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When Joe Biden entered the United States Senate, John McCain was in his fifth year of captivity at the Hanoi Hilton.
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Barry Obama was eight when Biden began his Senate career.
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Nixon was starting his second term as President.
Barack Obama’s campaign says Joe Biden is “not of Washington.” Linda Douglass, formerly of ABC News and now an Obama hack (not that it’d be different were she still at ABC) told Wolf Blitzer, “you know, the thing is, he is not of washington. he is, as you well know, wolf, he doesn’t own a home in washington. he goes home every single night to his family in delaware.”
What spin. The man went to Washington while McCain was still being tortured and yet McCain is somehow more of Washington that Biden? Give me a freakin’ break.
AMTRAK
Jwt4412 Saturday, August 23rd at 8:11PM EDT (link)He takes the AMTRAK… not that it makes a difference…
We pay for the Amtrak and then we reimburse him for his ticket…
It Is What It Is…
I guess if he lived in Arlington...
bs Saturday, August 23rd at 8:21PM EDT (link)he wouldn’t be “of Washington” either.
What a maroon.
Decorum is fo’ suckas - unless it’s one of the good guys
What you do not realize is,
ranscot Saturday, August 23rd at 8:24PM EDT (link)this is actually quite a polarizing pick for Senator Obama.
Senator Biden is CFR and the cheerleader for corporations in the Senate.
Senator Obama defeated Senator Clinton by tapping into the progressive vein of the Democratic Party.
By choosing Biden, Obama has thrown his primary voters under the bus for his backers at the DNC.
There will be backlash.
Between two sides of an issue lies the truth.
Billions in subsidies
phxg Saturday, August 23rd at 8:26PM EDT (link)so Biden can commute. Seems like a typical DC insider trade off to me.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
Biden's Presidential Record
ConservaGeek Saturday, August 23rd at 8:35PM EDT (link)Joe Biden has run for President twice… once in 1988, and once this year. This year he didn’t survive past Iowa, where he finished fifth with about 1% of the vote.
In short, this is not a man who interests 2008 Democrat voters at all.
Richard Carlson as Geoff Montgomery: It’s worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
**Bob Hope as Larry Lawrence: You mean like Democrats?**
*”The Ghost Breakers,”* 1940.
Among Biden's top donors is the law firm
The_Rebel Saturday, August 23rd at 8:43PM EDT (link)Baron & Budd. Just this month, founder and trial lawyer Fred Baron allegedly paid for former presidential candidate John Edwards’s mistress to re-locate. His firm’s employees have given Biden over $100,000 during his career.
Just saying…….
About real jobs
SteveLA Saturday, August 23rd at 8:48PM EDT (link)One of the things I hope someone brings up is how little “real jobs” in the real world the Dynamic Duo of “The One and Gaffy Joe” have had.
Joe Biden was first elected at 29, after years of school and short stint in a law firm.
John McCain may have married well, and has the houses to prove it, but the dynamic duo have never really earned a living, something John McCain as a military officer did.
How to frame that point is beyond me, but there is a point to be made.
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Competency over ideological purity
Custom made for Palin as the pick...
Jwt4412 Saturday, August 23rd at 8:56PM EDT (link)Could you imagine the reaction of the Hillary supporters when this condescending fool started ripping into a mother of five during the VP debates?
I hope McCain picks Palin just to see Biden’s head explode… figuratively not literally.
It Is What It Is…
I think literally would be funnier.
Tim_Schieferecke Saturday, August 23rd at 8:58PM EDT (link)But that’s just me.
Tim Schieferecke
Hush hush
RedFox84 Saturday, August 23rd at 8:58PM EDT (link)Backlash like when he rolled over on FISA?
Backlash like when he bailed out of public financing?
Right, you keep telling yourself there will be a backlash.
