It’s Smarmy and Smirky ‘08!
Scroll for updates…3:03pm Eastern Obama takes the stage in Springfield IL as U2’s “Oh, You Look So Beautiful” plays…so humble…Obama: “Joe Biden is that rare mix. He has brought change to Washington, but Washington hasn’t changed him…He’s stared down dictators…He is uniquely suited to be my partner as we work to put our country back on track…He is one of the finest public servants of our time.” Obama touts Biden’s blue-collar background, Catholic background, his stutter, his family tragedy (the car accident that killed his wife and daughter), brain aneurysm…(Obama neglects to mention his two losing presidential bids)…Biden will deliver “straight talk.” Heh. That’s the danger, isn’t it?
And now, let me introduce to you…snort: First gaffe of Obama-Biden ‘08!
He said he “wasn’t the guy.” Starting his VP candidacy off with a lie.
Let the fun begin.
The Springfield, IL announcement takes place at 3pm EST. Video clips and any gaffes from the gaffe-tastic duo will be here.
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The McCain camp was ready.
Oh, and so much for the Magic Text Message, which, as Ed Morrissey points out, arrived at 4:50am Eastern. Now, we know what the text message sign-up was really about. Not about being all-inclusive and galvanizing the hip kids with cool technology. It’s a mega-fund-raising call list, as commenter Gwillie points out.
Head fake.
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Flashback 2006: “The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth.”
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Question from the McCain camp: Why 3 am?
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Blah, Blah, blah… yawn.. zzZZZZZzzzz
Why do I have an urge to go out and buy some “Sham Wows”??????
Obama = Billy Mays (gag)
yeah diff guy but so what…. lmao
“I am confident that he can take this country in a new direction.”
Let me introduce to you the next PRESIDENT, eerr.. Ummm, NEXT Vice President of the United States of America..
OMG, I can’t believe he just gaffed that.. That is priceless.. Well, & appropriate…
Shovel meet Obama, Obama, meet shovel..
lol!!!
The text messaging debacle.
When I first heard of this - that text messages were to be sent announcing the VP - I thought it was stupid stupid stupid.
Lesson learned for the Obama campaign: Keep Geeks invisable - let them keep the web-sites updated and running - but don’t give them any “real power”. You’ll end up having to “re-boot.”
Little league World Series on…..
American Champion game….. …
Buh Byeden.
what is this “Bush/McCain” crap???
it’s driving me batty…
Bush/McCain….
Biden: “Middle class wages are shrinking”
Hmmm…
My wife & I got huge raises this year..
These speakers are way above their pay grade….
later folks……
They make me sick..
the Obamaleot’s always talking America down…
Obama and Biden,
Vs.
McCain and Anybody
No Contest in debates.
I hope the debates are handled as well as the Rick Warren Q & A
Obama showed his true colors (Ops,Can I say that?)
Obma OBiden Oh No!
Biden says: ” I’ve never seen so many politicians who are trying to escape their responsibility.”
Is he talking about Democrats going on vacation instead of voting on an energy bill?
Biden just said “Barack America” is running for President.. No Lie.. He really just said that.
And they try to say McCain is senile?
Gawwd that guy is the most annoying thing I have ever heard first time in my life I have ever had to do that .
Biden keeps quoting Lincoln. (A Republican)
The only worse pick for VP that I can remember was GHW Bush picking Dan Quayle. The joke then was that Bush I picked Quayle to guarantee that no one would want to assassinate him. Perhaps that was what Obama was thinking “no one would come after me if they think this guy would be my replacement”.
Whoops , meant to say Gawwd that guy is the most annoying thing I have ever heard, had to change the channel . First time in my life I have ever had to do that .
Talk about an insurance policy. Even if someone shoots both these morons, we’d be stuck with Pelosi as POTUS.
Shudder.
ALERT:
This just in:
Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda have just endorsed Obama/Biden.
Way to go guys.
