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McCaskill Has ‘Joe Biden Moment’ by Saying Biden ‘Sometimes Says Things That Are Kind of Stupid’
October 01, 2008 3:06 PM
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., today told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the American people don't know much about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin “and she is now being thrust on a stage without a script and everyone is curious about how much she knows."
More pointedly, McCaskill said of Palin's opponent, Sen. Joe Biden, Del., that he “has a tendency to talk forever and sometimes say things that are kind of stupid.”
“He a regular guy and … he doesn’t parse his words and he’s not hyper-careful,” she said. “He’s very authentic."
She then seemed to regret what she'd said.
“I was probably having a Joe Biden moment myself,” McCaskill said of her candid moment minutes before.
- jpt
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Reading thru these posts, I came upon some talk about having Mike Savage moderate instead of Gwenn Ifill.
On our way home from bringing our son to college the day McCain announced Palin as his running mate, we tuned in to see what conservative talk radio had to say.
We found Mike Savage and he said that McCain had just lost the election. He didn't have a single positive thing to say about her as a viable running mate on the Republican ticket.
So, I'd kinda like to see Mike Savage instead of Gwen. I think he'd be a lot tougher on her than Ifill will be.
Posted by: Blue in Michigan | Oct 1, 2008 8:19:10 PM
C'mon, it's not like she told a man in a wheelchair to walk or sumpin'!
Posted by: Scott Malensek | Oct 1, 2008 8:16:33 PM
Oops. This accidentally got posted to the "Crap Sandwich" thread ...
"So in short, yes Belle. I believe you. You were a Hillary supporter who is not supporting Obama. There are many, many like you ..."
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I did have a lot of sympathy for Clinton once the Obama campaign started race-baiting and woman-bashing.
I was (am) a John Edwards supporter. With this "crisis" -- if it even IS actually a crisis, and not a huge market manipulation unleashed to favor Obama and make a bunch of money for his corporate masters -- I'm guessing much of the "leadership" (those not aligned with that saboteur Kerry, at any rate) are now silently wishing Edwards, instead of mob-friendly Obama, were the Democratic nominee.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 8:14:49 PM
James, ease up on what? She said last night she supported Clinton. Everytime I have seen her posts she is praising the Clintons--that is before they get deleted that is what she has said. If there are two Belles I stand corrected. The tenor of my post remains the same. You don't have to deride her. Belle Posted:
I'm a Jesse Jackson FDR Democrat who'll vote for McCain before the present "Democratic" nominee. Just because Obama bought the Democratic nomination doesn't make him a Democrat."
So then she is a DEM who is not voting for Obama. Like I said the tenor of my message remains the same.
Posted by: The Two Jakes | Oct 1, 2008 8:03:00 PM
Ryan C
Its funny in that it makes me read your post twice to check its you! LOL
Posted by: James | Oct 1, 2008 7:58:53 PM
Take a good hard look at the people Obama surrounds himself with. Radicals, America haters and incompetent yes men/women, McCaskill falling into the later catagory.
Posted by: OxyCon | Oct 1, 2008 7:58:46 PM
Ryan show Belle some respect. Just because you don't agree with her views doesn't mean that you have to demean her.
Belle I know that you are a dem. I am too but I chose not to vote for the nominee, Obama I know Dems who voted BUSH over Gore in 2000. I don't understand why Obama supporters fail to see that people who voted DEM for life are not voting for Obama. There are Republicans voting for Obama. Obviously if he will win by a landslide like they are predicting conservatives are voting for him too. That has been happening since the beginning of time. party switchers, people who don't vote straight tickets. For some reason the BOTS see things in black and white literally and figuratively.
They don't agree with your position so therefore you don't exist.
I have a Republican friend who never voted DEM until now and vice versa. I have a friend who is voting for Nader.
So in short, yes Belle. I believe you. You were a Hillary supporter who is not supporting Obama. There are many, many like you and PUMA proves that.
