Veep Steaks

I thought Sarah Palin looked like a Caribou caught in the crosshairs for the first half hour, but there were times when she ate Biden's lunch.

Just like John McCain, she found her footing and took off.

I'm not sure why Palin's lapel mic seemed to be the only one on before and after the debate (Can I call you Joe?) .

I was glad that she got in the McCain warning two years ago, regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was good she mentioned Obama has voted the Democrat party line 96% of the time, I believe it's more like 97%, that's clearly not bipartisanship.

She scored in our household with...

"Don't live outside our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all of this."

When Biden went off about "deregulation", Palin should have reminded Biden that he voted for banking deregulation in 1999 and it was signed into law by Bill Clinton.

Senator Biden you can choose to call it fairness, but it is a redistibution of wealth!

Since 2000, tax cuts have taken 13 million filers off of the income tax rolls. Today, one-third of all filers have no federal income tax liability and nearly 40% of all federal income taxes are now paid by the top 1% of taxpayers (60% by the top 5%).

How's that for fairness?

Biden continues to lie, the AP disproved it last week, about McCain's $5,000 health care tax credit...For most families, that tax credit would for several years be more generous than the current tax break for employer-sponsored health insurance.

Biden was also critical of it going "straight to the insurance company".

Isn't that where you buy insurance?

I thought Biden's response to the question of "what promises have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you're not going to be able to keep?"

Biden: "Well, the one thing we might have to slow down is a commitment we made to double foreign assistance. We'll probably have to slow that down."

Biden then went on to talk about how they wouldn't implement any of McCain's campaign proposals?

Joe Biden gaffe...John McCain said as early as last December, quote -- I'm paraphrasing

You can't paraphrase a quote and the scientific community is united in that fact, maybe he meant plagiarizing?

On energy, Biden and Obama mouth that we need to drill domestically, but as Palin pointed out...

"Barack Obama and Sen. Biden, you've said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. You even called drilling -- safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the outer continental shelf".

Biden lied when talking about clean coal technology..."I have always supported it. That's a fact".

He said his comments regarding in Ohio were taken out of context, you be the judge...

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. (Meaning China) Make them clean."

"We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama.

She came close to my point yesterday, Debate Day, when she called Biden out for supporting the war and then opposing it and even got in Biden's face with the fact it was a war resolution.

I find it odd that Democrats have trouble waging war against people that are trying to kill us, al-Qaeda, but have no trouble committing Americans into battle in places like Darfur.

I loved Palins closing statement...

I like being able to answer these tough questions without the filter, even, of the mainstream media kind of telling viewers what they've just heard. I'd rather be able to just speak to the American people like we just did.

And it's so important that the American people know of the choices that they have on November 4th.

I want to assure you that John McCain and I, we're going to fight for America. We're going to fight for the middle-class, average, everyday American family like mine.

I've been there. I know what the hurts are. I know what the challenges are. And, thank God, I know what the joys are, too, of living in America. We are so blessed. And I've always been proud to be an American. And so has John McCain.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

We will fight for it, and there is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and that's Sen. John McCain.

Chris mentioned several times that Biden is good at talking, it must be that 35 years of experience in the U.S. Senate where all they do is talk, and she couldn't keep up with all the figures flowing from his lips.

Well, figures lie and liars figure!

Best Biden Ever

It appears Joe Biden measured up(?) to Barack Obama's high standards.

Obama bypassed what I believed was the safe pick (Bayh Bayh Biden)and did go with someone who'll be a challenge.

I can only hope Joseph ROBINETTE Biden Jr. will spend a lot of time in Iowa, it's the scene of a few of Biden's Best and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In an Iowa debate, in his 1988 Presidential bid, Biden plagiarized Neil Kinnock almost word for word from a Kinnock TV commercial designed to evoke memories of the British class struggle.

Where Kinnock's coal-mining ancestors worked "eight hours underground," Biden's somewhat mythical forebears "would come up after twelve hours." Biden in the past had given credit to Kinnock, but in Iowa he introduced the fiery rhetoric by deceptively claiming, "I started thinking as I was coming over here . . ."