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Surely you jest??? Are you kidding me? With Brokaw being a moderator you think McCain is going to get a fair shake?
Wake up and smell the coffee man, the libs are going to try to tear him limb for limb in the next debates.
I see a LOT of people on here are HUGE fans of Palin.
She doesn’t sound too bad but from what is said in the other media (not MSM) her name has never even been floated with any fervor anywhere but here.
I believe McCain is going to kick the conservatives in the nut sack again and pick some lame wobbly person like himself. I’m not venturing a guess as to who though. When has he done anything else to the contrary to appease the ones he says he represents?
Juan Hernandez anyone????
Perfect.
I’ve heard anagrams never lie, so for more fun go to wordsmith.org and enter “ObamaBiden” into the anagram server. A lot of funny stuff comes out — too many to list here. I kind of like “I, a Dean bomb” but pick your own favorite(s).
IMHO FWIW The worst Republican is far better than the best Democrat.
If McCain chooses Palin those VP debates are going to be interesting….. Washington insider attacking a fresh face that just happens to be a woman, I would love it!
“He’s stared down dictators…”
I guess he showed them!
Can Biden deliver the swing State of Deleware?
Caption to the photo of Michelle & Biden on Drudge- they appear to be locked in an embrace- smiling hard like idiots-
Michelle;
“Better not f*** this up for me, whitey”
Biden:
“Take your hand off my nuts, Sister, my plugs are popping”!
McCain needs an attack dog against both Obama and Biden, and Romney fits the bill. He’s the only one on McCain’s short list (at least the short list WE all know of) who is more than a match for Biden in any debate. Biden would eat Pawlenty and Palin for lunch, which pains me to say, because I really like Palin (Pawlenty, not so much, but he’d be okay, I guess).
I think when Romney dropped out back in February, this was the deal that was made between him and McCain. Everything else has been smoke and mirrors.
Who else remembers Romney forgiving that $40 million debt from himself to the campaign? No businessman worth his salt does that just out of the goodness of his heart.
Romney is WAY up on Intrade . . . just the way Biden was a couple of days ago.
I’m following the $.
And btw, Mark Halperin called it for Biden and Romney earlier this week - the same Halperin who said Romney was pulling out of the presidential race before anyone else. So far, Mark is 2 out of 3 . . .
RE: Michelle Bachman - a freshman Representative from Minnesota - just east of St. Paul. Very conservative.
Has been attacking Pelosi on her refusal to address energy / drilling. But, not so sure she does much for the ticket….
Joe Biden used to think Imus was the best thing sense sliced bread but he doesn’t feel that way anymore oh Say it ain’t so Joe. I guess when Joe says something politically incorrect it is Different?
http://imustimes.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/imus-senator-biden-on-the-phone/
“Smarmy”and Smirky”, my sentiments exactly M.M.!
I made a list of all the characteristics I find disturbing in a “leader”, and guess what Biden fits them all. But wait… so does McCain, and also our current “leaders”, Bush / Cheney.
“Whoa” is me.
What makes you believe that? Palin is a sharp lady; I doubt if anyone can eat her for lunch. I think she’d hold her own against Biden very well.
Come on, Michelle….
If I recall correctly - he did mention it….
Obama: “OK OK - some of you are saying …this guy ran unsucessfully in 1988 and 2008…and in 2008…he derided my experience ..and he also said John McCain is a friend of mine and I’d enjoy running with him or against him…so…look…there is hope for this loser…”
That ad is fantastic, especially since I called it yesterday. McCain needs to run it as often as possible, it says a lot without saying a lot, if you know what I mean.
I wonder what,if anything, the Clintons have in store for the convention.
How insipidly inspiring! Mr. Empty Suit and Mr. Big Mouth!
I smell a Clinton insurrection at the convention. Let the games begin!
I’m not saying Sarah isn’t sharp . . . she most certainly is. I’m saying that the experience factor would rear its ugly head. That is McCain’s biggest advantage right now; Biden would seek to destroy it and it would be easier for him to do so with someone who has little experience on the national stage.
