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Face-off: Sarah Palin v. Jill Biden - Who’s the Bigger Hockey Mom?
October 11, 2008 1:27 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller, John Berman, and Ursula Fahy report: Gov Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck this evening at the Flyers game in Philadelphia, but is the real match up between her and Jill Biden over who's the bigger Flyers fan?
Pennsylvania Gov Ed Rendell said it's Jill Biden, wife of Obama's running mate Sen. Joe Biden, who's the "real" Flyers fan.
"You know Jill Biden is a real Flyers fan. She goes to about 7 or 8 games a year. Wears the orange jersey," Rendell told reporters at Obama's Northwest Philadelphia event today, "We're going to see if we’re going to get Jill to one of those games too. She's the real thing."
Rendell was also eager to cast the McCain campaign's strategy this week as "dumb."
"They are just stupid," Rendell said of the attacks by the McCain campaign, "They're all dumb. I mean when people are facing the challenges in their own lives they are facing. No one wants to hear that stuff. It's dumb…..Don't tell us about something that's gonna happen when Barack Obama was 8 years of age, that's just dumb."
October 11, 2008 in Biden, Joe, Obama, Barack, Palin, Sarah, Vote 2008: Democrats, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (61)
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Wonder how the Parrot will be received in Philly?
I've been to a couple Flyers games. It's a brutal crowd for their opponents.
And Philly is not exactly a bastion for neo-conservatives.
Given the recent news, it could get ugly.
Posted by: Mark | Oct 11, 2008 2:43:18 PM
Palin is obnoxiously DISHONEST and utterly UNQUALIFIED for any public office.
She's been pounding Obama for his "unethic" relations w/Ayers in search of "truthfulness."
If Ayers is a terriost, why does the Bush"s Government allow Ayers to teach at University of IL ?
Is Bush a terrorist or a traitor ? Should we "kill him" ?
Posted by: skyglider2008 | Oct 11, 2008 2:49:42 PM
Jill Biden=pro choice, another woman who believes in killing their young. I am not into "death culture". I am into LIFE. We love you Sarah, just as you love us.
Posted by: Anna | Oct 11, 2008 3:01:29 PM
Anna,
You only care about the fetus. If it is born into an intolerable situation because your people would force the mother to have it, then you people don't care what happens to the baby.
Nobody forces you to have an abortion, and the rest of us don't believe the same things you do about when a fetus becomes a viable person. So please keep your religious beliefs to yourself and others who believe the same way instead of trying to impose them on everyone!
Imposing your beliefs on others is what this is all about. You may believe whatever you choose.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | Oct 11, 2008 3:12:27 PM
I thought Palin was a socker mom. What the puck is she doing at a hockey game? Looking for Joe six-pack? Maybe she should try a rodeo. She'd fit right in with all the bull(s).
Posted by: Lauri | Oct 11, 2008 3:15:59 PM
More media BS... God help us if they ever bring substance to their "product." Palin took journalism, it shows...
Posted by: hmn | Oct 11, 2008 4:24:44 PM
Palin believes in the culture of life. What is that? Keeping the fetus alive so they can go to war at 18 and be slaughtered for money and oil.What happened to the churches standing up against war and death.Organised religious leader should be ashamed that they have not denounced the murder in Iraq. By the way, does Palin think any of the Afghan or Iraqi women could have had fetuses growing inside of them when they were bombed by our military. I guess the only worthwhile embryo is an American embryo.
Posted by: proudfeministliberal | Oct 11, 2008 5:40:04 PM
There should be no comparison. Mrs. Jill
Biden is a lovely woman who knows her priorities.
Sarah Palin is a puppet that the McCain campaign is pulling the string. She is a lovely woman; but it is a shame on how she is being used by the McCain campaign. Although, she is not being truthful herself in many ways.
One more thing: SHE IS UNFIT TO BE VP AND MORE LESS TO BE A HEART BIT AWAY TO BE PRESIDENT.
John McCain: No judgment.
Posted by: Ms. G | Oct 11, 2008 5:44:53 PM
Isn't it so american of us to take a non-story and turn it into political wrangling. We don't know when to stop, do we?
