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Apparently, even Obama’s down with the “he’s too inexperienced to lead” meme.

Although one wishes that he'd do the obvious thing, then.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 23rd, 2008 at 03:08 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

A little thing, but at best a gaffe, and at worst a tacit admission:

How Ben Porritt of the McCain campaign put it:

“Barack Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor, when he introduced Joe Biden as the next president. The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn’t ready then and he isn’t ready now.”

My take:

“Joe’s the one who’s supposed to trip over his own tongue for our amusement, Barry. Although if you picked him to balance out the ticket in that regard, trust me: it was redundant.”

Oh, the fun that we will have with this pick for the next two months. See also The Other McCain for the inevitable Terry Eagleton comparison. Who? Trust me, kids: you’ll find out.

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  • SteveLA

    Does anyone know if Joe Biden wrote that speech all by himself, or did he “borrow” it from some English Torry politician?

  • Trelaina

    What a gift McCain has been given. I only hope he makes good use of it.

  • zsmvf6

    to the Eagleton comparison. :)

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    This should be a weekly video on RS.

         Biden/Obama 08

    nt

  • hunter

    Who better than Blowhard Joe to keep Obama properly inflated?
    Maybe someone will graciously lend them a tire gauge to ensure proper inflation pressure?

  • RedFox84

    Now, granted, it seems pretty apparent from the pick that Obama didn’t particularly care who was his running mate, so long as it wasn’t HER. But I don’t think Biden is Eagleton bad. I mean, he’s not going to be dropped from the ticket inside of a week, I don’t think.

    Plus, I doubt Obama could back anything “110%” except perhaps his own desire to occupy the White House.

  • Moe_Lane

    This is just all the stuff that we know about offhand. Just wait until we start digging. :)

  • bk
  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    He’s speech today seemed angry and he stabbed McCain several times. Strange for a friend of 35 years to attack unprovoked in his very first speech as the VP nominee. What a guy. Guess friendship doesn’t mean much to Ut Oh Joe!

  • Cowboy

    Did I here Joe call him that?

  • GaryL

    Biden/Obama 08

    I think the new bumper sticker should read:

    Obama lin Biden ’08

  • ConservaGeek

    Jim Geraghty had a great start last nite (before the famous text message):

    It’s hard for Obama supporters to play the age card any longer, as their potential veep is all of six years younger than McCain.

    The candidate of hope and change selected a running mate who was first elected to public office when Obama was 9 years old. He was elected to the Senate when Obama was 11.

    The bottom of the ticket running on change has been in Washington forever.

    He voted for the Iraq War ? which Obama touted as the most important decision since the end of the Cold War.

    Biden supports a ban on partial-birth abortion. He supports deploying U.S. troops to Darfur in Sudan.

    His mouth will be an absolute time bomb. Will he refer to Delaware as a “slave state” again? Will he discuss who’s behind the counter at 7-11s?

    I’m reminded of a Rudy Giuliani response when Biden took a shot at him ? “Joe’s a good guy, we all criticize each other during this time… But for Joe Biden to talk about qualifications ? he’s never run a city, he’s never run a state, he’s never run a business.”

    That statement is true for both men on the Democratic ticket.

    Other than Biden’s mouth, it’s a relatively safe pick. But since he’ll be spending just about every waking moment between now and Election Day in front of television cameras… look out.

  • Curtis_Sr

    I received this posting on another board and would like to have it either confirmed or shot down. Biden notwithstanding, IS there really a question about Senator Obama’s eligibility to run?

    http://www.americasright.com/2008/08/obama-sued-in-philadelphia-federal.html

    A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.

    {Hi. We respect copyright and make good-faith efforts to respect fair use here. Do not reproduce full articles again. – Moe Lane}

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • paint_it_red

    How bout that:

    1 – introduces Biden as the top of the ticket

    2 – he’s forgotten to ask his supporters to retire Clinton’s campaign debt (which still remains unretired) at an event designed specifically for him to do that

    3 – Calls a reporter “sweetie” while blowing her off, and never answers her question

    4 – tells Clinton supporters that they need to just “get over it” about Clinton losing

    5 – does not even bother to vet Clinton despite saying she’d be on “anyone’s short list”

    Simply remarkable. The Clinton supporters must be very very pissed off right now. And he’s doing nothing to reach out to them. I am not confident those divisions will be mended at the convention.

  • GypsyMan

    This pick will be remembered as a bad one because of the massive policy differences that Obama and Biden have. That’s going to cause Obama serious problems–how can he hit McCain on Iraq when his running mate agrees with McCain?

    http://www.notwrightforamerica.com has a great spoof post on the first debate being between Obama and Biden rather than Obama and McCain. It encapsulates the problems with this pick.

  • bk

    Your usage of “down with” in that manner proves you are a racist (as if we didn’t know it already).

    For your penance, you have to wear an Obama/Biden this week, then ask Rev Wright for absolution.

  • robes

    Obama is playing mind games with himself. And losing.

  • Pentagon16

    the only problem with the McCain campaign is that they can not seize the daily story on the neverending amount of gaffes coming out of Messiahville.

    I wish there was a way they could pay for ads, and then each day put a new one based on that week’s latest lie, backflip, gaffe, misquote, failed policy by Barack.. it could go on and on but most Americans never see this!