Here is how GC framed it - Obama & Biden, attorneys at law that never tried a case
Mike gamecock DeVine Saturday, August 23rd at 8:59PM EDT (link)http://www.redstate.com/diaries/gamecock/2008/aug/23/obama-biden-esqs-never-tried-a-case-but-t/
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
Oh
RedFox84 Saturday, August 23rd at 9:01PM EDT (link)Oh, and by the by… It’s irrelevant to Obama if there’s a ‘backlash’ from the netroots.
He’s already taken what he needed from you.
And He was never that into you in the first place.
I think he came close before...
George Claghorn Saturday, August 23rd at 9:03PM EDT (link)“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
Palin is my choice.
ConservaGeek Saturday, August 23rd at 9:04PM EDT (link)I’d love to see her as Veep candidate, and not just because of her gender. She will be a very strong proponent for the issue that is tailor-made for the GOP to pound the Donkeys… drilling in ANWR!
Richard Carlson as Geoff Montgomery: It’s worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
**Bob Hope as Larry Lawrence: You mean like Democrats?**
*”The Ghost Breakers,”* 1940.
I wonder how long MSNBC will leave this
The_Rebel Saturday, August 23rd at 9:13PM EDT (link)reference up?
That's an ad
wiseprince Saturday, August 23rd at 9:23PM EDT (link)All by itself
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From me?
ranscot Saturday, August 23rd at 9:34PM EDT (link)You must have me confused with someone else. I was running with the Paultards during the primaries.
And I ceded the point on backlash, forgot he sold out on FISA.
Between two sides of an issue lies the truth.
MSNBC
MCPO_Airdale Saturday, August 23rd at 10:34PM EDT (link)Hope you screen-capped it!
Palin
Pentagon16 Saturday, August 23rd at 10:59PM EDT (link)we need to have a strong woman like Palin or even better Meg Whitman as our VP- they would be incapable of reining in Biden’s pomposity and arrogance and it would ensure millions of women would vote for McCain after seeing Biden go off on the mother of five
“Small town folks get bitter after which they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment”- Barack Carter Obama
Biden
Cowboy Saturday, August 23rd at 11:45PM EDT (link)I just caught a replay of the end of the Biden/Obama rally.
I was struck by the slouching Obama sitting in the hot sun behind the gasbag and the look of total boredom and a wry forced half smile on his face.
The look on his face and his body language was screaming WHAT THE —- HAVE THEY DONE TO ME!!!!!
Thanks for trying, Erick
kowalski Saturday, August 23rd at 11:49PM EDT (link)Trying to put this choice in perspective is a real challenge from anything but the most surrealistic viewpoints.
Let’s think about this for a second:
Barack Obama has chosen a man to be his running mate who has not only said he’s not ready to lead the country, he has said he stands by it in a nationally televised debate. Now he wants to make him President of the United States.
President of the United States is arguably the most important job in the world, and where I come from, people who have a sincere belief that someone isn’t qualified to hold a given job or a position and have said so very clearly and emphatically don’t turn around and do the exact opposite. But that is what Joe Biden has done. And did I mention that it’s the most important job in the world?
I guess for Democrats, the way things work is that if you want to be President, the best thing you should do is have a “respected” senator with “gravitas” say that you shouldn’t be President, and then get him to join your ticket and enlist his help to make you President.
It all makes sense, no?
Expect four years of the same if Obamiden win.
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Biden is a political wh...pleasure engineer though.
Tim_Schieferecke Saturday, August 23rd at 11:53PM EDT (link)Throw a little power or coin his way and he’d sell you his own mother.
Tim Schieferecke
Amen
Mary_Contrary Saturday, August 23rd at 11:55PM EDT (link)Psychologically, Palin = oil.
PALIN = INDIGENOUS OIL!!!! More Amen!
Rod_Patrick Sunday, August 24th at 12:01AM EDT (link)Poor McCain...
mcrill Sunday, August 24th at 12:08AM EDT (link)If only Arizone was next to D.C. he wouldn’t have to be “of Washington”.
Doesn’t it seem that this whole thing is just highlighting the fact that Obama’s been lying ever time he trotted out that wonderful hobby hourse of “Change”?
