Oh, That Joe! (No. 31 in a Series) -- Biden Loves Dave Matthews?

I like this series because it does, at least, give some sustained coverage of Joe Biden. Multiple accounts, including most recently Ryan Lizza's fascinating piece in The New Yorker, have portrayed Senator Biden as the most accessible of all the candidates currently running for an Executive position. Yet he has consistently had to struggle for press coverage, while his rival - who will coast through the entire election without having once given a *single* press conference - luxuriates in such a surfeit of coverage that she feels fine about banishing reporters from her presence.

So even though I sometimes dislike the condescension that Mr. Tapper's reports seem to carry, and even though I think the name of this series has long since passed its freshness date, I am still grateful for OTJ. Keep em coming, Jake. :-)

On another note, having just attended a James Taylor GOTV concert for Obama in NC - wow, these guys have some serious musician love. Some serious multi-generational musician love. Arcade Fire and Superchunk in NC in the spring (when you need college students' turnout to win the primary); James Taylor in the fall (when you need their parents and grandparents to win the general). Living in a swing state rocks. Literally.

~~No. 31 in a Series~~

tsk..shame it isn't No. 41

Joe Biden listens to Dave Matthews Band. His children are fans.
Case closed. No need to say more. This says it all...Anyone who is a DMB fan is ok by me ! The DMB are a matter of taste...good taste. Way to go Joe, I knew I liked you....;-)

Point is people like Joe Biden and relate to him.What some of you think is not a good point that other countries like the Obama /Biden team the point is we have to work with other countries and McCain does not have the temperment to do that

Hero - I actually get Investor's Business Daily - through no fault of my own. 1) It is a tabloid, which ran an 18-Part Anti-Obama series, full of lies and innuendo 2) It regularly has Michelle Malkin as a guest columnist 3) It is an ultra, ultra right wing tabloid 4) No one, and I mean no one who is reputable would consider this paper, with it's pretend name to be a resource for reliable polling. There are good polllsters who lean right, left and center, but Investor's Business Daily is not one of them. They are also not used by the business community. A npoll in the NYC financial district found that no one had ever heard of them. They are a fraud - on the order of the crap that Scaife tried to do in the 90s.

Could we have a 29-Part Series on Sarah Palin? The only interview she has done lately was on the Christian Broadcasting System. When was the last time a candidate for a non-religious office gave an interview on this station - at the exclusion of everyone but Fox (and Katie Couric, of course)?

And what's wrong with Dave Matthews?

Something New Here
Radical? Check. Tied to Liddy? Check.
Tied to Iran-Contra? Check. Tied to Lobbyist Tom Loeffler & Saudis? Check.
Tied to lobbyist Doug Goodyear & military junta in Burma? Check.
Tied to Rick Davis and Freddie/Fannie?Check.

McCain = too radical, too risky, too dirty, too beholden to lobbyists

News Flash....McCain isn't winning this election.

Th 2008 campaign is showing Democrats to be "real people" and the Republicans "ultimate victims" of their own doing.

Dave Matthews is very popular. He has been the favorite with my son and friends (20s) for several years.

What Joe said was not worth an article.

What is the deal Jake with the big focus on Biden.

How about Oh, That Sarah.

Arnie,
No one shoots off their big mouth more than Falin-she made a comment about socialism, and she's too stupid to know what the word means. If she did, she wouldn't use it since a Republican president has socialized the banks in the last few weeks. But since she is illiterate and uneducated, she doesn't even know what she's talking about.

She should go back to her kitchen window and looking at Russia. She talks down Washington, DC-but she's doing everything she can in her little Caribou Barbie way to get there!! She's a panderer and she appeals to the basest of ideas and emotions. She should apologize to Sen. Obama and his family for egging on the crowds, and inciting them to yell threats to his life. She has no right to do this, and she should be ashamed of herself.
Though "If I only Had a Brain" comes to mind.

