Bozo Biden Blindside
What the hell is wrong with Bozo Joe Biden? He has been virtually invisible in his own VP campaign and now that he finally does turn up he makes a statement so damaging to the Obama campaign it could have been written by the RNC. Yesterday he made a speech where he basically blindsided Obama by stating he (Bozo Biden) was not the best choice for VP but Hillary was. He went on to state how she was ready to be president and he wasn’t. I am not a conspiracy kind of guy; I wear my tin foil hat purely for fashion and couldn’t care less how Bigfoot was involved in the Kennedy assassination with the aid of Alien Mob money. That said, who the hell is Bozo Biden working for at this point? It sure is not the Obama campaign! Is this just a case of Biden keeping his closet dwelling skeletons in their natural habitat undisturbed or protecting his 36 years of lobbyist money or even that he is afraid that the campaign is going down hill ( largely thanks to him) and he does not want to be on the hit list for future president Palin? In any case, and as much as I loathe the idea, he needs to quit for some personal reason and let Hillary take the VP spot. It will take a strong woman to be man enough to help the Obama camp at this point and Bozo Biden appears to be far less qualified there as well. Let me add he needs to have done this yesterday or better yet at the damn convention! Feel free to disagree…
They are friends and he is going out of his way to compliment her. He is campaigning hard so let him be.
September 11, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
They are friends and he is going out of his way to compliment her. He is campaigning hard so let him be.
September 11, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
His comment was in response to a person at the rally who said she was glad Obama picked Joe instead of Hillary. I didn't hear him say Hillary was better, I heard him say she MIGHT have been better. I felt that he was trying to be gracious.
However, I have observed that Dem. Senators tend to give far too much deference to other Senators. Look at the tepid criticism of McCain and Lieberman by Dem Senators.
September 11, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is just another spin to promote Hillary. Give it a rest. She does enough of that all by herself, for god's sake.
September 11, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Biden has in his earlier days been prone to gaffes but I didn't read his remarks this way. I thought his remarks were an attempt to ingratiate himself with women voters focused for the moment on the absence of an xx on the Dem ticket.
His words got spun in a way he didn't mean them and probably got more circulation as a result. For any who actually read what he said (a couple of paragraphs, maybe a couple too long for most busy citizens), the tease got it wrong. He wasn't saying "I'm not qualified, Obama made a bad pick." He was saying "Hillary's great. I have a great opinion of her. She would have been an outstanding VP pick and is also qualified to be President."
People listening to his remarks might even have taken them as a subtle dig at Palin's lack of qualifications for VP. And Biden may very well have intended that.
I think he can be extremely effective on the attack and hope to see him vested with a high degree of trust to use his own instincts on what is likely to help more than hurt in the current fluid, complicated whitewater rafting phase of the campaign (as Josh put it well).
I am quite confident they are hearing loud and clear the high volume of collective angst among many of their supporters about whether they will show the smarts, the toughness, the savvy, and the skill to figure things out on the fly, put the hammer down, and get it done as we move into gut check time.
September 11, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not an HRC fan. But to say that she may be as qualified or more qualified than Biden to be VP is hardly a "blindside".
A second-term senator who received 17-18 million votes in a Presidential primary is, by default, worthy of being called VP material. Try to calm down a bit and join Joe Biden in speaking the truth.
September 11, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Biden is an "old-fashioned" gentleman. He was complimenting Hillary, not denigrating Obama or himself.
Apparently manners are too complicated to be comprehended by Republicans.
November 2, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink