The increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden
A heartbeat away…
My syndicated column today takes you through a tour of all the latest Joe Biden gaffes that aren’t getting replayed endlessly on the nightly news and comedy shows. I said yesterday that the McCain camp ought to toss the “erratic” label right back in Joe Biden’s face and defuse that rhetorical bomb. Right on cue, Team Obama has released a new ad called…”Erratic.”
Ball’s in your court, McCain. Or will it be left to Sarah again to strike back?
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The increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
If the prospect of Joe Biden sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency doesn’t give you palpitations, you are not paying attention.
Hysterical Sarah Palin-bashers on the unhinged left and elitist right have dominated campaign press coverage and pop culture. They’ve ridiculed her family, her appearance, and her speech patterns. They’ve derided her character, her parenting skills, her readiness, and her intellect.
Meanwhile, the increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden gets a pass. What does the guy have to do to earn the relentless scrutiny and merciless mockery he deserves? Answer: Wear high heels, shoot caribou, and change the “D” next to his name to an “R.”
Team Obama is hammering John McCain as “erratic” in the closing days of the election campaign. There are now 615,000 Google hits and counting using the search terms “erratic McCain.” Last week, the New York Times devoted an entire article to the Obama-Biden line of attack, titled “In Friendly Region, Biden Cites McCain as Erratic.”
Who’s erratic? Throughout the primary and general election cycles, Biden has lurched from attacking Obama as not-ready-for-primetime (“The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training,” September 2007) to ready-to-lead (“Barack Obama is ready. This is his time,” August 2008) and back again. This week, Biden warned America that an Obama victory would invite a dangerous global showdown between tyrants and the naïf Obama. “Mark my words,” Biden said Sunday at a Democratic fund-raiser. “It will not be six months [after the inauguration] before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.” In a follow-up appearance, he told followers to brace for the worst and “gird your loins.”
Out of Biden’s mouth, this is called candor. Out of anyone else’s mouth, it would be “fear-mongering,” “negative campaigning,” and a “distraction.”
Tooting his own horn while vandalizing his running mate’s, Biden bragged: “I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know.” Yeah. Colleagues like that guy who had a mere 143 days of Senate experience before launching his presidential bid and choosing you to shore up his meager credibility, Joe.
In fact, Biden has spent the entire campaign questioning his running mate’s judgment. Last month, he mused out loud: “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more than I am to be vice president of the United States of America…She is easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me.” Biden assailed the campaign’s position on clean coal, openly criticized the campaign’s idiotic ad attacking John McCain for not using e-mail, and warned the pro-gun control Obama that “if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.”
Dan Quayle will have “POTATOE” etched on his gravestone. But how many times have late-night comedians and cable shows replayed the video of senior statesman and six-term Sen. Biden’s own spelling mishap last week while attacking John McCain’s economic plan?
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.”
No, Joe. “D’-O-H” is a three-letter-word.
Nightly news shows still haven’t tired of replaying Sarah Palin’s infamous interview with Katie Couric. But how many times have they replayed Joe Biden’s botched interview with Couric last month – in which he cluelessly claimed: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
Er, here’s what really happened: Roosevelt wasn’t president when the market crashed in 1929. As for appearing on TV, it was still in its infant stages and wasn’t available to the general public until at least ten years later.
During the lone VP debate earlier this month, the increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden demonstrated more historical ignorance that Sarah Palin would never have been able to get away with: “Vice President Cheney’s been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history,” Biden said. “He has the idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the executive — he works in the executive branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.”
Article 1 of the Constitution defines the role of the legislative branch, not the executive branch. You would think someone who has served 36 years in government – the same someone who is quick to remind others of his high IQ and longtime Senate Judiciary Committee chairmanship – would know better.
Joe Biden’s erratic and gaffe-tastic behavior is the least of America’s worries. He’s worse than a blunderbuss. He’s an incurable narcissist with chronic diarrhea of the mouth. He’s a phony and a pretender who fashions himself a foreign policy expert, constitutional scholar, and wordly wise man. He’s a man who can’t control his impulses.