Sarah would look attractive next to Biden for sure - both physically and verbally - and I know that counts for a lot, but Biden is pompous enough to pass himself off as looking a lot smarter than he is.
I’m just concerned that we need to have some real national experience on the ticket and someone who has proven great debating skills and who we KNOW has an excellent chance of taking down Biden the windbag.
Romney, IMHO, fits that bill best of everyone on McCain’s short list.
Hope ‘N Change! Bring on the Huggies and Depends!
It could very well be that no one else was going to say “Yes”. Biden might have been the only one willing to go along with a losing campaign.
babiesgrandma, that is so good, I’m going to have to steal it from you. But I’ll give you a hat tip!
If the Hillary voters want to take their toys and go home, the hell with em.
It’s not Obama’s fault that Hill didn’t plan on having to compete after Super Tuesday. It’s not his fault that her campaign disregarded the caucus states. Lastly, she’s in debt because she stubbornly stayed in the race, and loaned herself $ even though the numbers showed that she couldn’t catch up. If her crybaby acolytes really think that McCain is going to be a president in the same mold as Hillary, they’re beyond stupid. If the pro-choice feminists cherish the right to abortion choice, we’ll see how petty and myopic they really are. If they are willing to sabotage an election in hopes of 2012, they are some of the most naive and selfish people I can imagine. A lot can happen in 4 yrs idiots. Remember back when this election was supposed to be all about Clinton v. Rudy. Wow, uh, I guess that didn’t pan out.
Hillary may have helped unite the party, but this general election isn’t just about the PARTY. Moderates and independents(particularly men) are up for grabs, and don’t tend to like or trust Hillary Clinton.
Obama has baggage and inexperience. However he doesn’t have one ounce of the baggage of Hillary and Bill Clinton. Who else was viable, John Edwards? Yeah that would have been the biggest democratic nominee disgrace in modern history.
My ticket is Obama/Biden. I’m happy with it for reasons stated numerous times on other threads. Let the debates begin.
Ayers, Rezko, Pfleger, Wright… hmmm, weighs more than an ounce to me.
I wonder if Jesse Jackson now wants to bite Biden’s nuts off too.
You know your desperate when you have to find your running mate at the hair club for dems….
What ambulance chaser wouldn’t support Obama/Biden when they’re going to stuff tons of legislation in your face for the cause of ’social justice.’ You can build a nice client list that way, right MJ?
Obama bin Biden?
Do I mind? Hmmm…. Depends…. Be my guest!
Don’t Pamper him…
That is what I, as a conservative, am banking upon. It makes things easier for my point of view to prevail, MistressJustice. I agree with the rest of the post from where that quote came from though.
But the good news is, at least once he’s elected we will have finally removed one of the slimiest most intellectually dishonest members of the US Senate and transferred him to a job that’s way “below his pay grade.”.
The party of elites. His pick for VP just proves that the change he is going to bring would be the change of destoying the USA. He and Biden both would love to have us all as slaves and force us to serve only them and their elite friends. GOD HELP US ALL
I don’t think the Big “O” could have made a worse choice in a running mate. Biden is one slimy sack of…
Being from Texas, I’m sorta hoping to see McCain choose Kay Bailey Hutchison for VP. I know she took some hits as head of the EPA, but what Repub didn’t in the last 8 years?
Actually for McCain, a Obama/Biden ticket only accentuates Obama’s weaknesses-if McCain doesn’t infuriate his base. Other than that, the real threat to McCain has just vanished…the Obama/Biden ticket is just a crooked liberal with another crooked liberal.
MistressJustice et al would probably disagree with me, but the real threat to McCain would have been if either Webb or Nunn had got on board with Obama..they did not.
This should make this campaign a real hoot. Both Obama and Biden suffer from foot in mouth disease.
