Lipsticked pitbull goes after the soft meat of Biden’s retreating calves at today’s appearance in Reno:
Two weeks from today, Americans will be asked to cast their vote for the next president of the United States. There’s no time to wait. Let’s get right to it.
Did you hear what Senator Biden said at a fundraiser on Sunday? He guaranteed that if Barack Obama is elected, we’ll face an international crisis within the first six months of their administration. He told Democrat donors to mark his words – that there were “at least four or five scenarios†that would place our country at risk in an Obama administration. Thanks for the warning, Joe!
He didn’t specify what all those four or five scenarios will be, but for clues, let’s review the Obama foreign policy agenda.
Our opponent wants to sit down with the world’s worst dictators. With no preconditions, he proposes to meet with a regime in Teheran that vows to “wipe Israel off the map.†Let’s call that crisis scenario number one.
Senator Obama has also advocated sending our U.S. military into Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government. Invading the sovereign territory of a troubled partner in the war against terrorism. We’ll call that scenario number two.
He opposed the surge strategy that has finally brought victory in Iraq within sight. He’s voted to cut off funding for our troops, leaving our young men and women at grave risk. He wants to pull out, leaving some 25 million Iraqis at the mercy of Iranian-supported Shiite extremists and al Qaeda in Iraq. By his own admission, this could mean our troops would have to go back to Iraq. Crisis scenario number three.
After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine next. That would be crisis scenario number four.
But I guess the looming crisis that most worries the Obama campaign right now is Joe Biden’s next speaking engagement. Let’s call that crisis scenario number five.
The real problem is that these warnings from Joe Biden are similar to his earlier assessment of Barack Obama. It wasn’t so long ago that he said Barack Obama wasn’t up to the job, and that, quote, “the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.â€Â
The same Joe Biden said he would be honored to run on the ticket with John McCain because, quote, “the country would be better off.†And here we have some common ground. I want a president who spent 22 years in uniform defending our country. I want a president who isn’t afraid to use the word “victory†when he talks about the wars we are fighting. I want a president who’s ready on Day One. I want a president with the experience and the judgment and the wisdom to meet the next international crisis – or better yet to avoid it. I want John McCain as our commander-in-chief.
Reached for comment, Chris Buckley, George Will, Kathleen Parker, and David Frum each muttered something about the University of Idaho having no crew team, then went about their business of laboring mightily on behalf of conservatives too stupid to deserve such enlightened intellectual cover.
(h/t KJL)
“Reached for comment, Chris Buckley, George Will, Kathleen Parker, and David Frum each muttered something about the University of Idaho having no crew team”
Dude,
That is pure gold! I am cleaning Diet Pepsi from my keyboard as I type.
Plus, the U of Idaho’s football team? Named the “Vandals”…
So, y’know, there you are!
Peggy Noonan.
i’m tryin to start my own crew team
but every time we cross swords[oars] it’s like we’re
religolus!
if i could only walk on water-these damn tire gauges wouldn’t be weighing me down
I really think that if Baracky gets in office even the Libs will be appalled at the results. Not all of them, but enough… It’ll be another Reagan Dem movement
This morning on O’Reilly’s radio show, his principal sub, Smerconish (sp?), threw in for Obama, too, citing Obama’s scintillating intellect and his discomfort with McCain’s VP pick. Tell!
Bill kept quizzing him on O’s policies, reminding his terrified-of-being-thought-foolish sidekick that O! has policies 180° opposite his, but all Michael could do was blurt out that if Bill had interviewed O! as many times as Michael had, he’d be voting for O! too!
Blinded him with bullsplat, I guess. It’s interesting to see how many people value style over substance on our side, too. Not surprising, human nature being what it is, but disappointing all the same.
I really think that if Baracky gets in office even the Libs will be appalled at the results. Not all of them, but enough… It’ll be another Reagan Dem movement
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Maybe so, but they will blame it on Republicans.
