What if...

barry were the white Republican VP candidate? Would he have been judged to be ready to be president?

And after Biden's unbelievable comments that barry "is gonna need help" (successfully hidden by the pro-obama media's focus on wardrobe inanity) has the media been questioning whether Biden is fit to be vice president? Or whether the Hall of Fame plagiarist and daily gaffer is fit to be president?

When was his last press conference? "Caribou Barbie" is a ditzball from the wilderness vs "Oh, that's just Joe", who has been around for 36 years and still can't get his mouth under control. Drag on the party vs Hidin' Biden. And who is allowing him to hide? The pro-obama media. The pro-obama media bias is so ridiculously blatant this website is obsolete...perhaps that's why my fellow citizens have abandoned me and the subscribers...

Biden quote of the day: "Are you kidding me?!"

October 23, 2008
Interview of Joe Biden via satellite by Barbara West of WFTV. She has a strange interviewing techniques where she sounds like she's reading not talking to someone live. I can see why he was a little weirded out to begin with and then the questions were right from Limbaugh. Video courtesy of techvids 052oo6 via AmericasNewsToday.Org

[....]
BIDEN: We haven't paid ACORN a single penny to register a single voter. [in the general election - primaries absolutely.]

WEST: But in the past--

BIDEN: They're the facts!

WEST: But in the past Senator Obama was a Community organizer for ACORN, he was a lawyer for ACORN--

[Obama served ACORN and it's associates as an attorney on voter registration and on cases involving subprime mortgages that lead to this current financial crisis.]

BIDEN laughs.

WEST: ...and certainly in the senate he was a benefactor for ACORN.

BIDEN: (Indignant) How's he been a benefactor of ACORN? (Like he truly doesn't know.) He was organizer. John McCain stood before ACORN not long ago complimenting them on the great work they do. Does that make John McCain complicitous in any mistake ACORN has made? Are you kidding me?? C'mon, let's get real here!

West smiles like she's got him now. They discuss Joe the Plumber and spreading the wealthy around and whether Obama made a "crushing political blunder". Biden says, "Absolutely not!" And then goes on about middle class and taxes.

WEST: You may recognize this famous quote (I wasn't sure if she meant it was one he plagiarized. Joe Biden is in the Plagiarism Hall of Fame.) "From each according to his abilities - to each according to their needs." That's from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

BIDEN: Are you joking? (He blinks and gives his classic I'm going to eat you little girl grin.) Is this a joke?

WEST: No.

BIDEN: Is that a real question?

WEST: Yes.

BIDEN: He looks down and does that grin like listen here girlie. He's entertaining even when he's patronizing.) He's not talking about spreading the wealth around. He's talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get the tax breaks they used to have......that's what we think. It's a ridiculous comparison, with all due respect. (Too late, Joe.)

WEST: You recently said: 'Mark my words...

BIDEN nods his head, clenches his mouth and licks his lips...too late...they've already flapped.

WEST: ...it will not be six months till the world tests Barack Obama.' But what worries many people is your caveat asking them to stand with him because it's not going to be apparent initially that he is right. Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done and..

BIDEN puffs up his chest and leans forward in his seat.

WEST:...that America's days as the world's leading power are over?

BIDEN: (Barely able to contain himself. The question was designed to provoke him. Is this a FOX affiliate? He closes his eyes and shakes his head. The Obama camp must have been ready to shock his dog collar) No. I am not at all. I don't know who is writing your questions (like even you a dumb blond couldn't come up with these.) - but let me make it clear. The fact of the matter is that everyone has acknowledge from Colin Powell down that the next president of the United States will be tested." He goes on comparing BO & JM and the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea. "Barack Obama's been right. John McCain has been wrong. That was my point. Barack Obama is more ready than John McCain."

[Even for Biden that is a stretch - though he tried to sound convincing.]

WEST: Getting back to the spreading the wealth question...

BIDEN has that incredulous look like how dumb is this broad?

WEST: What do you say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama is going to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?

BIDEN: (He doesn't even other to dignify it.) I don't know anyone who believes that except the far right wing of the Republican Party. (Get me to the hell out of here.)

WEST: Thank you, Senator Biden.

Video cuts off so we can't see what he said.

UPDATE on post interview happenings.

Gaffe of the day: "Gird your loins!"

October 19, 2008
Seattle, Washington
Joe Biden goes bidengaffer in his two weekend fundraisers. He warns that barry will be challenged within 6 months (I think he'll be challenged January 21st - if not before.) by an international crisis. And then goes into his usual verbal perambulations and 15 minutes in it dawns on him that the press is there. Where else would they be? They probably have daily bets - like Cubfans did predicting Piniella's first blowup. Somebody's making a lot of money.

