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Joe Biden's joke about wife's Ph.D causes a 'problem' in duo debut
The New York Daily News ^ | August 23, 2008 | Celeste Katz and Michael Saul

Posted on 08/24/2008 1:56:38 PM PDT by Stoat

Not everyone was feeling the love after Joe Biden and Barack Obama made their campaign debut together Saturday.

DENVER - Joe Biden got off on the wrong foot-in-mouth with some feminists and Hillary Clinton supporters when he joked that his wife's doctorate was a "problem" for him.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; biden; bidenfamily; joebiden; nobama; obama
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To: A_Former_Democrat
"Wasn’t Saturday beautiful?"

It can only get better.

21 posted on 08/24/2008 2:12:28 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Stoat

“Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you’ll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous,” Biden said in Springfield, Ill., Saturday in his first speech as Barack Obama’s running mate. “She also has her doctorate degree, which is a problem. But all kidding aside ...”

Biden is a GIFT to the GOP!

I hope the GOP has enough sense to CAPILIZE ON THAT and his INSANE policies.


22 posted on 08/24/2008 2:13:25 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: cricket
Guess, by extension it could be a problem for Michelle and Obama? I mean; for the intellectual pointy-heads. . ‘Degrees talk’. . .

Indeed it does, as that's quite often all they have.  I have PHD's living on either side of the stoat cave, and outside of their very narrow areas of academic study they are among the most breathtakingly, profoundly stupid people I've met in my life.

 

23 posted on 08/24/2008 2:14:24 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Is every Democrat searching as hard as they can to be offended about something? Geesh.


24 posted on 08/24/2008 2:16:36 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: SageofRugby
He was incorrect in his usage of Ph.D. His wife actually has an Ed.D. which is an educational doctorate.

Thank you for the clarification.

There's a lot of that breezy exaggeration going on that will never be picked up on by the press....unless it's on the Republican side, in which case the slightest slip will cause you to get nailed to the wall.

25 posted on 08/24/2008 2:18:56 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Dear Mr. Whitey,
I’ll have to check that out,
But that’s funny,
Good job.


26 posted on 08/24/2008 2:19:07 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Stoat
"Lighten up, folks! We've got a planet to save,"

... and a book to sell.

27 posted on 08/24/2008 2:21:28 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Mojave
"Is Pelosi insane"

She also wants everyone to start anew (Drudge headline)

Her statements say it all...lol

Apparently, her job, Congresswoman, representing a single group of constituents in Congress isn't fulfilling her need to control everyone... lol

What I want to know is what did the rest of us do that told her we needed to be saved? Is it the voices in her head? :o)

28 posted on 08/24/2008 2:21:37 PM PDT by xtinct (Suicide Hotline... !! "Obama here" --> Please Hold...)
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To: DeLaine
Thank you very much for pinging your list  :-)

 Thank You

29 posted on 08/24/2008 2:24:35 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
it's certainly not going to win over any of those women."

Once they make their mind up that you're useless, nothing will win them over.

30 posted on 08/24/2008 2:25:11 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Stoat
"There's a lot of that breezy exaggeration going on that will never be picked up on by the press"

I want to know if Obama's mother got food stamps as Biden claims.

31 posted on 08/24/2008 2:27:16 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Altogether a mis-match of misplaced/dishonest affection. . .inappropriate groping of a foursome that has come together for political self-servance. But do hope it makes the cover of Newsweek. Great visual. . .for our side

Almost laughable, seeing Biden's hands unable to quite wrap himself into or around Michelle (hands grasping air/lol); while his lips, just miss hers or so it seems; OR; did they actually go 'bump' a millisecond before. Whatever, Biden looks like he is experiencing his worst moment ever. . .and his wife?

What IS with the lips in synch here with Obama. Trashy Dems, thinking this IS the stuff their image depends on. Sickening; even moreso than Gore and wife doing the e-lonnnng-ated kiss to show 'macho-man' in action.

These people are a couple hours out of the box; and the pain already excruciating.

Am wondering if Obama did a bit of power-play here, just to make his 'power-point'; which he does a lot 'against' people. (Like his 'arm-pulling' move against Lieberman on Senate floor; and his literally pulling - hard and quick; McCain into his space when he greeted him at Saddlebrook. . .) Maybe Biden's wife did not have a chance here against what looks like Obama's lips literally targeting hers.

32 posted on 08/24/2008 2:28:51 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: Typical_Whitey
Well for one thing Michelle Obama looks like a Drag Queen and thats just being Honest

This morning I told my wife, whose democrat allegiance I have learned to live with after 35 years, that the Free Republic people were calling Michelle "Awnt Esther."

She couldn't stop chuckling.

33 posted on 08/24/2008 2:29:38 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: JillValentine
Joe Biden: Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous.

Being a gentleman, I normally wouldn't comment on your wife, Senator Biden, but since you raised the topic, I gotta say - C'mon, dude, let's be for real:

RECENT JILL BIDEN

Sorry Joe, but it's probably been a good quarter of a century since Jill would have even qualified as a MILF.

30 years ago then MAYBE you MIGHT have had an argument:

JILL BIDEN, JUNE 17, 1977

But circa 2008?

Puh-lease...

34 posted on 08/24/2008 2:29:56 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: DeLaine
Man, I never dreamed that running for office together meant you could swap spit with each other’s wives.

I would bet that Donna Brazille had something to do with that bit of staging.

35 posted on 08/24/2008 2:31:47 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Schnucki
Well, they didn’t like his joke but I laughed pretty hard. :)

The Left's hysteria and insanity will be on full display from now until election day, and when they lose (again) they will (again) shift into apoplectic, screaming fits of unrestrained rage.  Once again there will be the usual charges of racism, fixing votes, corruption, fraud, etc.etc. etc. when that sort of thing will be almost exclusively coming from their side of the aisle, as always.

There will be suicides of the weakest among them who 'cannot stand another 4 years of George W. Bush's policies', various pathetic attempts at property damage and arson and empty threats of moving to Canada.

It will probably be a good idea to stock up on popcorn early in the season........

36 posted on 08/24/2008 2:32:19 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Are You Kidding Me???? LMAO!!!!!!!!!! We must use this pic all the time,every day!!!!!!


37 posted on 08/24/2008 2:32:25 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Midget Mac)
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To: mass55th

Shouldn’t Obama’s Mother/food stamps be an ‘Obama’s speech’. . .truth aside, of course. . .and was his mentioning this a surprise to Obama - for either reason.


38 posted on 08/24/2008 2:32:26 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: cmsgop; JillValentine

Yeah, gotta love that sleazy Hugh Hefner “sans belt” look from 1977.


39 posted on 08/24/2008 2:34:34 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Typical_Whitey
She has a look that could stop a brakeless truck coming down a hill- should she choose. She knows it too. . .'soft' is a challenge for this woMan. Don't want her near the White House!

And 'when she is ugly; she is VERY UGLY!

40 posted on 08/24/2008 2:36:33 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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