Biden Says Hillary Might Be A Better VP
(CBS)
(NASHUA, N.H.) - Joe Biden went above and beyond in showing support for Hillary Clinton today, saying she was more qualified than him to be vice president.
"Make no mistake about this – Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America, let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely. She’s first rate so let’s get that straight."
The response from Biden came after a man told him he was “happy” that Obama had beat out Clinton to win the nomination. Biden lowered and shook his head as the man delivered what was intended to be a compliment.
A McCain spokesman, who watched the feed live on a streaming news website, immediately sent the quote to the Republican National Committee, who distributed it to members of the press.
Before the event had ended, McCain spokesman Ben Porritt, issued a statement, saying:
“Barack Obama’s most important decision of this election and Biden—the candidate he selects suggests himself that he wasn’t the right man for the job and that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice. Biden certainly has a credible viewpoint on this.”
It was not the first statement Porritt has released this afternoon. As Biden delivered his speech, the McCain campaign released line after line attacking Biden.
After Biden received a question on gun control, telling the crowd that he supported the second amendment and the right for New Hampshire residents to own guns, Porritt emailed, “This ticket has the worst record on second amendment rights of any ticket in modern presidential history.”
While Biden was illustrating examples of how he and Obama would reach across the aisle on political issues, Porritt wrote, “Barack Obama has zero record of bipartisanship.”
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See all 87 Comments1. Does the joint ticket have a calm, cool, and collected " temper
and impulse" [Presidential Temperament]?
2. Does each ticket have sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber"?
3. Does each ticket have a "presidential depth and degree" in regard
to their purpose, policies, and positions?
4. Does each ticket have adequate, "understanding and knowledge" of
workings around Washington"?
5. Does each ticket have enough "vigor, wisdom and Vision" for the
future of our beloved Great-grand Nation?
6. Does each ticket possess enough joint foreign policy experience
and exposure based on "American Values, Virtues, Vastness, and strong
soul"?
7. Are their campaign talk, slogans, ads, plans, and programs based
on facts and are they free of fear, fiction, frivolous labels, unfair
attacks, negativity, and impulsivity? [Danger to country and countries
mission[s].
8. Does the ticket keep country or politics first? [McCain stole
Obama''s change and is running with it.]
Freedom team.
PS: This nation will not buy into the kitchen sink strategy. We are
getting deeper into internal and external holes through these attacks
and the world is laughing at us as they enjoy our partisan Pitt Bull
wounds. I am sure the collective deceptive measures of the GOP, RNC,
FOX, RUSH, ROVE, McCain, and his surrogates will fail to deprive
American voters of their deserved leadership. Media stop cultural
divide and wars.
Indeed, those voters would be shocked to discover that, according to independent analyses, Obama is offering 80% of Americans four times as much in tax relief as McCain on average.
For example, I bet you did not know that:
--Obama would provide an immediate $1,000 tax cut to 95% of working families.
--Obama would eliminate income taxes altogether on seniors earning less than $50,000.
--Obama would more than double the Hope tax credit for college, up to $4,000 and make it fully refundable.
--Obama would eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business start-ups.
--Obama would not raise income, payroll, capital gains or any other taxes on any family making less than $250,000.
--McCain''s tax cut plan would provide no new direct relief to 100 million households, but would give a $4 billion tax cut to Exxon Mobil (which recently posted a $40 billion profit) and other big oil companies.
The McCain plan for health insurance and privatization of schools would add a terrible burden on families who would be required to pay for these costs themselves.
.............................. MCCAIN ....................... OBAMA
Income ................. Avg tax bill ..................Avg. tax bill
Over $2.9M ....... -$269,364 (-4.4%)...... +$701,885 ( 11.5%)
$603K and up...... -$45,361 (-3.4%)...... $115,974 ( 8.7%)
$227K-$603K...... -$7,871 (-3.1%)................. $12 ( 0.0%)
$161K-$227K...... -$4,380 (-3.0%)............ -$2,789 (-1.9%)
$112K-$161K...... -$2,614 (-2.5%)............ -$2,204 (-2.1%)
$66K-$112K ....... -$1,009 (-1.4%)............ -$1,290 (-1.8%)
$38K-$66K ........ -$319 (-0.7%)................ -$1,042 (-2.4%)
$19K-$38K ........ -$113 (-0.5%)................... -$892 (-3.6%)
Under $19K ......... -$19 (-0.2%)..................... -$567 (-5.5%)
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/?postversion=2008061113
Remember Obama only got 1/2 of the votes of the Democratic Party.
