Uhmmm- as no one else has said it- she didn’t have to balance a budget- Alaska was running a surplus and she cut her own salary because she didn’t need it…
Does anyone else wish they had lived in the days when the secondary loser was VP? I would love to see an Obama/McCain White House- I think that might actually be a world regaining reign…
Sorry for the triple post- I will shut up for a while…
All she has to do is let her eyes strategically fill with tears. That’s all I’m saying.
No, actually, I don’t think I was whooshed unless you’re suggesting the OP did not mean his words to be taken literally. I think he did.
Debates aren’t won by the side that makes the best argument or gives the best performance. They’re won by the candidate who performs best against expectations. All this “Biden will kick Palin’s ass” talk sets up his almost-guaranteed failure.
My sincere prediction: she’ll be racked up as woefully unprepared, up against a fierce debater. She’ll lay down a few drawly zingers and be declared the winner. She’s being graded on a steep curve. For precedent, see: RNC speech.
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Hmm, you make a good point. Biden will clean Palin’s clock, but she may win a moral victory, due to low expectations. Gore vs Bush is an example.
I’m fairly skeptical of that claim. He attributed it dozens of times and just happened to forget the one time he was being recorded. Yeah, right.
I wish Obama hadn’t picked him. But, on the bright side, it was years ago and probably the rubber is off the tires by now.
Yeah, W. always got awarded an upset victory just for not drooling on his tie. I saw Biden a few days ago talking about how tough and sharp he expected Palin to be and how he wasn’t sure he’d be able to beat her. That’s what he needs to do. They can’t let Rove pull his normal “expectations” manipulation.
Ha ha ha! A Bill Clinton endorsement is more than likely a political kiss-of-death. To wit:
Al Gore
John Kerry
Gray Davis
Jeanne Shaheen
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Jim Guy Tucker
Janet Reno
David Dinkins (for NYC Mayor)
Mark Green (for NYC Mayor)
Frenando Ferrer (for NYC Mayor)
Erskine Bowles
Max Cleland
Walter Mondale (for Senator of Minnesota)
Christopher John (for Senator of Louisianna)
Jeanne Carnahan (for Senator of Missouri)
Ned Lamont
Tom Daschle
Hillary Clinton
Not a winner in the bunch!
The point was not that it was an endorsement but that it was a prediction. Those are two different things. Bill Clinton can read an electorate like Peyton Manning can read a cover two defense. He did kick your asses twice, you know.
Last time he predicted someone would win the Presidency, “by a pretty good margin” no less – how did that forecasting acumen work out, again?
That’s his wife. He also has to tell her her ass doesn’t look fat in those pants suits.
Returning money you don’t need versus spending money you don’t have.
A lot of households can relate to working within a budget.
Well, that’s what we call speculation, not fact. But couldn’t it just be that many of the news outlets were reticent to publish the specifics about a inappropriate joke about the President’s daughter rather than trying to protect McCain? At any rate, your characterization of this as the media giving McCain a pass is factually incorrect.
It’s called confirmation bias.
NOOOO! Don’t you know that the POTUS & VPOTUS have to be perrfect!??? All this humility & “one is as good as another” is UNAMERICAN!!!
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Yeah, what they said.
Biden made a ham-handed response to Palin praising Hilarity Clinton for cracking the glass-ceiling for her. It was moderately less insulting and condescending picking Palin as a running mate.
Biden step down for Hilary Clinton? So Obama doesn’t really want the Presidency after all?
Obama, as most people have noticed, is Black. He needs a straight white male running mate, preferably one with Southern appeal and little reputation as an intellectual.
He also needs someone willing to eviscerate Palin in debate, with both style and substance.
I am so stealing that line.
So, first he calls Obama’s “McCain won’t email” ad “terrible”, and then claims that, oopsie, he’s never actually seen the ad. Then, he gets smacked down by Obama for his comments on the bailout (although Obama gets all evasive when this is pointed out). Then he goes and contradicts Obama’s (and his platform’s) position on coal.
If they’re trying to set something up, it’s working.
To quote Chris Rock “that tiger didn’t go crazy, that tiger went tiger!”. Basically, thats just Biden being Biden.
Nothing is being “set up.” It proves that Obama showed good judgement in picking someone who isn’t just going to be a bobblehead doll all the time.