LOL@ Joe Biden

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...llary_cli.html

Joe Biden, 9/10/08

"She is qualified to be President of the United States of America, she's easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and, quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

Digging his own grave.

Hillary has to be loving that statement, not only is it a flattering compliment, but also, she'll get to run again in 4 years, instead of 8.

[Glenn]

^see, even Republicans have grasped the concept of "hope"

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

Giuseppe Biden will be in St. Clair Shores on Monday...

Caveat.

[Uncle Mxy]

Fuck a Buckeye!
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-some-ohioans/

(CNN) — Joe Biden's off-the-cuff remarks on the trail have at times taken the Obama campaign off-message, but the Delaware senator's latest riff just may have landed him in hot water with voters — and die hard football fans — in a key battleground state.

Speaking to members of the University of Delaware football team Friday morning, the Democratic VP candidate said he thinks the Fightin Blue Hens (1-1 this season) could thrash a certain team from Ohio.

"I was out in Ohio," he said while fiddling with a football in his hands. "I told the folks in Ohio that we'd kick Ohio State's ass!" (It remains unclear if Biden actually ever told Ohio voters this.)

Biden, a proud University of Delaware alum, was clearly trying to rally his Division 1-AA team ahead of their match-up with Furman this weekend, but the comments couldn't have come at a worse time for faithful Buckeye fans who saw their team suffer a 35-3 trouncing at the hands of USC last weekend.

The comments also come as polls show the race in Ohio could hardly be tighter: A CNN poll of polls in the Buckeye state shows Obama holding a slim 1 point lead there. Close enough, presumably, that enough angry OSU fans could just make the difference — at least that's what Republicans are hoping.

The state GOP is already attacking the Democratic ticket over the comments

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

He told ABC's Kate Snow that wealthy people (those making more than $250,000 annually) need to step up to the plate, and that they would be "patriotic" by paying more taxes.

Joe Biden's charitable giving for the last 10 years...

1998 $195
1999 $120
2000 $360
2001 $360
2002 $260
2003 $260
2004 $380
2005 $380
2006 $380
2007 $995
Total $3,690

Talk about reinfocring the democratic stereotype of "spending somebody else's money"...

Go ahead, have at me...

[Uncle Mxy]

Uhhh... I don't get it. If you don't deduct a lot due to charity, then you're likely paying more in taxes. You put down big dollar amounts on tax returns so you can deduct them and pay less taxes. Biden didn't do that. In other words, Biden's walking the walk when it comes to "pay more taxes".

Of course, you could ding him for not giving a lot to charity. It could well be the case that he does stuff that he chooses not to deduct, or can't easily deduct. Jill Biden biked across Iowa raising money for breast cancer. I don't see a big deduction for that, even though it's charitable in nature.

[Tahoe]

Cindy McCain beats them all put together.

[Uncle Mxy]

Cindy McCain beats them all put together.

On charity matters, yes.

On taxes, who knows. We don't have her tax returns.

[Tahoe]

^ She is very wealthy, so thats like being the devil to libs.

I joke but my brother, who is just to the right of Michael Moore, thinks anyone who is ultra rich is evil. Friggin socialist or communists or something.

[Uncle Mxy]

^ She is very wealthy, so thats like being the devil to libs.

I joke but my brother, who is just to the right of Michael Moore, thinks anyone who is ultra rich is evil. Friggin socialist or communists or something.

What's funny is that the sentiment of "rich equals bad" has its roots in stuff associated with today's conservatives. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." comes from the Bible. 40-50 years ago, it was the richer Republicans that had the relatively leftist leanings. Contrast with centrist Richard Nixon, whose wife wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat", not a fur coat.