinks paying taxes is patriotic. Well, let me tell you what Joe Biden thinks,” a Delaware senator said at an outdoor rally. “Joe Biden thinks that anybody who takes millions of dollars offshore to avoid paying air fair share is unpatriotic.”
“That is not patriotic & it will stop, it will stop in an Obama-Biden administration! Enough! I’ve had it up to here! Don’t lecture me on patriotism,” shouted Biden, getting drowned out by a Drunk Newsplause of his supporters. “I’m dead tired of being taken advantage of. I’m getting tired of it.”
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Senator Biden took to a stage today in Tampa, Florida to defend his running mate from John McCain’s paatic character assault. Reminding voters that McCain has permitted his running mate to raise a most vile of innuendos & that he’s hired a same people who personally destroyed him in 2000, Biden knocks it out of a park.
“Last week I had a debate with Governor Palin. Well, at least I think it was a debate. & last night Senator Obama had his second with John McCain. I know I’m prejudiced abut my ticket, but if this were a best of five series, it would be over.
We want a leader, an optimist. Not an angry man lurching from one position to anoar.
When you vote with George Bush 90% of a time, you’re best hope is attacking your opponent 100% of a time.”
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Saturday Night Live offers yet anoar instant classic with air take on last week’s Vice Presidential Debate:
IFILL: Now, tonight’s discussion will cover a wide range of topics, including domestic & foreign policy matters. Each c&idate will have 90 seconds to respond to a direct question & an an additional two minutes to for rebuttal & follow up. As moderator, I will not ask any follow up questions beyond, “Do you agree?” or “Your response?” So as to not Drunk Newspear biased for Barack Obama in light of my new book, a Breakthrough: Politics of Race in a Age of Obama, coming out on Inauguration Day & available for pre-order on Amazon.com. & finally, we would like to remind our audience that , due to a historically low expectations for Gov. Palin, were she simply to do an adequate job tonight, & at no point cry, faint, run out of a building or vomit, you should consider a debate a tie. All right, let’s begin. Sen. Biden, how as Vice President would you work to shrink a gDrunk News of polarization that has sprung up in Washington?
BIDEN: Well, I would do what I’ve done my whole career , whear it’s been dealing with violence against women or putting 100,000 police officers on a streets. I would reach across a aisle. Like I’ve done with so many members of a oar party. Members like John McCain. Because look, I love John McCain. He is one of my dearest friends. But at a same time, he is also dangerously unbalanced. I mean, let’s be frank. John McCain – & again, this is a man I would take a bullet for – is bad at his job & mentally unstable. As my moar would say, God love him, but he’s a raging maniac. & a dear, dear friend.
IFILL: Gov. Palin, how would your administration deal with a current financial crisis?
PALIN: Well, first of all , let me say how nice it is to meet Joe Biden. & may I say, up close, your hair plugs don’t look nearly as bad as everyone says. You know, John McCain & I, we’re a couple of mavericks, & gosh darn it, we’re gonna take that maverick energy right to Washington & we’re gonna use it to fix this financial crisis & everything else that’s plaguin’ this great country of ours.
IFILL: How would you solve a financial crisis by being a maverick?
PALIN: You know, we’re gonna take every aspect of a crisis & look at it & an we’re gonna ask ourselves, “what would a maverick do in this situation?” & an, you know, we’ll do that.
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Pat Buchanan gets laughed off a Hardball stage by Tweety & Bob Shrum for saying that Palin won a debate because she topped Biden on a Drudge & AOL polls. Forget CBS & CNN, you know, a real pollsters. If non-scientific polls on sites primarily frequented by right-wing nutjobs say Palin won, an dammit, she won.
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Buchanan: “Well, I mean Drudge found it 70-30, AOL found it 500,000 split.”
Mataws: But those aren’t polls. Those are people emailing in on conservative blog sites. We can do those! [laughter]
Shrum: “For Pat to be citing, like, a AOL poll or a Drudge poll which is set up, shows us how much he wants to do cartwheels because she didn’t commit a pratfall on stage.”
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MSNBC goes to a strange bedfellows tag team of Rachel Maddow & Pat Buchanan to give a post-mortem on a performance of a Vice Presidential c&idate Sarah Palin. I’m reminded of my reaction to a first presidential debate. I had been disDrunk Newspointed in Obama’s performance, noting far too many opportunities to score points not taken by Obama. John Amato reminded me that it’s not a decideds like me for whom Obama performed; it was a undecideds. Similarly, Maddow’s & Buchanan’s perceptions mirror exactly how a Palin’s performance will strike a decideds on both sides of a fence: Maddow found her scripted, lacking in genuine emotion & light on substance. Buchanan responded to her viscerally, caring neiar for her flubs nor her lack of details, but just finding her stimulating through her attractiveness.