Partial audio courtesy of DhimmiTube666
(10-20) ABC News' MATTHEW JAFFE: (Emphasis added.)

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.

"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Not apparent initially? This makes me think he already knows what is going to happen. And what isn't he going to be right about? Iran? Palestine? Korea? Or is he directly referring to Cuba again?

"Gird your loins. We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."

"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has. This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."

This sounds like a stump speech. Who was in the crowd? He's talking about buyer's remorse. Must have had a lot of Hillraisers in the group. Certainly couldn't have been a lot of ignorant bots with the reference to girding your loins and the Augean stables. (Cleaning out the Augean Stables was the fifth labor of Hercules.)

"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'. Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."

He's talking like he knows what's going to happen and that he knows what the decisions will be and that they might not be popular. Makes you wonder if that's why Colin Powell has jumped ship. That's another post.

Biden emphasized that the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border is of particular concern, with Osama bin Laden "alive and well" and Pakistan "bristling with nuclear weapons."

"You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region," Biden said in recalling when his helicopter was forced down due to a snowstorm there. "The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real."

"We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes," he cautioned. "It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."

"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here."

"All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place," he then said of the Bush regime, promptly wrapping up his remarks. "We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."

He's well-educated but lacks a filter. I think he's right but it will come sooner than six months. It may come in the intervening months between the election and the inauguration.

Gaffe of the day: I have a much higher IQ than you!

September 1987 Claremont, CA
A very different looking but the same talking Biden on the stump for his first presidential bid. Which ended several days later because of plagiarism.

Video courtesy of 9195340
Unfortunately we don't get to hear the question but Biden's answer says it all. He's pointing at a man: "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do - I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one, the only one in my class to have a full scholarship."

In college he was 506/688 so where did the full academic scholarship come from? Law school scholarships for Dummies? He graduated law school 76/85.

I found this interesting quote on wiki: "The accident left Biden filled with both anger and religious doubt: "I liked to [walk around seedy neighborhoods] at night when I thought there was a better chance of finding a fight ... I had not known I was capable of such rage ... I felt God had played a horrible trick on me."

And: "According to political analyst Mark Halperin, he has also shown "a persistent tendency to say silly, offensive, and off-putting things"

His words written and spoken have gotten him in trouble. Plagiarism and verbal gaffes. Why stop now? Obama chose him over Sen Clinton and each time Biden does these things it makes that decision look exactly what it was: hate of Hillary and the need to be the smartest on the ticket.

Obama's "surprise" appearance at the Convention

Obama's Convention "surprise" appearance. Here is where his absolute egomania and Messiah Complex was on full display. He had to have the last word. He came out and was greeted by a crowd frenzy...because he had deigned to visit the peasants in their hovel before his heralded entrance in front of the styrofoam pillars. How ridiculous that all seems now.

Anyway. He came out and gave a huge disgusting vacuum kiss to Mrs Biden that she couldn't away from fast enough and Joe stepped in in front of her. Then he gave Joe a hug and almost kiss on the lips. He said: "That was unbelievable. Trust me." He had this caveman predatory grin on his face and they were looking at each other's lips. Creepy. Then he took in his adoration. Anyone struck by the fact that Mrs Obama was not down there? So then come the thanks to the peasants.

"I just wanted to come out here for a little...(he catches himself from saying adoration) for a little something to say. I want everyone to now understand why I am so proud to have Joe Biden and Jill Biden and Beaus Biden and Momma Biden and the whole Biden family with me on this journey to take America back." (He points forward and then looks to the right at the Mrs.) "I think that Michelle Obama kicked it off pretty well dontcha think?

'If I'm not mistaken Hillary Clinton rocked the house last night."

He uses if I'm not mistaken like he did "she'd be on anyone's short list" - not his. He doesn't directly thank her. He can't look at her and turns his head to the right, purses his lips and takes three steps back, showing his complete disdain--hate for her. How dare she stop the messiah on his way to conquering the world? This is when his (lack of character) came through without a doubt. He never personally thanks her and looks up but not at her. She of course is gracious and mouths 'thank you'. Then he puts his nose in the air and starts clapping falsely looking to the left. He really has hate for white women of his mother's age...except Jill Biden.

"And just in case you were wondering, (he looks left and right) I think, President Bill Clinton reminded us of what it's like when you've got a president who actually puts people (me and the black community although I will never admit that) first." He looks up directly, makes 2-second eye contact, puts up his left hand, "Thank you, Mr President." and looks away to his left.