But I guess the looming crisis that most worries the Obama campaign right now is Joe Biden’s next speaking engagement. Let’s call that crisis scenario number five.
Hey Obama/MSM campaign, pay backs are a bitch.
Peggy Noonan.
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How long will we have to wait for Peggy to have her Drama Queen moment on The Poofington Host?
I keep hearing “If there was no Carter then there may never have been Reagan…”..
My only problem is I am too short sighted or selfish to want to want to “bend over and take on for the team” for the next 4 years…
Maybe I’m just fucked reguardless
“…on our side…”
Never once viewed M. Smerconish as being “on my side”. O’Reilly either, for that matter.
Human nature being what it is, I’m not convinced there is such a thing as an “our side”, other than temporary alliances made to be broken, least, I’d need a hell of a lot more evidence to start. The counter evidence, on the other hand, is pretty damned extensive.
regardless
How long will we have to wait for Sarah Palin to give a serious press interviews?
Oh that’s right, McCain knows she’s incapable of such a mentally rigorous task.
It’s interesting to see how many people value style over substance.
If U of I had a crew team, you can be sure they’d be, oh, 2-27 or something like that for the last three years. Using their football and basketball teams as templates.
How are those Biden press interviews going for ya, David?
How long will we have to wait for Barack Obama to give a serious press interview?
Oh that’s right, Axelrod knows he’s incapable of such a mentally rigorous task.
It’s interesting to see how many people value style over substance.
Or that really great sit down Couric had with O! when she grilled him about Annenberg and Woods? O wait..
Hey, David. Please keep your Veep candidate out in front as much as possible. Please? Thanks a bunch.
Look how well that shoe fits on the other foot. Gosh darnit.
I don’t think this criticism of Biden is fair. He’s spending so much time making those commercials where he’s chasing around the gecko for Geico that he just hasn’t been able to keep up with the Obama campaign message. Just think – Biden’s the experienced, mature member of the Obama bin Biden team.
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How long will we have to wait for Sarah Palin to give a serious press interviews?”
Just about every day.
She’s given more interviews than O! has.
Until we have a press capable of giving a serious interview.
throw ur comment on interviews in the ring..
pavlov’s dogs response?
yippee-kai -yai-mo fo
she’s a styln’ bitch-she’s got these thingys called woids outta her mouth
-words mean something-quoth the barack..
unless they don’t…
in that case..
case closed
From The Corner at NRO:
“The Most Accessible Candidate [Byron York]
Some writers have called on the press to refuse to cover Sarah Palin’s campaign until she holds a press conference. Perhaps they would have a different impression had they been out covering Palin. From CBS News:
In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.
By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September. John McCainâ€â€who spent most of the primary season holding what seemed like one, never-ending media availabilityâ€â€hasn’t done one since Sept. 23.”
Not only does the University of Idaho not have a crew team, but they have about as much ivy growing on their hallowed halls as a McDonalds. Oh well…..the unannointed have to do something between the ages of 19 – 22 besides drive around in circles, drink shine, and fuck their sisters.
So, is the One going to have find a nice coat closet in the White House to lock Biden inside for the next 4 years if he’s elected? Because where I’m sitting that’s about the only thing he can do to prevent all the future devastating utterances by the loquacious Blue Hen.
**** TEETH FLASH ****
So, is the One going to have find a nice coat closet in the White House to lock Biden inside for the next 4 years if he’s elected? Because where I’m sitting that’s about the only thing he can do to prevent all the future devastating utterances by the loquacious Blue Hen.
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After The One takes office, Biden will have to step down for “family reasons” and Michelle will “reluctantly” take his place.
At O!’s victory HQ in Chicago, reporters are being charged in the neighborhood of $900 for good spots from which to droll over President Jesus as he accepts the adulation of his
servantssupporters. Some media types are complaining about the price tag but I think they should give the man a break. It’s hard out here for a community organizer.* A place to stand while O! claims victory: ~$900
* Being first on the wires with the pic of McCain holding aloft Harry Truman’s famous headline: Priceless
I should add that was a CHICAGO TRIBUNE headline…
Hey, you people! Idaho is a Land Grant University! Larry Craig is an alum.