And he could be a heartbeat away. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Palin-says-“You Betcha” skit.
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Butch girl you are not in my head but you are phony thats for sure Mistressjustfake lol…Bring it !!!!
Mistressjustice my girl lol….
Que pasa Mistress???
You not scared thats good Mistress i want you to come at me for real…
I’m done but i will be back especially for you my Mistress so get ready you hear me…Buenoa dia…….
oops Buenos dia…
#192
I’m doing what this website would never do on itself- own up to hypocrisy. Hell, when this website calls out what it thinks is hypocritical, it usually means they’re going to publically display someone’s home phone and address, so I’m being comparitively sweet!
(Plus, strawman doesn’t mean what you think it means.)
Watershed just give it up dude you are wasting your time….
This thread reminds me of the campaign. It starts with a Biden gaffe and before you know it conservatives are defending Palin for some lame ‘zomg she has a tanning bed’ type story.
What, you’re too good to drink from my water hose? Elitist!
#205
Exactly. Except replace “tanning bed” with ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of clothes in a month.
Man, you people are obtuse. Is it purposefully so?
LOL
Indeed. If anything, the deflection shows just how vulnerable the conversation changers believe Biden is.
Watershed
That was one heck of an apology, phew, I’m underwhelmed. BTW zip on over to the next thread, you can repeat ad nauseum everything you’ve spewed on this thread.
watershed, Michelle has a new topic posted on this subject. Would you mind taking it over there, please?
Hey, how about Piper Palin’s $790 monogram Louis Vuitton handbag? That’s like a hundred bucks for every year of her life!
http://deceiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/piper_palin_lv.jpg
A campaign necessity! Go populists!
Its more fun that way. I want to know more about Piper’s Louis Vitton bag myself.
Its all about the ADD, keep up.
Keep trying, the fact is the thread is about gaff idiot joe the dork…. but i’m sure you GUYS love talking about handbags. lmao silly losers.
Come on, you’re really just jealous that her jeans cost more than your entire wardrobe.
Ask the real question we all want to know… WHO does her hair and “who” is she going to wear tomorrow?
Just wait until the 12 yr old is wearing Manolo’s…
watershed,
’spends too much on clothes’ is code for ‘woman’. You are a sexist pig.
Watershed:
MM just put up a new thread on the $150k wardrobe. She’s blaming the RNC.
It’s killen em,
and I love it.
Obama/Biden 08
Image: Folks at RNC and FoxNews headquarters having daily screaming matches.
Get your own material.
Touche.
I’ll drop the Carlos Mencia act after the election. I promise.
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.
Troll
US commandos rescue American hostage near Kabul
OT but I wanted to share.
The “Master of Justice” elite? who’d ever thought?
Most likely grades (American history):
Joe Biden: B+
John McCain: B+
Barack Obama: A
Sarah Palin: F
lol…
Of course you base this off of the most biased media in american history. Lets try something here. Name one thing about palin that makes you think she would fail history and why.
Right, but lets see about 3 months after the election when most everyone on here goes back to their normal lives and forgets about the election.
Then we probably go back to the days of 40 comments per posts…
The old timers know who’s who on here.
lol, Bidet and odopey would be the ones with “F”s
duh. i’m surprised bidet can even tell time.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Biden already got an “F” for his comments on FDR and the depression alone.
In my opinion, LGM sometimes adds comic relief on these threads, but for the majority of time, he only lies, tries to sabbotage the thread and get us off topic. We allow him to do that, unfortunately because it is very difficult to resist responding to his “goading”. I suggest we take a vote of all the posters on these threads. Should we ask Michelle to remove him? Yes or no. I vote YES. Some of the other trolls are annoying, but we CAN ignore them. I just think lgm has stepped way over the line of decent discourse.
I think Joe may need those brain scans sooner rather than later, don’t you think?
How did you come to this conclusion?
Obama can’t even get a passing grade in family history!
X 1)where did your parents meet
answer: Selema Al
X 2) how did your dad come to America
answer: JFK man
ect
And Mr. Gaffetastic Galore has higher approval ratings than Sarah Palin? My God, the American people really have no idea what they’re in for.
