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BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden Gets Secret Service Protection

It's Joe

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Jake Tapper is reporting now that the secret service is sending personnel to begin protection of Joe Biden.

As I told you guys earlier, it is Joe.

No, we don’t deserve this, but by God the Lord is smiling on us.


How exactly is Joe Biden hope and change?

COMMENTS

  • Raven

    Every time I think VP Candidate Biden, I think of the movie “My Fellow Americans” and the VP there. Now wouldn’t that be a treat…

  • ConservaGeek

    I can see McCain’s ad now.

    “Even his Vice-Presidential pick, Joe Biden, says that he’d need on-the-job training.”

    The Lord sure seems to be smiling on us now.

  • bobnivik

    but this?!?

    All the commenters at Tapper’s are bitter they gave out their cell #s for “first notice.” Kinda like the “free” tickets to his coronation

  • RedFox84

  • gamecock

    http://gamecock.blogtownhall.com/2006/11/04/drawlandthatsallthemythofthemoderatesoutherndemocratindc.thtml

  • bobnivik

    nt

  • gamecock

    nominated Obama

    Biden is a short grin

  • sayers

    to get a bunch of people’s phone numbers

  • Redbirdfan

    So that makes a grand total of how much executive or military or business experience on the ticket?

  • gamecock

    nt

  • AngstFree

    Obviously everyone that Obama asked (maybe even Hillary) said “NO”.

    Obama, “We’re going to take this leaky canoe over these rapids with no life preservers. Did I mention no oars? Are you with me?

  • gamecock

    and many other moderate dems, esp governors issued shermanesque statements

    unprecedented

  • McCain08

    Is the RNC readying the old clips of Biden from ’88?

  • David_Hinz

    Or, for that matter, life preservers. With those ears an entire family could ride out the rapids without fear of even getting wet.

  • AngstFree

    Was Phil Spector playing piano?

  • rbdwiggins

    Could explain why his senatorial experience has been limited to Foreign Relations and the Judiciary.

  • redneck_hippie

    Is Biden more arrogant than whiny, more whiny than arrogant, or equally arrogant and whiny?

  • rbdwiggins

    2006-Present are chocked full of gaffes irrelevant relevant remarks from Sen Biden.

  • gamecock

    drawing an equivalence between Iraq and Georgia shows how generally stupid msm commentators are.

    ALL, shall I repeat

    ALL dems are guilty as bushlied traitors by their statements or their silence in the face of treasonous statements.

    incl Biden

    McCain even had some bad moments

    One man had ZERO bad moments on this

    Bush

  • gamecock

    nt

  • gamecock

    veteran for cover.

  • RBMN

    but I looked at his biography, and there’s nothing there about being in the military.

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

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  • RedFox84

    Wrote a book guaranteeing that the 2008 race would be Condi v. Hillary. I’m not inclined to buy much of anything the man has been saying in the past maybe six years.

  • speciallist

  • McCain08

    Hair Club for Men.

    By the way, the netroots are upset that the big “text message” is now irrelevant.

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    Me too

  • gamecock

    a slave to the dem party and liberalism, most of which is voluntary on his part. What distinguishes him, due to HOPE of the sane among us, is that he has had some conservative moments.

    see moments

  • gamecock

    a

  • gamecock

    why?

    He fixed Bill’s presidency by driving him to the right

    he tried to get bill to fight a real war on terror

    he knows the clintons

    he is forced to talk a lot in the msm and so is wrong a lot, but when he is right, he is brilliant

  • speciallist

    You said Obama will lose because he’s a lib dem..I agree..

    But it will be a SLAUGHTER if he picks Biden..at least the Libs I know

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • twelvepackabs

    handled a VP announcement this badly?

    Saturday Morning? Are they trying to bury the fact that they really don’t think their choice is a good one?

    The Convention is close, and I really am wondering if this is just the opening act of a catastrophe that will reach it’s climax in Denver.

  • BigGator5

    Man I am excited. Now if McCain makes a wise choice for his VP, the Obiden will be finished!

  • misterd

    Big mistake by Obama, but I’m not sure he had a great option open to him. Let’s be honest – there aren’t many viable Dem candidates. The one that seemed to poll the best was John Edwards, and that’s not happening now.

    Of those that are left, they are either much too far left (Dean, Pelosi, etc) for the American people, or, thanks to the GOP dominating politics most of the past 20 years, low profile and/or inexperienced.

    If he picked a young, fresh outsider, he reinforces the “change” mantra, while giving more support to the charges that the BHO administration would be totally unpreprared.

    So he picks an insider with experience, and, for all his other problems, he’s a guy who seems more deserving than Obama.

