Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:37:21 PM
Biden has a history of PRICELESS gaffes. He's the gift that keeps on giving:
(Politico)
He called Obama
“articulate and bright and clean” and said that in his home state, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
During his first run for president, in 1987, Biden told a would-be voter, “I have a much higher IQ than you do” and cited academic accomplishments that turned out to be false.
“I exaggerate when I'm angry,” he later explained to The New York Times, though last year he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’s kicked that tendency.
A few months later, however, Biden claimed during a Democratic presidential debate that he’d been “shot at” during a trip to the Green Zone in Baghdad. Days later, he tried to walk back the claim.
Biden
told The Hill newspaper that what he should have said was “I was near where a shot landed.”
Biden, himself, seems aware of the perception that he strays towards hyperbole.
A handful of times on Tuesday, he assured supporters that he was being “sincere” and was not engaging in hyperbole, and also prefaced many remarks by saying
“literally.”
He also cracked that “the only reason I accepted the nomination, one reason: so the Delaware delegation could be moved up front” in the convention hall (which it was).
And he kicked off his remarks at the roundtable by saying “Ladies and gentlemen — mostly ladies, thank God for small favors.”
Be sure to read this
From the Los Angeles Times:
When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator's office on an important piece of business in Congress -- and in fact had recently benefited from his vote. The firm promised James and Hunter Biden that it would invest $2 million, and quickly delivered half of it.
Obama is another story altogether, and a textbook example of a radical leftist, who will take any position that fulfills his egotistical, self-serving, self-promoting, power seeking that he so richly craves.
Be sure to read this interview that was never aired.
OBAMA IN NEW NIGHTLINE
A never-before-aired
Nightline interview from 2004 may get Obama is some hot water.
And the terrorist connection will be problematic...
From National Review:
Obama apologists dismiss all this as “guilt by association” based on a single joint appearance. But it was far from the only one.
In fact, by 1997 Obama and Ayers were collaborators on a far more significant level. They sat together for several years on the board of the Woods Fund, a left-wing Chicago charitable organization. There, they doled out tens of thousands of dollars to such beneficiaries as the Trinity Church (where Obama was a longtime member and where another Obama mentor, Jeremiah Wright, preached a radical, anti-American brand of Black Liberation Theology) and the Arab American Action Network (co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat apologist who has supported attacks against Israel and now directs Columbia University’s notorious Middle East Institute, founded by Edward Said).
Finally, Victor Davis Hanson wrote this diddy at NRO:
Not a Greek Temple, but a Greek Tragedy [Victor Davis Hanson]
I think it's called blind hubris...
Let me get this straight: Obama goes to Europe, does a garish outdoor extravaganza before thousands, returns to find himself dubbed a publicity-seeking celebrity, analogous to Paris Hilton—and abruptly begins a tailspin in the polls. And now in reaction, at the greatest moment of his life, he transfers his acceptance speech to an open-air stadium to handle tens of thousands of frenzied fans, replete with Greek temple (Olympian Zeus or Parthenon?) as the backdrop stage, and outspoken rock stars?
His handlers now seem as inept in the general elections as they were once adept in the primaries. I don't see how you win Ohio or Michigan with Golden Gate Park circa 1967.
More later.