You know, I had a cousin who had these symptoms once…delusional behavior, erratic behavior, etc. Turned out he had a brain tumor.
Joe really needs to get checked out.
Watershed #5:
How much did the Obummer campaign spend on Biden’s makeover and Botox treatments?
Sniff, sniff… hypocrisy goes both ways so wax on and wax off already, okay?
Biden AND The Chosen One, AKA Obama are both idiots.
Wow, thanks for the lesson. Here I thought that people were talking about mythical creatures that live under bridges.
/sarc off
My point was every time there is some event or story that reflects negatively on Obama the media comes out with a tanning bed story. Thus a new narrative is created. Or am I not allowed to have a point due to the fact I’m not an ‘old timer’ on this site?
I just saw a clip of Michael Moore last night saying we need to institute the draft but only send the children of corporate executives. Classy guy.
Biden and Obama lack the one thing required for public office; Integrity
They show no evidence of possessing that trait.
Reciprocally, McCain and Palin have demonstrated it repeatedly. And they are hated for it. But the people who hate them are unimportant.
Hear! Hear! Can any of you envision Obama truly representing our nation’s best interests on the world stage? I can’t; I just don’t see it in him. He’s said and done too much to convince me that he would defend this country against its military and economic enemies. And as for Israel, I have no doubt they’ll be on their own if he’s unfortunately elected.
This isn’t the truly scary part of the speach – the second half of the statement is far more telling. To paraphrase, he stated that the world community will not see credibility in Obama’s response to this supposed test – his colleagues will have to engage in a massive PR campaign (read: propaganda campaign)to make them understand that it is the proper response
Hey, trolls are real! I played a lot of D&D in high school, I should know
I’m a relative newcomer as well! I aspire to be a crusty old-timer, though!
How about no draft, and we just drop Michael Moore as ordnance? Talk about a MOAB…the enemy wouldn’t know what hit them!
Most likely grades (American History):
The ObamaMessiah: F
Note that there are 50 states and not 57. If you can’t even get that one right you surely can’t pass the basic test.
Biden: F
Article I of the Constitution deals with the Legislative Branch of the government. If you’re in the legislative branch and don’t even know which article governs you – especially if you’re a “senior senator” of 30+ years then you shouldn’t even be taking the test in the first place!!
I should also note that Biden will probably plagiarize his answers and would fail the test for that reason alone.
McCain: B
He generally has a good grasp on things.
Palin: A+
This is only if it’s real US history and not what the left passes off as history.
To compare Joe Biden’s meaningless gaffes to Sarah Palin’s repeated, contemptible displays of extraordinary ignorance is the absolute height of dishonesty. It’s apples to oranges, crazy, blue oranges that taste like cabbage from some alien planet or alternate dimension. Just compare the two straight across.
Biden: Jobs is a three letter word!
vs.
Palin: I have foreign policy experience because Alaska is close to Russia!
See? One of those is a misstatement, the other is a bald-faced lie. Can you see the difference there?
Hey that makes her more experienced than your fradulently nominated candidate!!!!!
BTW will the lefties here support the fairness doctrine? Just another example of Obama crushing dissent like the marxist he is.
Well, then, let’s pick some better terminology for you, shall we?
1. Hypocrite
2. Ironic
3. Unoriginal
4. Follower
You aren’t the “sole” dissenter of anything. There are people on this site who aren’t even voting for McCain. They are also conservatives. I think they’re wrong but they’re standing by their principles. I’m not sure you’d know a principle if it bit you in the face.
You’re too busy running around saying, Wah, the Repubs are worse than the Dems. Or, someone threatened my life so I had to be “away” for awhile.
Again, if this site isn’t to your liking then why are you here? Are you here because you believe in conservative principles or to belittle conservatives? Why do that if you’re fully convinced that your candidate will win this election? What is the point?
How is that a lie? Alaska isn’t close to Russia? That’s news to the rest of the world. Or did you mean Biden’s comment? ‘Jobs’ isn’t a three letter word. Biden is indeed lying.
lol, I played a lot of D&D back in the day too.
