Why has Biden taken a day off the trail?
posted at 8:55 am on October 21, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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According to campaign sources, Joe Biden has no events planned for today — despite the election being only two weeks away. What happened? Could Team Obama have pulled Slow Joe off the trail after telling people that Barack Obama’s election would provoke our enemies into a confrontation with us, and maybe more than one?
Bill Kristol interprets Biden’s comments not as perceived weakness, but as Biden predicting a weak response to any provocation:
Biden expects a test of the kind Kennedy faced after his disastrous meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna in June, 1961, less than five months into Kennedy’s presidency. Biden’s presumably thinking of the Soviet-backed construction of the Berlin Wall a couple of months later. Kennedy did nothing, and was criticized for his weakness back home.
So–leaving aside the merits of what Kennedy did or didn’t do in 1961–Biden is forecasting that Obama will have what seems to be a weak response to a provocation from, say, Iran or Russia, and he’s urging the liberals of Seattle and elsewhere to stand with Obama against the expected domestic criticism.
In other words, Biden is forecasting inaction by Obama in the face of testing by a dictator. I suspect he’s right in this forecast. McCain might want to clarify this point. It’s not just that Obama’s own running mate expects an international crisis early in his presidency. It’s not just that Obama has a weak foreign policy record. It’s that Biden himself expects what will appear to be a weak response from Obama to testing by a dictator.
I’m not sure why this will surprise anyone. I’ve said for months that Obama would serve the second term of the Jimmy Carter administration on both economics and foreign policy. Carter’s inaction on Afghanistan and Iran certainly worked out well for us, didn’t it? Both gave rise to Islamic fundamentalism, and eventually forced us to go to war to fight it at great cost and difficulty.
We could have snuffed out the Iranian mullahcracy in its infancy after the sacking of our embassy, an explicit act of war which Carter left unanswered. That would qualify as a test of a President viewed as weak, and who confirmed it in the face of a provocation that consisted of an open act of war. Had we acted, the Soviets would probably not have risked the invasion of Afghanistan, which would have ironically saved them a lot of money and heartache but would also have avoided the creation of al-Qaeda.
Team Obama need not worry about Biden’s gaffes. The media has all but buried the relevant portions of Biden’s offering. Consider this report from MS-NBC’s Andrea Mitchell yesterday, from John Ziegler:
ANDREA MITCHELL: …Sunday McCain’s long-time friend Colin Powell endorsed Obama and criticized the choice of Sarah Palin.
COLIN POWELL, ON MEET THE PRESS: I don’t believe she’s ready to be President of the United States, which is the job of the Vice President.MITCHELL: Powell could boost Obama’s foreign policy credentials. But today the McCain camp seized on something Joe Biden said, that Oama would be tested in his first months in office.
AUDIO OF JOE BIDEN: They’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine.
JOHN McCAIN: We don’t want a President who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis.
MITCHELL: Meanwhile, McCain’s running mate, fighting the image war, confronted her double on Saturday Night Live…
That leaves out quite a bit from the clip:
It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking…. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy….
I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate… And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.
In fact, the media used a portion of a different speech rather than repeat the actual Biden gaffe. So, perhaps, Team O can remove the gag from Biden and allow him back out onto the campaign trail. With the help of the Tanning Bed Media, Team O has nothing to fear from its running mate.
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RUDY! is a great politician, the greatest in our party today!
maverick muse on October 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Let Palin take her campaign lessons with Guiliani who knows how to connect with zeitgeist and crowds to victorious effect!
Strike while the iron is hot!!!
maverick muse on October 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Of all the faces I’d like to see in the event of an Obama loss, Andrea Mitchell’s tops the list. Crusty old seahag.
anniekc on October 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Hmmm.
Biden’s got his mouth running, Warp-Speed 9.
Obama’s running to Hawaii, Warp-Speed 9.
It’s beginning to look like the Benny Hill Scramble.
franksalterego on October 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM
What did you know and when did you know it.
If Ocommie and his dundering sidekick win, and we get attacked as dumbass here seems to be alluding to, there sure as hell better be Special Forces guys storming the White House and removing these pukes from office.
