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Biden: Come Tuesday, Obama's Critics Will Be Calling Him Commander-In-Chief

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October 31, 2008 4:31 PM

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., blew into the Buckeye State Friday afternoon, four days before Election Day, blasting Republican attacks against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and declaring that come Tuesday, Obama's critics will be calling him the next commander-in-chief.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we need to move past the politics of division and attack," the Democratic vice-presidential nominee told a crowd of 2000 in Kettering. "Over the past week, Republicans have gone way over the top in my view, calling Barack Obama every name in the book, and it probably will get worse in the next three and a half to four days."
"Well look, if you look at who he is, what he's done, and what he plans to do for this country, if you work for us in the closing days and choose hope over fear," Biden urged supporters, "after next Tuesday, the very critics he has now and the rest of America will be calling him something else - they will be calling him the 44th president of the United States of America, our commander in chief Barack Obama!"

As is his standard approach on the stump, the Delaware lawmaker linked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to President Bush, encouraging voters that in four days from now they can change the course of the nation's future.

"An opportunity missed is not the same as an opportunity lost," Biden cautioned today in this crucial battleground state. "Not yet. Not if we recognize the urgency of the moment. Not if we have the courage to reject the course that has clearly failed. Not if we have the will to embrace the most enduring of all Americans beliefs – which is, we do not have to accept things as they are, we can change them and define our own destiny! And we will change them!"

Biden has been ripping McCain's agent of change "costume" for the past week and today, the Delaware lawmaker didn't miss his opportunity at this holiday rally.

"I know it's Halloween," the six-term senator said, "but John McCain dressed as an agent of change is a costume that just does not fit."

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Not if my vote tips the scale!!!!

Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 31, 2008 4:31:59 PM

OBAMA = PRESIDENT

McCAIN = FAIL

Posted by: Ed from MA | Oct 31, 2008 4:35:54 PM

Let's vote for Obama and send the Republicans packing. They can win campaigns, but, obviously, they cannot govern.

Turn the page on the Republican party.
Give Obama a mandate to save our government from these idiots.

Gimmicks First --- McCain/Palin

Posted by: billy smith | Oct 31, 2008 4:41:14 PM

GO MCCAIN!!!

Posted by: JULIE | Oct 31, 2008 4:41:23 PM

as Markos says, "Break their Backs"

Posted by: Bob | Oct 31, 2008 4:44:13 PM

No so fast big guy, It ain't over till the fat lady sings. Secondly, I don't think Obama can get a secret clearance when you consider his background.

Posted by: John | Oct 31, 2008 4:44:22 PM

Has anybody seen Joe the Plunger lately?

Looks like he's had enough of being used by McGramps.


MAYBE HE'S NOT SO DUMB AFTER ALL.

Posted by: Ed from MA | Oct 31, 2008 4:44:26 PM

You take a simple random sample of 1000 balls from an urn containing 120,000,000 red and blue balls, and your sample shows 450 red balls and 550 blue balls. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of blue balls in the urn.

But what if . . .

• What if 40% of the balls have personally chosen to live in an urn that you legally can’t stick your hand into?

• What if 50% of the balls who live in the legal urn explicitly refuse to let you select them?

• What if the balls inside the urn are constantly interacting and talking and arguing with each other, and can decide to change their color on a whim?

• What if you have to rely on the balls to report their own color, and some unknown number are probably lying to you?

• What if you’ve been hired to count balls by a company who has endorsed blue as their favorite color?

• What if you have outsourced the urn-ball counting to part-time temp balls, most of whom happen to be blue?

• What if the balls inside the urn are listening to you counting out there, and it affects whether they want to be counted, and/or which color they want to be?

(And what, I wonder, if all around you, every day, you are told by all of the coolest, hippest, prettiest balls that your color is mean, irrelevant, unpopular, un-cool, evil, old, incompetent and probably racist?

Would you stick to your guns in the face of that, or keep your mouth shut and show ‘em when the curtain closes?)

Posted by: Please pass this on to friends | Oct 31, 2008 4:47:07 PM

Silly Sarah will make more babies - may her tribe multiply
(- unless she is on un christiaN contraceptives)

Posted by: rufus | Oct 31, 2008 4:50:25 PM

IF he is elected, wouldn't that be commander in chief elect. Unless Joe is going to break the rules and swear him in on Tue night instead of Jan.