He was in Iowa, he would have been better off thinking of Nile Kinnick.

Last year, in Des Moines, Biden was on the money when he said...Americans must not vote for inexperienced, likeable presidential candidates, then hope the winner can get up to speed after the election.

While trying to tell kids at Des Moines East High that he would be "the education president unlike any president has in American history", Biden referred three times to Iowa's Junior Senator as Tom Harkins.

Biden and Harkin(s) have been in the Senate together for over 22 years.

Obama has been known to borrow words without attribution, maybe that's one reason he picked Biden.

Maybe he borrowed, from Biden, the pay grade statement last Saturday.

It will be interesting to see how they spin the CHANGE angle with someone who's been in the Senate since 1973 and dance around bad lobbyists when one of Biden's sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist.

Talk to us Joe!

Channeling Joe Jones

As I mentioned yesterday, "You Talk Too Much" should be Joe Biden's theme song.

Biden appeared before the DNC and opened his remarks by asking, "So, how was your week?"

In an obvious attempt to disarm the comments he made about Barack Obama and other Dummycrat opponents.

Biden then said, "I truly regret the words I spoke of people I respect very much."

I'm always publicly disparaging people I respect very much.

How is that in any way considered an apology?

Because you can't go before the party of Howard Dean and not scream about Iraq, here's Biden again...

On Iraq, he said the proposed increase in troops is a "tragic mistake" and "I will do everything in my power to stop it."

He hasn't always felt that way.

Per The Washington Times... Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. has for years advocated increasing the number of troops on the ground in Iraq. But after Mr. Bush offered his proposal to do that earlier this month, the Delaware Democrat drafted a resolution rejecting the idea as not "in the national interest."

In the summer of 2005 here was Joe Biden on Iraq...

Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," disputed Bush's notion that sufficient troops are in place.

"I'm going to send him the phone numbers of the very generals and flag officers that I met on Memorial Day when I was in Iraq," the Delaware Democrat said. "There's not enough force on the ground now to mount a real counterinsurgency."

Biden argued, "The course that we are on now is not a course of success. He (Bush) has to get more folks involved..."

What changed?

The President is now for more forces on the ground so Biden, and other Dummycrats have to be against it!

It's a Groucho Marx "Horse Feathers" policy, they're not smart enough to realize they're asses!

I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
No matter what it is or who commenced it, I'm against it!
Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it!
For months before my son was born
I used to yell from night till morn
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And I've kept yelling since I've first commenced it, I'm against it.

Lastly, in the fall of 2005, more genius that is Joe Biden...

"...Our large military presence-- while still the only guarantor against a total breakdown -- is increasingly counterproductive..."

How is the military presence LARGE when there's not enough forces?

How can it be a guarantor against total breakdown when it's countproductive?

Sing it Joe

You talk too much you worry me to death,
You talk too much, you even worry my pet
You just talk, talk too much
You talk about people that you don't know,
You talk about people wherever you go
You just talk, talk too much
You talk about people that you've never seen,
You talk about people, you can make me scream
You just talk, you talk too much

Joe being Joe

Last week it was paying more in taxes is patriotic.

You have to question his patriotism on that and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Especially when it sounds more Socialist like Hellary's...We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Biden then tried to defend it with...

"Catholic social doctrine, as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most..."

Said the man who over a ten year period has given only $120 - $995 per year to charity when the average American in his income level gives over $20,000.

Biden, pictured in a University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hen hat, told his fellow alumni...

"I was out in Ohio," he said, clutching a football. "I told the folks in Ohio that we'd kick Ohio State's ass!"

It sounds like Team Obama/Biden has written off Ohio.

Recently he talked with Katie Couric about the nation's economic challenges...

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"

When the stock market crashed in 1929, F.D.R. was Governor of New York.

If television was so popular, why did he do all those fireside chats on radio when he became President?

Now Biden shows how phony the Obama energy plan is...

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. (Meaning China) Make them clean."

"We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama.

This just days after he told a group of United Mine Workers, in Virginia...

“You know we have enough coal in the United States of America to meet out needs domestically for the better part of the next hundred to 200 years.”

