The Senator from Scranton, accompanied by his wife and mother, casts his vote in Wilmington, Delaware.
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The Obama campaign didn’t much like the pointed interview Barbara West of WFTV in Orlando conducted with Joe Biden, so they cancelled a scheduled interview with Jill Biden. More here.
Sound Bite:
[Barbara West] “How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?”
[Biden] “Are you joking? Is this a joke?”
Audio of Joe Biden’s “rhetorical flourish” about Obama facing an “international crisis” in the first six months of his presidency plays over images of Hamas, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, etc. in this new 30-second spot from the McCain camapign.
Sound Bite:
[Biden] “I guarantee you, It’s going to happen.”
[Voiceover] “It doesn’t have to happen. Vote McCain.”
Democratic VP candidate Nostradamus, uh, Joe Biden predicts the future.
Sound Bite: “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy . . . We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Joe the Plumber should have kept tossing the football with his son the other day when Barack Obama came strolling through his Ohio neighborhood. Less than a day after Joe became the star of the last presidential debate, he’s watching his life get ripped apart by the media: he doesn’t have a plumber’s license, he owes back taxes, he only makes $40k a year, he’s not really going to buy the business. Hell, his name isn’t even Joe.
Still, isn’t it a little un-working-class-friendly for the Senator from Scranton to pile on?
The Obama ad releases a post-VP debate spot featuring the Senator from Scranton criticizing the McCain healthcare plan.
Sound Bite: “Taxing your healthcare benfit, I call that the ultimate bridge to nowhere.”
McCain’s first ad following last night’s VP debate says the Senator from Scranton lied about a couple of Obama-Biden positions. And even worse, he SIGHED following a Sarah Palin answer! (Of course, the folks snoring at home probably didn’t hear the sigh.)
Jackie Broyles and Dunlap — the Red State Update boys — take a look at tonight’s debate and predict “a train wreck of astonishing magnitude.” Dunlap’s rant is a classic.
Sound Bite: [Dunlap] “Unless she or a member of her family gets impregnated onstage, the spin’s gonna be that she held her own.”
In the run-up to tonight’s debate, the McCain campaign shows that Sarah Palin isn’t the only verbally challenged VP candidate by stringing together a bunch of cringeworthy Joe (“What am I talking about?”) Biden clips. Ouch!
Sound Bite: “Ready to gaffe? Yes. Ready to lead? No.”
While riding the campaign bus with the Senator from Scranton, Katie Couric asks about the tone of the campaign, including the Obama ad that mocked McCain for being computer illiterate. Loose cannon Joe doesn’t disappoint with his review.
Sound Bite: “I thought that was terrible.”
Here’s the Obama ad:
In a recent days, the Senator from Scranton has opined on a number of occasions that it’s “patriotic” for so-called “wealthy” folks to pay higher taxes. Not surprisingly, the McCain campaign gives him the business in this new ad.
Sound Bite: “Lots more taxes . . . lots more patriots.”
Here’s Biden on the true meaning of patriotism:
Joe Biden was asked by a local TV reporter in Milwaukee is it a “step forward for women” if Sarah Palin becomes VP.
Now, this is one of those questions that most politicians would finesse; would reconstitute; would deconstruct. Hell, they might even punt — talk about their own wives and daughters and mothers and such. But not Joe Biden.
Sound Bite: “Well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe? I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think. And that’s obviously a backward step for women.”
In response to a question at an appearance in Deerfield Beach, FL, Joe Biden says you can expect Congressional investigations of the Bush Administration to continue if Barack Obama becomes president.
Sound Bite: “If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued: not out of vengenance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one — no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.”
The Republicans nominate a woman VP, so what does Joe Biden do? He stops shouting and talks all soft and sappy about his grandkids and the Obama kids and their sleepover. Then he starts shouting again.
Sound Bite: “I looked at those kids and I said this is America . . . This where Barack’s going to take us. My little girls and his little girls. This is real. It’s real. It’s deep. It’s deep.”
Screamin’ Joe Biden has been attached at the hip to Barack Obama for the past week. Now he’s out on his own. Here is a portion of the Biden stump speech — from an address in Fort Meyers, FL:
The economy sucks. John McCain is George Bush. Democrats will cut taxes. John McCain is George Bush. Democrats will create jobs. John McCain is George Bush. The economy sucks.
