{"id":3360,"date":"2008-09-23T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2008-09-23T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:15:15","slug":"is-joe-bidens-mouth-on-auto-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3360","title":{"rendered":"Is Joe Biden’s Mouth on Auto-Pilot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is he secretly throwing the game for someone on Intrade<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Do these guys talk at all<\/em>? Doesn’t seem to be much strategery going on.<\/p>\n

I said it before<\/a>, I’ll say it again: Barack, dump the dead weight! Hillary is your man.<\/p>\n

The Delaware Senator took issue<\/a> with an attack ad from his own side in an interview with CBS, telling Katie Couric that the Obama hit on McCain\u2019s ignorance of computers and technology was \u201cterrible.\u201d The ad<\/a> paints McCain as out of touch \u2014 and all but calls him ancient \u2014 but doesn\u2019t mention that the Arizona Senator\u2019s war injuries actually prevent him from using computers<\/a> for an extended period.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he\u2019s disappointed with the tone of the campaign, including the ad that Couric characterized as \u201cmaking fun of John McCain\u2019s inability to use a computer,\u201d Biden said \u201cI thought that was terrible by the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Biden has also been contradicting Obama on key topics<\/a>. Politico’s Mike Allen<\/a> reports on an Obama interview with erstwhile Couric colleague Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today”:<\/p>\n

The Democrat attacked Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for initially opposing the federal government’s intervention to save insurance giant AIG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“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].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Lauer pointed out that Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), had initially said the same thing–on “Today,” no less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I think that in that situation, I think Joe should have waited, as well,” Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You best listen up, Joe. That’s your boss talking. Or did you think FDR is your boss?<\/p>\n

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.’\u00a0”<\/p>\n

The stock market crashed Oct.\u00a029, 1929. FDR became president March\u00a04, 1933. According to the Information Please Almanac<\/a>, FDR made his first television appearance April\u00a030, 1939.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One more: Biden v. Obama on energy policy<\/a><\/p>\n

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He was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner<\/a> about clean coal–a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden’s apparent answer: He supports clean coal for China, but not for the United States.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“No coal plants here in America,” he said. “Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there. Make them clean.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“We’re not supporting clean coal,” he said of himself and Obama. They do, on paper, support clean coal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The answer seems to play into John McCain’s case that Obama has been saying “no” to new sources of energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That ought to be helpful in Ohio and Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Democrats flying high on Obama’s candidacy pre-convention have got to be biting their nails now.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which begs the question: why aren’t we seeing Obammy and Joe Blow together<\/em> much?<\/p>\n

This is quickly becoming a disaster…for Obama. Biden wouldn’t know the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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