SPRINGFIELD, Ill., August 23, 2008
Running Mates Make First Joint Appearance
Obama-Biden Campaign In Springfield, Ill.; New V.P. Candidate Goes On Attack
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"CBS News RAW:" Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appeared for the first time with his newly selected vice presidential nominee Joe Bidden at an event in Springfield, Ill.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recently unveiled his new vice presidential running mate, veteran Sen. Joe Biden, who has served in the Senate for over 35 years. Dean Reynolds reports.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., appear together Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, in Springfield, Ill. (AP)
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Sen. John McCain would have to "figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at" when considering his own economic future, said Biden, jabbing at the man he called his personal friend.
It was a reference to McCain's recent inartful admission - in a time of economic uncertainty - that he was not sure how many homes he owns.
"In his very first appearance as the vice presidential candidate, Biden demonstrated that he's more than willing to play the traditional role of attack dog," said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. "He recited a litany of what many Democrats feel is wrong with the current administration and linked his friend John McCain to them. In doing so, Biden proved himself an able fighter in his initial outing."
Before a crowd of more than 30,000 spilling out from the front of the Old State Capitol, Obama said Biden was "what many others pretend to be - a statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong."
Democrats coalesced quickly around the 47-year-old Obama's selection of the 65-year-old veteran of three decades in the Senate, a choice meant to provide foreign policy heft to the party's ticket for the fall campaign against McCain and the Republicans.
"The top advisers around Senator Obama over the last two weeks said to him, 'Look, we need to add heft to this ticket," reported CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. "Every poll shows people like you but they do note you don't have experience. Biden adds heft to the ticket.' "
Obama made a symbolic choice for the site of the ticket's first joint appearance.
It was a brutally cold winter day more than a year ago when he stood outside the historic structure in the Illinois capital to launch his quest for the White House.
He returned this day in sunshine, the party's improbable nominee-in-waiting, a black man in his first Senate term who outdistanced a crowded field of far better-known and more experienced rivals for the nomination.
The Democratic National Convention opens on Monday to nominate him as president and Biden as vice president, the ticket that Democrats hope to ride into the White House after eight years of Republican rule.
McCain's convention opens on Labor Day. He has yet to select a running mate.
Responding to Obama's pick, the McCain campaign wasted no time trying to turn the selection to its own purposes.
It quickly produced a television ad featuring Biden's previous praise for McCain and comments critical of Obama. In an ABC interview last year, Biden had said he stood by an earlier statement that Obama wasn't yet ready to be president and "the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.''
Polls indicate a highly competitive race at the end of a summer in which McCain eroded what had been Obama's slender advantage in the national surveys.
Obama brought Biden on stage with his glowing introduction to the strains of Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising."
The newly named running mate moved center stage in shirt-sleeves at a brisk trot that belied his 65 years, and embraced Obama.
"I'm glad to be here," said the man who has twice sought the presidency and emerged as Obama's pick only in the past few days.
Thousands of newly printed signs bearing the words Obama/Biden sprouted in the crowd that waited in anticipation in 90-degree temperatures.
Both men spoke for 16 minutes - unlikely a coincidence given Biden's reputation for verbosity.
Obama's remarks were carefully crafted to emphasize Biden's accomplishments in the Senate, his blue-collar roots and - above all - his experience on foreign policy.
"I can tell you Joe Biden gets it," he said. "He's that unique public servant who is at home in a bar in Cedar Rapids and the corridors of the Capitol, in the VFW hall in Concord, and at the center of an international crisis," he said.
Obama recounted the personal tragedy that struck Biden more than 30 years ago, within days of his election to the Senate, when his first wife and their child were killed in an automobile accident.
In a 1987 interview, Biden told CBS News he had to be convinced to take up his Senate seat, which he was sworn into at his son's hospital bedside, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier.
"I didn't feel whole. I felt like a piece of me died," he said.
Obama said Biden raised his surviving children as a single parent, commuting between the Capitol and Delaware daily on the Amtrak train.
"For decades, he has brought change to Washington, but Washington hasn't changed him," Obama said, attempting to blunt an emerging Republican line of attack that notes Biden's 30 years in the polished corridors of the Capitol.
"He's an expert on foreign policy whose heart and values are rooted firmly in the middle class."
And when it comes to credibility on national security, Biden has a very personal connection to the issue of Iraq, reports Dozier - his son starts a national guard tour there later this year.
In a jab at McCain that foretold Biden's far sharper criticism, Obama said his political partner "will give us some real straight talk."
Biden offered parts praise for Obama and criticism of McCain.
"You can't change America and make things better for our senior citizens when you signed on to Bush's scheme of privatizing Social Security," he said.
"You can't change America and end this war in Iraq when you declare - and again these are John's words - 'No one has supported President Bush in Iraq more than I have,' end of quote. ladies and gentlemen, you can't change America, you can't change America when you know your first four years as president will look exactly like the last eight years of George Bush's presidency."
Obama was heading for Wisconsin while Biden returned to Delaware to prepare for the fall campaign.
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See all 396 CommentsBiden and hussein are both so lacking in honesty and ethics they blatantly plagiarize the words of others.
The many, many plagiarized speeches of Biden have been well documented. While at Syracuse Law School, Biden plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote. He has not only plagiarized Americans, but British politicians as well, such as Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party. He''s a true international plagiarizer. (This is what the liberal media mean when they say biden has "international experience".)
In his mediocre law school, Biden was only able to graduate 76th in a class of 85 - i.e., he was in the lowest 10.5%! Of course, while campaigning, he claimed falsely to have graduated in the "top half" of his class. A plagiarizer and a LIAR!
hussein is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes. (His mental deficiencies appear to rival those of Biden.) His many plagiarized speeches have also been documented, including his theft of words from a speech by Deval Patrick, from Robin Williams'' movie "Man of the Year", and others. Like Biden, hussein also has been caught in many, many lies.