Barack Obama: Change, it’s all you’ll have left.
Truthfully, I don't get it
nivlem Sunday, August 24th at 12:16AM EDT (link)I have been reading the blogs all day and
I really do not have a good understanding of this pick by BO. It just doesnt make sense. Were is the “change”? Where is the “newness”?
Where is the passion and vibrancy? This
pick negates all of his original value as a presidential nominee.
Does he really belief he is “the one”, or
is he a puppet being played by different
forces?
Either way, the last 30 hours have been
a huge boondoggle. How anyone can gain
any confidence from their nominee making decisions as he has is beyond me.
Playing the media well is not a Presidential qualification. Making
clear and decisive decisions is. OB
completely blew it at all levels.
Which is exactly
RatedTV_MA Sunday, August 24th at 12:19AM EDT (link)why Biden is a PERFECT choice. Both of them are liars and cheaters.
Remember who was
dld1717 Sunday, August 24th at 12:20AM EDT (link)Remember who was in charge of helping him choose a VP (Caroline Kennedy) so you know she was liking a younger version of Uncle Teddy (Irish, Catholic to boot)
Obama a genisus
RonsBoy Sunday, August 24th at 12:27AM EDT (link)Some think Obama blew it with his vice president pick. I don’t. It’s part of a beautiful stragey to keep the pundrity and press so focused on drama and gimmicks. That’s all they report. An inattentive public will watch the spectacle. Never realizing nothing of importance will have been said.
I know this is truly cynical but really is anyone noticing the Obama campaign in one year of time has managed to say nothing. His opponents have but have been unable to break through the media’s protective coverage. While cracks have appeared in the hull of USS Obama. It could still make port into the White House.
He is sailing right pass the iceberg this national convention is for him. Could you imagine 4 days of Hope and Change in the most flowery language possible. It would be like a 100 word essay stretch out to make a 1000 word essay. It would come painfully obivious all Obama has to offer is just words for the next four years. Unfortunately, it will be the same ones over and over again. Yes no hope and no change from the mantra of Hope and Change.
My prediction is we open with the Obama’s biography. The next few days the Clintons take a self absorb moment to toot their horns. Press will wonder about the ramifications–will Democrats be able to unify. Then out to Invesco Field to learn “Obama is the one we are waiting for (HOPE) and now is the moment we start the CHANGE to heal the world.”
WHAM-BAM!! Nothing said but it did seem historical.
PS McCain is BUSH’s third term.
Biden represents Delaware, whose laws provide the DNA for most of corporate America
streetwise Sunday, August 24th at 12:41AM EDT (link)a connection that we can look forward to explaining to the supporters of Hope and Change.
I know this Girl...her name is Atrocious Speling
$peciallist Sunday, August 24th at 12:53AM EDT (link)She’s Tori’s sister..want me to hook you two up???
You can quote Biden on this one
graceful_klutz Sunday, August 24th at 12:57AM EDT (link)“Hey, Tavis, I want you to know there’s only four guys served longer than me; there’s still 44 older than me. That’s the important part to know.”
Joe Biden to Tavis Smiley - August 8, 2007
Biden = Punt
Crowe Sunday, August 24th at 12:59AM EDT (link)Is it just me, or does it seem like Obama tried all the “good” options for veep, found they either had “prior obligations” or were screening their calls, and then when forced to make a decision went with The Last Resort.
Obama was forced to punt.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Biden = Fumble
Freedoms Truth Sunday, August 24th at 1:07AM EDT (link)He had other plays, and chose a play that will cost him yardage and screws up his campaign strategy in multiple ways.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/08/bad-choice-barack-picks-sub-average-joe.html
Freedoms Truth,
Travis Monitor - http://travismonitor.blogspot.com
Austin, TX
Baron-Edwards-Biden important link
Freedoms Truth Sunday, August 24th at 1:10AM EDT (link)Baron was the paymaster for Edwards love-child.