The games these two fools are playing, with our economy and with our security, isn’t funny anymore. It’s getting dangerous.
Bishop on October 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Joe Biden…the gift that keeps on giving.
And our MSM…propaganda tool of the Obama campaign and the Democratic Party. Their shilling here will not be forgiven or forgotten by the American people…too blatant…to obnoxious. The American people are a generally forgiving and generous lot, but it does have limits, and the MSM has crossed the line in a very real and permanent way. It will never be trusted again.
Matt Helm on October 21, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Wow that’s really disgusting. I’m still amazed how far they are going to cover for Obama.
To be fair though, as dopey as Biden can be with gaffes I think Biden is saying “be prepared, we’re gonna get tested and we’re gonna have to come off as real hard asses to let people know they cant f*(* with us”. i.e. Obama will need to PROVE he’s no wuss (hi to you Cuban missile crisis!), whereas presumably McCain would not have such issues. So he’s prepping the base for actions Obama might need to take that seem like the dreaded Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld contingent would come up with.
Dash on October 21, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Where is the RNC or McCain or 527 ad showing this idiot running his mouth about the weakling who beat him – and Hillary – out of the democrat nomination. Heck, Hillary should get some of her friends to run the ad.
AubieJon on October 21, 2008 at 9:04 AM
I believe the election is about to turn.
Biden is in time out !!
stenwin77 on October 21, 2008 at 9:04 AM
About the only thing that soothes my nerves about the horrible Andrea Mitchell is that she is at least regularly punished by having to see Alan Greenspan naked. Of course, poor Alan has it tougher. Ugh.
Surely, at some point, even the most insulated elites at NBC have to realize how biased they’ve become? Non???
Sugar Land on October 21, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Of all the faces in the media that I’d like to see when Obama loses, there are so many people on that list it would fill a stadium. It would look like the Paul Wellstone memorial. But they’d actually be crying this time.
wise_man on October 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM
JOE BIDEN NEEDS TO BE INTERVIEWED – we need to beat this drum to death until the MSM pays the kind of attention this this major gaff as they have to Joe the Plumber.
Maybe Miss Katie can coax the mouth into telling the truth again. She at least can ask him what magazines he reads!
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Was that really necessary? I think I just threw up in my mouth.
NoFanofLibs on October 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Now Biden and Michele are in the cone of silence. Funny how anyone that is around “O” can’t speak their mind. The facade continues to crack.
Hening on October 21, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Yuk on both counts.
wise_man on October 21, 2008 at 9:06 AM
I expect a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on November 5th, culminating into such a mass liberal exodus from this country, testing out “border fences” and causing an international crisis, mostly because people in other countries are forced to watch Rosie O’Donald and listen to Andrea Mitchell during PMS episodes.
Mcguyver on October 21, 2008 at 9:11 AM
I want to see the MSM dance around on Nov. 5th. Please, Please, Please let the American people see these vapid, biased, elites for what they really are.
Anyone go see W? heard that is tanking – an indicator?
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I think the gaffmeister is just saying what he has been thinking all along, that Obama is a wuss and that he will be run over by the bully on the playground and have his lunch money taken away everyday.
flytier on October 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM
CNN chopped the quote in this exact same way. Hmmmmmm.
BadgerHawk on October 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM
I’m firmly convinced there is not a Democrat politician with more than two brain cells to rub together.
This has got to be the most dimwitted collection of boneheads ever assembled for the purpose of creating legislation.
Effeminate, corrupt and incredibly stupid – that describes what passes for the “men” in the Democrat Party, completely.
Even Democrat women are more manly than what passes for Democrat men but for some reason, that doesn’t breed confidence.
NoDonkey on October 21, 2008 at 9:14 AM
O.K., Limerick and SugarLand win the Ewwwwwwwww Award. Now I have to go clorox my brain
anniekc on October 21, 2008 at 9:14 AM
Palin should start using this immediately on the campaign trail. She should hammer home with one her trademark jibes that Obama’s own VP doesn’t think he is up to the job in foreign policy. This is a great opening for her to neutralise any of her percieved weakness on foreign policy issues.
promachus on October 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Rudy and Bolton seemed genuinely unnerved by Biden’s comments last night.
lodge on October 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Unless ABC, NBC, CBS, etc… have shut down then the Obama campaign hasn’t stopped.
reaganaut on October 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Could it be that Biden is taking a day off because, with Obama going to see his grandmother, any Biden gaffe will by default have to be given large media covereage?
