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Biden Blasts McCain for Obama/Bush comparison
October 23, 2008 8:34 PM
ABC News' Matt Jaffe Reports: Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden Thursday night opened his outdoor evening rally at Raleigh's Meredith College – "site of the best mascot name in all of college sports": the Avenging Angels – by laughing off the latest attack from Republican candidate John McCain.
"Just today, John McCain tried to compare Barack Obama to George Bush," said the Delaware senator as the crowd of 7000 booed. "No really, I mean, you know, talk about the willing suspension of disbelief!"
Earlier Thursday, in response to reports that 478,000 Americans claimed unemployment benefits this week, McCain said in a statement that "Barack Obama’s only answer is to double-down on the Bush administration’s legacy of out-of-control spending."
" I mean, pretty soon he’s gonna be calling me Dick Cheney," Biden continued to loud applause. "And that wouldn’t be good! Look, well lemme tell ya, at least I know what the vice-president does!"
While this comment initially seemed to be a dig at McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin’s comment earlier this week in Colorado that the vice-president is "in charge" of the Senate, Biden was apparently referring to Cheney, instead.
"Not with Dick Cheney," he noted. "Not with vice-president Cheney said he’s not a part of either branch or something like that! I don’t know! Look, folks, and we are not in an undisclosed location!"
Moments later, Biden hit out at Wall Street executives raking in million-dollar bonuses despite the current economic crisis.
"Did you see what’s going on tonight on Wall Street, this so-called recovery package?" Biden asked the Tobacco Road audience. "Guess what? They’re finding out now that a lot of these guys are giving themselves million-dollar bonuses. It’s obscene. It’s obscene."
"I want to remind all Americans of what we’ve overcome in the past and what Barack Obama will do," Biden concluded. "He will not appeal to your avenging angels. He’ll appeal to your better angels and unite this country! That’s why, that’s why I am so certain Barack Obama will be a great president of the United States of America."
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Yea Joe blow, you can't wait for your
buddy Hussein to get his ass knocked off
by a gunman, so you can be Presedent.
God help this country !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Joey | Oct 23, 2008 8:47:50 PM
God bless Joe Biden.
Posted by: jon in maryland | Oct 23, 2008 8:51:31 PM
God bless Joe Biden. He couldn't be more right.
Posted by: jon in maryland | Oct 23, 2008 8:52:19 PM
Wow, that is exactly the attitude this country doesn't need Joey. I would agree that we do need help when some with such bold opinions can't even spell PRESIDENT.
Posted by: Richard | Oct 23, 2008 8:56:32 PM
Really? I hope the secret service is tracking you down right now. You are what is wrong with America, Joey.
Posted by: ahh | Oct 23, 2008 8:59:11 PM
Obama is Bush, Biden is Cheney, then who the hell is McCain?
He hasn't been able to identify himself, except to show his dishonorable side.
Joey, get used to President O.
BTW, the Secret Service looks for threats that are made to any candidate and they also encourage US citizens to report them. You've just been reported. Good luck in jail being someone's beeaaoch!
Posted by: TexGal51 | Oct 23, 2008 9:00:15 PM
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said … we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
A "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Tehran?
This is an astonishing statement from the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as President Bush. Was Joe warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them?
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a "rhetorical flourish" and a media – rather than demanding that Joe hold a press conference – acting as Obama surrogates parroting the talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian HOLOCAUST? Has anyone ever asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to block Reagan's deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI, which Gorbachev concedes BROKE the Soviets and WON the Cold War?
Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold War, and wrong on the Surge, less important than whether Sarah Palin tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her 10-year-old nephew to "teach him a lesson"?
Posted by: Joe the Senate Hack | Oct 23, 2008 9:01:17 PM
Come on Joey its not Joe and Obama giving themselves $1,000,000 bonuses its the wall street fat cats. I said If Bush planned this bail out it wouldn't work nothing he has done in 8 years has worked why will this???