"...investing it in coal gasification, finding out what we can do with carbon sequestration, finding out how we can burn the coal that you dig that can free us from being dependent on foreign oil countries and at the same time not ruin the environment."

Now the press (ABC) is picking up on Biden's Helleryesque Sniper Fire statement, that the Liter pointed out on September 10.

Yesterday Biden told the National Guard Association about the area where my helicopter was forced down...

Here's how fellow Senator John Kerry described the same flight that the pilot decided to land because of weather...

"We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to do it…Other than getting a little cold, it was fine."

Joes' been caught embellishing the truth regarding the accident that killed his first wife and their daughter.

Poor Joe, he's also got Barack pointing out his errors.

After Biden condemmed the ad making fun of John McCain for not sending e-mail or using a computer...

"I thought that was terrible by the way." the campaign later had Biden justifying the ad.

Obama also chasitised his runningmate's initial response to the bailout of AIG, because it was the same as Senator McCain.

I've Gotta Be Me

Always One Of A Kind, Joe Biden was in a couple of Iowa cities yesterday.

Biden got out of the gaffe gate early when calling Scott Community College President Dr. Theresa Paper quote "Dr. Pepper".

I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper,
She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper,
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?
Be a Pepper. Drink Dr Pepper.

BURP!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Vice President also regurgitated some errors of fact while attacking Mitt Romney.

The press gave early snippets of what Biden was to say, in Davenport, before his arrival.

The Wall Street Journal wrote, and I’m quoting, ‘Romney appeared to scoff, first in Detroit, then in Florida, at the notion of manufacturing as a job engine for the future.’

So look folks, we have a choice in this election:

Between our philosophy that believes manufacturing is central to our economy, and their philosophy that scoffs at it.

Biden didn't give the whole picture from the Wall Street Journal, as Romney is then quoted...

"Last month, 5,000 people lost their jobs in manufacturing," Romney said at the Detroit appearance. "The president seems to be out of touch with what's happening in his own economy."

Hence the scoffing.

Back to Biden -- “Governor Romney has called the president ‘out of touch.’ That’s a quote. Out of touch for encouraging young people to try to get manufacturing jobs. Romney? Pretty remarkable. As an old friend of mine says, ‘That’s chutzpah.’”

While I think the 'out of touch' quote stands on its own when speaking of the President, the actual quote (above) was... "The president seems to be out of touch with what's happening in his own economy."

Here's more of Joe just being Joe --

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney repeatedly slashed funding for workforce training, and vetoed a bill to block state services to be outsourced overseas

In one case, a taxpayer-funded 800 number for the Massachusetts government was answered by workers on the other side of the world

The Washington Post's The Fact Checker had this to say about that claim when it was aired last year in a pro-Obama group ad --

“American Jobs Relocated.” This eye-popping claim is based on some pretty flimsy evidence. First, the group points to Romney’s 2004 veto of a bill that would have prohibited state contracts with companies that use overseas employees for the work. Romney, then governor of Massachusetts, argued at the time that the bill did not protect the state’s jobs but might actually cost money. Proponents of the bill had touted a union study claiming that $7 million was spent on contract work overseas

One has to wonder where Biden was one year later, while in the United States Senate, for the United States Workers Protection Act of 2005?

This act was sponsored by Dummycrat Senator Chris Dodd and would have, among other things, prohibited outsourced federal government work from being performed by a contractor or any subcontractor outside the United States and prohibit federal funds from being disbursed to a state until the Governor of the state has transmitted written certification that none of the funds will be spent for the performance of contracts outside the United States

The United States Workers Protection Act of 2005 received no Cosponsors and died.

Who else was in the United States Senate at the time?

Barack Obama!

Say it ain't so, Joe!

Biden continued -- It’s one thing for a local company to outsource a call service, but for the state government to outsource a call service that’s set up to answer questions for people in the state with a problem they had in their government, to outsource that?

Iowa sent nearly $1 Million dollars to an out of state firm, National Jewish Health in Colorado, to run it's quit smoking line.

I'll wager Biden's home state of Delaware does the same thing for its Quitline.