Baron has also been a huge builder of the Texas GOP. he is a mini-Soros and an big-money trial lawyer.
Freedoms Truth,
Travis Monitor - http://travismonitor.blogspot.com
Austin, TX
are you sure about this?
graceful_klutz Sunday, August 24th at 1:18AM EDT (link)“Baron has also been a huge builder of the Texas GOP. he is a mini-Soros and an big-money trial lawyer.”
According to wikipedia, Baron is a huge fundraiser for the Democratic Party, chaired Edwards 2004 finance committee then Kerry’s, and has given $1.7 million to the Texas Democratic Trust in the last two years.
For Sale: 50,000 Obama-Bayh stickers. Cheap! nt
streetwise Sunday, August 24th at 7:35AM EDT (link)That sounds like a plus to me -nt-
George Claghorn Sunday, August 24th at 9:49AM EDT (link)“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
McCain the Maverick as Bush's 3rd Term?
navyflyboy20 Sunday, August 24th at 10:14AM EDT (link)I am confused RonsBoy as to how you can just trhow out a critical statement as that and yet not back it up with anything definitive. McCain has been a huge critic of the administration on many issues key to conservatives, whether it was the handling of the war in Iraq, pork-barrel spending and earmark, or giving out tax cuts while not cutting spending. Sen. McCain will not be a 3rd Bush term. Yes there will be some similarities (anti-abortion, strong national security influence, low taxes, etc.), but that is the conservative way. There will be differences on how they go about obtaining those goals, with Sen. McCain being more responsible to Americans (fiscal responsibility, engaging allies more, strengthening treaties, and putting more pressure on beligerent nations like Russia). I would love for you to explain how McCain is going to be a 3rd Bush term, because that is a loaded comment that broods much resentment in a large portion of our population and yet you have no ground to stand on with it.
Wrong!
Pentagon16 Sunday, August 24th at 11:57AM EDT (link)You have your guys confused. John Edwards and Bidens financier is different from the Texas guy. Nice try
“Small town folks get bitter after which they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment”- Barack Carter Obama
Blam.
Neil Stevens Sunday, August 24th at 2:24PM EDT (link)By the way, if you have a problem, Charter can help.
Want to run for conservatives? Give.
There Is No Crisis
Oh and Ron...
Neil Stevens Sunday, August 24th at 2:26PM EDT (link)If you wish to appeal to the Directors about the ban, feel free to explain to them why you should be let back on to spout the Obama line of “Third Bush Term.”
Want to run for conservatives? Give.
There Is No Crisis
Wow, This is really Ronsboy thinking so hard! <nt>
Rod_Patrick Sunday, August 24th at 2:50PM EDT (link)I mean, there’s nothing to say except … just be careful, Ronsboy. Please don’t think too much. I may not be healthy anymore.
Hang on blam happy guys...
itrytobenice Sunday, August 24th at 5:02PM EDT (link)Ron’s boy was clearly being sarcastic at the end and just didn’t put the snark tag on.
Read the whole comment. Either I’m blind, deaf and dumb, or he just posted a cognizant post on Mr. Hopeychangey’s empty suit.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Continuing snark....
NickLevi86 Sunday, August 24th at 5:08PM EDT (link)or complete non-sequiteur. I don’t think he’d tag that on after typing all of that if it weren’t part of his channeling empty suits.
“Any love letter is incomplete without a Ronald Reagan quote”
–my sophomore year roommate
Well, it doesn't read as a sarcasm to me, at least.
Rod_Patrick Sunday, August 24th at 5:32PM EDT (link)It will take a genius to decipher it as a sarcasm. An average guy like me (only a reader/commenter)won’t take it as such. I want to be educated about issues … that’s my first goal here at RS. Humors and other stuff (e.g., sarcasm)that distract readers on the flow of discussion are not helpful.
What if a independent/moderate read such comment while paying a visit to RS website? How will he/she take it? a sarcasm? I don’t think so. An immediate follow up is necessary to clarify such comment. Or else, it could result to a dangerous “misconnotation”.