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: Chee | Oct 11, 2008 5:45:26 PM
An extremist and anti-American in the White House? How about this quote? “The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!” This comes from a guy who founded the organization that Todd Palin was/is a member of. Maybe we should look a bit closer at Todd Palin and his ties to the Alaskan Independence Party. The AIP has a history is one with links to Al Qaeda supported terrorists and communist. Sarah spoke highly of the AIP at their conference. And Todd’s history of using her office for his own agenda should be worrying if he continues to supports the AIP extremist and secessionist anti-American views. Six degrees of separation… http://angryafrican.net/2008/10/11/six-degrees-of-seperation-or-the-todd-palin-story/
Posted by: Angry African | Oct 11, 2008 5:49:54 PM
Who really cares? At least Mrs. Biden is a teacher, didn't flunk out of college, and when it comes to supportin a team Alaska doesn't even have a HOCKEY TEAM.
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Oct 11, 2008 6:59:08 PM
gl: Phildelphia is mainly black and for your information Obama didn't want to go in the black area during the primaries. Obama walked on the southside of Chicago during his supposedly community organizing but he he was organizing himself for becoming a senator and then for the presidency. Obama wants nothing but power and control in this country but its people like you that would vote for a candidate like Obama even if he came out of prison. This generation is the worst in history and the worst for drugs and booze so much they don't know what is good for the country and what is not.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 11, 2008 8:28:50 PM
Rose: And what planet are you on. Being a governor is a higher position than a teacher. Teacher's are a dime a dozen. And many of the teacher's should be taking their test over again. That statement came from Mayor Daley over a year ago because of the abundance of failures. Many years ago some of the college students couldn't pass their tests.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 11, 2008 8:37:00 PM
Its ok Mariann, John McCain endorsed Obama today. You have nothing to fear:
"I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”- John McCain about Barack Obama
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/mccain-to-crowd-dont-be-scared-of-obama-presidency/
Oct 11 2008, the day John McCain endorsed Barack Obama.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | Oct 11, 2008 8:37:20 PM
proudfeministliberal: So your saying you believe in abortion. And if your were pregnant you would abort your child. Your mother didn't abort you but maybe she should have. Your ideas that every child shouldn't live is not what God believes. If mother's aborted their children everytime they were pregnant we wouldn't be here today. Jesus loves all the little children of the world and that means no matter if they are born perfect or not. Who are we to judge what child should live or die.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 11, 2008 8:43:09 PM
JoeShmoe: No he didn't endorse him he didn't want his supporters to be talking about the issues and not what kind of father he is. However, McCain's supporter's are against it and they don't want him to do that again.McCain knows all about Obama and Obama has been making headlines all week. I am surprised he doesn't wear earplugs. Also, Wisconsin was state that supported Obama. What happened.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Oct 11, 2008 8:47:35 PM
God doesnt believe in adultery either, but that sure didnt stop John McCain to fornicate with Cindy while married to Carol.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | Oct 11, 2008 8:50:25 PM
Mariann read more about Johns racy adventures:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: "I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit."
"When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it."
Theres your good christian values for you Mariann.
Posted by: JoeShmoe | Oct 11, 2008 9:05:15 PM
Dumb = fast eddy and the crooked pennyslvania democrats who are all lawyered up over Bonusgate.
I notice its fine if fast eddy calls names. Just make sure republicans be quiet and don't start any trouble. Right ABC?
Posted by: hillary widebottom | Oct 11, 2008 9:49:35 PM
Marianne,
I don't mind if you believe that God intends every last conception to be born, or whatever. But I don't believe it, and god hasn't struck me dead yet. How many children have you rescued from abusive situations - basically lives of hell? How many of these tortured children from those situations grew up to be abusers and molesters? Is your God OK with this, more so than a woman in a bad situation getting an abortion rather than to bring a child into such bad conditions?
Don't give me that crap about what if my mother had had an abortion. If she had, I simply wouldn't be here, that's all. It's not like I would have been waiting in line and then had the body I was up for snatched away, leaving me stuck there! Besides what is now me could have ended up as a miscarriage too, but I didn't.
Furthermore, I don't BELIEVE in abortion! It isn't a religion. It isn't something like a philosophy. It isn't birth control. It is a decision of last resort. It is being able to have control over a one's body, present and future, or not to be forced to have a child unless it can have a good life as well.
I also do not think that people like you have the right to impose your beliefs on other people. You belive what you want, and I'll believe what I want. I'm not imposing abortion on you or yours. You don't impose your religious beliefs on me.
Posted by: Donna Hughes | Oct 11, 2008 9:54:26 PM
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