At the time Joe Biden was their Senator, Delaware's QuitPower was operated by a Minnesota-based company.

No Surprises

According to the Quad City Times, Joe Biden made a surprise visit to the Davenport Obama campaign office.

Biden predicted victories in several swing states, according to a pool report. “I mean, look, I think we are in as good as shape as we could ever hope to be”.

That's not the same as victory, hell you're in better shape than you have a right to be after the way you both have governed.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Joe's not that great at predictions, two years ago he said Dummycrats would “keep the Senate and win the House.”

The only thing Biden is good at is gaffes.

The vice president had a little fun at his own expense, bringing up his mishap last week in Ohio, when he referred to the state as Iowa.

Speaking of Ohio, earlier in the day Biden was in Florida when he said that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is "one of the major newspapers in this state."

While still in Florida, Biden told a Republican -- "Well look, I'm not trying to talk you into voting for me, I just wanted to say hi to you, okay? And after it's all over when your insurance rates go down then you'll vote for me in 2016. I'll talk to you later."

In Davenport, Biden ignored a woman who shouted to him, "you’re our man in 2016”.

Hey, that's Joe's little joke.

Biden delivered on his promise to give you the whole load today.

He truly was being a good Biden today.

In a way, I'm going to miss that crazy coot when he's gone, but I'll be so glad he's out of power.

Blue Collar Man?

The things that come out of Joe Biden's mouth never cease to amaze me.

Biden Says He's Not Blue Collar: "No One In My Family Worked In A Factory"

Barack makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania carrying a lunch bucket.

Biden has made his living off of being blue collar and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Last month, in the blue-collar stronghold of Youngstown, Ohio, Biden bitched about Republicans -- They don't get us, they don't get who we are.

Back in 2008, Biden often boasted about his blue-collar background.

Don't blame Barack, Biden, blame the man in your mirror.

Biden also bloviated, this week, about the future at a graduation...

"Imagine being able to power your home at the fraction of the cost of what your parents now pay.  Because your home will be powered by solar shingles that cost no more than the shingles on your parents home today."

He also promised that hunger would be "vanquished" and that famine would be a "memory" in the future and "with it so much war and conflict."

Biden also promised electric vehicles and cleaner cars that would get "100 miles per gallon."

The New York Times agrees, noting that the electric car has long been recognized as "ideal" because it was cleaner, quieter and much more economical than gasoline-powered cars.

At least that's what they thought over 100 years ago, in 1911.

Joe Blow

I'm surprised that Vice President Joe Biden finds it necessary to be on the campaign stump, after all he's stated Dummycrats will “keep the Senate and win the House.”

Biden was in Dubuque trying to bail out the career of CONgressman Bruce Braley.

The Veep, known for running his mouth, mentioned to Iowans that the administration was given a projected deficit of $1.3 trillion when it took office.

So what did team Obama/Biden do with that in 2009?

They quickly turned that into a $1.4 trillion deficit and this year have pared that down to just below $1.3 trillion.

Progress?

Biden also tried to get those in attendance to believe, "Since January of this year, we've created 860,000 private sector jobs. That's more jobs than George W. Bush and the Republicans created in eight years."

The Wall Street Journal credited the Bush administration with about three million jobs (net) created over eight years, Byron York has the figure at about two million new jobs -- net and National Review says net total employment went up by 1.08 million jobs.

PolitiFact has the private sector job growth at 847,000 through September and an overall net loss of nearly 3 million private-sector jobs since Obama/Biden began and nowhere near the 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month Biden promised in April.

It shows, again and again and again, that Biden is less than truthful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Biden also claims many of those jobs are tied to 30,000 road, bridges, runway, fiber optic cable projects have been started across the country, including 400 in Iowa.

It's what you'd expect from someone who really believes --

"Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive. In the middle of the Civil War, you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. ... No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years."

The Past IS Prologue

Here's a couple of final thoughts on Joe Biden from the debate.

I thought he was suffering another aneurysm, or being Max Headroom, when he stumbled over characterization.

On one hand Biden said "the surge will not work" in Afghanistan and seconds later stated "we need more troops in Afghanistan."

