Here comes Joey Boo Boo
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Here comes Joey Boo Boo
Keep your shirt on, Democrats. They've called in their clean-up hitter:
SO WHICH Vice President Joe Biden will show up in Kentucky for Thursday night's critical debate?
Will it be . . . a) the shirtless "Joe Biden" who washes his Trans Am in the White House driveway, who offers guitar lessons on fliers outside the Oval Office, who wore a ponytail to the 2008 inauguration and once headed off to Mexico to cool his heels for a while?
Or will it be . . . b) the vice president who dropped an F-bomb on his boss the day that health-care reform passed, who said the middle class has been "buried" during President Obama's years in office, who once claimed that Franklin Roosevelt addressed the nation on television after the 1929 Wall Street crash (four years before FDR's presidency and a decade before TV) and who posed with that biker lady on his lap?
Or . . . c) the Joe Biden that can fire up a union hall with talk of his Irish-American roots in blue-collar Scranton, a happy warrior who blasts the Republican ticket for wanting to replace Medicare with "Vouchercare" and defends the Obama administration with the line that "Bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive"?
Look, I'm sure if FDR was able to go on TV and calm a jittery nation in 1929 that Biden can have the same impact on President Obama's re-election.
I'll be talking the debate on the Twitter machine tonight and then writing about it on the bark of trees that are right now being crushed into pulp in order to bring the news to people without electricity. See you then!
Both Nordstrom and Wood testified that there was a shortfall insecurity and that Nordstrom had asked multiple times for more security only to be rebuffed. Add in Stevens journal where he expresses concern over the potential for violence and its fairly evident that more could have ben done to protect the consulate.
Mistakes happen, but when they are compounded by nonsensical insistence that the attack was due to a protest that never happened, an investigation is needed to see who knew what and when.— RG- Gee, look at the disconnect:
"We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11," said Charlene Lamb, the deputy secretary of state for diplomatic security.
She noted there had been five diplomatic security agents in Benghazi at the time of the attack, as well as extra security staff.
However, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Wednesday that in hindsight there was "no question that the security was not enough to prevent that tragedy from happening".— RG - Obama didn't have enough money to secure the consulate in Benghazi, but he had enough money for 6 secret service agents to protect family friend Valerie Jarrett.— Mr. Smith
- I love how the left portrays him to be just an average blue collar guy when in fact he is part of the 1%. He is bought and paid for by special interest just like most politicians.— Taxpaying Voter
- //Look, I'm sure if FDR was able to go on TV and calm a jittery nation in 1929 that Biden can have the same impact on President Obama's re-election.///
Biden is no FDR. I can't believe the two names were even in the same sentence.
However, I do think Biden will do well tonight. He has a lot of debate experience, especially on the presidential level. He is the quintessential politician, he knows soundbites and spin and knows how to dance around the issue, saying everything but essentially saying nothing that can be pinned down. Ryan is going to stick to numbers and figures, which might be accurate but that doesn't matter because numbers and figures don't stir emotion. Biden is good at emotion.
Now, if he gets asked a question about 7-11 owners, that's a totally different thing.— General Turgidson - "A son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware, during the years the senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups."
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-4383490.html— RG - According to reports at the time, consumer advocates charged that Biden “provided cover” for other Democrats to back the bill. The then-Delaware senator voted for the bankruptcy reform legislation four times, including in 2005, when it finally passed and was signed into law. He also opposed attempts to force credit card companies to warn consumers about high interest rates.
Biden, not surprisingly, was also raking in lots of campaign cash at the time from home state financial firms such as MBNA. Delaware is a safe haven for these firms because of the state’s lax laws allowing them to charge high interest rates and pay less in taxes.
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20221011joes_swipe_at_middle_class— RG - RG, that's very interesting if not old news, but just imagine what a comparably ranking Republican senator from bank-controlled Delaware would have done with bankruptcy reform.— montani semper liberi
- so you are resorting to "what if" ? pretty sad — Tom813
- "More cluelessness from hamlet. You see those two captial i's in the title? Means its a sequel and that the first one has been out awhile. "
I make a quip and RG nitpicks it without addressing what I was saying (because he can't). If you really want to get me, why don't you say The Fountainhead has been out as a movie for over 50 years? (probably because you don't know what The Fountainhead is)— Hamlet - So MSLs rebuttal is to imagine an alternate reality.— RG
- "probably because you don't know what The Fountainhead is"
First you told me I was a Rand disciple, until I corrected you on how I never read Rand. Now, you're trying to insult me for not knowing enough Rand. Your idiocy knows no bounds.— RG - Yeah, Hamlet, you're supposed to remember box office flops like Atlas Shrugged I.— montani semper liberi
RG and his right wing buddies still harping on the Benghazi attack. They claim, or at the least, insinuate that the Obama Administration didn't heed requests for more security in Libya.
I watched that whole hearing. That issue was addressed. At the end of the day, the requests that were made were fulfilled, and the additional security that could have been provided wouldn't have prevented the attack. That's not the answer that the Republican Party wanted to hear.
I wonder if RG and others will tell us what they learned from the hearing...— wokmaster- "So MSLs rebuttal is to imagine an alternate reality." . . . The GOP is an altertnate reality? LOL, tell me about it.— montani semper liberi
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