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Oh, That Joe! (No. 5 in a Series) -- Biden: Now is the Moment for me 'as a US Senator Running for President' to Put Aside Politics

September 01, 2008 5:13 PM

At a Scranton, Penn., Italian festival this afternoon, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. standing on the side of a black Suburban, took the microphone to address the downtown crowd and explain why Hurricane Gustav precluded his campaigning today.

"I will be back, I'll be back to campaign in earnest," Biden said, "but today is not the moment for me to campaign. Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there" in the Gulf Coast.

Biden has still spent more time this election cycle campaigning for president than he has running for vice president.

-- Jake Tapper and Matt Jaffe

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Mccain/Palin looks like a good choice! We can't afford obama!$845billion for global poverty! Tax payers will pay for that! He wants Wealth re-distribution,taking from the rich and giving to the poor! I'm POOR,But I dont want what someone else has! THE RICH MADE IT! GOOD FOR THEM! WE ALL HAVE The potential to be rich,if we just use IT! Who the hell does he think he is? ROBIN HOOD???

Posted by: Donna | Sep 6, 2008 11:02:30 AM

Have another drink Joe!
That last video I saw him in, the guy was tipsy..Bottoms Up!

Posted by: Just Saying | Sep 2, 2008 10:36:01 PM

OBiden, today's Dan Quayle....

Tomorrow's idiot.

Palin/McCain 08

Posted by: LarryMan | Sep 2, 2008 4:13:41 PM

Thank You so much!

Posted by: Sharon Davis
So Joe is human and slips up from time to time like the rest of us. I think Joe Biden is an excellent pick for VP. It is the "gotcha politics" that is getting old.

At the pace they all are going, slip of the tongue is bound to happen, Let's get back to issues People!

Posted by: fempharoh08 | Sep 2, 2008 1:51:34 PM

With all the talk of mccain's age and health, lets not forget biden had brain surgery twice for cerebral aneurysms, aka, "ticking time bombs".

Posted by: pp | Sep 2, 2008 11:27:28 AM

Imagine Koss and MSM if Palin had made such an inference!!!

Posted by: Merlin | Sep 2, 2008 10:53:01 AM

Hardly any Dems voted for him
in the primaries. Hardly any
Dems like him now.

Kick him off the ticket before
it is too late. Hillary Clinton
is a thousand times better.

Posted by: anon | Sep 2, 2008 10:25:49 AM

Obama/Biden = Cronyism not change

Posted by: cindy in nc | Sep 2, 2008 10:08:49 AM

I dont know how any AMERICAN could really vote for obama! Wake up! THINK BEFOR YOU VOTE!!!! NOOOOOOOOBAMA!!!!!

Posted by: Donna | Sep 2, 2008 9:56:10 AM

Jake,
Oh the Joe #6
"if Barack grew up in our neighborhood like he did in Kansas being raised by his grandparents"

Obama did not grow up in Kansas. He has never even lived in Kansas

Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:18:38 AM

And people are afraid of Palin becoming president....Biden is not a comforting thought.

Posted by: cindy in nc | Sep 2, 2008 9:13:30 AM

Obama/Biden--two Washington cronies.

or more like a comedy team.

Posted by: riley | Sep 2, 2008 9:11:30 AM

Obama did introduce his running mate as the "Next President" - so Joe is taking him at his word.

Posted by: susie | Sep 2, 2008 8:24:29 AM

So now that we've heard it from both Obama and Biden, can we admit it's official? Obama is the front man and Biden is the guy who'll REALLY be running the country.

Posted by: marylou | Sep 2, 2008 5:40:17 AM

just think obama is a heart beat away from having to know something for the first time in my life im more worried about losing a vice president more than i am a president

Posted by: david reyes | Sep 2, 2008 2:00:38 AM

So Joe is human and slips up from time to time like the rest of us. I think Joe Biden is an excellent pick for VP. It is the "gotcha politics" that is getting old.

Posted by: Sharon Davis | Sep 2, 2008 1:28:29 AM

I've always said i. Joe Biden is a stupid, stupid man.

Posted by: Warner Todd Huston | Sep 2, 2008 12:29:00 AM

If the party regulations
allow it, BO should dump
this guy and put HRC on
the ticket.

Posted by: anon | Sep 1, 2008 11:56:52 PM

He's been doing this fake
slip-of-the-tongue routine
for a while now. It's
wearing thin. In the primaries
practically nobody voted for
him. He's too harebrained.

Posted by: anon | Sep 1, 2008 11:40:23 PM

There is a reason (well, several reasons) why Joe Biden never made it into double digits in his various runs at the presidency.

Posted by: Peach | Sep 1, 2008 11:30:24 PM

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