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Does Biden Need to Watch His Language?
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ABC's Matt Jaffe and Sunlen Miller Report:
For Senator Biden – known for his loose lips and frequent gaffes – every word is being closely watched now that he's a Vice Presidential candidate.
At the new ticket's first public event on their bus tour throughout swing states, Senator Biden said a word that was taboo – at least for his running mate - just days before.
"I knew somebody famous was gonna come out of Scranton and I sure as HELL knew it wasn't gonna be me so I left," Biden joked of his upbringing.
Using the word "hell" in front of an audience is something that Obama frowned upon and corrected his own mistake at a town hall just last week in Wisconsin.
"If we can spend 10-12 billion dollars a month in Iraq we sure as HELL can pay 10-12 million dollars - billion dollars right here in the United States,: Obama said Sunday in Eau Claire.
A moment later Obama stopped and said, "I apologize by the way, I usually say 'heck,' especially after church. That sort of slipped out. Sorry kids."
Senator Biden and Obama didn't offer up such an apology to the audience of 8,000 in Pennsylvania tonight.
Biden was also heard to say "goddamn" at a meet-and-greet with Denver firefighters on Thursday. Thanking them for saving his sons' lives in a 1972 car crash that killed his wife and daughter, Biden said, "My two boys are alive because of you guys…I'm alive because my fire company got me in the middle of a goddamn snow storm before my aneurysm burst."
In 1988, Biden needed surgery for two berry aneurysms. And that expletive was not the only one Biden dropped in Denver. Speaking before Pennsylvania delegates earlier in the day, Biden used the word "hell" at least twice.
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Thats what I love about Joe Biden........he is NOT politically correct. He connects with the average person on the street. This is what we have been missing in Washington....someone who tells it like it is and speaks from his heart, not a goddamn script!!! You go Joe!!
Posted by: Jeff, Tampa, FL | Aug 30, 2008 9:35:42 AM
Biden's an insider and a perfect indication that Obama is nothing more than 'establishment' politics. If change is going to happen in Washington, a Pelosi puppet isn't the one to make it.
McCain and Palin have records of change and going against the establishment. That is change you can count
Posted by: Aston_ | Aug 30, 2008 9:44:10 AM
Here's some language for you:
Maverick my a**; McCain did exactly what the evangelicals told him to do by picking Palin. Just like a good little boy.
Posted by: Straight Shlock | Aug 30, 2008 9:44:38 AM
SOODD: Same old Obama, different day!
Posted by: Soetoro_No! | Aug 30, 2008 9:47:06 AM
Joe Biden has been in the United States Senate since Sarah Palin was in 6th grade. He is one of the most highly qualified Vice Presidential nominees we've ever seen. And he is going up against Sarah Palin, the least qualified major party Vice Presidential nominee in American history. This is a heavyweight vs. a light flyweight. He doesn't have to watch anything he says. Joe just needs to be Joe. (What was McCain thinking?)
Posted by: ElodieStClair | Aug 30, 2008 9:48:19 AM
Well, the Obama hate-mongers will be out in force today playing all their games from guilt-by-association to planting the seeds of fear.
Too bad! The transparency of Obama's bloggers is impossible to miss. Look for substance. You'll find none!
Posted by: Aston_ | Aug 30, 2008 9:50:06 AM
Biden is business as usual. Obama is business as usual. There's no change there!
Posted by: Aston_ | Aug 30, 2008 9:51:15 AM
Like people had not heard these words before,besides it gets the point out better. I don't mean he should profanity. but hell Joe is one of us !!!
Posted by: merle7 | Aug 30, 2008 9:51:45 AM
Orezko: All talk and no substance!
Posted by: Soetoro_No! | Aug 30, 2008 9:52:32 AM
Orezko: The most inexperienced and corrupt presidential candidate ever!
Posted by: Soetoro_No! | Aug 30, 2008 9:53:59 AM
How many votes did Joe Biden get? Mr 1% can show us what bad judgment Obama has.
We all know Obama and his children heard four letter words coming out of Wright's mouth along with sexually graphic gestures.
Posted by: geevill | Aug 30, 2008 9:56:19 AM
"Loose lips sinks ships ... "
This is Barack America and President Biden, and we approve this message
Posted by: McCain/Palin 2008 | Aug 30, 2008 9:57:29 AM
Why doesn't Obama allow his baby mama to go out on her own?
Posted by: Just Curious | Aug 30, 2008 9:57:40 AM
... what the HECK ... why bother ...it's JUST WORDS...
Posted by: McCain/Palin 2008 | Aug 30, 2008 9:58:25 AM
Remember the way the sexist Obama engaged in hatred and race-baiting with Hillary. Now, the novice Senator will see the payback!
Posted by: PUMA for Palin | Aug 30, 2008 9:59:41 AM
It's a good thing that reporters didn't follow Harry Truman around all day. Their ears would have stayed red if they were offended by cussing. It doesn't bother me, especially coming from an Irish background myself.
Posted by: John | Aug 30, 2008 10:03:52 AM
McCain might as well be openly for abortion now since that is what his campaign became when he chose the mayor of mooseport as the dispenser of his depends.
Posted by: Enlarged Prostate | Aug 30, 2008 10:04:21 AM
Question: Was John McCain thinking of the welfare of his country when he chose Palin to be VP? The question answers itself!
This is yet another case in which Barack Obama showed his SUPERIOR JUDGEMENT over that of John McCain, when he selected Joe Biden (a man with many years of work on the judiciary and foreign relations committees) to take over as president should he be incapacitated.
John McCain, on the other hand, has proven his long experience of poor judgements.
Posted by: John's conscience | Aug 30, 2008 10:06:43 AM
Question: Was Barack Obama thinking of the welfare of his country when he chose Biden to be VP? The question answers itself!
And, by the way, what were the democrats thinking when they nominated an inexperienced corrupt Barack Obama who is truly worse than Richard Nixon when it comes to his criminal activity and lack of honesty!
Posted by: Aston_ | Aug 30, 2008 10:10:40 AM
I know Hillary Clinton, I consider Hillary Clinton a friend...
Governor Palin your no Hillary Clinton...
Posted by: Wannabe | Aug 30, 2008 10:13:13 AM
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