A surge is an increase in troops and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Biden "quoted" General David McKiernan...

"...our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan, not Joe Biden, our commanding general in Afghanistan."

Here's the take on that from National Public Radio (NPR), a far from conservative voice...

General David McKiernan, the US commander in Afghanistan this week said "Afghanistan is not Iraq. .. What I don't think is needed -- the word I don't use in Afghanistan is the word surge."

On the other hand, speaking today, McKiernan said more troops should be rushed to Afghanistan "as quickly as possible." So while he doesn't believe in using the word surge because it resonates of Iraq, he does believe in rushing more troops to Afghanistan -- a surge by another name.

Lastly, while trying to appear folksy Biden said...

"...all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's Restaurant..."

Here's what they thought of that in Wilmington Delaware...

"For a guy running as an in-touch-with-real-people candidate, it's hard to believe he not only referenced a restaurant that has been closed for nearly 20 years, but he also got the location wrong!"

Biden being Biden!

They were in ILL A NOISE

I watched the debut of Obama/Biden and I'm not sure if it was the heat that got to all involved, but it couldn't have gone to plan.

The Presumptive President started, it while reading from the teleprompter, when he said...

"Let me introduce to you the next president".

Biden wasn't sure when he sits at the kitchen table like yours(?)...

before you put the kids -- after you put the kids to bed...

The crowd seemed confused during Biden's speech when he was hitting McCain with a long you can't change America meme.

...you can't change America when you know your first four years as president will look exactly like the last eight years of George Bush's presidency and the crowd began chanting, "Yes we can".

It sounded at the time like they were supporting McCain.

Biden did pick up on their chant...

My friends -- yes, we can then went on to introduce the next President of the United States Barack America.

The crowd responded with chants of OBAMA!

I can see why he'd be confused, he hasn't served with him nearly as long as he has with Iowa's Tom Harkins.

I don't understand why Biden's wife having her doctorate was a problem...

Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous. My wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, she also has her doctorate degree, which is a problem.

I will give him nice looking on his wife.

Biden's daughter (?) must have been confused when her daddy outed her (in more ways than one and the scientific community is united in that fact)...

We share the same values, the values that we had passed on to us by our parents and the values Jill and I are passing on to our sons Beau and Hunter and Ashley.

Maybe it was from Ashley that Joe Blow Hard picked up, "I'm not the guy".

Are You Experienced?

Attack rat Joe Biden is the latest to pick on the Bain of Mitt Romney's existence.

"When they succeed and the company succeeds, they make money.  "When the company they got involved with fails, they make money." 

According to Joe Blow, Bain never lost money.

That sounds like someone who's spent his whole adult life employed by government and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Out of 77 businesses Bain invested in, while Mr. Romney led the firm from its 1984 start until early 1999, 22% either filed for bankruptcy reorganization or closed their doors by the end of the eighth year after Bain first invested, sometimes with substantial job losses. An additional 8% ran into so much trouble that all of the money Bain invested was lost.

Biden also recites what he's told about Bain with, that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber!” 

Back Up Biden, it was you who said about Obama, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
 
 Let's plunge further into the experience theme, because it was Biden, in 2007, who told Iowans --

Americans must not vote for inexperienced, likeable presidential candidates, then hope the winner can get up to speed after the election

That's why it's time to flush both these fools (Obama/Biden) and in Biden's case why swing state Independent voters, 50%, view him unfavorably.

Poor Tom

I see Joe Biden's mouth made news, again, while I was away.

Biden praises “Tom Kaine” while trying to tout Tim Kaine for Senate

It seemed so nice, Biden renamed him twice.

There is some speculation that the slip is because Tim Kaine was almost chosen as Obama’s running mate instead of Biden.

Kaine shouldn't feel bad.

Biden has butchered CommieTommie's name too, and the scientific community is united in that fact, and they served together 22 years in the Senate prior to Biden calling him Tom Harkins three times.

UpChuck?

Here are the reported highlights(?) of Vice President Joe Biden's appearance in Cedar Rapids for the Big Lug Nut.

Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge --“Some days we succeed, Some days we don’t but we keep trying”.

That will get votes.

First Lady Mari Culver -- "If you’re not pumped now, you’re not pump-able".

Her hubby's already over-inflated and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Veep -- “I’ve known Chet — I hate to admit this — since he was seven years old, sitting in my front lawn in Wilmington, Delaware with his dad and mom...".

Makes you wonder why, after knowing someone for roughly 37 years, he called him Chuck Culver.

Back in 2007 Biden called CommieTommie Harkin, Harkins and that was after 22 years of knowing him.

"...Folks who live it, who smell it, who taste it, who know it...".

I believe Biden is referring to the BLN there, although he could be talking about Cedar Rancid - the City of 5 Smells.

Biden went off on a man crush when he described Culver with -- "This big guy with broad shoulders...from belt-buckle to shoe sole..."

Conveniently leaving out the girth of his gut.

Biden also had Culver wading "into the water, to make things happen...he tried to rescue and save his fellow Iowans".

Biden even quoted John Wayne, "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life, comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and it hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday”.

I'll close with John Wayne too --“Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.”

Take three

I thought the third debate started out boring, but got interesting later.

I'm amused that when pressed by Bob Schieffer, Obama's big budget cut was a $15 Billion dollar subsidy.

In all three debates Obama scoffed at the savings McCain pushed on earmarks because "it's not going to solve the problem".

Per Obama, earmark savings amount to $18 Billion.

McCain finally had an excellent comeback to Obama comparing him to President Bush...

"I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I'm going to give a new direction to this economy in this country".

McCain scored when he painted Obama as the big spender that he is...

"Sen. Obama talks about the budgets I voted for. He voted for the last two budgets that had that $24 billion more in spending than the budget that the Bush administration proposed.
He voted for the energy bill that was full of goodies for the oil companies that I opposed. So the fact is, let's look at our records, Sen. Obama. Let's look at it as graded by the National Taxpayers Union and the Citizens Against Government Waste and the other watchdog organizations".
Obama had a couple of gaffes when he tried to tie McCain, again, to Bush policies...

"But when it comes to economic policies, essentially what you're proposing is eight more years of the same thing. And it hasn't worked".

Presidential terms are four years, with a maximum of eight.

It's not the first time Obama, a Constitutional Scholar?, made a mistake in front of Bob Schieffer regarding the length of a Presidential term and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Obama also erred when he said...

"And 100 percent, John, of your ads -- 100 percent of them have been negative".

Obama was not completely truthful about his association with ACORN...

"The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law..."

Obama served as general counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed), and has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group's activities.

Digging deeper you'll find that during Obama's organizing years he taught future leaders identified by ACORN and was a part of their Project Vote.

ACORN and his connections may be Obama's downfall, as the voter fraud ACORN has perpatrated has reached 11 states so far.

Back to the debate.

Some may consider it a gaffe, but I thought John McCain was right on when he referred to Obama as "Senator Government".

Obama scared the hell out of me when he proposed his less than strict judicial litmus test...

"the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people".

Obama as a lawyer knows the law isn't always fair, it's not a judges role to make it so.

As a Senator, Obama should realize the role of the legislative branch of our government is to write laws.

I was less than moved by Obama's argument regarding equal pay for equal work, namely because Obama and Biden pay the women on their Senate staff's less than John McCain pays his.

Per Scripps-Howard columnist Deroy Murdock...

Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397. Obama’s 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average … on average, Obama’s female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make …

As for Biden, his 14 male staffers split a total payroll outlay of $1,077,128.40. So, Biden’s average male employee earned $76,937.74 per annum.

Biden’s 27 female employees divided $1,517,874.47, or $56,217.57, on average.

Among Biden’s top five highest-paid aides, one was a woman. Among the top 20, 11 were women.

All told, for every dollar that Biden paid his average male staffer, his female equivalent made only 73 cents.

McCain’s payment patterns are the stuff of feminist dreams. McCain’s 17 male staffers split $916,914, thus averaging $53,936. His 25 female employees divided $1,396,958 and averaged $55,878. On average, according to these data, women in McCain’s office make $1.04 for every dollar a man makes.