Bill Clinton bows and mouths 'thank you' with (not at all loyal) Charlie Rengel to his left clapping. Obama fake smile. He goes on to explain why they're going to a stadium. He wants everyone to join in the party.

**"That change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."

So the celebrating begins and he basks in the adoration even allowing others to rejoice in his messiah's glow. He leans over and says to Biden: '"I had to come." From Biden's reaction (negative) I took it to mean that he had to show up to thank "The Clintons" officially in public.

The chosen one deigns to shake hands with the democratic peasants in the receiving line - all with their adoring glazed-eyed looks mouthing or saying thank you! Nancy Pelosi stands like a proud mother and looks primed for a big kiss. She puts her hands out palms up like, see, I told you - I did it - you must thank me and he does by giving her a kiss on the right cheek and she leans forward and crushes him with her silicon breasts.

He gives John Kerry a big old handshake and then he gets to Howard Dean who says: "Great job, man. I appreciate it." And the Mrs is up in the crowd cheering an Obama doesn't even invite her down - or make sure she is brought down.

There's no doubt they told Obama he had to show up and they were thanking him because he did. It made me sick knowing that SHRC was cheated out of the nomination and that will be proven very soon. And what will it be chalked up to? THAT woman - not sexism or affirmative action. And who is going to suffer? The American People that Obama really does not care about.

Gregory with the very disturbing mouth to Daschel: The notion that a former president would stand up here who has specifically criticized bo and said it was a roll of the dice to make him the president has been very tepid before tonight about whether he was prepared to be president.

Afterwards came the breakdown with Daschel who said: "I think tonight was the answer to the critics from last night. I though Hillary Clinton gave the speech of her life last night. But all through the day I heard some comment that ya know she could have said a little more about Barack Obama personally - tonight Bill Clinton hit it out of the park....Clinton was exactly on the mark. This was a home run TONIGHT....He proved he was a very successful president."

**UPDATE. I had heard this particular quote almost verbatim before so I checked and found a few interesting things.

Interview with Studs Terkel 5-16-2007 by Amy Goodman
TERKEL (a Chicago legend): "...because ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things"

Found on Steve Chase's "The Well-Trained Activist blogsite:

He wrote a review on "We Make Change" a book about community organizers written community organizer Joe Szakos and writer/editor Kristin Layng Szakos. Note that the term "community organizer" is not a code word for Obama being black.

Deepak Bhargave, Executive Director the Center for Community Change in Chicago who Obama knows personally, held the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum (12-1-07), which featured Obama who pledged to work with ACORN. He commented on the book prior to the post 6-17-07 using these words:

"We Make Change is an inspiring, optimistic book about the people who are doing the hard, creative work to renew American democracy. It puts a spotlight on community organizers, who are the neglected and hidden heroes that are developing the capacity of ordinary people to do extraordinary things. In these difficult and dark times, this book provides hope for the future of America. It should inspire thousands of people to find their calling in organizing.

But most importantly, Harry Emerson Fosdick:

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Famous Plagiarists: Biden

Interesting website that mentions in detail Joe Biden, whose plagiarism didn't start or end with his failed presidential run in 1987. He is considered a Code Red = Severe Risk by Famous Plagiarists.com (What would happen if I didn't attribute them? And how can they keep up with the internet?) and has the distinction of being in the Plagiarism Hall of Fame. Why would a guy who can spout words for hours need to borrow anyone else's?

Where is barry? Maybe they're waiting to put out a presidential anthology featuring just Obama and his speech writers.

Nina Totenberg, 64

I have grown to hate the MSM because of their obvious pro-Obama propaganda and corruption and this lady pisses me off. She snitched on Douglas Ginsberg so he couldn't be a Supreme Court judge and now we have a presidential candidate who admits to that and cocaine. She plagiarized members of Congress and then said: "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."

And for Ginsberg what did that mean?

On Senator Jesse Helms: "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will."

On General William Boykin: "I hope he's not long for this world." After a rebuke, corrected herself: "No, no. I mean, in his job. In his job, in his job, please, in his job."

Don't get me started on the hatemonger, Keith Boykin. For a gay man one would think he would be more sensitive to hateful things and the effect it has on both the speaker and the on spoken to.

Anything that gets followed by 'I mean, I meant, that wasn't what I meant, I meant it a different way, I didn't mean to' is more of the lie. You mean what you say and mean = mean in both senses of the word. You are just sorry other people heard it and called you out.