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Mark Steyn: The doer defeated the droner
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/joe-drill-palin-2178636-mccain-biden# ^ | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/03/2008 4:36:23 PM PDT by ventanax5

When Regular Joe Six-Pack Bluecollar Biden tried to match her on the Main Street cred, it rang slightly wacky. "Look," he said, "All you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me, where I spend a lot of time." Why? Is he moonlighting as a checkout clerk on the evening shift? Or is he stalking that nice lady in Lighting Fixtures? As for Katie's Restaurant, ah, I'm sure it was grand but apparently it closed in 1990. In the Diner of the Mind, the refills are endless, and Sen. Joe is sitting shootin' the breeze over a cuppa joe with a couple other regular joes on adjoining stools while Betty-Jo, the sassy waitress who's tough as nails but with a heart of gold, says Ol' Joe, the short-order cook who's doing his Sloppy Joes just the way the senator likes 'em, really appreciates the way that, despite 78 years in Washington, Joe Biden is still just the same regular Joe Six-Pack he was when he and Norman Rockwell first came in for a sarsaparilla all those years ago. But, alas, while he was jetting off for one-to-one talks with the Deputy Tourism Minister of Waziristan, the old neighborhood changed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; bobmcdonnell; marksteyn; sarahpalin

1 posted on 10/03/2008 4:36:24 PM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

Ha! Classic Steyn, there!


2 posted on 10/03/2008 4:39:03 PM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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To: ventanax5

“Look”. There’s that word again. Both Biden and Obama like to use “Look” to start sentences. Sort of a short-form version of “listen up you plebs”.


3 posted on 10/03/2008 4:39:48 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: ventanax5

“”Don’t sell the American people short,” Obama honcho David Axelrod said. “They need more than a wink and a smile.” OK, so how about this? Joe Biden mocked the McCain campaign’s energy policy as “Drill, drill, drill”, and the governor came back to correct the line: “It’s not ‘Drill, drill, drill’,” she grinned. “It’s ‘Drill, baby, drill!’

Amen Baby, Amen! She closed the door on the MSM half-wits, and welcomed in half of America.


4 posted on 10/03/2008 4:39:49 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: ventanax5
All you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me, where I spend a lot of time." Why? Is he moonlighting as a checkout clerk on the evening shift? Or is he stalking that nice lady in Lighting Fixtures? As for Katie's Restaurant, ah, I'm sure it was grand but apparently it closed in 1990.

Gaffe!

5 posted on 10/03/2008 4:40:30 PM PDT by library user
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To: JennysCool

6 posted on 10/03/2008 4:42:07 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: ventanax5
I prefer doers over talkers. Our politicians and commentariat are talkers.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 10/03/2008 4:43:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ventanax5

Curley Joe also failed to mention the time he spends in 7-Elevens and Dunkin Donuts.


8 posted on 10/03/2008 4:46:20 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Obama . . .dumbest candidate in history.)
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To: knews_hound

Steyn ping!!!


9 posted on 10/03/2008 4:47:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: ventanax5

BTTT


10 posted on 10/03/2008 4:48:37 PM PDT by Gritty (Republicans who abandon principle for success invariably end up with neither-Bob Lonsberry)
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To: 6SJ7
“Look”. There’s that word again. Both Biden and Obama like to use “Look” to start sentences. Sort of a short-form version of “listen up you plebs”.

What's worse is when Biden said (a couple of times) "I'm gonna say this twice." What a condescending assclown!

11 posted on 10/03/2008 4:48:38 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: ventanax5

“In the diner of the mind, the refills are endless” LOLOL


12 posted on 10/03/2008 4:48:56 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: ventanax5
Biden was glib and fluent and in command of the facts – if by "in command of the facts" you mean "talks complete blithering balderdash and hogwash." He flatly declared that Obama never said he would meet Ahmadinejad without preconditions. But, on Debate Night, the official Obama Web site was still boasting that he would meet Ahmadinejad "without preconditions." He said America spends more in a month in Iraq than it's spent in seven years in Afghanistan. Er, America has spent over $700 billion in Afghanistan since 2001. It's spending about $10 billion a month in Iraq. But no matter. To demonstrate his command of the "facts," Sen. Biden sportingly offered up his own instant replays:

"My friend John McCain voted 422 times against tax cuts for the middle classes. Let me repeat that so the American people are clear on this. My friend John McCain voted 673 times against tax cuts for the middle classes."

Biden is the gift that keeps on giving.

13 posted on 10/03/2008 4:50:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: ventanax5
while Betty-Jo, the sassy waitress who's tough as nails but with a heart of gold,

BETTY-JO: "Joe... Kiss mah grits!"

14 posted on 10/03/2008 4:51:24 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (Liberals' new talking point: Sarah Palin: Only five abortions away from the presidency.)
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To: ventanax5

It seems Biden isn’t connecting real well with Joe Six-Pac.