The election will be determined by the other 18 million voters that he tossed aside and put them in their place, along with independents.
Again Obama only got 1/2 of the votes from his own Democratic Party.
Why because he did not appeal to the other 18 million. His first real decision in politics was to pick the best V.P., and what a political mistake he picked Biden. It divided the party. Many passionate female democrats will not forget for a long time.
Obama could not even unite the Democratic Party, so how will he unite the nation. Fireworks at the White House?
McCain on the other hand has united the Republican''s.
Well how could he? He''s voted the Dem party line 97% of the time (factcheck.org). McCain votes with the Repubs about 75-90% of the time, depending what year you look at. Obama''s bipartison credentials are about as solid as his credentials to be Commander-in-Chief.
Biden is a wiser choice for governing because of his experience experience but elections are just games like football.
Obama will loose unless Biden withdraws and puts Hillary on the ticket.
Posted by katharine9 at 01:10 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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"you''re likeable enough Hillary" uhbama
"Bill and Hillary''s comments were ''unfortunate''" uhbama
(easily debunked...the second uhbama failed to stand up and defend Hillary and Bill against racist accusations, is the moment he lost.
Disgusting!
HillaryDem4McCain
I''m personally happy that Hill is not anywhere NEAR this disgusting ticket.
Posted by whitemale08 at 09:47 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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As much as I DESPISE uhbama, I''m content with knowing he''ll lose.
Hillary is a class act, and shouldn''t be tainted with uhbama''s dirty self.
We couldn''t be fully united even if HRC was chosen for VP. Obama has an organization with 2 million supporters and 1 million volunteers on the groud. They would have been disenchanted, that Obama couldn''t afford. Its the ground work that is going to win the election or loose. Obama is still working with HRC and she is on the road with the campaign. I am confident she will have a very prestigious position with the administration, if Obama is elected. Please remember, in her run again in 012 or 016, she will need Obama''s supporters backing. I, an Obama supporter will back her as well.
Here''s why:
McCain talks a maverick line.
But it''s all talk.
His campaign, with its seven lobbyists and its corporate rear-kissing was invented by CEOs in East Coast board rooms.
He''s no Western maverick.
He''s a corporate elitist meat puppet.
And he''s going to lose.
Really?
"Deference?"
Defer to these facts, my friends:
Palin is NOT a reformer who hates pork. She LOVES pork.
Palin slopped up $770 million dollars in pork projects putting Alaska in the top three porker states.
Palin did NOT oppose the "Bridge to Nowhere." She supported it. She only "opposed" it when the Feds yanked the project, and she kept the bridge money for other Alaskan porkers.
Palin is a right winger. She opposes abortion even in the case of rape, incest AND even if the health of the mother is in jeopardy. She favors shooting wolves from airplanes and has addressed her husband''''s Alaska Independence Movement affiliation which calls for a vote on Alaska separating from the United States.
And no amount of GOP closet stuffing is going to keep that from coming out.
Conservative?
Feh.
She LOVES our tax dollars. She LIVES on the dole.
Feminist?
Feh.
She is to feminism what Velveeta is to cheese.
Palin is a phony. A joke. An insult to voters.
From FactCheck.org:
Palin was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party %u2013 which calls for a vote on whether Alaska should secede from the union or remain a state %u2013 despite mistaken reports to the contrary. But her husband was a member for years, and she attended at least one party convention, as mayor of the town in which it was held.
The party''s chair originally told reporters that Palin had been a member, but the official later retracted that statement. Chairwoman Lynette Clark told the New York Times that false information had been given to her by another member of the party after she first told the Times and others that Palin joined the AIP in 1994. Clark issued an apology on the AIP Web site.
The director of Alaska%u2019s Division of Elections, Gail Fenumiai, confirms that Palin registered to vote in the state for the first time in May 1982 as a Republican and hasn%u2019t changed her party affiliation since. She also told FactCheck.org that Palin%u2019s husband, Todd, was registered with AIP from October 1995 to July 2000, and again from September 2000 until July 2002. (He has since been registered as undeclared.) However, the AIP says Todd Palin "never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in Wasilla at one time."
McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments.
McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.
McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq.
McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.
McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000.
When it comes to their claim to support the troops, John McCain and his party are flat-out liars. The message is simple - if you really support the troops, stop voting Republican.
How is he going to create jobs when he plans to tax the corporations that have recently opened up in the U.S.? What effect will the closure of BMW, Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes Benz, Airbus and many native American firms have on my job and our employment situation? How is he going to get our troops home? How is he going to implement a national healthcare system? What effect will his nationalization of U.S. energy companies have on the market?
