Posted on 10/03/2008 8:26:46 AM PDT by pissant
The famed "Violence Against Women" Act, which Biden cited 1 million times was declared unconstitutional. Good work, Joe.
Why did Biden claim someone was accusing him of not knowing what it's like to be a single mother and then start crying? No one said that.
Did Biden really need to tell us that the assassination of a U.S. president would be a "national tragedy of historic proportions"? Does he get points for correctly identifying a national tragedy"?
Our beauteous Sarah nailed Biden on their plan to raise taxes, nailed Biden on voting against the surge, nailed Biden on not taking Ahmadinejad seriously.
It was phony as heck. I saw it coming and started my own fake cry at EXACTLY the same time he did.
As I recall, the question on that was something like 'What would a Biden presidency do differntly than an Obama presidency', to which Biden declared that it would be a monumental disaster and national calamity.
I naturally inferred that he thought that his presidency would be a national calamity and was one of the few points with which I could agree with him!
My wife and I thought it was funny that Biden had no stomach for genocide in Darfur or Bosnia, but apparently plenty of stomach for it in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the one hand, we should never have invaded Iraq or Afghanistan. On the other, we should be dropping troops into Darfur and “Chad” and continued Clintons “Bush Doctrine” of pre-emption as he did when he started his “illegal” war in Bosnia on the BOsniacs!!!!!
Your tagline reminds me... Did you notice that only Sarah’s mike was live before and after the debate? Joe’s voice was noticeably NOT amplified, and only picked up on HER mike during the moments before and after.
I think they were hoping to get something unfortunate on tape. HA!! Didn’t work!!
Ann at her best, I love it!
I was SHOUTING at Gov. Palin through the TV to point out that Hussein had gassed his countrymen!!! Why, Sarah, WHY didn’t you chop his head off on that one?
Like Obama, Biden is a fraud. A playbook liberal from the getgo....he offered nothing new, same old liberal crap, spraying the audience with mounds of vote-getting-socialism -— while Palin offered up something new — accountability in Washington, cleaning the filthy Congress up, cleaning up Wall Street, etc, etc, etc.
It was a staggering contrast — Biden, the classic, textbook representative of the good-ole-boy Washington network, versus a fresh, clean, pro-American, pro-freedom, pro-Constitution, pro-energy and pro-defense Palin.
Absolutely no comparison. It was 35 years of nothing against a few years of everything that is America.
No contest.
One interesting point is that Biden said we needed the troops out of Iraq to win the war that matters in Afghanistan. He also said a surge in Afghanistan wouldn't work. I'm confused. What's the point in his mind of having more troops for Afghanistan if they won't do any good? Or is this just a gotcha game where he means they have to be deployed with a different strategy than in the successful Iraqi surge, as if that wasn't obvious to everyone involved?
oh the humanity, cough cough
“Say it ain’t so, Joe!” My favorite line of the night, but perhaps it’s because I’m a baseball fan.
Seriously! Not sure about the figures in Darfur or Bosnia, but I think the Iraq figures are close to the million snuff mark.
Seriously! Not sure about the figures in Darfur or Bosnia, but I think the Iraq figures are close to the million snuff mark.
That makes a tingle go up my leg. Woof.
My wife and I noticed that too. Couldn’t be an accident, could it? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Are you series? That actually happened?
Yes, he was working up to a fake sob. It was very obvious. When he sobbed on cue, so did I, albeit in a comical, exaggerated mockery.
“THE CHRISTIAN ATE THE LION!”
I love that tag line...hum...obie/obiden = Nero...never really thought of it that way, but you know...it works, with the columns in Denver and the stadium = Coliseum....things that make you go hhhhhhuuuuummmmm....
I’m gonna be thinking about that one all day…good one Ann.
LOL. Joe Biden, the single mother ... what a weird election this is.
I looked up the transcript, because I thought it was a great line and wanted to make sure she said it.
She did. right before she said "there you go again."
Too bad Sarah missed when she had the chance to slam Biden on it.
hehehe
That wink is unbeatable...
They got something good on tape because you could hear Sarah immediately ask about her kids...
bttt
Nice...ping for later theft.
I have always appreciated people who can wink without making it appear contrived, and when a woman does it...
well...;)
"Well, I feel that I am more qualified for office of the Presidency than either Senator Biden or Barack Obama. Neither of them possesses executive experience, which I have been exercising as both mayor and governor since 1996."
Also, I HATED hearing her answer about "corruption and greed on Wall Street". I wish she had said (these are my words below):
"This current financial situation we are in is NOT a result of lack of regulation on greedy markets, it is a DIRECT result of INTRUSIVE regulation which was imposed on financial institutions by both the Carter and Clinton administrations via the Community Reinvestment Act passed by Carter and further advanced by the Clinton administration.
This legislation REMOVED the normal constraints posed by market forces and discouraged sound lending policies by bankers. Under this act, if a bank did not lend a certain percentage of money to low income families, that bank would be exposed to litigation and lack of government endorsement which could put severe constraints on the ability of the bank to engage in commerce.
Additionally, institutions such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which exist for the sole purpose of having the government involved in the mortgage business, should not exist. The government should have no role or a severerly limited role in this type of business. As a result of this type of involvement, many politicians have received huge financial campaign contributions from these institutions, and a revolving door has allowed polical figures such as Democrats Jamie Gorelick and Franklin Raines (both of whom served under President Clinton) to gain employment and reap huge benefits.
Over the five years Franklin Raines worked at Fannie Mae, he raked in over $100 million in salaries and compensation. The majority of this compensation was due to inducements and bonuses that were the reward for pushing huge volumes of money out the door to people who should never have received mortgages because they were not going to be able to pay them back according to traditional sound lending practices, which were discouraged. At Fannie Mae under Franklin Raines, people were backdating and forging signatures on documents to trigger the millions and millions of dollars in incentive bonuses that were paid to people like Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick. Franklin Raines has advised Barack Obama during his campaign.
Furthermore, Democrats like Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd fought vigourously against any changes in these institutions, and even villified the head of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight when he appeared in front of the committee to highlight these issues. They pilloried him for making something out of nothing. These same people rebuffed the current administration when they tried to institute effective oversight, and constantly downplayed or ridiculed warnings of impending fiscal disaster.
As we now see, they were dead wrong on this. Barack Obama worked for a lawyer firm (if you can call what he did there "work") that made a large percentage of its income from litigation against banks that failed to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act.
Is this what we want in our government? I think not, and neither do the American voters."
But hey. Instead we heard about corporate greed on Wall Street. So I was disappointed in that. I was on the road for four hours listening, and I was yelling at the radio "NO! NOOOOOO! AGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
All in all, though, I thought she did a fine job.
Yes, some of the answers sucked, especially the wall street greed crap. Parroting Mccain’s BS, I assume.
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