Archive for September 10th, 2008
Will Biden Leave the Ticket?
September 10th, 2008
After reading this report I’m not so sure it isn’t under discussion.
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Wednesday said that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., might have been a better pick for the position than him.
At a rally in Nashua, N.H., a man in the audience told Biden how glad he was that Obama picked him over Hillary, “not because she’s a woman, but because, look at the things she did in the past.”
“Make no mistake about this,” Biden responded. “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight.”
I’m telling you, the polls must look bad for Obama. He seems desperate and this is a gentle way to ease Biden out for Clinton. But won’t it look transparent?
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McCain/Palin’s Response to Lipstick on a Pig Remark
September 10th, 2008
At the demand of CBS, this ad has been removed by YouTube because Katie Couric was in it.
Go here to view the ad.
And The Madness Continues…..(Updated)
September 10th, 2008
It seems to me the people in attendance in Virginia understood exactly what Senator Obama meant.
Plying the same theme with respect to McCain-Palin campaign rhetoric in Lebanon, Virginia, Barack Obama asserted: “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” Given the tittering, shouts and raucous applause from Obama’s audience, even AP reporter Nedra Pickler found Obama’s audience drawing the connection between Obama’s comment and Sarah Palin’s convention joke.
Vandehei and Allen, by contrast, cover for Obama. They assert that “he was clearly talking about the McCain-Palin reform rhetoric.” Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental? Maybe, but the evidence of Carnahan’s remarks referring to Palin strongly suggests otherwise. And if Obama didn’t understand the ugly reference to Palin, he appears to be the only guy in Lebanon who didn’t. [Emphasis-mine]
The video of Obama’s remarks is available here. My bet is you don’t need that link as by today you will have seen it somewhere.
Interested in reading more reaction? There is plenty of it here, here, and here.
The Obama campaign defense (as some may call it) as well as tons of other information may be found at Hot Air.
It sound like another re-run of that oh boy I blew it so let’s turn this around and blame someone else defense we have seen all too often in our elections. Nice response Allahpundit:
Here’s a story of McCain using it last year. Hillary, of course, hadn’t made any lipstick references to herself before then so there was no context for McCain to play off of.[emphasis-mine]
Panic on the part of the Obama campaign? They seem to be a tad frightened of governor Palin what with all the rumors which have been touted and debunked. Now this?
No matter what conclusion the listener or reader might draw from the video, it seems that a presidential candidate would have the sense to know how many who are following the race closely would interpret these remarks.
Somewhere, George Allen is shaking his head.
*Update: I mistakenly left out this link to thoughts from Hillary supporters. Thanks to AJ Strata for the heads up.