Question for you Alaskans (and anyone else out there):
What is Sarah Palin’s record/statements on gun rights/abortion?? I’m curious.
Will Neil Kinnock continue as Biden’s speech writer?
#353 rock said:
I’m a fan of Senator Hutchison. I think Christine Todd Whitman from NJ is the former EPA head you are thinking of, not Kay.
Oops, sorry to give the impression I live in Denver. I meant those of “us” who blog here that live in Denver.
As much as I’d prefer to live in Denver (actually Colorado Springs), I live in the Los Angeles area.
Come to think of it, living where I do, I could still use your prayers. : )
Now there is something I really didn’t need to visualize before going to bed. I’m going to clean my monitor screen now and wash my eyes out.
Goodnight!
On August 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm, marybeth said:
McCain needs an attack dog against both Obama and Biden, and Romney fits the bill. He’s the only one on McCain’s short list (at least the short list WE all know of) who is more than a match for Biden in any debate. Biden would eat Pawlenty and Palin for lunch, which pains me to say, because I really like Palin (Pawlenty, not so much, but he’d be okay, I guess).
Sarah Palin is an avid gun owner, hunter, and lifetime member of the NRA.
She is adamantly pro life, and just recently had a Downs Syndrome baby. She knew this while she was pregnant, and chose life.
She has a solid record supporting (and living according to) gun rights and right to life.
I don’t know Palin personally, if that is what you mean. From what I’ve seen of her, however, I like her very much.
But if she were chosen mainly because people think she would grab disaffected Hillary voters, I think that would backfire for this reason:
Liberal women like liberal women. They can’t stand conservative women. They are very catty about conservative women. Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter . . . the list goes on and on.
Look at what was done to Katherine Harris after Florida 2000 - they trashed her clothing, her makeup (okay, they had a point there!)
Heck, Condi is not much of a conservative, and they trash the living daylights out of her, just because she’s associated with the Bush administration.
What do you think they’d have to say about a former beauty pageant winner? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, IMO, but they’d tear into Palin for that!
Just my 2 cents
Atheling RE: post 362..if Palin is all the things you’ve just said, then this is McCain’s ticket for cleaning out Obama’s clock big time.
Yup.
McCain need to get advisors and himself to find a way to pull themselves away from the above insipid thought. The rest of us unwashed conservatives know that the thought above is a joke…like Mistressjustice will just drop everything and gush lovingly at John McCain …. and just vote for him??
Yeah right.
Race trumps gender among some groups.
love2rumba:
Palin comes across as friendly and competent - good traits for debating. She’ll make Biden look like a blowhard sourpuss.
Vicious reactions by liberal women against conservative women seem to escalate the more attractive the conservative woman is.
Call it cattiness, envy, silliness, whatever . . . but it’s the truth.
And it’s too bad.
I just don’t want McCain thinking that the PUMAs will be outracing each other to pull the lever for him in November if he puts a conservative woman on the ticket. These women want Hillary - make no mistake!
But please, McCain, don’t go whole hog and actually put Hillary on your ticket!
ok Atheling I’ll take your word for it, since I know very little about Palin. Although I’m from Washington State..her name is not mentioned-practically unknown.
Marybeth is also very correct.
just watch Elizabeth Hasselbeck on ‘The View’ for a quick and easy demonstration..
Obama campaign is peddling car magnets for 15 bucks:
Wow. They are first edition car magnets too. What a fantastic opportunity.
I’ll just stick with my “Don’t blame me, I voted for Fred.” bumper sticker.
Notice in that video of Biden saying that Obama isn’t ready to be president, that Obama is looking strikingly similar to the “Snobama” poster!
It’s being said that the 3 a.m. text message timing was one last dig at Hillary. How would that be?? Can someone explain…
He has hair plugs that you can believe in!!!
So granny can see it on the late local news in Hawaii.
hillary showing up at the dems party this week will be like taking a drunk hooker to a company party (-;
According to the DemocRATS, if I don’t vote for BO, the only reason is racism and this will result in the UN nations fearing America.
