Is he secretly throwing the game for someone on Intrade?
Do these guys talk at all? Doesn’t seem to be much strategery going on.
I said it before, I’ll say it again: Barack, dump the dead weight! Hillary is your man.
The Delaware Senator took issue with an attack ad from his own side in an interview with CBS, telling Katie Couric that the Obama hit on McCain’s ignorance of computers and technology was “terrible.” The ad paints McCain as out of touch — and all but calls him ancient — but doesn’t mention that the Arizona Senator’s war injuries actually prevent him from using computers for an extended period.
Asked whether he’s disappointed with the tone of the campaign, including the ad that Couric characterized as “making fun of John McCain’s inability to use a computer,” Biden said “I thought that was terrible by the way.
“I didn’t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it”
Biden’s right…but at the same time…wrong. Even when you are rooting for the other team, we all cringe when someone on the field fumbles, picks up the ball again and run’s the wrong way.
Biden has also been contradicting Obama on key topics. Politico’s Mike Allen reports on an Obama interview with erstwhile Couric colleague Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today”:
The Democrat attacked Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for initially opposing the federal government’s intervention to save insurance giant AIG.
“I think what has been clear during this entire past 10 days is John McCain has not had clarity and a grasp on the situation,” Obama [said].
But Lauer pointed out that Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), had initially said the same thing–on “Today,” no less.
“I think that in that situation, I think Joe should have waited, as well,” Obama said.
You best listen up, Joe. That’s your boss talking. Or did you think FDR is your boss?
Biden also told Couric, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened.’ ”
The stock market crashed Oct. 29, 1929. FDR became president March 4, 1933. According to the Information Please Almanac, FDR made his first television appearance April 30, 1939.
One more: Biden v. Obama on energy policy
He was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal–a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
Biden’s apparent answer: He supports clean coal for China, but not for the United States.
“No coal plants here in America,” he said. “Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there. Make them clean.”
“We’re not supporting clean coal,” he said of himself and Obama. They do, on paper, support clean coal.
The answer seems to play into John McCain’s case that Obama has been saying “no” to new sources of energy.
That ought to be helpful in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Democrats flying high on Obama’s candidacy pre-convention have got to be biting their nails now.
The Washington Post reports that the Obama campaign has released a statement attributed to Biden “walking back” the criticism of the Obama ad making fun of McCain’s disabilities: “Having now reviewed the ad, it is even more clear to me that given the disgraceful tenor of Senator McCain’s ads and their persistent falsehoods, his campaign is in no position to criticize,” Biden supposedly said.
Which begs the question: why aren’t we seeing Obammy and Joe Blow together much?
This is quickly becoming a disaster…for Obama. Biden wouldn’t know the difference.
Damn that Joe Biden for actually having a brain and speaking for himself. It’s certainly not the Republican way. Step out of line there, and you get your interviews cancelled/screened, or bounced out of the party altogether.
Examples?
(Hahahahahaha! I slay me)
No, really. Examples, please.
I can’t think of a single Republican who has been “bounced from the party”, much less had interviews cancelled/screened. How would anyone even do that?
I do know that Lincoln Chafee, a pro-choice, pro-same-sex-marriage, anti-ANWR-drilling, ant-death-penalty, anti-tax-cut, anti-Iraq-War Republican received White House backing against doctrinaire conservative Laffey in the 2006 RI Senate primary.
Carl Rove was still in charge of White House political operations at the time.
Looks like peev is defrauding the reader again.
Come to think of it, Lieberman lost the Democrat primary because he wouldn’t toe the party line & had to run (&win!) as an independent. Dems went to the primary to kick Lieberman out of office. The GOP voters of RI voted to keep Chafee as their Republican candidate, so Chafee had the backing of both the White House and Rhode Island Republicans despite the fact that he stepped out line on virtually every issue the GOP considers important.
I think one reason peev takes unsustainable positions like this is that he reads something on Kos, or Eschaton, or Minimon or Centrisity & just takes their word for what are, essentially, opinions given with no evidence, distorted evidence, or outright lies.
““No coal plants here in America,”
I thought they were trying to win Pennsylvania?
“No coal plants here in America,”
I thought they were trying to win Pennsylvania?
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Biden was a Rove plant.
“Which begs the question: why aren’t we seeing Obammy and Joe Blow together much?”
Cause Obama picked somebody who can campaign on his own instead of some inexperienced piece of right-wing eye-candy?
I’d love to know what Hockey Mom and Kissinger had to talk about.
Obama picked somebody who can campaign on his own
…for whom is he campaigning? Hillary in 2016?
In light of his performance on the trail that’s a hard point to prosecute don’t you think? Obviously Biden requires strict supervision and clear direction. Both of which Obama lacks, neither of which Biden can follow.
Yeah, Biden’s got a brain and campaign on his own. That’s why in the past few days, he’s come out against his boss’ plan on coal (while coal producing states are in play for or against him), why he’s suggested that the Army let him get close enough to terrorist bases in Afghanistan to let him be forced down by them, and why he’s said that somehow an apolitical (HA HA HA) FDR got on TV (10 years before it was commercially available) four years before he was President to calm the nation in a stock market crash.
Sorry, Penigma and AC, it’s time to put slow Joe back on the teleprompter.
Biden would do better if he went back to stuttering. At least it would slow down the gaff rate.
No coal plants here in America
I’d say that the odds of Obama winning Ohio went down quite a bit. Southeastern Ohio is normally solidly Democrat but it’s also heavily into mining high sulfer coal. Dissing coal loses Democrats elections in Ohio.
More Peev crickets.