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Biden Supporter Calls Palin "A Bucket of Fluff"

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September 15, 2008 7:47 PM

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: At Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden's rally Monday evening in Flat Rock, Michigan, Barbara Theaker, a local supporter, called Biden's Republican counterpart Sarah Palin "a bucket of fluff".

"Barack Obama has made an intelligent choice for the vice-presidency," Theaker said in her introduction of Biden. "So very different this is from that bucket of fluff that the Republican candidate has chosen for the same position."

When Theaker finished her remarks, Biden told her, "You are good! My Lord!"

This is not the first time a Biden supporter has used the introduction to hit out at Palin.

Last Tuesday in St. Louis, Missouri Rep. Russ Carnahan said of the Alaska governor, "There's no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick."

The outspoken nature of Theaker's introduction may have led to increased audience participation as the event progressed.

At one point, perhaps to emphasize the seriousness of his comments about the economy, Biden even had to tell a particularly vocal supporter in the crowd to "shush up."

"With Lehman Brothers crashing, unemployment rate higher than it's been anytime in five years, 84,000 people losing their jobs just last month, John McCain said...," Biden said, before suddenly stopping mid-sentence to address the audience member.

"Shush up for a second will ya?" he said bluntly.

"I'm only joking," he then noted, "but seriously, think about it..."

And with that, he got back to his stump speech...

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And that fluff will be kicking Biden & Obama's butt on Nov 4th

Posted by: Calston | Sep 15, 2008 7:58:38 PM

That's a nice compliment for a pathetically lying hockey mom with the world view of a fundamentalist moose.

Biden is too kind.

Posted by: hank | Sep 15, 2008 8:00:46 PM

Barack Obama is the biggest joke candidate with no experience. Now he's whining because his celebrity bubble burst.

waaa waaa, cry me a river

What did you expect when your whole candidacy was built on a house of cards?

Posted by: John | Sep 15, 2008 8:01:23 PM

just wait, the next McCain ad will omit the word 'supporter' from this headline.

Posted by: Jason | Sep 15, 2008 8:06:53 PM

Heaven help us all if mccain and palin(lying, wolf killing, moose eating idiot) win in 2008

Posted by: diane | Sep 15, 2008 8:08:03 PM

Who cares what a Biden supporter said.

Today the Stock Market FELL 500 POINTS!!!!!

Posted by: Samantha | Sep 15, 2008 8:09:10 PM

I remember when the republicans took Michelle Obama's "Proud of her Country" statement and spun it to mean the opposite. I wonder how they will spin the story about Mr. palin and his membership in the AIP which is an organization that wants Alaska to be separate from the other 49 states. Here's a guy that doesn't want to be part of the USA for Christ-sake. This also tells a lot about mc-more-war's decision making abilities. Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Posted by: pt | Sep 15, 2008 8:09:19 PM

fluff is too kind a word

Posted by: Gus | Sep 15, 2008 8:12:25 PM

Yeah, that little Palin fluff is hitting pretty hard on Obama's psyche. He looks a little spooked these days.

Posted by: Max | Sep 15, 2008 8:13:00 PM

Obama et al sure like to call people names. Don't they.

If they spent half as much time on issues, the shallow one wouldn't be going into the tank.

Posted by: dl | Sep 15, 2008 8:13:19 PM

The best McCain can do is tie Obama in the polls... His Palin / Convention bump is already beginning to erode in the new polls coming out... we can't afford 4 more
years of this group of Republicans responsible for this economic situation...

Posted by: Levi | Sep 15, 2008 8:13:24 PM

Today the Stock Market FELL 500 POINTS!!!!!
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yes under the watchful eye of Bush/McCain

Posted by: Gus | Sep 15, 2008 8:13:41 PM

The Palin bubble has popped, look for pushbak in the polls by weeks end. This won't even begin to get serious until the debates.

Posted by: Jason | Sep 15, 2008 8:14:32 PM

Calston is a d-bag.

Posted by: Dennis Catron | Sep 15, 2008 8:15:07 PM

Bucket of fluff? Oh yea, we can get you back! Nah- nanny- pooh- pooh!

See.

Posted by: david | Sep 15, 2008 8:17:07 PM

A liar and a cheat too.

Posted by: me | Sep 15, 2008 8:18:53 PM

The most dangerous part is that the Muslim idea to impose on us.

Posted by: kerry | Sep 15, 2008 8:19:10 PM

fluff?... that's putting it nicely, Palin is incompetent beyond our wildest dreams, dangerously right wing, a born again christian who believe in 'end world' philosophys that purport a world war in the middle east will bring jesus back to 'save' those who are saved... Mccain is so aligned with bush it's pathetic, and his health records (the few they have released) show he is not in good shape... and people will vote for this?... no doubt america is a mental waste land

Posted by: earthisnotflat | Sep 15, 2008 8:19:12 PM

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has apparently revealed that the centerpiece of Barack Obama's conversation with Iraqi leaders in July was his hope of delaying the draw-down of American military forces in Iraq. Zebari's recounts that Obama "asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington." Obama also reportedly insisted that Congress steer negotiations on the time-table of troops withdrawal, rather than the Bush administration, which he described as being in a "state of weakness and political confusion."


Obama's campaign has denied these accounts of his visit to Iraq. Such a private request for delayed troop reductions would run counter to Obama's public statements on Iraq, in which he calls for an immediate withdrawal. Further, an attempt to subvert the executive branch would be contrary to established U.S. foreign policy.


If Zebari's statements are discovered to be true, Obama would be guilty of the most unadulterated political profiteering and moral corruption in modern history. To seek electoral gain on the deception of a nation at war and the blood of American soldiers is nothing less than treasonous villainy - for which the offender ought to be tarred and feathered before being expelled from the country.

Posted by: NEWS UPDATE URGENT!!!!! | Sep 15, 2008 8:19:16 PM

Palin once called herself "a weasel", maybe now she's a fluffy weasel.

Posted by: doug | Sep 15, 2008 8:19:21 PM

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