    I have no idea why he didn’t take Bayh- he’s no less exciting than Biden, and lacks the baggage. He has experience as a governor, but is not a Washington guy. He is older, but not McCain/Biden old.

    Bill Richardson would have seemed to be a great choice – like Bayh a governor of a swing state, but he also has foreign policy experience and would help solidify the hispanic vote.

    Of course his most exciting, best potential upside pick was Hillary. And it says something that his best choice is the most unliked woman in America, and someone he couldn’t trust not to sabotage his campaign.

  • gamecock

    and the far lefties Recreate ’68 types.

    Bush’s approval numbers will go up np less than 25% at the end of the dem convention

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    The list of serious ‘problem’ candidates, is a short one.

    Bill Richardson — successful, articulate, Hispanic, swing state.

    Bill Nelson – not that he’s all that special, but (to my knowledge) no obvious gaping flaws.

    That’s about it.

  • gamecock

    how experience matters not much when it comes to liberals. They can’t be trusted no matter how old they are.

  • gamecock

    in the past year than Biden did in 40 years. Not kidding

    Bill said some really inceherent sh*t lately that caused me conclude, given his tax cutting governorship, that

    a) being governor is not that hard

    b) he has major character flaws given his backstabbing of hillbill knowing that he is a dufus (see also edwards knowing of the bimbo)

    and c

    anyone that lies and says he was drafted by major league baseball should be shot!

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    we can continue to play with our food for hours upon hours, days upon days, before we kill and eat it.

    MADE. OUT. OF. FUN.

  • simpson316

    Something doesn’t smell right.

    It could be the wine though.

    Eh, I guess we’ll find out for sure tomorrow.

  • rbdwiggins

    Given the overwhelming success of the surge, Obama must believe that Iraq will disappear as an election issue.

    Foreign relations experience would be considered a greater asset if appeasement is to be the basis for foreign policy in an Obama administration.

    That would signal a significant change in foreign policy from the Bush Doctrine…

    Back to the failed liberal policies of the past.

  • Nick_Haynes

    Just sent out a text message to their Breaking News subscribers.

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    well, the Dem’s list of non-idiots is even smaller than I thought.

  • gamecock

    so there!

    smile

    now, I can really make it on the Mary Tyler Moore Show

    after all

    Lou?

  • RedFox84

    The CNN faithful get the news of the VP before the Obama faithful (if there’s a difference), via text message.

  • gamecock

    GC

    and you will live long and prosper

    cracking up at FNC’s Major Garret thinking this is such a vital news item

    like Bentsen

    haha

  • gamecock

    seriously

    can I get a blog out of it?

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    and the dems think he’s a god. After all he nailed a young girl in the oval office and got away with it. To them he was a great president and still well respected.

    My point is they see Biden as we see McCain.

    Who’s laughing now?

  • gamecock

    Biden? Well, for a dem,

    FOR A DEM

    not so bad

    the Obama guffaw will last till November

  • dld1717
    1. Thank You Obama for choosing a arrogant SOB who is an elder Chris Matthews

    2. Thank You for choosing someone from DE (a great state but a lock for Dems); he may only help Obama in Penn

    3. Thank You for Youtube

    4. Thank You for plagiarism

    5. Thank you for all the statements over the years Biden said on McCain (look it up)

    6. Thank You for Opening a Senate Seat (Paging Congressman Castle)

  • Kev85

    Well, I didn’t expect that one! hehe. But seriously, don’t you think Obama was forced into this pick by the events on the ground over the last couple of weeks?

  • gamecock

    or a military guy.

    This is just another liberal sundryism.

    The main screwed up pick was Obama!

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    See the man of change squirm,can’t wait till Monday at 12:00.

    Desperation has set in on the Messiah’s campaign

  • McCain08

    Not his worst choice (Kaine and Sebellius would’ve been worse), but not his best (Hillary). Personally, I feared he’d nominate Hillary.

    When I opened Drudge today, and saw her picture at the top, I nearly gasped. So that bullet was dodged. Divided, they fall!

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • nod90

    I watched his YouTube videos and that is how he looks to me.

    Another thing about Biden is he drives one of those big old crew cab pick-up trucks that drinks gasoline like it’s going out of fashion. However he is against drilling in ANWR. I hope he doesn’t lecture us about conservation.

    He might be useful in the White House because he knows Washington real well and knows where all the bodies are buried on the Hill. I think the pick reveals a complacency in the Obama campaign. Like the passengers on the Titanic, they just can’t imagine that the One can lose.

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    for his age-Biden?-for his temper-Biden?-Washington insider-Biden?