Yep, the character of these two is as pathetic as it gets - they deserve one another. America deserves neither.
Published: January 13, 1988)
is this the kind of deviousness we want for V.P. ????
Obama may decry lobbyist cash (or at least federal lobbyist cash), but Biden has taken $344,400 from lobbyists since 1997 -- making lobbyists the 10th biggest contributing industry.
YEP...that''s just what the country needs.
CHANGE.....
Obama, skated this issue.
It''s ok to kill babies?
(More black babies to abortion)
More Babies are Kill in America, than ALL of the wars going on in the world.
How can solicialists/Communist Democrats, Ignore this?
EXPLAIN DEMOCRATS!
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Biden: "...right now I don''t believe he (hussein) is (ready to be president). The presidency is not something that leads itself to on-the-job-training".
Biden: " I would be honored to run with or against John McCain. He''d leave the country better off."
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What makes a black person think that a democrat is out for him.
A democrat will pay to kill a black baby.
This is the truth!
At 72 he has more brains than you!
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Go have a Belgianweiser, serious Republicans are concerned.
At 72 he has more brains than you!
Posted by republic1776 at 05:06 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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And anger management issues and onset Alzheimers and - recurring deadly skin cancer.
Unelectable.
EXPLAIN DEMOCRATS!
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Posted by republic1776
You right wing-nuts aren''t smart enough to realize that you are trying to force your beliefs on everyone. That is the stuff that the Taliban and Al-Queda are made of. In short... if you truly believe abortion is murder, DON''T GET ONE!!!!!
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Screeching wingnut that think killing is OK as long as he approves of it.
Vote Obama, for the true communist!
Can you wipe my nose as well as my Arse, Mr. Obama?
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We didnt Fight Socialism and Communism in the Past to have snot nose kids bring it Back.
Mcccain 08
ps - How is Obama lawsuit going?
Vote Obama, for the true communist!
Can you wipe my nose as well as my Arse, Mr. Obama?
Posted by republic1776 at 05:09 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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Yawn. Bumpkin Screecher.
It''s ok to kill?
By your book!
Posted by jackDems at 05:10 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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Its irrelevant. Hawaii has already made its determiniation. And as a State''s Rights Issue - a used to be Republican Platform Issue - its settled.
Think McLiverspot has been back to his Native Panama lately?
A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.
Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery (PA) County, former member of the Democratic State Committee, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. According to Berg, he filed the suit--just days before the DNC is to hold its nominating convention in Denver--for the health of the Democratic Party.
"I filed this action at this time," Berg stated, "to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated.".
Berg cited a number of unanswered questions regarding the Illinois senator''s background, and in today''s lawsuit maintained that Sen. Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen or that, if he ever was, he lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia.
Obama is NOT a POOR MAN!
5 Million Bucks last year.
Liberal suck MooseDick!
Bumpkin Belgianweiser drinkers.
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Fake republican. Thought they were gonna have the United States of Jesusland and they failed.
A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii as the senator maintains. Before giving birth, according to the lawsuit, Obama''s mother traveled to Kenya with his father but was prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy, "apparently a normal restriction to avoid births during a flight." As Sen. Obama''s own paternal grandmother, half-brother and half-sister have also claimed, Berg maintains that Stanley Ann Dunham--Obama''s mother--gave birth to little Barack in Kenya and subsequently flew to Hawaii to register the birth.
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You sound desperate. Real Republican see this as a problem.
Check out this closet Neocon McCains website, then tell US why anybody would support this guy. Is it that some like McCains plans to restart the cold war with Russia and China?
How bout that McCain wants to increase the US Military Welfare budget?
Or maybe some like the Republicon cult position supported by McCain that encourages your employer to dump your employee health care plan?
After viewing johnmccain.com I am at a loss as to why anybody would support John McCain for president. Oh well, as I have said before that at least 45% of the US population has no right living in a democracy. Too DUMB, too gullible, and definately not fit for a democracy.
Darwin, has his fate for you and your family tree.
YOU ARE STUPID!
Darwin, has his fate for you and your family tree.
YOU ARE STUPID!
Posted by republic1776 at 05:22 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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Yawn. Go wait for the rapture.
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This is better than anything anybody could make up:
Biden: "...right now I don''t believe he (hussein) is (ready to be president). The presidency is not something that leads itself to on-the-job training".
Biden: " I would be honored to run with or against John McCain. He''d leave the country better off."
Biden: hussein is ""the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
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Socialism/Communism is NOT an Excuse!
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Yawn. Go have a Belgianweiser.
Waiting for the Rapture is NOT an Excuse!
Posted by republic1776 at 05:25 PM : Aug 23, 2008
You suck the chickinCock.
You are NOT a MAN
Ronald Reagan was a man!
You suck the chickinCock.
You are NOT a MAN
Ronald Reagan was a man!
Posted by republic1776 at 05:27 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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Yawn with Nap. Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer''s too and it showed. He was the downfall of the Republican Party.
I am NOT a republican.
I do not believe in a bible God!
BUT, I have Morales, you don''t ****!
Obama is NOT a POOR MAN!
5 Million Bucks last year.
Liberal suck MooseDick!
Posted by republic1776
Hahahaha wow how profound--is that the way they talk around the trailer park?
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Posted by nextGenMan at 05:28 PM : Aug 23, 2008
Dude you have been on this forum ALLLLL DAAAAY.
Do you not have a life? Seriously!
I am NOT a republican.
I do not believe in a bible God!
BUT, I have Morales, you don''''t ****!
Posted by republic1776 at 05:29 PM : Aug 23, 2008
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Morales....is that like Tamales?
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