You say you want to discuss issues and so do I... So let''s do so... But do you know what Obama''s plans are? Have you looked at his friends up close? Do you know where he''s been over the last couple of decades? Have you read Michelle''s graduate thesis? If your answer is "I know because I saw it on CBS or CNN" or any other three-letter outlet, then you owe it to yourself and your children to find out before you make a mistake you''ll regret hopefully for only four years. That is, unless of course, our constitution gets updated and he can stay in power as long as Fidel :-)
"Rather than being a hapless victim of the Bush administration%u2019s lies and manipulation, Biden was calling for a U.S. invasion of Iraq and making false statements regarding Saddam Hussein%u2019s supposed possession of %u201Cweapons of mass destruction%u201D years before President George W. Bush even came to office.
As far back as 1998, Biden was calling for a U.S. invasion of that oil rich country. Even though UN inspectors and the UN-led disarmament process led to the elimination of Iraq%u2019s WMD threat, Biden %u2013 in an effort to discredit the world body and make an excuse for war %u2013 insisted that UN inspectors could never be trusted to do the job. During Senate hearings on Iraq in September of that year, Biden told Ritter, %u201CAs long as Saddam%u2019s at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect you or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out, root and branch, the entirety of Saddam%u2019s program relative to weapons of mass destruction.%u201D
does he gloat about now that he''s VP candidate, so he can beat a dead horse with contrary statement..that she is better candidate !!!
liar should resign !!!
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
And let''s face it... people who believe ANY of these false stories about McCain (the ''prank'' that killed 160+ soldiers), Palin (secessionist, speaking in tongues, etc.), Obama, or Biden (I don''t pay attention to these types of stories, so I can''t recall any right now), are idiots who will never consider a candidate based on their merits. These people are emotionally driven, fantasy world people who will never see flaws in their own candidate, and never see anything good in any other candidate.
Biden has effectively shoot both his feet now.
They are so friggin fanatical they''ll actually fall on the sword for their lord NObama.
NObama pulls a real bone headed stunt of enjoying a cheap laugh line at the expense of our female candidate, and a majorly huge *** storm blows up in his face!!
Now we see the old white northeastern elitist libtard who has been stored away out of sight since the DNC convention being brought out to act like he''s willing to take one for the team.
He knows the "White Massars" who actually run this campaign and their puppet 50%-Amerifrican will never allow Hillary back in the White House.
They would actually throw this election before the will allow it.
Posted by Gun_Tower at 10:32 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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Do you offer these sage words with your manhood in hand, doing to yourself what only women who accept cash, visa, or MC will do for you???
Posted by B0ludo at 11:40 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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Do you truly believe any member of Congress, in either house would surrender the gold plated health insurance plan they currently have paid for by the taxpayers, for some pathetic socialized medical mess?
This is why NObama says his plan will be optional.
To leave all the biggest federal players free to opt out and keep what they have.
Posted by B0ludo at 11:40 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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Do you truly believe any member of Congress, in either house would surrender the gold plated health insurance plan they currently have paid for by the taxpayers, for some pathetic socialized medical mess?
This is why NObama says his plan will be optional.
To leave all the biggest federal players free to opt out and keep what they have.
Where is the outrage? I do NOT accept McCain''s choice of Vice President. His choice is an insult to America, and as a registered Republican, I will no longer consider McCain as my candidate. I also will not vote for Obama.
One would have to be simple between the ears to think the "White Massars" who run the DNC were ever going to allow another Clinton in the White House.
One would have to be simple between the ears to think the "White Massars" who run the DNC were ever going to allow another Clinton in the White House.
The dumocrats have made a bad choice and are paying the price.
Obam is a marxist which I am certain that many dumocrats, with their hands out,would appreciate a marxist as president.
Posted by OneAmerican4 at 11:48 AM : Sep 11, 2008
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After discovering how low down the pedistal the DNC places all women in this nation, there can be no more debate over your above!!
Posted by mr2258 at 12:00 PM : Sep 11, 2008
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After what we''ve all witnessed the DNC doing by placing women at the bottom of the totem pole over the last few months....
I figure any Demotard who claims NObama is more qualified to be President than Sarah Palin, is actually saying:
"The guy is a lot more qualified than the girl who should be barefoot, pregnant, and baking cookies is."
Posted by StLouisMan3 at 12:08 PM
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If he would have declined, do you actually think Obama would have picked the best choice? He probably would have chosen John Edwards over Hillary. His EGO is too large to share the spotlight with the Clintons.
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