    Now does McCain have to pick an arrogant empty suit to even out the playing field.

    Boy Bob Beckel is sing Biden praises like he’s The One.

  • speciallist

    n/p

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    If Biden gives him shivers the dems are in trouble.

  • PhxG

    Thanks Barack, this is shaping up to be THE election of a lifetime.

  • simpson316

    but I didn’t pay for it.

    The bonus of having parents that don’t drink wine. Whenever guests give them bottles, they give them to us!

  • gamecock

    effective. I don’t.

  • BurkeanBadger

    I’ve read this post and the media reports and yet, I am still having trouble digesting it. Sure, Obama is cocky and arrogant, his naive acolytes sincerely believe that nothing can stop him; but BIDEN??? I’m stunned. How could even someone as clueless and smug as Barry make such an idiotic choice?

    Is there any chance that this is the ultimate red herring? That the “secret service” protection is just a mirage for the press to lead them on one final (and seemingly certain) false lead while St. Barack secretly calls up Hillary? It’d be quite the coup if this was the case.

    If not, well…heh….hello President McCain. I mean, come on, nobody can control Biden’s mouth, not even Biden himself. Watching The One fall apart piece by piece is beyond amusing. Watching Democrats slowly squander the most favorable election year climate they have had in 34 years makes me positively giddy.

  • gamecock

    1

  • gamecock

    I am actually crashing now and fucusing on what We the People will have to do in Jan 09-jan 13 to make McCain do right!

  • speciallist

    Although sometimes I splurge..Anybody know what Two-Buck Chuck is?

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    was pushed on him for the foriegn affairs experience because he is a major dope on this. And he’s falling in the polls fast and needs the dem base to forget about Hillary.

    The young crowd he attracted just went… WHO Biden?

    Won’t they make a pair on stage?

  • PhxG

    Obama came on pretty strong early on. It appeared he actually could pull it off. Of course that has been proven to be inaccurate.

    I so want a 300 EV win by McCain.

  • Raven

    “Squeal like a piggy! Come on, Biden! You can do better than that! Squeal like a piggy!”

  • SIConservative

    Come on, guys. Biden’s a solid pick and you all know it. Yes, he’s gaffe prone, but he also has the most foreign policy experience of those who were considered. No matter whom he picked, this site and the RNC would be all over him. Don’t get me wrong, the same goes for the other side with whomever McCain picks. That’s politics. Honestly, though, if I had to choose a liberal Democrat for President, Biden would probably be my pick.

    I also think that there’s another angle that has been missed so far. Although he is still a pro-choice Catholic, Biden has actually supported the PBA ban. Yes, this was a moderate measure that passed both houses of Congress with bi-partisan support, but Obama, Clinton, and, more importantly, NARAL opposed it. Obama’s own support for infanticide not withstanding, I don’t think many expected him to choose a running mate who didn’t follow the direct orders of the radical pro-abortion forces within the Democrat Party. Obama actually took a risk of alienating a significant part of his party’s base here, and it is a small but significant sign that the Democrats are becoming, if painfully slowly, more pro-life, or, at the very least, more open to pro-lifers. Partisan politics aside, that’s a very good thing.

  • nod90

    Richardson seemed to be the obvious choice, but I read something about a zipper problem.

    Hillary is a real Faustian bargin, but she delivers votes which the One desperately needs. She could have helped him close the deal with many Dems.

    I don’t know much about Bayh, but Indiana is next door to Ohio and Michigan. Bayh talks about national security and jobs on his website, and I’m glad he wasn’t picked.

    Kaine might have swung Virginia, which would be a problem, but seems to be a total lightweight. He would have been even better than Biden from our point of view.

    Wesley Clark could have been a real problem. He brings experience and toughens up the ticket.

    The bottom line is that Biden wasn’t the worst possible choice, but he is close, especially in the age of YouTube.

  • Raven

    “I saw an unidentified, it was unidentified, so it was a UFO and I called it in.”

  • Raven

    …wow, that didn’t come out right…

  • gamecock

    1

  • gamecock

    how could he not?

    liberals are stupid

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    and got beat!

  • Raven

    How do you retain any respect when your big foreign policy/security guy got relieved from his position by a Dem president for botching that president’s war?

  • WOSG

    “Yes, he’s gaffe prone, but he also has the most foreign policy experience of those who were considered. No matter whom he picked, this site and the RNC would be all over him.”

    Rule #1 – you don’t get foreign policy or ideological leanings by osmosis. If obama is an inexperienced leftist, an experienced centrist for VP doesnt change that.