BadgerHawk on October 21, 2008 at 9:18 AM
How many Americans will die because we were stupid enough to elect this guy?
kam582 on October 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM
From the Michael Moore school of documentary editing. That’s where you take two different quotes from two different days where Biden is wearing different colored shirts between cuts.(as Moore did with Charlton Heston) And present it as one complete message.
wise_man on October 21, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Yesterday Der Spiegel deserved quote of the day:
“Why Europe endorses Obama” = SOCIALISM!!!
Marx Mutual Admiration Society
Biden feigning educator is as pathetic as Ayers feigning “Professor” without earning the legitimate role. There is no faculty member by the name of Ayers at the University of Chicago in any of their schools. Correct me if I am wrong. But Ayers is NOT a “professor” by job definition according to the university referenced by Obama.
http://english.uchicago.edu/news/faculty_news.shtml
maverick muse on October 21, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Don’t forget Hillary’s hugging, so she must be getting a Supreme Court post at some point. Screw the polls gang. We can win this thing. I agree the McCain camp needs to pounce but…whats with Hawaii? hmm Maybe Obama remembered where his Birth Certificate is. Check to make sure the ink is dry first.
johnnyU on October 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM
If Obama wins, Israel and Iran will go at it. Obama will keep the US on the sidelines. That is what Biden is referring to when he asks libs to back his guy in the face of opposition.
JiangxiDad on October 21, 2008 at 9:25 AM
You should be run out of town on a rail for painting that word picture. I hate you.
hoosiermama on October 21, 2008 at 9:25 AM
Just thought of this: Biden urged the followers to keep the faith when the birth pangs of the Apocalypse start. Will the media, who will have vaulted The One over the finish line, begin to turn on him, criticise his every move, tear into him because he is not paying enough attention to their concerns, not having enough news conferences, relying on more experienced operators due to his inexperience…..?
Sure, they will – NOT
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM
For all of the media squawking about how Governor Palin has avoided the press, no one cares to pursue how Biden has been conspicuously absent from press conferences and interviews for over a month.
Biden’s unguarded remarks were made in a supposed safety zone of big-dollar supporters. That they leaked to the general public is a boon for us all.
Biden must be secreted in a bunker with Michelle O, indulging in caviar and lobster as they reminisce over how tough they have had it in life before Obama came in to sweep them off their feet.
onlineanalyst on October 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Andrea the whithered old bag hoping above hopes swimming in the tank with the big O will rejuvenate her Helen Thomas body slide to oblivion.
As far as the “gaffe” that was a serious leak of intelligence information. I don’t hear much about it and the White House is silent of course but remember this past week key people in the campaigns were briefed about potential terrorist attacks in the so called transition period. I believe leaky Obiden let it slip. Another Leahy type.
wepeople on October 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Award? I haven’t even said anything yet!
Limerick on October 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM
You nailed this! But why then do you suppose the Hebrews all over this country are going to vote for The One. Don’t they see this as clearly as we do?
I talked to one of my students about this and he said his mom was in agony because she just loves Nobama and know that he is not good for Israel. She is “hoping” Israel will be able to defend against a Nukeified Iran.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Something smells to high heaven: Now Bernacke, who is supposed to serve in an apolitical capacity as chairman of the Fed, has endorsed Obama.
What is going on behind the curtain?
onlineanalyst on October 21, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Biden: “Enemies will take advantage of my brilliant running mate’s inexperience to test his mettle (between the lines) and I will whisper in his ear what to do. See how great I am?”
Steve Z on October 21, 2008 at 9:32 AM
McCain should jump on this one. He is “ready from day one!”
