Barack, who needs enemies when you have Joe Biden?...

[ponycar17]

From http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...,2874359.story

Sarah, talk. Joe, stop.

September 25, 2008

John McCain is still keeping running mate Sarah Palin far away from reporters and their pesky questions. In New York this week, Palin hobnobbed with foreign leaders and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, all in a news-free cocoon that allowed only the briefest glimpses for photographers and imposed a virtual blackout on questions from reporters.

You have to wonder, why is the McCain campaign so afraid?

Maybe Palin isn't a whiz on international affairs yet. But she certainly couldn't be any more gaffe-prone than her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden.

He's living up to his reputation as a human gaffe machine.

Biden, commenting this week on the Wall Street crisis, said we should learn from FDR. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed."

Oops! FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929. And nobody had TVs back then.

Biden recently suggested that Hillary Clinton might have been a better choice than him for vice president. (Now he tells Obama!)

At a Democratic rally, he ebulliently urged a wheelchair-bound state official to "stand up."

He said one of the Obama campaign's anti-McCain ads was "terrible."

He told a stirring story of how a helicopter he was riding in was "forced down" on "the superhighway of terror" between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Turns out it had to land because of bad weather. "We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, " joked fellow passenger John Kerry . . . Other than getting a little cold, it was fine."

Oops! Oops! Oops! Oops!

The mistakes and misstatements can be telling. We know Joe Biden is given to exaggeration. (He's also proof of the classic Michael Kinsley line, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.")

And Palin? Well, we learned this week that she knows the name of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's child (Mirwais), and what it means (light of the house). But as Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic noted, in the last few days Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has given more press conferences than she has.

Voters don't demand or expect perfection on the campaign trail. The McCain campaign really needs to let her be heard in more forums where she isn't heavily scripted. One vice presidential debate and a couple of TV interviews won't cut it.

She'll probably have a gaffe or two. But even then she'll have a long way to go before she catches up to Joe Biden.

Joe, keep talking... This is quality humor.

[artabr]

Palin's done several interviews. These morons need to pull their heads out of Barack's back side.
If they're not happy with the Gaffe Master, maybe they should go talk to former Fannie May head James Johnson. He is one of the people that picked Joe Biden to be B O's running mate.


Art

[17thfabn]

Not much will be made of Biden's gaffs, because the Obama campaigns greatest friends are ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the New York Times. They will not report his mistakes but will highlight every goof by McCain / Palin!

[pawn]

Originally Posted by artabr

Palin's done several interviews. These morons need to pull their heads out of Barack's back side.
If they're not happy with the Gaffe Master, maybe they should go talk to former Fannie May head James Johnson. He is one of the people that picked Joe Biden to be B O's running mate.


Art

+1 nice post Art

[satellite66]

Do you think they will dump Joe? This just shows how the media is in the tank for Obama. They don't even try to hide it anymore.