    Rule #2 – the VP helps if he is articulate and stays on message. … the gaffe material for Biden is like picking ripe apples off a tree!

    BIDEN-?Obama isn?t ready to be President and the job is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.?

  • gamecock

    a

  • speciallist

    I don’t know…Could you picture these two guys having a beer..

    They would need lawyers to see who would buy the round

  • WOSG

    for Obama:

    If it was a good pick, I’d have a pit in my stomach envisioning the bounce that leads to a narrow win that leads to 4 years under this horrible inexperienced leftwing Obama.

    I dont get that at all. I am calm and at peace, and I am even enjoying the moment.

    My gut never lies. This is a good pick … for us.

    millions of PUMAs are let loose.

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    nt

  • BurkeanBadger

    I have to disagree with you, my friend. Of course you are entirely correct in that I am biased. No matter who Barry selected, I would have found something to criticize.

    But I think you are looking at Biden from purely a “resume” standpoint. Yes, he is very experienced overall, especially in foreign policy, which balances out Barry’s complete lack of any experience. Would he make a decent President (decent for a liberal Democrat, anyway)? Perhaps. But I’m asking how he looks as a VP candidate; an entirely different question.

    As you concede, he is “gaffe prone”. I do not believe that, given the endless press he will have for the next two and a half months, he will be able to control his diatribes. He’s the epitome of a loose cannon. I understand why Barry picked him; he wants someone who can go negative without hesitation. And yes, Biden can and will do that. It is what he will say above and beyond this that should give Democrats the willies.

    As for abortion, I hope you are right in that Democrats are becoming more open to the pro-life position. However, I cannot help but think that Biden was selected, in part, to help mute the growing firestorm over Barry’s casual indifference to infanticide and nothing more.

  • E_Pluribus_Unum

    since I had to watch the Cowboys hurt the Texans. But I can imagine they have been eagerly sucking up every morsel of gossip – pretty much the way they followed the various murders of pretty women they always seem to cover.

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    when Hillarys gals are at the convention clammering for her ,and Obama and Biden walk out on stage. It won’t be their panties they’re throwing on stage. These puma folks are going to be fit to be tied,Biden over Hillary.That chicken won’t fly.

  • gamecock

    40 states for us

  • gamecock

    This is fundamental. This is what the msm doesn’t want you to know. They want you to blame dem losses on ANYTHING but failed liberalism and they want you to credit victory on TV moments.

    as if

    When the fact is that what causes Americans to reject known liberals is their liberal views, not what particular liberal is at the top or bottom of the ticket and what skeletons they have in closets that walk around.

    And once we understand and internalize this fact, our repubs won’t lose their spines 72 hrs after they win and move to DC.

  • BurkeanBadger

    my friend.

    Of course, only time will tell.

    But on about October 25, after Biden has said something about McCain’s POW time as being an “extended vacation”, after he says on Meet the Press that he is proud to be running with such a “clean” nominee, after he tells some reporters that Bush should be executed for war crimes, at which point, when Obama will be punching holes in walls and cursing everyone who told him to go with Biden, then we’ll know how right your gut was.

    And yes, I made up the quotes (except for the “clean” one). But with Biden, they’re not at all far fetched

  • McCain08

    Biden is up for re-election… Should he run for both seats simultaneously?

  • gamecock

    pedestrian.

  • speciallist

  • walter_hanson

    Delware has a senate race. I know it was a long shot for the Republicans to win, but is Biden allowed to run for both or do they have to get a new candidate?

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  • gamecock

    not with me

    and neither are men’s hair or Bobbitt penis jokes

    see Yul Brenner

  • ggross56

    As I pointed out here, this is proof that God loves Republicans. Who can forget Sen. Biden’s questioning of John Roberts? Classic. Let’s hope that’s the Biden that hits the campaign trail.

  • gamecock

    its the liberalism stupid

    if the gop would only see the forest….

  • gamecock

    .

  • gamecock

    his Iraq war bilge

  • gensec

    I think Neil, and I too, both owe mea culpa’s, for suggesting it might take us a few drinks to care the slightest about Obama’s VP pick, then only because it would get us laughing.

    Any alcohol buzz I had earlier tonight is long gone, but the idea that even Obama could do something this dumb has got me rolling on the floor.

    Seriously [trying real hard to stop laughing], I think Biden might make a decent first impression with the electorate (those not already familiar with him), helped by the MSM not making a big deal of his past foot-in-mouth episodes. But as the VP candidate, he can’t help getting a lot of exposure; and Biden is the kind of guy that grates the more you see of him, familiarity breeding contempt. It’s hard to believe how Obama’s handlers didn’t see this.