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30 CommentsThursday night is rapidly approaching, and I must confess to conflicting emotions. One the one hand, I fully expect Sarah Palin to be a complete disaster. On the other hand, so does everyone else.
So, how does Joe Biden handle the situation of being on stage with a person who has no right to be there? I’d advise against the McCain approach of completely ignoring your debate partner even though Joe would have every right to view Sarah Palin with contempt. Maybe his best approach would simply be to give Palin enough rope and hope that her debate performance mimics the Gibson and Couric interviews.
But what worries me most is how much of a curve will the media grade Palin? And is it fair to hold one VP candidate to higher standards than another? Will one gaffe by Joe Biden carry more weight than fifty by Palin? Does she win simply by not blinking?
Does the VP debate even take place?
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19 CommentsJoe Biden gives one hell of a speech!
From TPM:
[T]ime and again, on the most critical national security issues of our time, John McCain’s judgment was wrong. Right after the terrorists attacked us on 9-11, John responded by urging that we consider attacking countries other than Afghanistan, including Iraq, Iran and Syria. In the run up to the war in Iraq, John insisted that we would be greeted as liberators… that we didn’t need a lot of troops… that victory was imminent.
Then, he said he wasn’t worried about Afghanistan… that we would “muddle through”… and he declared Afghanistan to be “a remarkable success. In John’s judgment, there is nothing to talk about with Tehran. And he has one idea for dealing with Russia: kick it out of the Group of Eight nations.”[…]
John McCain continues to insist, against all the evidence and all the facts, that Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism… and not the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan where the people who actually attacked us on 9-11 reside and are regrouping.”
“John is more than wrong — he is dangerously wrong. On a question so basic, so fundamental, so critical to our nation’s security, we can’t afford a Commander-in Chief so divorced from reality and from America’s most basic national interests.”
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11 CommentsTwo weeks ago, on Face the Nation, Joe Biden tells the world he’d say Yes if asked by Barack Obama to be his VP:
“If the presidential nominee thought I could help him win, am I going to say to the first African-American candidate about to make history in the world that, ‘No, I will not help you out like you want me to?'” Biden said. “Of course I’ll say yes.”
Now, I still think Biden could be a great VP choice, but suspect that he’s something of a long shot. If one of the reasons Obama is looking to run a 50 state campaign is to make sure he helps as many downticket Dems as possible, it seems reasonable that his VP committee would be looking for someone who could credibly carry the flag in 2016. Biden would be in his 70’s then, about the age that McCain is now and it is tough to figure how that might play.
But someone is a huge fan of candidate VP Biden. Huge enough of a fan to produce a few You Tube videos to try to sell the Obama/Biden Team:
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30 CommentsLast week, when I wrote about Biden’s excellent op-ed in the WSJ, I hadn’t seen this Newsweek article all but declaring the cabinet post deal done.
“(Biden)…is emerging as a major consigliere to Barack Obama—perhaps with his eye on State once again. Among the top items on Biden’s agenda: making sure that Obama has better luck in November than Kerry did. That means, first, relentlessly attacking and counterattacking the Republicans on the campaign trail, especially on national-security issues. And, second, relentlessly defining John McCain as “joined at the hip” to Bush, as Biden put it in a speech in Washington on Tuesday.”
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