Will he be giving communion, McG?
“This is my body. Take and eat.”
Joe Biden = Parrot that memorizes all the family secrets only to blurt them out when company comes to visit.
“AWWK, Barack is an ignorant tit AWWK”
Put a blanket over the cage and lock it in the sun room until the guests leave.
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I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out why I should give a fuck about either of those tidbits.
And here’s what I’ve come up with………
I think the Miracle of Transubstantiation is a little too subtle for Barry to pull off…
* A place to stand while O! claims victory: ~$900
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No availability, no deadline considerations, a stinky scuzzy plane, disorganized and inconvenient schedules, expensive extortion for a good spot and yet they lick the ground he walks on pumping out the campaign supplied press releases as news
That’s more than I could come up with, Sticky.
N. O’Brain cites The Corner at NRO.
N. O’Brain cites The Corner who was citing CBS news.
“From CBS News:” was the clue. Nice fair and balanced reading comprehension.
Have Joe Biden’s near daily fact-free and often apparently hallucinated oratorical stumbles caused a wave of newspaper and TV news stories questioning Barack Obama’s judgment for choosing him?
No. They have not.
Have Obama’s opponents thanked him daily for choosing Biden?
Yes. They have. Pointlessly, it seems, but thanked him nevertheless.
At O!’s victory HQ in Chicago, reporters are being charged in the neighborhood of $900 for good spots from which to droll over President Jesus as he accepts the adulation of his servants supporters. Some media types are complaining about the price tag but I think they should give the man a break. It’s hard out here for a community organizer.
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Well, that money will probably go to the poor, ya know.
ST – no you weren’t right. Nice dodge. You said:
N. O’Brain cites The Corner at NRO.
Fair. Balanced.
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and NRO was siting CBS News tool.
citing.
Hey, ST, is the rest of you handle FU?
I post facts.
You post snark.
Good, job, good job.
here’s my take, may differ from yours, but here goes:
I’ve covered politicians on local and federal issues, as well as their campaigns. What Palin is doing–read: her staff–is totally normal.
Palin’s availability is the norm, left or right, makes no difference. Pols dont want a lot of unscripted, hanging out time with the press; most of them know precious little of the issues.
You don’t want her being overexposed–or any VP–because she is not running for POTUS. VPs anchor bases or attract a targeted audience without offending the base. Period, full stop.
Palin was picked to add youth, appeal to women and the conservative base, which the GOP defines electorally as the west and the south. If she attracts some SUV moms and movement activists who HATE McCain, all the better.
Biden is designed to add some centrism and experience to a ticket that consists largely of an appealing bearing and book sales. he is designed to keep apostates from abandoning the party once they figure out Obama is a leftist not a liberal.
Palin’s weakness is that she isn’t terribly knowledgable about broad, national issues and does not speak in an off-the-cuff manner that the intelligensia accepts as clever or informed.
Biden’s weaknessess is that he a fabricator, egotist and thinks he should be POTUS.
in other words, conventional wisdom is completely correct.
so you keep this pair off to the sides.
Heck they’d be flummoxed to discover I-da-Ho even has a university!
42 – … to the poor Obamas! Now that’s income redistribution we can get down with.
… fist bump … was deleted apparently.
Of course, reading out the broad national issues about which she is terribly knowledgeable, more knowledgeable than any of the other three men in the race, as for instance, energy policy. But we’ll just skate by that one. Sure. Why not. She’s only a Governor, after all.
What I need to know is, besides running for office and apparently, Ericksonian conversational hypnosis, what is it that Obama is particularly knowledgable about or good at?
“what is it that Obama is particularly knowledgable about or good at?”