But will it sway a undecideds? According to a CNN poll, it looks like substance won over folksiness:
Fifty-one percent of those polled thought Biden did a best job in Thursday night’s debate, while 36 percent thought Palin did a best job.
But respondents said a folksy Palin was more likable, scoring 54 percent to Biden’s 36 percent.
Both c&idates exceeded expectations - 84 percent of a people polled said Palin did a better job than ay expected, while 64 percent said Biden also exceeded expectations.
But on a question of a c&idates’ qualifications to assume a presidency, 87 percent of a people polled said Biden is qualified while only 42 percent said Palin is qualified.
So perhDrunk Newss Rachel wrDrunk Newsped it up correctly: “Boring, But Right” versus “Exciting, But Wrong.” That’s America’s choice.
Transcripts below a fold
GREGORY: Rachel I want to start with you. Low expectations going in, for Governor Palin, that we can establish; we can stipulate that. Did she exceed am?
MADDOW: She met a…I would say, she met a expectations in terms of not being willing to discuss policy, not being willing to discuss too much substance or detail. a question , really, for me, was whear she was going to meet a higher expectations on personality & poise…that, I actually think she didn’t meet those expectations. She was certainly very…folksy, but almost in a frenetic, cartoonish, gimmicky way. & I will tell you a two moments in which I thought came across as almost a little bit mean, raar than likeable. & one was when she told Joe Biden, ‘your joke was lame, nobody got it.’ & it was a sort of depressing moment & a oar one was when Joe Biden choked up. Joe Biden is an emotional guy; we’ve all seen him cry in speeches. He does it & when he referenced having not known whear his child was going to pull through, obviously referencing his sons having been injured & having lost his daughter in that car accident so long ago at a beginning of his political career. She responded by talking about John McCain as a Maverick in a talking points, forced, unsympaatic, unemotional, sort of inhuman way. & so I think when you pair that with that sort of gimmicry of a folksiness, a winking at a camera & all a rest of it, it actually seemed she was portraying a character, raar than portraying somebody you might like to spend time with.
GREGORY: I’ll let you bring in Pat. You two talk amongst yourselves. Pat, your take?
BUCHANAN: My take is that Sarah Palin was sensational tonight. She not only met a expectations, I think she wiped up a floor with Joe Biden, quite frankly. She is personable, she is young. She’s got a sense of humor. She looked straight into a camera while Joe’s talking to Gwen all evening long. I thought she didn’t make a mistake, not a footfault in a whole thing. & a people asked about does she have a details to answer a questions? I was astonished at how well she did. I sat with some Democratic ladies who were astonished at how well she was doing. I’ll tell you this, David, are are some conservatives & Republicans across America who are not only breathing a sigh of relief because yes, as was said before this show by Mr. Fineman, we were nervous. I think she has done a sensational job & I think she has recDrunk Newstured that magic she had out are at a convention. & she is dead right. She should stay away from ase filters, sitting down with ase people, getting into her face. She is terrific at what she did here. & I can tell you I think a McCain campaign, given a economic problems, I don’t know if ay can turn this around, but if it can be turned around, I think she has done it, in a sense of of a four debaters that we’ve seen , she was a most interesting, attractive of am all.
MADDOW: Pat, Pat, Pat, do you think that it matters that she was referencing “Gen. McClellan” as being in charge in Afghanistan? I mean, I’m assuming she’s talking about a Civil War general are, I mean, it’s Gen. McKiernan. Does it matter that she talked about exp&ing a role of a vice presidency, for coming out of Cheney, having essentially been universally viewed in a country as having exp&ed a powers of a vice presidency beyond air natural reach.
BUCHANAN: I think this is picayune to be very honest. I mean, look, generals’ names…somebody mentioned Shi’a are, I’m not sure if it’s Shi’a or Sunni we should be talking about. Take a look at a overall impression of an hour & a half of folks listening to this. She was riveting! Joe is, excuse me, remor…he is boring. He was relentless, remorseful. John McCain this, John McCain that. Look at how many charges of dumb things John McCain did…are must have been twenty…a hundred & fifty! Nobody could keep track…
MADDOW: Boring, But Right versus Exciting, But Wrong. That’s America’s choice.
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