Where's Biden?

For better or worse, no one gives a damn what an old white guy has to say. Even if it's questioning his own running mate, ironically.
 
Palin keeps talking about what she's done, and Biden keeps talking about what Obama's done. he's a pawn.
 
Biden is just stumping for Obama and for the most part, is already known quantity to the press. There's just nothing there of interest, no scandal, for the most part.
 
Biden is just stumping for Obama and for the most part, is already known quantity to the press. There's just nothing there of interest, no scandal, for the most part.

Drudge was making an issue that he hasn't had a press conference or interview in a while. I think Drudge is getting frustrated that for once he's not able to spin the news cycle.
 
It's better to keep him under lock and key so he does not jeopardize Obama's chances to win the election with his grafs.
 
To reduce the potential gaffes
 
You get a lot of media coverage by being new and change.
You get a lot of media coverage by being presidential candidate.

Thus:
Obama gets double media coverage
Palin gets a lot of media coverage
McCain gets a lot of media coverage
Biden gets none.
 
He's campaigning. The media just likes talking about Palin more. Who wouldn't with all the stupid things she says!
 
I mostly see/hear him in McCain commercials. Does he work for the McCain campaign now? I thought he was still Obama's VP nom but it does not sound like it.

He said Obama was underqualified and that Obama's inexperience would invite an international crisis in his first six months. Are those things true or is Biden a liar? He also said that he was a poor choice of VP and Hillary would have been better, so that's why I wonder if he still is.

One still needs to speak Indian (as if that's a language) to go into a Quickie Mart, right? I haven't had a slurpee since Biden's warning.

Anyway, here's a blogger's rundown of Biden's latest gaffes (which, if he was Palin would cause him to be labeled a total idiot).

Spoiler :
Asked by NBC's Meredith Vieira whether the Fed should bail out insurance giant AIG, the senator said no: "I don't think they should be bailed out by the federal government." Unfortunately, the remark had more in common with McCain's initial position on the bailout (instinctive opposition) than Obama's carefully cultivated claim that he would not "second-guess" the government. When the bailout went through, both Biden and McCain bowed to reality. But the shift left Obama in a tricky position--as Matt Lauer pointed out this morning on "Today." Noting that Obama had been hitting McCain for flip-flopping on the AIG bailout, Lauer asked the Illinois senator how he could criticize his Republican rival when his own running mate had made the same mistake. His answer? "I think Joe should have waited, as well." Awkward.


The past few days have been even worse. Speaking Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Biden not only acknowledged that the wealthy would pay higher taxes if if he and Obama won the White House but said that doing so would be "patriotic." "It's time to be patriotic," he said. "Time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut." Whether or not you agree with that sentiment, emphasizing that Obama would raise rates on rich folks (instead of saying that he'd lower them on the middle-classes) was clearly off-message--and the "patriotism" sound bite gave the GOP something catchy to hang its "redistribution of wealth" hat on. Accompanied by a sarcastic ad, McCain's response was scathing: "Raising taxes in a tough economy isn't patriotic. It's not a badge of honor. It's just dumb policy." Expect to hear more on Biden's idea of patriotism before Nov. 4.

Incredibly, though, the senator seems to have saved the worst for last. Asked last night by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden delivered what has to be most off-message statement yet: that one of his campaign's own ads--the spot released earlier this month mocking McCain for not being able to use a computer--was "terrible." "I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it," he said. The campaign was soon forced to issue a less-than-convincing clarification in Biden's name. (Apparently he'd "never seen" the ad.") Meanwhile, video surfaced this morning of Biden telling a rope-line environmentalist in Ohio that he and Obama "are not supporting clean coal" in America--even though Obama, well, is. McCain quickly pounced, using Biden's error to pivot away from Wall Street and make the case that Democrats don't support comprehensive energy solutions; conference calls and ads are in the works. Biden may have opposed the technology in the primaries--he's on record as saying "clean-coal ... is not the route to go in the United States"--but he should probably brush up on his briefing books (or pay attention to his own speeches) now that his boss disagrees.

Don't get me wrong. I think that the GOP should take a page from Chicago's book and stop sequestering Palin from the press and the public as if she were a show pony instead of a potential vice president. And I hate that "gaffes"--often little more than trivialities--tend to dominate the political conversation in this country. But Biden's latest spree is more than an irrelevant testament to his uncontrollable verbosity. It's actually making Obama's message on substantive matters like taxes, energy, AIG and McCain more difficult to hear. In an election, that hurts the candidate more than anyone else. But what happens if Obama and Biden are elected? Having a vice president who's eager to hold forth on any subject--even when what he's saying bears no relation to administration policy--could get pretty complicated. Distracting a campaign is one thing. Distracting a president, a political party and, by extension, the country? Awkward doesn't quite cover it.

In the primaries, the senator showed an admirable sense of self-conscious restraint. Asked during the first Democratic debate whether he'd have the "discipline" he'd "need on the world stage," Biden delivered the perfect answer: "Yes." Nothing more, nothing less.


Obama might want to remind him of that exchange the next time they talk.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/23/biden-turns-on-the-gaffe-machine.aspx

In case you are actually interested in an answer.
 
Under lock and key and told to shut the hell up before his mouth sinks the election.

Holy crap!! I was thinking the same thing!! :eek:
 
There is no reason for a high profile Biden. Clearly Obama is up to the task of carrying the election on his own merits. McCain is not and a bad choice for VP has now become his worst nightmare. He is reaching the "pathetic" stage.
 
Is it that Palin is too weird or bad or is it that Biden is too good. By all vice presidents threads there is almost none about Biden.

Let's see...

This forum is VERY left wing (given that it is the internet and, further, international)...

Everytime Palin scratches her butt, there is a new thread about how she did not do it properly...

Surely this must be because she is so bad, but let's not also forget that it is because Biden is too good. Surely it is not that there are about 5 republicans to the 500 liberals on this site and in general repubs are not as gossip-oriented.
 
Well, it's not true that this forum is overwhelmingly liberal. The fact that it's international also helps to add numbers to the conservative side. There are a few Chicom-capitalists (very capitalist but support the oppressive Chinese government) in this forum, for example.
 
And even though it's liberal, (of which you can define as a generic "liberal", e.g. both market and social liberals) there's a surprisingly low amount of socialists and communists, even from what you would expect in an average forum.

Granted, there's not a lot of evangelicals here, but most evangelicals wouldn't visit this forum anyway.
 
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