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October 27, 2008 11:56 AM

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Monday blasted an Orlando anchor for the “ugly” questions she asked him in an interview last Thursday.

“I was on a television station the other day doing a satellite feed to a major network in Florida, and the anchor quotes Karl Marx, and says in a sense, ‘Isn't Barack Obama Karl Marx?’” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told the crowd of 1500 at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.

“You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you're hearing, this stuff you're hearing in this campaign, some of it's pretty ugly,” the Delaware lawmaker continued. "And some of the innuendo is pretty ugly.”

In the interview with Barbara West of ABC’s Orlando affiliate WFTV, Biden was asked, “You may recognize this famous quote: 'From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs.' That's from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?”

West’s questions eventually prompted Biden to ask, "Are you joking? Is this is a joke? Or is that a real question?"
Following the contentious exchange, the campaign cancelled a scheduled interview with Biden’s wife, Jill.

The rival Republican campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who conducted an interview with West today, blasted Biden’s “attack” on the anchor, while citing that Biden has not held a full press availability with his traveling press corps since September 7.

“With eight days until Election Day and serious issues on the table, Joe Biden has abandoned his own traveling press corps and is now attacking any reporter who challenges Barack Obama’s economic plan to raise taxes,” McCain-Palin spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.

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You know what I've noticed since the days of Nixon? When Republicans disagree with you, they don't intelligently debate - they belittle. They've been jealous of the Democrats it seems since Kennedy. They're tremendously jealous of Clinton. It's really bad form.

It seems this idiotic mentality has stolen the Presidency from McCain three times: 2000, 2004 and 2008.

Posted by: Sarah | Oct 27, 2008 12:32:40 PM

It was HORRIBLE. Joe Biden is a a really nice man, anyone else would have DESTROYED that unethical woman on the air!

it was horrible for Joe Biden. Asked simple questions he could only blurt out stale talking points through his clenched botoxed-face.

"unethical woman"? you mean a reporter doing her job that way it is suppoed to be done.

Posted by: geevill | Oct 27, 2008 12:33:34 PM

If those questions were so bad...why didn't Joe Biden just explain why Obama doesn't favor socialist views? It should have been easy and if those questions were so outrageous, he should have easily answered them, thereby dismissing them. The fact is, Obama is a socialist...so from what I see on this post, it's more important to find out who is paying for Sarah Palin's outfits, then it is to question a potential administration about a drastic and fundamental change in how our country functions? Are you people that blinded?

Posted by: Jack | Oct 27, 2008 12:33:59 PM

WHY IS JOE BIDEN WHINING...IT'S NOT ABOUT THIS..IT'S ABOUT HIS EVER SHRINKING ROLE IN THE OBAMA ADMIN.

I GUESS THEY'LL HAVE TO PROTECT HIM FROM EVERY OLD BLONDE COUGAR OUT THERE..SINCE HIS 'FEELERS' ARE SO EASILY HURT..

I'M WITH CHANNEL 9, I'M WATCHING NOW!!

Posted by: 818 | Oct 27, 2008 12:34:21 PM

Anybody with a sixth grade education could read Obama's own books and his associations with ACORN, Ayers, and his Reverend of twenty years and come to the concusion that Obama is a socialist / Marxist. It’s about time one person in the media asks some tuff questions. Kudos Bravo WFTV

Posted by: Philip Severson | Oct 27, 2008 12:34:37 PM

Come on, ABC, report about Barbara West's background. She's the wife of a GOP media strategist. If the wife of a Democrat operative asked the same sort of loaded questions of Palin, she'd be fired before the day was out and the lead of every story would be about her husband's political ties.

Barbara West is carrying McCain's water.

Posted by: Sam | Oct 27, 2008 12:35:53 PM

vaeducator.....did Bush keep his promises? Hate is a poisonous snake. Did Cheney, Ramey, Delaney and all others from our party keep theirs? Long speech without any merits, just like a well-trained republican. This one support OBAMA-BIDEN.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:36:20 PM

It only proved Biden is unfit to be President. Biden and Obama: Unfit and Unfitter

State Sen. Barack Obama would also like to increase the personal exemption, but only for those who need it: the working poor.