Just curious, have you ever heard Obama waste two breaths on the fairness doctrine?
I note you didn’t answer the question.
Wow. Should I even try to explain?
The lie is her insistence that being in charge of a border state gives her foreign policy experience. People that live in Montana are closer to Russia than people that live in Florida, does that mean people in Montana have twice as much foreign policy experience as people in Florida? That’s of course utterly ridiculous, but makes perfect sense if you follow Palin’s, um, ‘reasoning.’
Biden, on the other hand, misspoke. From your response, it sounds like you actually believe he was intentionally lying about how many letters there are in jobs, do you really believe that?
No, I don’t support the fairness doctrine.
Now that that’s through, why do you think Obama does?
He hasn’t wasted two breaths on being truthful either!
Because his party does and quess what? He doesn’t buck the party line. Every indication he has given is he will supress any dissent to the most extreme extent. (Joe the plumber is only one example).
quess = guess. ugh.
So I guess by your logic that would mean that state officials in Texas have no more experience in border enforcement than people in Tenn.
How lame. Dems can’t even invent their own stuff, they just steal it. No wonder you’re volunteering for their campaign. You may have to put some tape over Biden’s mouth. That’s the only way he’ll keep himself out of trouble
Fixed.
For the love of god, look at a map.
I vote yes. Some liberals want an honest discourse most only want to sabotage conservative sites and overrun them. When you deliberately threadjack as have folks like lgm, edelweis, and watershed, that should be it. They’re not adhering to the rules.
I wonder if these same people will protest when the Fairness Doctrine comes into being. When free speech rights are limited (as has been espoused by the likes Pelosi) or when they take people’s guns away (even those of hunters)? Will they still care? Or is it part of their plan to dominate not only the media but the country at large?
I don’t think anyone should be banned except in extreme circumstances.
I jumped in here late folks, correct me if I have this wrong, but there’s a poster who took his handle from “A continuous ridge of high ground forming a divide between two different drainage basins or river systems” that thinks donated money from legal sources used for wardrobe purposes is actually important when compared to a VP candidate that’s showing obvious signs of early onset Alzheimer’s disease?
Then whines about hypocrisies?
Did I get this wrong?
Agreed. Under Michelle’s terms of service, it doesn’t appear that anything except our tolerance levels are being violated.
Well-stated, Michelle! May Senator Biden continue to gaffe off at the mouth! and I though Michelle Obama was doing worse damage to Sen. Obama!
That’s a real issue, though. Putin’s big head and Russians invading American airspace is not a real issue.
How does Joe the Plumber have anything to do with Obama squelching dissent? He’s specifically said that he doesn’t support the fairness doctrine, what ‘indications’ could you possibly be referring to?
Please read MM op ed. This is only one of many examples of his blatant ignorance. You and your ilk can continue to ignore the facts, but they are facts. Alaska is “near” Russia, so that’s not a lie. Now, if you want to dispute her argument that it helps to bolster her foreign policy experience, then do that. Your analogies are weak otherwise.
On Monday, Obama demanded that the Justice Department stop TV stations from airing a documented, accurate independent ad spotlighting Obama’s longtime working relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama summoned his followers to bombard stations, many of them owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails to squelch the commercial.
On Tuesday, the Obama campaign sent another letter to the Justice Department demanding investigation and prosecution of American Issues Project, the group that produced the Ayers ad, as well as Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who funded it.
And on Wednesday, Obama exhorted his followers to sabotage the WGN radio show of veteran Chicago host and University of Chicago Professor Milt Rosenberg. Why? Because he invited National Review writer Stanley Kurtz to discuss his investigative findings about Obama’s ties to Ayers and the underwhelming results of their collaboration on a left-wing educational project sponsored by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The “Obama Action Wire” supplied Rosenberg’s call-in line and talking points like this:
“Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse. … It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/29/barack-the-silencer-obamas-gangland-assault-on-free-speech/
Read it!
Um, PKAmmo, I daresay you got it right.
You must have got your foreign policy advice from Obama and Biden. If you think that Russia hasn’t changed since the 90’s you might want to read up on some current events.
