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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: KayEyeDoubleDee
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61 posted on 08/24/2008 3:01:59 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: kbennkc
I find the self congratulatory comments about his wife being gorgeous just as offensive . Despite his lifetime of having his snout in the public trough , this is his first national candidacy , and not the Imus show .

When you combine Barry's woeful inexperience and Everest-sized ego with Joe's inability to go for more than a day without saying something that causes cringing behaviors in everyone in his vicinity, I think that we're in for a campaign season full of forced smiles during the day and loud fights back in the hotel suites at night.  The Secret Service will be exhausted just from trying to keep all of them reasonably civil.

62 posted on 08/24/2008 3:04:56 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; KayEyeDoubleDee; xsmommy

While not “drop dead gorgeaous” she is actually a rather attractive woman, just not terribly photogenic.

As to Joe’s opinion of her looks, it is not for me to question his characterization. My husband happens to have the same opinion of me, and I believe Jill Biden is far more attractive than I am.

Beauty will always bein the eye of the beholder.


63 posted on 08/24/2008 3:05:33 PM PDT by Gabz (You said WHAT?????????)
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To: Gabz

Apparently


64 posted on 08/24/2008 3:11:29 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: Stoat

Holy cr*p batman... that’s some picture!

I thought wife-swapping went out with the 70’s!

Biden is really into it with his eyes closed.

Doesn’t seem to bather the ‘Messiah’ though — he’s got his own lip-lock going.

Call me old-fashioned but these guys are married, right?

STE=Q


65 posted on 08/24/2008 3:12:00 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: JillValentine
Wow, she wasn't even a MILF as recently as 20 years ago:

66 posted on 08/24/2008 3:12:25 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Wife’s Ph.D. is problem.

Barack AMERICA

BIden = next President.

Wasn’t Saturday beautiful?

Wait until the Monday polling figures come in showing far less of a bounce from the Biden announcement than they had expected.  Things will become very tense very quickly and Barry will make mistakes more and more often.  It will be delightful, watching him slide ever deeper into the roiling cauldron of defeat, and slipping in further every time he opens his mouth.

Biden is just icing on the cake.....he's greasing the sides of the cauldron so that Barry will slip even faster.

67 posted on 08/24/2008 3:13:17 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: illiac
Biden’s “hug” to MO does not look very sincere......

Their stage-management is truly slipping.

68 posted on 08/24/2008 3:18:20 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: mass55th
The comments that follow the article show that there’s a lot of women who didn’t care for Biden’s comments, or Pelosi’s covering for him. I’m lovin’ the animosity between them all and looking forward to the convention starting tomorrow.

It all seems headed for a giant, loud, glorious, mess.  I love it!

69 posted on 08/24/2008 3:21:15 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: nmh
“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.

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the Party bigwigs to make hay out of it but I'm sure that the blogosphere and talk radio will.  The word will get out and it will be a Beautiful Thing   :-)

70 posted on 08/24/2008 3:24:40 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: johniegrad
Is every Democrat searching as hard as they can to be offended about something? Geesh.

I believe that's pretty much the job description for being a Dem these days....too bad for them, as the normal, sane majority here in the USA tend to get turned off by that garbage.

71 posted on 08/24/2008 3:27:02 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: maggief
"Lighten up, folks! We've got a planet to save,"

... and a book to sell.

Something that she seems unable to do

((((snicker))))

72 posted on 08/24/2008 3:28:43 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

“Lighten up, folks! We’ve got a planet to save,”

Pelosi must have forgotten to take her meds!

She IS on medication... right?

STE=Q


73 posted on 08/24/2008 3:29:00 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

She may not be beautiful, but his hair crop came in nice, didn’t it?


74 posted on 08/24/2008 3:29:24 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

also, considering Biden’s 1st wife died in a horrific car accident, using the ohrase drop dead gorgeous seems highly cold and insensitive to me


75 posted on 08/24/2008 3:32:10 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: HIDEK6
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.

Indeed, the ancient adage of 'a woman scorned' comes to mind.

I predict that Election Day will be a particularly long one for Barry and Joe, as they will be feeling the twisting of the knives that these scorned women have thrust into their hearts all day long.

76 posted on 08/24/2008 3:33:05 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: cricket

I wonder when the NYT is going to say that Obama is playing the race card by putting out photos of him kissing a white woman?


77 posted on 08/24/2008 3:33:58 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: Stoat

I hope so!

(I’d better make spell checker a habit ;) )

I just hope Huckabee keeps his stupid mouth shut if McCain goes with Mitt. Huckabee is a small, petty guy. He’ll WANT McCain to lose so he’ll have a shot next time around for Prez. McPain is a one termer so the VP will have an advantage. The same is true of Obama and his idiot. Biden will have an advantage over Hitlery as she runs again.


78 posted on 08/24/2008 3:43:48 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

You are right. I’ve been staring at that pic thinking “who does he remind me of” and that who it was, Andy Kaufman!

Thank you, it was driving me craaazzzy!


79 posted on 08/24/2008 3:48:02 PM PDT by CaliGirl-R
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Seriously, is that Steve Carrell in that picture? Paging Maxwell Smart, Maxwell Smart...


80 posted on 08/24/2008 3:54:06 PM PDT by phatus maximus (John 6:29...Learn it, love it, live it...)
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