Steve Z on October 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Joe needs to get used to standing in the corner because he’s going to have a lot of timeouts over the next 4 years.
moxie_neanderthal on October 21, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Sorry Limerick, I must have been channeling what you “might” have said….? I guess coffee is needed.
anniekc on October 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM
I thought he was spending the day running for re-election to the Senate.
meci on October 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM
No problem. I’ll try to be a bit more unpredictable in the future……….yeah, right. ;)
Limerick on October 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM
This along with Obama going to Hawaii seems odd to me. (No, I’m not saying his Grandmother isn’t really sick) It just seems like they’re trying to run the clock out and not have any more Joe the plumber or typical Biden gaffes.
thevastlane on October 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM
“Silence is Golden Duct Tape is Silver”
Dr Evil on October 21, 2008 at 9:41 AM
If his grandmother is ‘gravely ill’, why is he waiting until Thursday? As a hospice nurse, when the family is informed using the word ‘gravely’ it means 24 -48 hours at best and usually the sooner you get there the better. It’s not as if he needs to book a ‘family emergency’ flight.
red131 on October 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning said that the Obama campaign is simply furious with Biden and pulled him off the trail.
broker1 on October 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Isn’t Biden saying to the voters:
“Vote for Obama, I GUARANTEE that the U.S. or one of her allies will be attacked somehow, somewhere in the first 6 months of an Obama/Biden administration!
And if you vote early and vote often, I also guarantee Obama will bungle the response to the attack.”
———
And since Biden sits on the Senate committee for Foreign Relations, does he have inside information about a major threat we don’t know?
albill on October 21, 2008 at 9:46 AM
His organic toupee needed a brief respite.
whitetop on October 21, 2008 at 9:46 AM
“Poppppcorn, gitcher poppppcorn!”
hoosiermama on October 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM
ND, I usually agree with every word you write, but I disagree here. There certainly are plentiful examples of dimwit Democrat politicians, but there are plenty of smart ones too. Smart in an evil genius sort of way.
They’ve figured out that when you sum the portion of the population with below average intelligence together with the lazy and corrupt your result is a solid majority, and they don’t have to do anything but rob a minority of highly productive citizens to buy the majority support.
Democrat voters on the otherhand are mostly morons.
DarkCurrent on October 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM
Could the campaign be mouthwashboarding Joe?
Sergeant Tim on October 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM
I suspect there will indeed be a manufactured event which will allow Obama to perform gallantly for his legions of hagiographers.
If past is indeed prologue, why not? His performance thus far has been one big Hollywood production, why not take stagecraft to the next level.
Sort of a PT 109 redeux.
I hear Tonga has been spoiling for a fight.
moxie_neanderthal on October 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM
red131 on October 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM
That’s exactly what I was wondering. I didn’t think you could “schedule” a visit like that. It seems like more of an emergency trip. But who am I to question the One’s motives.
thevastlane on October 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Only four or five? Hmmm….wonder what they will be? Obama better start on the bench press exercises to get ready for some under-the-bus throwin’ of our allies:
1. Iran/Israel: Obama throws Israel under the bus
2. Syria annexes northern Lebannon: Obama throws pre-Western government under the bus
3. Russia topples pro-Western Georgian government: Obama throws…
4. Russia topples pro-Western Ukranian government: Obama throws…
5. Unknown: Biden however would know since he “knows more about foreign policy than most people have forgotten”
Waterboy on October 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM
“God love ya Joe, stand up and keep shooting your mouth off.”
fogw on October 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM
When Fox calls the election for McCain, do the folloing:
1. Bolt the door and keep a loaded shotgun handy
2. Crack open the adult beverage of your choice
3. Make a tub o’ popcorn with lots of butter and salt
4. Sit back in the easy chair, popcorn on your lap, remote in one hand and and adult beverage in the other
5. Switch from one Drive-By network to the other in the following sequence: ABC – CBS – NBC – PBS – CNN – MSNBC
6. Wallow in the schadenfreude as one talking head after another melts down
7. Be sure to check MSNBC frequently, as it is likely they will have Olbermann on suicide watch
8. Cleanse the palate by occasionally switching to Fox News
9. Repeat as desired
ManlyRash on October 21, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Because that means on Friday he can get in front of the cameras, bite his lip, and tell us how his non-racist grandmother’s only remaining wish is to see him elected President. It’ll be in the news cycle all weekend.
highhopes on October 21, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Damn…called it before I could.
