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!
The re imagining of Biden as an intellectual heavyweight who fights for the common man is amusing. I remember him as the Senator from MNBA who got caught plagiarizing.— RG
I don't expect any fireworks during this VP debate. The fireworks will come when Obama pilots a few drone strikes inside of Libya right before his second debate starts.— m13sully- MSL I think the proper nomenclature you are looking for is -- a taker. Paul Ryan was a "taker". Anyway the Paul Ryan very serious, astute fiscal wonk image is a farce and his economic plan is a fraud and it'll be interesting to see if the Democratic strategists decide to have VP Biden in junkyard dog mode. But seriously, it bears repeating - Ryan is fraud.— Murrayman
- "Biden has forgotten more than Paul Ryan has ever known".
Dorky- Ryan is the man with the plan, agree or disagree, that is one of his major focuses. 'Ol Joe really never knew that much except of course asking a guy in a wheelchair to "stand up". And making racist statements about folks working at 7-11, just to name a few. You'd better hope he wins because if he doesn't, as you Libs always say.."the election is over" only not the way you hoped!!! LOL!!! It will be very interesting to see the reaction of folks under 40 when they look at these two guys and see who they relate to most because, for that group, looks are everything!!!— sarah89 - This is a really bad news day for the Republicans. First the congressional hearing made to look Obama look bad enticed a Washington Post reporter to bring front and center the fact that is was the *Republicans* who shot down extra security funds for embassies overseas, making them vulnerable to exactly the attacks that happened. Then in those same hearings yesterday, the R's revealed a secret CIA base in Benghazi.
Then yesterday, the mother of a Navy SEAL killed in the attack asked Romney to stop using a story of how he met her son before he was killed. In Ohio, today, Romney repeated the story!
So, the R's gave embassy security people the finger long before the Benghazi attack, they reveal a CIA base in the Benghazi area that could have protected future diplomats, and today Romney gives the mother of one of the brave men who died in the attack the finger.
Ya gotta love how these creeps wrap themselves in the flag and then $%^&* on the American people.— Hamlet - "But seriously, it bears repeating - Ryan is fraud." . . . . . Well, score one for Biden tonight if Ryan is compelled to deny he's a disciple of Ayn Rand.— montani semper liberi
- And, BTW, Mr. Vice President, please use everything I said below in your attacks tonight. You have to REPRESENT, Joe! Reveal just who the Republicans really are...enemies of every American who isn't a billionaire.
I want to see Paul Ryan cry on stage tonight...— Hamlet - Nice try, Hamlet. Unfortunately, for the Dems there is clear evidence that the admin continued to blame the violence on people protesting a video long after it was clear there was no such protest.
And your story about cutting funds doesn't fly:
"Democrats argued Republicans shouldn’t be advocating for increased security in foreign countries when they have voted in the past years to cut funding for just that. The only problem is that while 147 Republicans voted to cut that funding, 149 Democrats voted to do the same."
— RG - That's your argument for why these hearings should continue? Go back to Freeperland. You have been poorly prepped today.— Hamlet
- Oh, RG...what was the super-patriot reason for revealing the CIA base in Benghazi? Lets see you spin that one.— Hamlet
- And I wouldn't trot out the mother, as she's still demanding answers from the admin who have stonewalled her so far. Watch the video.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/international/2012/10/11/ac-smith-son-killed-in-libya-attack.cnn— RG - "That's your argument for why these hearings should continue?"
Hamlet, another long line of Democrats who don't give a cr-p about accountability.— RG - One more thing...if you want to see a movie about a philosophy you have been advocating for years without having read anything about it, Atlas Shrugged is now coming out as a movie.
Just a little tip from your Uncle Hamlet.— Hamlet - Whose poorly prepped, Hamlet? You are completely clueless that both parties voted against extra funds, and are claiming the mother is a benefit for the admin, when she's going on TV and claiming that she hasn't gotten any answers from the administration.
Seriously, get a new set of talking points. As always, you are clueless on almost every topic, debt ceiling history, effective tax rates, the Benghazi attack and aftermath, everything.— RG - "Atlas Shrugged is now coming out as a movie."
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.— RG
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