15 posted on 10/03/2008 4:51:31 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: 6SJ7
“Look”. There’s that word again. Both Biden and Obama like to use “Look” to start sentences. Sort of a short-form version of “listen up you plebs”.

Very common on the round table discussion shows. It is getting to be overused and annoying.

16 posted on 10/03/2008 4:56:29 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

A favorite of George Will.


17 posted on 10/03/2008 5:00:51 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ventanax5
But, if your contempt for her wasn't already chiseled in granite, she came over as genuine, confident …and different. Change you can believe in, to coin a phrase.

That's pretty funny.

18 posted on 10/03/2008 5:01:31 PM PDT by meadsjn (Socialists promote neighbors selling out their neighbors; Free Traitors promote just the opposite.)
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To: 6SJ7

I’ve noticed Obama has a verbal tendency rattle off “Now, hold on there...” and “Now hold on a second...” “when confronted with truth he doesn’t like to hear.

He said it to OReilly
Now hold on Bill...

To Stephanopolous
Now hold on George...

To Sweetie
Now hold on a second sweetie


19 posted on 10/03/2008 5:07:56 PM PDT by nhwingut (,)
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To: Rummyfan

It became so obvious that Joe was just making up those numbers willy nilly.


20 posted on 10/03/2008 5:14:25 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: ventanax5
My favorite Bidenism from last night was:

"Quote and I'm paraphrasing". What a jamoke.

21 posted on 10/03/2008 5:39:50 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: A_Former_Democrat

You mean the ones with the Indians?


22 posted on 10/03/2008 5:41:21 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: ventanax5

If I were President, Steyn would be in my cabinet along with Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell and Ann Coulter.


23 posted on 10/03/2008 5:45:03 PM PDT by wny
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To: ventanax5

Since Joe has been drawing from the taxpayer trough for about 35 years, I would think that he lives in a reasonably nice house and a matching neighborhood.

When he kept drawing on “in my neighborhood”, I wanted to scream.
Joe has never lived in the neighborhoods most of us live in, and we will never live in his.
If he is a Home Depot, I think it is only for campaigning. I don’t see him ever getting a callus from doing any real work. I’ll bet that I have had more calluses that Joe in my life, and I am female and almost 69.


24 posted on 10/03/2008 6:02:18 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

You can google his home and see. His home, er compound, is worth about $2 million.


25 posted on 10/03/2008 6:57:35 PM PDT by gotribe (The right pick!)
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To: ventanax5

Pathetic that a creep like this could destroy Bork—almost destroy Thomas

I guess Palin took the right tact on TV being nice while taking him on but an SOB like him needs his gonads handed to him


26 posted on 10/03/2008 7:09:47 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: wny
If I were President, Steyn would be in my cabinet along with Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell and Ann Coulter

Make Ann the Press Secretary and let her abuse the media as much as she wants.

27 posted on 10/03/2008 7:12:07 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: ventanax5

Hah! I like the idea of sending Todd Palin up to Maine. They should send Sarah and Todd to Minnesota’s Iron Range. In normal times this area is solidly Democratic. They are union workers there, but, they always elect a pro-life Democrat since they actually have a lot of old-fashioned values.

The Palins are putting Minensota into play this year. Our outdoorsmen love them for their normalcy, their love of hockey, snowmobiling, hunting and fishing!

It also helps that the loonie toonie Democrats nominated a screwed up mysogynistic, pornographic writer, anti-Catholic, not-so-funny comedian for the U. S. Senate - Al Franken. Franken’s crudeness reveals the Democrats for who they are.


28 posted on 10/03/2008 8:56:40 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: ventanax5

Loved it!


29 posted on 10/03/2008 9:06:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: tiki

Yeah, that one.

For those who haven’t seen this, it’s worth 30 seconds. Biden gets away with murder starting about 12 seconds into it. What kills me is not just what he says but that snide crap-eating grin he has during the insult, and then tops it of with “and I’m not joking either.”

Too much . . lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT3jUrNTX0


30 posted on 10/03/2008 9:08:35 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Obama . . .dumbest candidate in history.)
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To: freekitty
"It seems Biden isn’t connecting real well with Joe Six-Pac."

Honey, he never had a prayer.

31 posted on 10/03/2008 9:14:59 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

ROTFLOL


32 posted on 10/04/2008 2:18:33 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Disambiguator

Ann as press secretary! I didn’t think of that. That’s brilliant. People would pay to see her make mincemeat out of those fools. I could balance thj budget.


33 posted on 10/04/2008 6:56:07 AM PDT by wny
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To: ventanax5
Steyn is so hard to excerpt. Don't want to leave anything out!
34 posted on 10/04/2008 11:54:25 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (The Global Warming Heretic -- http://AGW-Heretic.blogspot.com)
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