Biden Unloads

[bryant]

I believe that's why Senator McCain could say with a straight face, as recently as this morning, and I quote "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." That, "We've made great progress economically" during the Bush years. But friends, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn't run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain.

John McCain just doesn't seem to understand what middle class people are going through today. I don't doubt that he cares. He just doesn't think that we have any responsibility to help people who are hurting.

Full speech here.

Comments

[bdeakin.livejournal.com]

I do think Biden was setting expectations low for his performance in the VP debate so he could unload and make a splash (which is risky but might garner him a little star power, which Palin definitely has in spades). We hear a lot about how Biden isn't the best orator, but he's been doing this long enough that he should know how to take care of bidness.

[bluegargantua]

My big question is: Why isn't Hilary taking Palin apart like a tinkertoy?

later
Tom

[marith.livejournal.com]

I think if she did the media would cast it as a catfight, and unfair because Hillary isn't on the ticket.

[bdeakin.livejournal.com]

Hillary has basically been instructed not to go after Palin, IIRC.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Because if she was the point woman for attacks, the media would cast it as a catfight and frenzy about that and about how Hillary was such a mean bitch and just jellus because Palin might be the first female president

CNN is already treating her as the missing white woman of the day; it runs in the break room at work and every time I walk in, it's talking about Palin or running Palin doing her stump speech or McCain talking about Palin.

[touchofwinter.livejournal.com]

I read that whole thing. Good stuff. I like the idea of Biden as an active VP. I really do.

Let's see Palin write up something like that.

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

The clip (which was on CNN) is now all over the internets. Basically in the speech he says:

- taxpayers should butt out because "we got it"
- the economy is "fundamentally strong"
- they are going to "clean up wall street"

how they are going to "clean up wall street" seems interesting because i am not sure that either mccain or palin understands what is going on at all. the remarks strike me as naive and clueless.

i wasn't thrilled with the obama campaign response, either. but their non-response is better than "the economy is fundamentally strong."

it is president bush who came out today and started, baby steps, started to acknowledge that perhaps there is a meltdown going on. but his remarks just sounded deer in headlights scared. (I didn't see the clip.)

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

The truly "high-larious" part about McCain's comments on the economy is that, while saying things like the above, he's also running an ad claiming that the economy is "in crisis". And McCain's solution is still to cut taxes on the Wall Street CEOs making the decisions. Why can't the Dems manage to nail these guys as flip-flopping out-of-touch nincompoops?