That’s what I’ve said from the beginning. Do you really think I believe that her lie is about Russia being close to Alaska?
Anyway, you can go ahead and compare Palin’s foreign policy nonsense to anything else Malkin lists in her op-ed, the disparity remains. It’s pretty embarrassing to get caught saying that FDR went on TV after the stock market crash, that’s small potatoes compared to Palin believing she’ll be in charge of the Senate.
Digshot – have you ever even bothered to read part 1 of the US Constitution?
Digshot said:
Anyway, you can go ahead and compare Palin’s foreign policy nonsense to anything else Malkin lists in her op-ed, the disparity remains. It’s pretty embarrassing to get caught saying that FDR went on TV after the stock market crash, that’s small potatoes compared to Palin believing she’ll be in charge of the Senate.
Navy, with all due respect arguing with these idiots is a waste of good time, their brains are stuck on stupid.
Someone mentioned this on a thread at LGF recently:
Currently, posted at Drudge:
How do you scan for vacuum?
Ok, thanks for clearing that up for me. Now lets see if I have this bit right:
Followers of Biden are posting here that we should ignore his ignorance of the contents of Article 1 of the constitution (and by reference his ignorance of Article 2)?
Is that right? We’re supposed to respect a VP candidate that doesn’t know the most basic facts about the constitution, even though he supposedly teaches Constitutional Law at the Widener School of Law.
Maybe this is part of Obama’s educational platform?
I have Joe’s scan. Just a sec…..
Here: [________________________________]
I remember during the Carter vs Reagan campaign Carter went on TV to tell all the world that we had developed stealth aircraft that would give us complete air superiority, as if he could take the credit.
Just what we need is a VP willing to expose classified information to score political points.
Pet Democrat tricks.
Like the massive PR they mounted to discredit President Bush AND the USA during a time of war.
Traitors! Yet, if you control the propaganda like ABC, CBS, and NBC do, you can convince the people to believe anything in sufficient numbers to steal an election.
I still believe in the people to do the right thing. Its the dead people and illegal alien votes I worry about.
Re: lgm. Listen up! He is no different than Code Pink types disrupting conferences, as they did today when a Pinkie tried to make a citizens’ arrest of Karl Rove.
srsly.
lgm is nothing but a TRESPASSER on MM’s property. He has no Free speech rights here, and he spends an inordinate amount of time trying to disrupt this forum!
Throw him out, just as the Code Pink loonies were tossed out.
watershed: “If you don’t know what hypocrisy means, I can’t help you! But, here in the real world, holding two different people up to two different standards when they have commited the exact same “crime” is what’s know as a double standard. I say do, or don’t, talk about BOTH.”
Where is the HYPOCRISY???? What same exact “crime”?
Biden is either a serial liar making up stories intentionally to fill in the considerable gaps in his knowledge. Or, he is seriously senile and losing brain cells at an alarming rate.
Gee, lgm. I think 9:06 am is too early to be stoned, so you must just be stupid. Michelle doesn’t mislead or misrepresent anything that lyin’ Joe Biden says; she just reports it. And lyin’ Joe’s comparing Senator Obama to the late, great President John F. Kennedy is just laughable. JFK was a legitimate war hero, much like John McCain. Senator Obama, well, he “organized communities in Chicago.” (With apologies to General G.S. Patton.)
The rest of your drivel about Governor Palin is petty nonsense.
ECS
Yeah, but he’s fun to smack around, sorta like those punching dummies.
ECS
In case no one clued in watershed: after the election Palin’s clothes will be auctioned off by charities, who will likely get a large percentage of what was paid for them, if not more.
So they’re not a throwaway bit of reckless and narcissistic indulgence, like Obama’s using a jet that is never more than 1/3 full.
You can’t auction off jet exhaust, watershed.
So I ask again: where’s the hypocrisy???
Michael Berry, local Houston radio show host, is reading your column on the air right now. He’s been talking about the PIE all evening.
The featured picture was clearly pre-VP Botox. Notice how normal is looks compared to the freakishly smooth Biden visage of today. YIKES!
You sure that’s not his IQ?