Posted on 09/28/2008 11:33:54 AM PDT by Chet 99
DETROIT (CNN) – Following a rally in Detroit with Barack Obama Sunday afternoon, Joe Biden will return home to Wilmington, Delaware to prepare for his Thursday night debate with Sarah Palin.
The Delaware senator’s schedule is blank until he flies to St. Louis for the debate, though he will head to Washington to vote on the bailout package when the vote is scheduled in the Senate.
Spokesman David Wade says the only preparation Biden has done up to this point is reading and talking to a wide range of colleagues, among them senators Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm will fly to Wilmington this week to play the role of Palin in sparring sessions with Biden. In a recent interview on NBC’s Today Show she said, “I want to beat him up a little bit, so he does well.”
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He’s that worried?
Joe the gaffe machine is going to spend the entire week preparing for the debate? He’ll need the entire week.
Doesn’t OBiden have 35 years of experience, as a do nothing Senator — In making all the wrong decisions? Should be no problem to continue that streak.
It takes that long to recover from a foot-in-mouth-ectomy.
will chuck be at the debate ?
After cramming for finals there is the famous Hillary song....
I can’t remember
My mind’s in a blender
It’s Jello
Jello
It doesn’t really matter as far as the media. THey’ve already reached a verdict as to what the story will be on October 4th.
He may actually have to stand at the podium, but not much more, to be proclaimed a winner by the DemocratMedia.
Amen.
Yes. Because for one he has to retake History 101 to find out who was president and when.
eg; Hoover was President during the depression, not Roosevelt.
The campaign needs to carefully adjust Biden’s sedatives.
The bad news is that he’ll pack an incredible amount of trivia and minutae in his brain.
The good news is that he’ll be unable to resist the temptation to spew it all.
Is a week long enough?
In Biden’s case....NO amount of time would be sufficient. Lol...
Joe would be more entertaining if he debated while drunk.
Yes, I expect this will be a trivial pursuit debate. Like “Do you support THE Dingel-Norwood Bill?”
Jim Lehrer was asking fair broad questions. But Gwen Ifill will more likely ask narrow inside the beltway trivial pursuit questions meant to stump Palin.
I thought Ifill was the best of the moderators from 2004. Still a lib, but not a raving egomaniac like the MSM anchors.
A man who has been a Senator for 36 years, and a man who has been on “Meet The Press” 41 times in his career, and a man who is never at a loss for words, has to spend an entire week practicing and studying for a political debate???
I know Joe puts foot in mouth, but, with his allegedly superior experience to draw upon, he should not be at a loss to debate Sarah Palin on the issues of the day, right?
They have given him the questions so now he has a week to memorize his answers.
He has to get clear which of Obama’s positions on the issues are the current positions, and which were his leftist primary positions.
Honestly, I think the idea of vice-presidential debates is stupid. Then again, I think debates in general are a bad basis for deciding who has earned your vote. Some of the best speakers I have heard would make lousy Presidents. Hell, I once heard Jackson give a speech at a Democratic convention that, until the final 5 minutes, made him sound like the ideal candidate.
advisers are telling biden to “fear the moose”
Why all the ‘study’? Hasn’t Ifill sent him a copy of the questions yet?
Well, I hope that the viewers watching at home will know enough not to think “Oh My God, Sarah doesn’t even know what the Dingell-Norwood bill is all about” and make any judgements that way. I hope that “middle America” will know how trivial this inside the Beltway stuff is. But I would expect they will do that. Then Joe Biden can jump in and lecture Sarah that this bill contains this paragraph and this provision, etc. and sound like he knows what he’s talking about.
Middle America cares about the broad policies the candidates believe in, not specificl paragraphs of specific legislation that middle America hasn’t heard of.
He’s hiding out lest he commit one more gaffe!
Jackass!
It matches his mind.
Not that anyone noticed...
Can you get a brain transplant and recover sufficiently in a week to do a debate?
And I fully expect his mean streak will stage a national debut at the debate! Have you ever seen him in action during confirmation hearings?
Please pray for Governor Palin.
He’s memorizing all the dem talking points. Just like Obama did, he’ll just spew talking points at what ever question is asked.
Btttt, I thought Gov. Palin was a light weight, no experience and quite possibly a witch. This should be a slam dunk for the experienced Senator from Delaware. Palin ought to ask him if he had a nice relaxing week at home when she sees him. Wouldn’t it be funny if she did just that when they do the debate hand shake greeting?
I bet that would rattle the guy’s cage for the whole night.
If Palin has no credentials or experience, as the dems & MSM say, why on earth would Biden need a whole week to prepare for the debate?
He will spend the entire week studying for his urine test.
Biden’s debate prep:
There was no television in 1929.
There was no television in 1929.
There was no television in 1929.
Clinton and Feinstein will be guiding him? LOL
Super secret insider info that I just obtained from a mole deep inside Joe’s debate prep team:
Preparer:
Remember the most important things are:
Do not gaffe.
And stick to the script.
Joe:
OK
I will not grasp.
And I will stink up the ship.
Preparer:
No Joe! Listen again:
Do not gaffe!
And stick to the script!
Joe:
OK
I will not gasp.
And I will drink the Schlitz.
Preparer:
No Joe! (Sigh)
Just stick to the f**king script Joe!
Joe:
OK
I will stick it to the trucking spit Ho.
Preparer:
Joe! (@!)%*^) OK try this.
If you bring up the economy and FDR, just remember that FDR wasn’t president during the ’29 Crash and FDR didn’t appear on TV then because TV really wasn’t really around yet. OK?
Joe:
Can I quote from FDR’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech where he said “We have nothing to fear but beer itself” and “Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
Preparer:
No. You cannot. And that last quote was from the movie Animal House.
Joe:
Did I not write that movie?
Preparer:
No Joe, you didn’t.
Joe:
That’s a shame. Can’t I just say that I did?
Preparer (to himself under his breath “I need a new $(@
*%^ job”):
No Joe. One last thing: what if you can just remember not to ask any of the wheelchair bound to stand up.
Joe:
Well that doesn’t seem quite right to me. I mean why would someone bond somebody else to a wheelchair? I mean if they are all tied up to it or stuck in there with super glue, then of course they can’t stand up.
Can I mention my good friend the man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America?
Can I bring up that Sasha Cohen Palin is unqualified because she comes from a small state like Alaska – a Johnny Come Lately and the 57th state? I mean at least Delaware is like a really big state and like the 51st state.
Can I also mention that Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America?
Preparer:
I’m sorry Joe. I wasn’t listening to you. I was posting my resume on Monster.com.
A clear win for Biden.
What's that?
The debate hasn't been held yet...?
Is that how long it takes to put lipstick on a pig?
Sure, that Sarah will expose him for the Washington insider that he is.
This is change? If Obama wins, it'll be Biden who will be running the country while he sits in the Oval Office, smoking a Cuban cigar and wearing a Panamanian drug-dealer hat!
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