The Liberals DemocRATS have stated 100X times already that I am a racist because: I am not one of them: I support the actual Constitution; I believe in judging a man on the content of his character and not the color of his skin; I believe we should ask what we can do for our country and not what our country can do for us; I believe in facts, reason, and direct observation and have seen what computer simulations can do - I loved playing a computer simulation called “DOOM;” I believe in God, I believe the all men and women, being created equal, are not capable of handling the excessive power the Federal Government has accumulated and are corrupted by it - just as did the Founding Fathers, and that lower taxes is the best medicine for a critically corrupt government; I believe salvation and hope come not from any man or group of men but from God alone.
BO is not an honorable man, is not the brightest person in the world, is not a source of hope or redemption, is not capable of “bringing our Nation together,” is not infallible and capable of “multi-tasking” - this was the same BS the Clintons put out in the 90’s. BO is a typical Chicago politician with close personal and political ties to felons, America haters, who uses “science” not to advance civilization but to gain personal power and lower the quality of life for millions, who has lost track of when he is lying. That the liberal media is in love with him is a very bad sign - the media being infested with the dumbest, least educated, unpatriotic, democracy hating, 100% atheist, sleaziest bunch of liers and sociopaths one can imagine.
BO stinks, Biden is a azzhole, the Clintons are crooks, their supporters are a collection of the mindless, the criminal, the ultra-rich, atheists, socialist/communists, mafia, and the unpatriotic. I want nothing to do with them and I hope they either gain redemption or drop dead.
Michelle, JM came out with another good ad.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=160153#comment-704143
On August 24th, 2008 at 12:30 am, atheling said:
Agreed! Plus the Hillary backers would love it - the honest ones, not those liars like Steinem.
No need, he does quite well in that area all by himself.
Bachmann could pull MN for McCain. Norm Coleman could also pull MN and he is a bit more exciting than Pawlenty. I like Palin but AK is not a swing state and she is in the middle of a “contraversy” right now.
I thought we got the Contra-versy out of the way during the Reagan administration.
By the time the Autumn of 1,000 cuts is over BHO will be bleeding votes from all over. I only see him getting votes on the left coast and the New England states. Other than that he’s doomed. The more we know about McC the more we like him. The more we know about BHO the less so. Barry is a little boy in a man’s world.
Listening to what the leftist media is saying about Biden. Is this the same guy who got his butt kicked twice on the national stage and copied stuff word for word and was so “smart” about it he got caught? Gotta wonder.
I really think Edwards was BHO’s first choice but something went wrong in the basement bathroom of the Beverly Hilton. I mean, who in their right mind would make Biden their first choice? Oh wait, that’s also true …
Yes, but now the media has the usual case of amnesia and will brush all that aside as the MSM props up “St. Joseph of Delaware” to be the main apostle of the Obamessiah. The remaining11 apostles to be names later
that is “11 apostles to be named later”.
On August 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm, joannmandolin said:
Caption to the photo of Michelle & Biden on Drudge- they appear to be locked in an embrace- smiling hard like idiots-
Michelle;
“Better not f*** this up for me, whitey”
Biden:
“Take your hand off my nuts, Sister, my plugs are popping”!
Excellent! Hey, Michelle, why not start a daily captioning contest? It sounds like great fun.
Biden is the new “Cheney”? So says Goodwin of NY Daily News.
I have not yet spotted any flying pigs. But of course, THE Obama could always command that occur.
Biden as the new “Cheney light” is ludicrous …. and describing Biden as such is oxymoron. From my perspective that insults the word oxymoron.
Gosh, if ole Joe is elected just what will the Senate do when they lose 3/4 ths of their brain power?
Just who will take over his doublespeak generator duties?
Just wait’n for ole Joe’s shallow veneer to wear thin and his loose canon motormouth to engage!
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
“Uh, Joe? Where’s the can?”
– B.H.B.