Posted by: samhiguchi | Oct 31, 2008 4:54:02 PM

McCain and Palin's hateful rhetoric is what has them losing this election. They incite their supporters to hatred and anger towards Obama. They are divisive and hostile in every way. Instead of uniting the citizens of this country, they are attacking and dividing us. How mean-spirited and dangerous they are. We need to heal and Obama/Biden can do that for us.

Posted by: geecee | Oct 31, 2008 4:54:11 PM

geecee ,

I di dnot know he was a healer my back has been killing me all these years of being a republican working hard for a living paying my taxes I wish I had known that sooner

Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 31, 2008 4:56:59 PM

The Republican party is imploding. Game over.

Posted by: R.I.P. | Oct 31, 2008 4:57:14 PM

samhiguchi: We should wish he could be sworn in on Tuesday. Bush is trying to start another war we can't afford. not only financial but our children's lives.

Posted by: becky | Oct 31, 2008 5:07:25 PM

"I don't think Obama can get a secret clearance when you consider his background."

There you go again. Experts in security clearances, including a retired Army intelligence officer, have publicly stated that Barack Obama would have no problem obtaining sufficient security clearance to work for either the Secret Service or the FBI. None of the allegations against him has ever been substantial enough to be a disqualifying factor.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | Oct 31, 2008 5:09:23 PM

I do wish this was over, by Monday I bet they say Mr Obama is from Mars and going to make you all have tatoos of him on your backs. The stuff NEOCONS say they believe will never get old I love it when they say stuff like Obama can't get a security clerance,where do you spend your time I need to know cause I don't want to go there.Your brain cells are being taken one at a time.Or you are drinking some really bad stuff. I will say this after what you people did four years ago and eight years ago it is possible your man will get in somehow and that sort of makes me sick to my stomach.

Posted by: Bonnie Kimberly | Oct 31, 2008 5:12:16 PM

I love you, Joe the Biden, and would have voted for you without a doubt, but your running-mate (whichever way you want to call it) is just too dangerous to be trusted. This is why - we cannot afford Class Struggle in the next 4 years and McCain is an adequate care-taker and He is No Bush:

The ideal of sharing wealth, equalizing class divide has been so powerful, sweeping half a Europe and Asia and South America in the first half of the 20th Century.

The ideals of Marxism are not necessarily wrong; in fact, they are extremely appealing, and the history of the 20th century is a proof.

Yet, none of the practitioners have achieved their noble causes, each has left millions dead, in smaller places like Vietnam and Cambodia, and 10s of millions in larger states. The only major survivor of this practice is China, who has adopted Capitalism by all means except some certain rights that we enjoy here as granted - which is a different topic.

Socialism, a precursor of Communism, has never had a chance being practiced in the US. Few really know what socialism is, but what 0bama wants to do IS socialism.

0bama is masterfully adopting the classic class divide of Karl Marx, playing one class - the 95% of the poor - against another class - the rich, the 5% to achieve his ambition.

It is not progressive taxation that makes 0bama a socialist.

It is the Class Struggle that makes 0bama a Socialist.

Posted by: d0 | Oct 31, 2008 5:20:31 PM

You know something it really is silly to hear someone say they are a Republican and they have been working so hard alll these years and being such a good soldier and now we left wing liberal weenies who do not work or pay taxes are going to get in there and just ruin everything for them. Why do they always act like we don't work or pay into this system like all we do is take take take. Some guts when its there people putting this country in debt for the next five generations. Thanks alot you hard working right wing koolaid drinking folks I apprecaite it.

Posted by: Bonnie Kimberly | Oct 31, 2008 5:22:20 PM

"By Tim Reid, The Times of London

Barack Obama's senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week's election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.

The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of "hope" and "change" are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.

One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, "so there's not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair."

The aide said that Obama himself was the first to realize that expectations risked being inflated."

You people are such blind fools...!...

Posted by: msa123 | Oct 31, 2008 5:24:35 PM

Your brain cells are being taken one at a time.

Posted by: Bonnie Kimberly | Oct 31, 2008 5:12:16 PM
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Bonnie,

It would take from the start to the end of the Universe to have any noticeable effects even you take one a time at the rate of one per second.

Think some other ways to hurt your opponent.

Posted by: factcheck | Oct 31, 2008 5:25:03 PM

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