ManlyRash on October 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Biden is speaking at a rally in Greeley, Colorado, today at noon (Mountain time). It’s a pretty small town, so perhaps it’s the same as being taken off the trail. :-)
POH on October 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM
And since Biden sits on the Senate committee for Foreign Relations, does he have inside information about a major threat we don’t know?
Uh, yeah. Didn’t we just hear all about the big “transition” meetings last week? You know Uncle Joe is sitting on something that he just couldn’t keep to himself!
anniekc on October 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Ayers works for the U of Illinois-Chicago, not University of Chicago.
labwriter on October 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM
…and SNL had the nerve to make a sarcastic joke about a faux Palin press conference where her spokesman asked the press to “…not use any recording devices or write anything down.” Very funny.
Waterboy on October 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM
McCain looked into Putin’s eyes, and saw the KGB.
Ahmadinejad looks into Obama’s eyes, and sees Jimmy Carter.
franksalterego on October 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Nope, it is going to be the reimplementation of the Alien and Sedition Acts, part II, along with the Fairness Doctrine. This will be done under the guise of needing to show a “unified” America and that we have to heal the divisiveness of the past 8 years. And then the crisis will metastasize, leading our Dear Leader Obamassiah to reluctantly cancel the 2010 & 2012 elections.
rbj on October 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Greeley is a smallish college town (University of Northern Colorado). Between Greeley and Fort Collins, the next town over, also a college town (Colorado State College), you probably won’t find many McCain/Palin yard signs. Safe territory for Stand-Up Joe.
labwriter on October 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
I read it elsewhere, but it rang true immediately. As for Jews still supporting Obama, I’ll take a guess and say that the percentages won’t be as high as customary, but still a majority. As for why, call it cognitive dissonance, leading to mental gridlock. Those who live and breathe liberalism are being confronted with something dangerous coming out of the very thing they love.
In other words, a vote against Obama is a vote against what you’ve preached your whole life. Jews are being collectively “mugged by reality” as they say. Good. A few more might wake up :)
JiangxiDad on October 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Was it Michelle who first coined the term gaff-tastic?
God, you have to love ole Xerox Joe. And you just know that after an Obama win and banishment of all conservatives, he’s going to be the media’s bitch.
“I was for being shot down before I was against flying in bad weather.”
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM
hmm test
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:07 AM
I still say Obama is a better option than Hillary!
Hillary! is a sneaky collectivist. She hides Saul Alinsky’s hickeys behind turtleneck sweaters and red plaid lumberjack shirts.
Obama is telling us pretty clearly what he’s up to. Whitey is gonna get some payback, and the Bill of Rights is on the table. He and Nancy and Harry are gonna have a mini constitutional convention without our consent.
I think Biden was simply telegraphing that Obama is gonna do some stuff that will look very unconstitutional, and therefore the dems will be counting on the media to “gird their loins” which means to circle the wagons. Maybe start weening us off the idea of private property. Stuff like that.
jeff_from_mpls on October 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Was it Michelle who first coined the term gaff-tastic?
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM
God, you have to love ole Xerox Joe. And you just know that after an Obama win and banishment of all conservatives, he’s going to be the media’s bitch.
“I was for being shot down before I was against flying in bad weather.”
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM
God, you have to love ole Xerox Joe. And you just know that after an Obama win and banishment of all conservatives, he’s going to be the media’s bitch.
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
My “highly reliable sources” have told me that Slow Joe has now made a secret trip down to Cuba to confer with Castro in the planning of his planned sea invasion of Florida on Feb.1 2009 after Bambi swears in as POTUS.
Castro was overheard to say to Joe the senator, “I will show that young, clean articulate man that I still got my mojo working”
Joe was speechless for the first time in his career it was reported back to me.
Over.
1GooDDaDDy on October 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Wow, I can’t post a particular message. Waddup?
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Was it Michelle who first coined the term gaff-tastic?
You have to love ole Xerox Joe. And you just know that after an Obama win and banishment of all conservatives, he’s going to be the media’s b#tch.
