Another thread on that interview; Now THIS is the Biden I like to see. - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board (also contains a link to the same woman baiting McCain with anti-Obama questions).
Yeah, liberal media my ass.
I actually don’t think Biden did a very good job answering those questions, though I agree with his astonishment at the mind-numbing stupidity of the questions themselves.
I thought that was in the singular: “Is that a real question?”.
No kidding. Christ, what an asshole.
Another message board would disagree with you:
People really do see what they want to see. Scary.
(I have no dog in this fight personally, being not a US resident. It’s just so eerie that both sides of the fence interprets this accordingly to their lenses.
Though upon seeing the annotations that Biden hates the middle-class, I instinctively asks out loud, “Cite?”)
While I think that the questions were moronic, I have no problem with them being asked. Biden fielded them expertly. Those on the left will say they were answered, those on the right will claim he’s lying and won’t be happy until they hear an answer they like, which will never happen. In other words, the whole thing was pointless.
Obama: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Biden: “He is not spreading the wealth around…”
What a bunch of maroons…
I believe in context of the interview, it has something to do with Marxist thinking which Biden is replying to that “he is not spreading the wealth around…”
At any rate, I am rather uncomfortable without being able to see the statements in full context.
John McCain at Michigan State University, October 12, 2000.
Spread the wealth, indeed.
Maroon, indeed. And a two-faced one at that.
Barbara West isn’t quite as ready for a Nancy Grace lead-in show as she thinks she is, is she?
I agree with this.
I also disagree with the Obama campaign’s decision to cancel an interview the station had planned with Biden’s wife. In making the cancellation, they described the interviewer as “combative.” Well i, for one, think that the American electorate would be well served by some more combative interviewing from our media, and by politicians who are willing to subject themselves to something more than just a bunch of pre-vetted softballs.
In this particular case, the questions were pretty sophomoric and stupid, but as ChefGuy said, Biden did an expert job of responding to them. If we encourage a culture of tough questions, we might actually begin to see tough questions that are also relevant and informed, which would be a benefit to the whole country.
Agree.
Obama… Biden… McCain… can’t stomach any of them.
Can you honestly point to anything Obama has said or did that is remotely as two-faced as McCain flip-flops of the past two years?
No. Why should I care? All I have to do is look at his positions on gun control to despise the man.
I think you and I would agree wholeheartedly on the issue of 2nd Amendment rights. But with two wars ongoing, the economy in a shambles, tens of millions of people without health care and unable to obtain it (either at an affordable cost or at all), poor comparisons in the education of U.S. students with those in other industrialised countries, the loss of American jobs, and so on, don’t you think that there are more important things to worry about?
I’ve been following this thing pretty closely, and I can’t recall him ever stating a position on the 2nd amendment. Do you have a cite I can take a look at? Any gun control notions would have to make it past Congress, which is just not going to happen, no matter who is in charge.
Here:
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[ul][li]Ok for states & cities to determine local gun laws. (Apr 2008)[/li][li]FactCheck: Yes, Obama endorsed Illinois handgun ban. (Apr 2008)[/li][li]Respect 2nd Amendment, but local gun bans ok. (Feb 2008)[/li][li]Provide some common-sense enforcement on gun licensing. (Jan 2008)[/li][li]2000: cosponsored bill to limit purchases to 1 gun per month. (Oct 2007)[/li][li]Concealed carry OK for retired police officers. (Aug 2007)[/li][li]Stop unscrupulous gun dealers dumping guns in cities. (Jul 2007)[/li][li]Keep guns out of inner cities–but also problem of morality. (Oct 2006)[/li][li]Bush erred in failing to renew assault weapons ban. (Oct 2004)[/li][li]Ban semi-automatics, and more possession restrictions. (Jul 1998)[/li][li]Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)[/ul][/li][/quote]
Barack Obama is no friend of gun owners. As for Congress, remember that the AWB was passed.
Still, I think there are bigger fish to fry (as I mentioned in my previous post).
A maroon is somebody who thinks that giving tax cuts to the middle class is socialism. That’s a realignment of reality I can’t even begin to comprehend.