Community organizing.
Has Obama ever visited Idaho? Biden?
Just curious.
Visit Bonner’s Ferry. Talk about taxes and self sufficiency
Biden’s view of issues is so broad he feels perfectly comfortable rewriting the history of Lebanon and gibbering on about war costs as if he even fucking knew what the heck he was trying to say….
Or Obama who in the words of O’Reilly, “can do thirty minutes on your shoelaces” an Obama who is a sonorous Rays fan in Florida and a smooth baritone Phillies fan in Pennsylvania.
An Obama who has a half hearted Jim Webb trying to convince himself and others in Virginia that the second amendment will stand because Obama would never get the votes needed…yet….
Jeff,
That wasn’t slow Joe’s calf. Those two tiny shrivelled rasins were–well, you know.
Time to get a gun
That’s what I’m thinking
And I could afford one if I did just a little less drinking.
– Fred Eaglesmith
The Messiah came to Boise in Mar/Apr. Filled the basketball arena full of hope and change, he did. As I commented at PW at the time, the local NBC affiliate reporter covering the God/man’s descendence to the city from the heavens gave her report with such breathless orgasmic squeal, I was sure she was being orally pleasured below the waist during the broadcast. Since the camera angle covered her face only, I can’t honestly say she wasn’t. O!
As usual, Iowahawk has the last word:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
Palin is speaking at three to five venues a day.
And I do see the media still complaining about the lack of “access”…
… but will they broadcast the contents of her speeches, beyond carefully neutered soundbites?
Nope.
This ain’t over.
It’s too late to replace Biden. And Baracky was short sighted to schedule just two days off to see to his grandma’s
bus rashbroken hip*; too many days for him to give up a point a day for gaffes, even with all of mediadom pulling mightily on the oars.*I hope she makes a full recovery. Not too many grandmas get to see one of their grandkids bring home news that they are a Presidential candidate. She must be proud, and I respect that, all politics aside.
Yeah there is much happiness under that bus. Hopefully she won’t be crushed further by Barry joining her there.
The thought of Joe Biden speaking at the funeral of a foreign leader fills me with dread, yet also the antiipation for much of teh funny.
Perhaps that is the crisis Sen. Biden has in mind.
Palin is speaking at three to five venues a day.
And from what I’ve been able to gather, the joints have been packed and rawkin’.
How long will we have to wait for Sarah Palin to give a serious press interviews?
Until Teh Press pursues an honest give and take, Dave.
So, forever.
and a Dave.
Amazin’ the focus on the Republican VP candidate, ain’t it? It would be like the press concentrating on George H.W. Bush and not Ronald Reagan. Kind of embarrassing for John McCain, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Like they aren’t really there.
You know, the purpose of a lightening rod is to take a hit that the structure it is on shouldn’t. Yet the lightening goes right to the rod and bypasses everything else.
It should be added that a paraphrasing of the latter part of J.Beezy’s latest gaffe goes like:
“And we’re going to need you. Not financially. We’re going to need your support and cover when O’s decision doesn’t immediately seem sound or right. We need you to continue to not trust your lying eyes is what I’m telling you. It’s like the surge. Oh sure, it looks like it was the right way to go, and of course, the results point only to success. But we need you to keep ignoring the facts. So likewise, we’re going to need some of that foamy blind faith when O steps in a big pile of foreign crisis poop. We’ll need you more than ever so gird up them loins. Hell, gird the hocks too. It’s gonna be a rough ride. Back at Delaware, we used to bring a coed back to the dorm room and a couple guys would hide in the closet. I’d be getting her from behind – no hands, and when my buddies would jump out of the closet and turn the lights on – that kind of a rough ride.”
Again, paraphrased
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I like listening to Joe Biden speak. It’s kinda like a ‘Where’s Waldo’ only with words.
23 and 64 are great. Bravo!!
You know I don’t really like McCain, but she makes a very good case.