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Oh, That Joe! (No. 17 in a Series) -- First Thing We Do, Let's Retain All the Lawyers
September 23, 2008 9:33 PM
"I think we're going to be up very late counting votes," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told a kettle of lawyers Tuesday night at a fundraiser for the Democratic Victory Fund in Washington, D.C. "And so, your help means a big deal. The last help we need you for, is you're the best legal minds in the country. We're going to need you going into election time, because we're going to mobilize thousands of lawyers to make sure they don't steal another election."
Standing near Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Biden also said that if "one more national commentator talks about what a great debater I am, all Claire is gonna have to do is make sure that Sarah Palin, when she's walking on the stage, doesn't trip, and she'll win.
"One of the debates I've had and finally won within the campaign, Claire, is -- we talk about how John McCain's 'changed,'" Biden said. "He hasn't changed a bit. John McCain has not changed one single solitary bit from the day I met him 34 years ago.
"He has never, never, never, never, never, never, never shared the values set that you share," Biden said. "He's an honorable, decent man, but John McCain truly believes, truly believes that you are corporate America's problem," he said to the trial lawyers. "And thank God you are."
Biden said that he's "done more than any other senator combined" for trial lawyers.
"There are two people -- you've heard me say it before -- two groups that stand between us and the barbarians at the gate," Biden said. "It's you and organized labor. That's it. That is it. So, mark my words, mark my words, if we lose this election, you are going to continue to see a continuation of the onslaught on everything we care about. For real. For real. So, I'm not only thanking you for your help. I would think you're all absolutely brain-dead if you didn't help. And I mean it."
-- Jake Tapper and Matt Jaffe
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When talking about the current economic crisis, Biden said that "FDR went on television" and talked to the public. Just two problems with that - FDR wasn't President in '29 and there were no TV's in American homes.
Can you imagine if Palin had said this? The media would love to hammer home to us how dangerously stupid she would be as Prez. The media silence is deafening for Joe. I'll say it again - I'm much more concerned about Joe becoming Prez than I am Palin.
Posted by: marylou | Sep 24, 2008 8:08:15 AM
Biden will be counting all those felon and illegal alien votes gathered by Obama's ACORN community organizers.
I know..I know... Jesus was a community organizer, George Wallace (D, AL) and Lester Maddox (D, GA) were governors.
Posted by: Sam Deakins | Sep 24, 2008 8:06:29 AM
""Everything reported as a gaffe by Biden seems to me the evidence that he is honest and rational. I find it very healthy that he doesn't totally tow the line re. the party line. I'm sure Obama prefers an independent rational partner as well. Senator Clinton would have been the same. One of the Democratic party strengths is also one of our weaknesses. We see events and problems from multiple sides and don't simply express one 'talking point' or vote as a 'block'. We are Democratic.""
Really? Really?
This guy just said that Trial Lawyers are the saviors of the Libs. What does that tell you?
Posted by: mark | Sep 24, 2008 8:04:36 AM
Why would I vote for either Obama or McCain? For the life of me, I can not come up with an honest reason.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 24, 2008 7:28:36 AM
Everything reported as a gaffe by Biden seems to me the evidence that he is honest and rational. I find it very healthy that he doesn't totally tow the line re. the party line. I'm sure Obama prefers an independent rational partner as well. Senator Clinton would have been the same. One of the Democratic party strengths is also one of our weaknesses. We see events and problems from multiple sides and don't simply express one 'talking point' or vote as a 'block'. We are Democratic.
Posted by: MrsDi | Sep 24, 2008 7:17:55 AM
Biden praises organized labor which is controlled by organized crime and he praises lawyers. That in and of itself is shocking enough, but...dare we suggest that the people keeping the barbarians at the gate are really people in uniform who fight barbarians? People like Sen McCain? Nah. It's the lawyers! Yeah! What if Sarah Palin said that?
Posted by: Scott Malensek | Sep 24, 2008 7:01:32 AM
The REAL concern is that the lawyers don't manipulate and STEAL the election.
That has been the issue all along. They tried it in 2000 and didn't get away with it....and began immediately calling their "enemy" what they were/are, liars and thiefs.
Be concerned VERY concerned when a host of lawyers decend on this election. The only guarantee will be that THEY will taint it.
Posted by: Jim | Sep 24, 2008 6:45:03 AM
Obama 52% and McCain 43% in the recent poll.
That's an amazing news.
GO Obama, Go all the way!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN '08.
Posted by: I.A.T smith | Sep 24, 2008 6:44:35 AM
1) Obama's never run a business? McCain's only non-governmental gig was as P.R. man for his Father-in-Law's beer company.
2) Given what happened in Florida and Ohio, the Democrats would be fools if they didn't have "thousands of lawyers" ready for election day...particularly given the number of Bush hacks who are running the Palin/McCain campaign.
3) At least Joe Biden speaks. Palin's got herself confused with Angelina Jolie...waving and smiling at the nasty paparazzi and refusing to comment. The only difference is that when Angelina actually takes questions, she usually has something worthwhile to say.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | Sep 24, 2008 6:32:37 AM
I hate trial lawyers. They are always trying to defend people and stuff. If you didn't do anything wrong, you wouldn't be facing a trial.
Posted by: Rocky | Sep 24, 2008 6:09:37 AM
Hey kids,
Any pies left?
Since we told Cheney not to destroy his records we might be needing a lot of attorneys.
BaDaBing!
Posted by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 24, 2008 4:58:40 AM
Lots of paid Obamites infecting the blog tonight.
Posted by: dave | Sep 24, 2008 4:57:03 AM
Anita Yova,
We already owe China, oh, about only one or two trillion dollars for the Iraq war fiasco. Where did we think Bush was getting the money for to pay for a war that cost billions of dollars per month and still manage to cut taxes? Bad news, we also owe the Chinese the interest.
Biden is solid. I'm more worried about having a potential president stand-in who trips up on foreign policy, plus a questionable record- Troopergate, left her town swimming in debt, claimed she was against things she was for...e.g.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Sep 24, 2008 3:05:13 AM
colorado,
Well decide then. Obama for a real change, something new, different, more thoughtful and finally a more intelligent approach.
Or McCain for 4 more years of the same nonsense or worse.......
Posted by: Davis | Sep 24, 2008 2:41:54 AM
everyone, i want someone who will stand up for americans with disabilities........can you name a president who has done that since bill clinton......not bush, hell no!!!
Posted by: carlasue | Sep 24, 2008 2:40:42 AM
nothing will change as long as we stay divided insulting and fighting amongst each other along partisan lines while they rob us blind. nothing will change as the beast grows bolder and we grow stupider. i guess we get what we deserve.
undecided purple person
Posted by: colorado | Sep 24, 2008 2:38:03 AM
actually, I think Joe Biden invented tv right after Gore invented the internet.
Posted by: zeke | Sep 24, 2008 2:28:14 AM
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I think you mean McCain invented the Blackberry!!!!!!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | Sep 24, 2008 2:36:25 AM
davis, love and always have even when i disagreed with you, the ha ha ha haha's......god bless....
Posted by: carlasue | Sep 24, 2008 2:33:01 AM
actually, I think Joe Biden invented tv right after Gore invented the internet.
Posted by: zeke | Sep 24, 2008 2:28:14 AM
yes, birds will sing again if obama is elected. dems are so good they were on tv before it was invented!
Posted by: zeke | Sep 24, 2008 2:26:38 AM
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