“I was for being shot down before I was against flying in bad weather.”
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Does it contain one of George Carlin’s 7 words?
Even as a sub-string?
jeff_from_mpls on October 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM
FIFY.
platypus on October 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM
I remember a brief article a month or so ago where Biden advised certain officals from Isreal to “get used to the idea of a nuclear Iran”. Only saw it once… never heard of it again. Why should we get used to the idea of a nuclear Iran? I live in southwest Florida, I think my fellow Floridians on the other side of the state would be VERY interested in Joe’s comments on that topic.
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM
labwriter on October 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Wasn’t that near where Sarah was yesterday? And didn’t she she draw a large crowd (w/o B.Joel and Springsteens help)?
red131 on October 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM
1GooDDaDDy on October 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Y Castro dice, “Si, se puede mi capitalista amigo!”
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:16 AM
blushes yep it’s this damn election
hawkdriver on October 21, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Yeah, that’s the thing. Normally I keep my speech clean as a whistle, but some of the, uh, hogwash that’s taking place in this, uh, upsetting election has me, uh, steamed.
jeff_from_mpls on October 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Thanks, now I can go to work with a laugh out loud.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Trolls Take Note:
On Nov 5, there is a hotline established for you use in keeping your pants clean:
1-800-777-1111 and ask for your free sample…
CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”
CapedConservative on October 21, 2008 at 10:27 AM
http://www.americasright.com/
Folks, legal technicality it looks like, but Obama had 30 days to answer the Berg allegations, and his lawyers have not.
This is a legal admission that Berg’s facts are correct if I read this correctly, and Berg has, as of last night, put papers into court citing this…
Now Obama is flying to Hawaii, and Biden is not doing Campaign spots?
Intersting timing….
Romeo13 on October 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM
You can bet Biden butt is as red as his face after being spanked by Obama’s handlers.
Taking the little boy to the shed and teaching him a lesson…how embarrassing for the “man a heart beat away from the president”, being spanked for shooting off his mouth.
right2bright on October 21, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Ol Joe (da Senator) needs to have same-day surgery to have his foot again taken out of his mouth. The chosen one, is on his way to Hawaii to be with his ailing grandmother which is the right thing to do.
However, any bets this will turn into a family event/reunion that Obama workers will turn this moment into a media event. But, if this occurs will his destitute brother from Kenya show up, will his mother show up, will any of his skeletons show up?
MSGTAS on October 21, 2008 at 10:57 AM
That site you linked to is very professional and authoritative. I’ve been watching this story for months. Tks for the link. There were many facts there, for once.
JiangxiDad on October 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM
The Peter Principle:
The Peter Principle is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.” While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the “salutary science of Hierarchiology”, “inadvertently founded” by Peter, the principle has real validity. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain. Peter’s Corollary states that “in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties” and adds that “work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence”.
Does it apply to elected office?
Akzed on October 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Nope, because your initial “Job” in elected office has nothing to do with competance, just popularity… so its a Peter Principal based on popularity… not success.
You go as high as your popularity takes you… and no higher.
Now, Congress, once your in, works on a weird type of seniority for Committees and such… so there as long as your in, you will progress… thus its a Peter Principal based on how LONG you can fool your constituents (or at least enough to remain in office).
Romeo13 on October 21, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Botox Joe Biden…the GOP’s Mancurian candidate. Bwhahahhahahaha! (seriously, what’s up with his eyebrows…looks like someone has pinned his ears back)
Talk radio and the Web needs to beat this gaffe into the heads of the general public immediately. The MSM will try and bury it ASAP, thus securing their position as whores to The One.
Wyznowski on October 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Have read all the ‘who gets thrown under the bus’ posts.
My only comment, and I realize that we are a more informed crowd here…..
If the voters put this nonsense in the White House, then they will get what they deserve.
It will not be one incident.
Starlink on October 21, 2008 at 11:38 AM
One in Hawaii, and one in the box, boss.
connertown on October 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM
“The One” isn’t in Hawaii just yet, and that doesn’t make sense either. His “Gravely Ill” Grandma but he’s waiting till Thursday to go ….
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm
Moaneeca on October 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM
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