"Now is a good time to address this issue," says the Chicago Democrat. "Not only because of our current budget surplus, but because of our commitment to move more people from welfare to work."

Illinois' personal exemption hasn't increased since 1969 — the year Illinois adopted an income tax.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020117005537/http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii980308.html
"For a family of four, the exemption was quite substantial in 1969 dollars," Obama says. "But its value has eroded drastically."

Obama the wealth spreader screws the middle class (who didn't "NEED" it according the Obama). Wanted to increase the exemption for only some.
In other words a tax refund to them from taxes paid by everyone else including the middle class.

Posted by: geevill | Oct 27, 2008 12:36:51 PM

vaeducator.....did Bush keep his promises? Hate is a poisonous snake. Did Cheney, Ramey, Delaney and all others from our party keep theirs? Long speech without any merits, just like a well-trained republican. This one support OBAMA-BIDEN.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:37:04 PM

Once again, a page virtually full of comments from people who desperately need to take a deep breath...
Since when is asking a question a HORRIBLE thing...? Biden can't respond to a question about his running mate's (you remember, the one he called not ready to be president on more than one occasion during the primaries...) stance on taxes?

Posted by: skeptic | Oct 27, 2008 12:37:07 PM

Biden is a woman, estrogen oozes out of him. Hell his own sister beat the CRAP outta him on a regular basis by Joe's own admission; just look at his book about his childhood. He's is a docile wimp, who's all bark an NO bite. But that didn't stop Joe from meeting with the finacier of Mohammed Atta, along with Bob Graham, and Porter Goss on the DAY OF 911!!! Nice guy that Joe Biden, HELL he'll even spend taxpayer dollars funding terrorist hijackers!!! NO WONDER OBAMA PICKED HIM!!! Or the people who picked Obama, picked Biden, to put it more accurately.

Posted by: hmn | Oct 27, 2008 12:37:14 PM

vaeducator.....did Bush keep his promises? Hate is a poisonous snake. Did Cheney, Ramey, Delaney and all others from our party keep theirs? Long speech without any merits, just like a well-trained republican. This one support OBAMA-BIDEN.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:37:45 PM

vaeducator.....did Bush keep his promises? Hate is a poisonous snake. Did Cheney, Ramey, Delaney and all others from our party keep theirs? Long speech without any merits, just like a well-trained republican. This one support OBAMA-BIDEN.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:38:08 PM

Don't blame my republican side. We're just throwing anything to the wind and hopefully anything will stick to you Joe Biden. You should just tell her that, that question isn't worthy of an answer. Is just like asking...Is President Bush a terrorist? He led us to an undeclared war with Iraq.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:38:50 PM

"Come on, ABC, report about Barbara West's background"

Don''t worry Obama thug I am sure government computers in liberal offices are busy at work.

Posted by: Nat Turder | Oct 27, 2008 12:39:22 PM

Don't blame my republican side. We're just throwing anything to the wind and hopefully anything will stick to you Joe Biden. You should just tell her that, that question isn't worthy of an answer. Is just like asking...Is President Bush a terrorist? He led us to an undeclared war with Iraq.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:39:40 PM

Don't blame my republican side. We're just throwing anything to the wind and hopefully anything will stick to you Joe Biden. You should just tell her that, that question isn't worthy of an answer. Is just like asking...Is President Bush a terrorist? He led us to an undeclared war with Iraq.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:40:24 PM

Dear America, as a Delaware voter, I am so sorry to subject you to Joe Biden. WE should have voted him out long, long ago. It's just that we liked his being in the pocket of the banking industry. It was good for our state. So sorry to have done this to you, America. Please forgive us. If elected, Joe will be the USA's problem tenfold. Ugggh.

Posted by: Kitty | Oct 27, 2008 12:40:29 PM

Don't blame my republican side. We're just throwing anything to the wind and hopefully anything will stick to you Joe Biden. You should just tell her that, that question isn't worthy of an answer. Is just like asking...Is President Bush a terrorist? He led us to an undeclared war with Iraq.

Posted by: khatts98178 | Oct 27, 2008 12:40:47 PM

Barbara West is Sean Hannity in drag.

Posted by: Clint | Oct 27, 2008 12:40:53 PM

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