Joe Biden has finally regained some national media attention. Yeah, but not for good reasons.
In the past week Biden has gained national media attention because he:
- Crossed Obama saying he didn’t support the AIG bailout when Obama did.
- Said the ad accusing McCain of not using a computer because he was “too old” when it fact it is because of his torture injuries should “never have been run.”
- Claimed FDR went on television to provide leadership to the American people after the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929.
- Said that Hillary Clinton probably was a better pick to be Obama’s VP than he was.
Poor Joe has become the comic relief in a campaign that has become more bitter and more personal each day. I guess being the court jester is OK as long as your boss laughs along!
Not so much!
Tuesday, on the “Today” show regarding Biden’s AIG comment Obama said:
“I think that, in that situation, I think Joe should have waited as well.”
Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark!
Remember waaaaay back in March in the middle of the primaries how Barack stood by Jeremiah Wright. How he tried to explain his relationship by saying he didn’t need to agree with Wright on all issues. That Wright had a unique perspective that validated his comments?
For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years," Obama said. "That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table.
Yeah, well that lasted about six weeks until Obama threw Wright under the bus saying:
If Reverend Wright thinks that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, I may not know him as well as I thought either.
It took Obama six weeks to move his relationship with Wright from ardent supporter to speed bump. Six weeks during a time when events were moving much less slowly than they are now with slightly more than 40 days to the election and key debates just around the corner. How long before we hear Obama say:
If Joe Biden thinks that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, I may not know him as well as I thought either.
Remember the cartoon made into a movie “George of the Jungle?” Every time George grabbed a vine to swing through the jungle, you knew we was going to slam smack into a tree. Biden’s become so regular at providing gaffes or taking a position opposite Obama’s that every time he makes a public appearance we now expect him to slam into a tree!
Joe, Joe
Joe of the campaign,
Smooth as he can be.
(Ahhhhhhhh)
Watch out for that tree.
Why is it that the press spent more time on the HUSBAND of the VP candidate for the Republicans getting a DUI 20 years ago? This was when he was the same age as Obama was when he was doing coke….