"KristenPowers"----thanks so much for posting that scary, odd statement about a looming international crisis that BIden made on Saturday. I could not help but notice that Mr. Tapper did not see fit to include that little gem, which has actual consequences, in his "Oh, that Joe" series.

After all, I'm beginning to see, OTJ is designed to show us that Joe is a regular guy, who says goofy things but is basically harmless and entertaining. We can trust good old Joe to run the country alongside good old Barack. If that's the message, count me out. Joe BIden is not just a regular guy. He is a tough politician with an instinct for self-preservation and a love of his own voice. He is not a cuddly goofball.

And when he says things like he said on Saturday about the dangers we face, he makes me as nervous as the guy on the top of his ticket does. But we can't expect the media to pay much attention to what Biden had to say, because it is extremely inconvenient. Is Biden just rambling, or is he dropping hints based on the intelligence briefings the Bush administration is giving the candidates? The media does not want people to be reminded that it is John McCain, not Barak Obama, who has the experience that we would need in such a crisis. The Obama campaign does not want people wondering if there are challenges ahead that Obama is not prepared to handle.

The money quote here is Biden's plea for support because "it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right." So he seems to have some specific response or lack of response to some scenario in mind. What the hell is this guy talking about and why is the press so incurious about it? Guess they're all out camped on Joe the Plumber's lawn, hoping to prove he doesn't recycle or something equally crucial to the American electorate as we face the final weeks of the campaign.

Man will people making all these claims show some damned evidence. The tax cut thing is a lie but I'd like to see transcripts at the very least for all these purported quotes. Take everything you read with a grain of salt, liberal and conservative.

"Meanwhile... Hamas gave Senator Joe Biden the thumbs up."

Desperate republicans, out of arguments so they now rely on smear and lies.

Obama/Bidden 2008, endorsed by giants like Warren Buffer, Colin Powell, Eric Schmidt, Richard Luger!

"Take rock star Dave Matthews, who found the notion of an all-powerful, loving God "more irritating than Santa Claus." He'd like the idea, but it's "absurd. It's just our attempt to be more important than a tree."

Does Joe Biden agree with that?

Obama Holds Slight Lead 46.6 to 42.5 Over McCain-- 11.9% Undecided

Investor's Business Daily/TIPP polling, the most accurate pollster of the 2004 campaign season, has McCain making a 2 point gain today on Barack Obama's lead.

Obama still holds a slight lead at 46.6 to 42.5 over Senator John McCain.
11.9% of registered voters are still undecided.
That undecided number has to concern the Democrats.

Drudge linked to the Real Clear Politics average today where Obama holds a 4.8% lead over John McCain in an average of all the polls at 48.8% to 44% for McCain.

Meanwhile... Hamas gave Senator Joe Biden the thumbs up.

Hero

What no reply to my corection of your statement ?

Sean A
Provide a link to the alleged statement ???

"Biden is unfit to be president."

Biden is part of the team, standing next to giants like Warren Buffer, Colin Powell and Eric Schmidt.

His role is to get the moderate republicans on board. Forget the NeoCon conservatives, they are yesterday's news. Biden is a good guy, and I'm sure he will do an amazing job in fulfilling his role.

Barack Obama told George Stephanopoulos during the ABC democratic primary debate in April that "Bill Ayers" was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."

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Hero, This explaination has been refined since Bill Ayers/Obama relationship came up.
The first time he was asked about Ayers, Obama said that Ayers was just a neighbor whose kids went to the same school as his own kids.
BIll Ayers' kids are adults while, as we all know, Obama's are in elementary school.
Caught in another lie, and when it was found out that Obama served on more than one board with him and he kicked off his political career in Ayers living room, the relationship just continues to evolve.
I'm sure that IF Obama manages to con his way into the White House. we will learn a lot more about this.
Obama wrote a blurb in Ayers book. They are definitely more than just "neighbors" and "casual co-workers".