It’s Biden!
NPR’s summing it up this morning … no clear winner, Biden did what he had to do, didn’t say anything completely moronic …
Sure. OK. Meanspirited victory lap kicks off with a kick to the hairplugs by Boston Herald’s Howie Carr:
Joe Biden was doing OK for a while last night . . . until he turned into Joe Biden. About 9:45 last night, Champ’s carriage turned into a pumpkin.
Joe Biden is a man of the people. Why, he does the same things just like you and I do. How do we know this? Because Joe Biden told us last night.
“I was recently at my local gas station.”
Recently? Is that how you describe your visits to the “local” gas station. Hey, Joe, did you notice on your most recent visit - they don’t sell leaded gasoline anymore.
You want more proof that Joe Biden is Joe Six-Pack?
“Walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time.”
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, if a man will lie to you about hanging out at Home Depot, he’ll lie to you about other things as well.
Home Depot? What was Sen. Biden picking up, chlorine for the pool? It surely wasn’t a hammer, or work gloves. When did the Home Depot start selling arugula?
Actually, I was hoping for more gaffes in St. Louis from Champ, which is his childhood nickname, don’t you know. Champ gives him the common touch. Guys named Champ hang out at Home Depot.
He’s from Scranton, in case you forgot. He’s from “a neighborhood just like you grew up in.” You know, the kind with local gas stations.
They obviously had the muzzle on Palin last night. I wish she’d have corrected him on things like the economic “fundamentals” (Barack says the same things), or hit on Barack’s massive contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Let’s just say, the undercard on Fox - Bill O’Reilly vs. Barney Frank - had more fireworks in five minutes than they had in 90.
But God, what a pompous windbag Joe Biden is. The man is a hack’s hack. He tried to restrain himself, but as the debate wore on, despite the endless fake smiles, the real Joe Biden began to leak out, the Joe Biden who refers to himself in the third person, as in, “No one has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden.”
After 36 years in the Senate, he’s against domestic abuse. Wow, he took on that powerful special interest, Big Wifebeating.
Oddly, the only one of his numerous recent gaffes to get mentioned was brought up by Obama hagiographer Gwen Ifill, who drew blood with his comment about “clean coal.”
To which he responded:
“‘A comment made on a rope line was taken out of context.’
Oh yes, the old taken-out-of-context excuse. He ain’t Shoeless Joe, he’s Alibi Ike.
As it went on, he just turned into the Joe Biden we all know and laugh at.
Joe Biden says “20 million of you” are going to be taxed. Because people like him, as opposed to people like “you,” don’t have to worry about health insurance, just like they don’t have to worry about being attacked for averaging $369 a year in charitable contributions over the last decade on an income of between $210,000 and $321,000.
I know, the mainstream media will say he won. So what else is new? See you around the gas station, Champ.
Herald debate coverage here, by the way:
Sarah Palin survived the most important 90 minutes of her political career last night, going toe-to-toe with vice presidential rival Joe Biden even on complex foreign policy and failing to wilt under the debate spotlight as critics predicted.
Biden, a 36-year veteran of Capitol Hill, avoided direct exchanges with his GOP rival and opted instead to aim his attacks at the leader of the ticket John McCain. He slammed his senate colleague for being “out of touch” on the economy and wrong-headed on the war.
But Palin repeatedly poked Biden, smiling as she called him on focusing on the Bush administration rather than focusing on the future, saying: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
CBS, More Uncommitted Voters Saw Biden as Winner. Maybe, but the devil’s in the details:
Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie.
Guess who wins a tie.
Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the Obama-Biden ticket. Ten percent say they are now committed to McCain-Palin. Seventy-one percent are still uncommitted.
That’s an awful lot of uncommitteds. Hairplugs and Charm have their work cut out.
Both candidates improved their overall image tonight. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed say they now have a better impression of Biden. Five percent say they have a worse opinion of the Delaware senator, while 42 percent say they debate did not change their opinion.
I guess I’d want to know how many went into that liking him.
Fifty-five percent say they now have a better opinion of Palin. Fourteen percent say they have a worse opinion, while 30 percent say their opinion hasn’t changed.
Washington Posts style columnist Tom Shales, whose mug suggests he could benefit from some style counseling, Sarah Palin is so Tina Fey. “Ha ha, silly heartland rube … ” OK, that’s not exactly how he put it.
Three weeks to go but The Moderate Voice is ready to call it, with big Messianic art:
Blowout for Obama. Wow. I willing to give it to McCain in a squeakby. Obama blowout, that’s big.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:55 am on Friday, October 3, 2008
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October 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
McCain can win if he starts hammering Obama on the economy. Almost every commercial should stress that:
1. McCain tried to head off the housing crisis years ago, Obama did nothing.
2. In just 3 years, Obama was the 3rd highest recipient of FNMA contributions, ever.
3. Obama’s response to a poor economy will be to raise taxes.
4. Obama will block new energy that could lower gas prices.
5. The Democratic Congress passed a record number of earmarks in 2007, and earmark loving Obama will let Pelosi and Reed roll right over him.
3 & 4 (and maybe 5) will naturally casue an outcry in the media, because they’ll take whatever BS the Obama campaign is peddling at face value, and cry foul if McCain says anything differently. However, the way to frame it is to say that “Now Obama says he supports offshore drilling - but do you really trust him to do it? McCain will.” This is where McCain has a huge advantage, and he needs to use it. If he changes his mind on something, people are more inclined to believe that he means it. Obama is seen as more of a reed in the wind, who will say anything to get elected. McCain’s campaign really needs to emphasize that, especially now when people are feeling nervous about the economy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Well I went to the WaPo, and its comments section, and showered before I came back. Swimming in sewage is doable until you have to duck to avoid the flying chunks.
There’s a reason that I stay away from there.