Jake Tapper wonders why there is no healthy debate on this site. When you couple censorship, with name calling, and denial of a persons position what did he expect? A guy came on here and said he was from Illinois and for Mccain. The Obama supporter posted you are not from Illinois. Not that it mattered a lot but the Obama supporter felt some need to attack the guys statehood.
Posted by: The Two Jakes | Oct 1, 2008 7:51:38 PM
Please try to balance out the media you consume read a couple of diiferent news papers watch a couple of different cable news channels balance things out and then make your own judgements...
Not just repeating the same FNC/RNC talking points!
Posted by: James | Oct 1, 2008 7:50:35 PM
So how does an Jesse Jackson FDR Democrat come to embrace the standard bearer of the Reagan Revolution in the name of defending poor folks while singing the praises of FoxNews?
There seems to be an ideological schizophrenia going on there.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 1, 2008 7:50:33 PM
"I read a ryan c anti Obama post earlier today ???"
The post about Obama returning $1.5M in donations?
That was a trap for the rwer to say AHA!
Then I hit him with the $7.5M that McCain had to return!
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 1, 2008 7:48:34 PM
"Cultural Amnesia + Concerned in OH + Belle Star all to me seem to be the same person!"
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Not too strong on literary analysis, anyway. :^|
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 7:48:10 PM
Ssssssshhhhhhh OK lol
Posted by: James | Oct 1, 2008 7:46:19 PM
"A Jesse Jackson FDR Democrats who rails against big government and blames the mortgage crisis on minorities."
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Belle Starr does NEITHER of those things. In fact, the mortgage "crisis" is the result of the corporate "Democrats" luring poor people into mortgages they couldn't pay as a way to keep the housing numbers up and avoid doing something about green public housing (there ARE a million homeless, and about to be many more).
The poor and near-poor -- many of them black -- who went for this swindle are now ruined: they will never have another moment's peace about their housing, taxes, or "credit". It will not be easy for them to rent OTHER housing (where, most likely, they won't be able so much as to have a dog). They will suffer one by one, and family by family, unknown to ANY politician, and "helped" by no one.
Meanwhile, the great Obama, enabler of ACORN, taps the ghastly Biden, of the Delaware credit-card dynasty, for VP.
You people make me tired.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 7:45:01 PM
I read a ryan c anti Obama post earlier today ????
Posted by: James | Oct 1, 2008 7:44:49 PM
"so is ryan c and the ryan c imposter!"
My imposter hasn't been here in a few days.
I hope that he or she is ok!
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 1, 2008 7:42:08 PM
"I'm no Republican. I'm a Jesse Jackson FDR Democrat who'll vote for McCain before the present "Democratic" nominee. Just because Obama bought the Democratic nomination doesn't make him a Democrat."
A Jesse Jackson FDR Democrats who rails against big government and blames the mortgage crisis on minorities.
Sure I believe you.
"You can be whoever you want to be," says an inviting Phil Tuchman(McCain campaign worker instructing ghost writers for the campaign). "You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide!"
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 1, 2008 7:34:50 PM
"She's here every day."
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Actually not. But Ryan C., who apparently actually IS here every day, must know that ...
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 7:31:03 PM
"Then again I wasn't sure what your smearing post about Obama's donations had to do with McCaskil-Biden either.
Hypocrisy thy name is Republican."
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That's not "smearing", but "thinking". And that post -- questioning what the point was of the cell phone games at Obama's Invesco event -- was a response to a post in this thread.
I'm no Republican. I'm a Jesse Jackson FDR Democrat who'll vote for McCain before the present "Democratic" nominee. Just because Obama bought the Democratic nomination doesn't make him a Democrat.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 7:28:04 PM
"Belle do you even take it seriously anymore?"
Apparently she does.
She's here every day.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 1, 2008 7:20:54 PM
Uh, what does Couric's Palin interview have to do with the McCaskill/Biden topic?
Abominoid "message discipline" -- you gotta love it.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 1, 2008 7:13:50 PM
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