Further, I am not sure if such subtle sarcasm is the right way to promote and advance our rep/con principles/agenda here at RS.
No. Look at what he said.
itrytobenice Sunday, August 24th at 5:36PM EDT (link)Some think Obama blew it with his vice president pick. I don’t. It’s part of a beautiful stragey to keep the pundrity and press so focused on drama and gimmicks. That’s all they report. An inattentive public will watch the spectacle. Never realizing nothing of importance will have been said.
He says what we all know…O is an empty suit full of empty promises but all the media reports is the show.
I know this is truly cynical but really is anyone noticing the Obama campaign in one year of time has managed to say nothing. His opponents have but have been unable to break through the media’s protective coverage. While cracks have appeared in the hull of USS Obama. It could still make port into the White House.
He says that if we have noticed (and we have) Obama has said nothing but we have not been able to break through the veneer of hope/change. Even though his poll numbers are slipping, he could still win this thing.
He is sailing right pass the iceberg this national convention is for him. Could you imagine 4 days of Hope and Change in the most flowery language possible. It would be like a 100 word essay stretch out to make a 1000 word essay. It would come painfully obivious all Obama has to offer is just words for the next four years. Unfortunately, it will be the same ones over and over again. Yes no hope and no change from the mantra of Hope and Change.
The convention has pratfalls for an Obama campaign as focused attention may cause people to recognize the emptiness of the affair. All four days are going to be empty sloganeering of hopey changey, stretching what should be a sentence into a campaign. Ronsboy believes this is the iceburg aspect of the convention, people might notice.
My prediction is we open with the Obama’s biography. The next few days the Clintons take a self absorb moment to toot their horns. Press will wonder about the ramifications–will Democrats be able to unify. Then out to Invesco Field to learn “Obama is the one we are waiting for (HOPE) and now is the moment we start the CHANGE to heal the world.”
This is just a summary of the activities of convention that we know is coming.
WHAM-BAM!! Nothing said but it did seem historical.
Reiterates the convention is going to sound historical, but BO is still just an empty suit.
PS McCain is BUSH’s third term.
The line that is causing the consternation. He is saying that this will be the other big theme of the convention. Mr. Historical HopeyChangey slams McCain as McSame.
All this is just my translation of ronsboy’s comment. And I’m not a sockpuppet, so I won’t sign it in blood.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
well then...
itrytobenice Sunday, August 24th at 5:44PM EDT (link)I guess I’ve already screwed up once today. On the other thread about Biden funneling money to his lobbyist son, I commented that we couldn’t say anything, as McCain supported the military and his son is in the military.
I was definitely joking, but I didn’t even bother to put a snark tag on it. This guy’s entire comment was about the empty suit that is Obama and his campaign, then for the last line, he used an Obama campaign talking point. It is obvious to me, even if it isn’t to anyone else.
I suppose it takes all kinds to make the world go round, but it certainly doesn’t look like a banning offense to me.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
common theme - asbestos
graceful_klutz Sunday, August 24th at 11:06PM EDT (link)I don’t know why the Baron-Edwards-Biden connection is important, but it is only slightly interesting that Baron specializes in asbestos cases and asbestos was one of Obama’s pet projects while working as a “community organizer” in Chicago.
I also saw on FNC tonight that Rezko was one of Obama’s first clients with his first law firm. I was only half paying attention, but apparently Obama was also involved in a business with Rezko and it was the only business of Rezkos to fail. LOL
Have you ever actually seen Sarah Palin
Achance Sunday, August 24th at 11:34PM EDT (link)in a debate? Or make a speech? That diamond is going to need some polishing before you put it in the window at Tiffany’s.
In Vino Veritas
11:30 pm, and it's gone
E Pluribus Unum Sunday, August 24th at 11:41PM EDT (link)haha! Now I need to know what it was…
The_Rebel? What was in the referred page?
Carthago delenda est
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The_Rebel Friday, August 29th at 7:01PM EDT (link)n/t