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Oct 23, 2008 9:02:06 PM
Mr. Bush must be very sad now. He becomes a symbol of failure and bad luck.
Posted by: pmp2008 | Oct 23, 2008 9:02:37 PM
John McCain and Sarah Palin are the worst combination the republicans could have chosen as presidential and vice presidential candidates. Ignorance can be cured by education, stupidity unfortunately is an uncurable defect. both of these candidates suffer from the latter (stupidity).
Posted by: walkerel2000 | Oct 23, 2008 9:03:07 PM
Obama is Bush? Biden is Cheney?
Who's John McCain?
That's the problem. He hasn't been able to define himself, except for all the negative advertising. What's left? Oh, I know.... Obama was 4 when he was potty trained. Yeah, that's a big negative to becoming VP.
BTW, Joey
The Secret Service encourages US citizens to report any type of threat to the candidates and I just reported you. Good luck in jail being someone's beeaaooch!
Posted by: TexGal51 | Oct 23, 2008 9:06:33 PM
You are one vile character "Joey".....that sums you up perfectly
Posted by: seansatx | Oct 23, 2008 9:09:20 PM
Joey,
Did you just threaten a presidential candidate? don't you know that's a federal crime? why has the republican party, become the party of hate? so disturbing. even though i'm for obama, i would never wish any harm for mccain. that's offensive to say the least.
Posted by: reelitin | Oct 23, 2008 9:13:42 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Marxists for Obama
Posted by: Tom DeLay at 9:32 AM
June: DeLay: 'Unless Obama Proves Me Wrong, He Is a Marxist'
October: Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
Turns out the actual communists who vote in this country deny that he really does represent their views, but they still argue that he's the best candidate for their cause based on Marxist teachings. Then whoever wrote this (quite oddly) claimed they aren't Marxists....sounds like Obama fits right in with this crowd. And, since this appears on Obama's official website, I take it he is quite comfortable publicly courting the commie vote.
Barack Obama is the single most liberal person to have ever received the nomination of the Democrat Party, and if voters don't quickly realize just how dangerous his political beliefs will be for our country, we will soon find out the hard way.
Posted by: ml | Oct 23, 2008 9:22:17 PM
Obama would be a uniter for the country.
Posted by: Nancy | Oct 23, 2008 9:28:23 PM
TexGal51, can you read? Joey did not make a threat to do anything against anyone. He is merely repeating what many Obama supporters themselves have said: That Obama faces some danger.
And he is just repeating what others have said about Biden's true motives. Maybe you should be reporting Biden to the SS. Some of you Obama supporters are scary people.
What will you do if as Biden predicted Obama's numbers fall in the polls after he makes some "unpopular decisions"? Will you stand behind him and use your influence in your communities?
Posted by: Learn to read | Oct 23, 2008 9:28:43 PM
communism and marxism are DEAD folks. Can you not get it into your thick skulls? You idiots think by throwing around a few antiquated buzz words, you're "doing a great public service", blah blah blah.
Posted by: seansatx | Oct 23, 2008 9:29:07 PM
Looks like "learn to read" needs to learn to read. "Joey" referred to Obama as Biden's "buddy Hussein"......
Posted by: seansatx | Oct 23, 2008 9:31:51 PM
Can any of you read? Joey is reading into Biden's motives. He didn't personally threaten anyone.
There is a MAJOR difference between saying "I want to ....." and "Joe Biden wants..."
Critical thinking. Not a common trait anymore.
ml: Do not give into fear or despair. This is how those on the wrong side win. Know that you are not alone. Keep doing what is right.
Posted by: None in 08 | Oct 23, 2008 9:33:13 PM
I'm a McCain supporter but I'm ashamed. I just read a story that a 20 year old woman in Pittsburgh was attacked. She just left from a Obama Election Office and was mugged at an ATM.
That wasn't enough. The attacker carved a P..(PALIN??) on her face.
Wouldn't this be called a hate crime??
Posted by: oliver | Oct 23, 2008 9:33:19 PM
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