The Liter continues with the debate...

I loved how McCain accurately portrayed the left's "Pro Abortion Movement", because that's what pro choice really is.

Don't believe Obama on his Born-Alive Infants Protection Act stance or Partial Birth Abortion, his own campaign has had to correct him on that.

Watch out when Obama talks about preventing "unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth".

Last month Byron York discovered what an Illinois sex-education bill, supported by Obama, was really about.

When Schieffer stated the U.S. spends more per capita than any other country on education. Yet, by every international measurement, in math and science competence, from kindergarten through the 12th grade, we trail most of the countries of the world.

Obama's response was to throw more money at the education system.

McCain was correct when he stated...

"throwing money at the problem is not the answer. You will find that some of the worst school systems in America get the most money per student".

McCain has used this solution several times...

we take good teachers and we reward them and promote them and we find bad teachers another line of work.

Obama on bad teachers...

And we also agree on the need for making sure that if we have bad teachers that they are swiftly -- after given an opportunity to prove themselves, if they can't hack it, then we need to move on...

If you know they're bad teachers they've already proven they cant hack it.

McCain ended with which candidate you can trust...

to be careful stewards of your tax dollar, to make sure America is safe and secure and prosperous, to make sure we reform the institutions of government.
That's why I've asked you not only to examine my record, but my proposals for the future of this country.
I've spent my entire life in the service of this nation and putting my country first. As a long line of McCains that have served our country for a long time in war and in peace, it's been the great honor of my life, and I've been proud to serve.
And I hope you'll give me an opportunity to serve again. I'd be honored and humbled.

Law Dogs

Parents Magazine had a Facebook Town Hall with Joe Biden and Cranky, Crazy Joe came out.

Biden gets testy

One questioner equated gun control to drug control -- if criminalizing drugs didn't get them off the streets, why will criminalizing guns? -- and a second asked if limiting assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would limit people's ability to protect themselves.

"Is this Parents Magazine? I have Parents Magazine. I've never heard anybody in Parents Magazine ask these kinds of questions," Biden said.

Joe's used to softballs tossed underhand, Obama and Biden do NOT like to be challenged and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Biden bloviated on --

"Look, these comparisons are not appropriate, quite frankly, but secondly the idea [that] you should have no law unless the law you have prevents all violations of that law, that is not the way society works."

WHAT!?!?

...you should have no law unless the law you have prevents all violations of that law, that is not how society works.

This man is a lawyer!

This man is a lawyer?

Chain Of Fools

I can't wait for each new day to see what new depths Team Obama/Biden will sink to.

Yesterday, before a crowd of 666 err 660, Biden Invokes Paul Ryan's Deceased Father to Question VP Candidate's Values

"My dad used to have another saying, for real. And, by the way, I've been saying this for 30 years...But my dad [had] a lot of wisdom. Every time someone tell you, say, 'Look, let me tell you what's important to me, what I value.' My dad would go, 'No, no. Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.'"

Team Obama/Biden values debt so much that you'd swear they're bankruptcy lawyers and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Although he has served less than a term, Obama is now the first American president to see the federal government's debt increase by more than $5 trillion during his time in office.

Today, Biden told supporters that Republicans would “put y’all back in chains” and imitates the sign language lady while doing it, which received inconsiderate and insensitive laughter from the audience.

It's the Massuh Guv'mint of Obama/Biden that is keeping this country in chains.

Real economic growth during the recovery – now three years old – has averaged 2.2%, less than half of the historic average for post recession rebounds.

There are 1.1 million fewer people on non-farm payrolls today than when President Obama took office.

The unemployment rate has been above 8% for 42 consecutive months, the longest period of sustained high unemployment since the Great Depression.

An increase of 18 million people, to 46 million Americans now receiving food stamps

A 122% increase in food stamp spending to an estimated $89 billion this year from $40 billion in 2008

An increase of 3.6 million people receiving Social Security disability payments

A 10 million person increase in the number of individuals receiving welfare, to 107 million, or more than one-third of the U.S. population

A 34%, $683 billion reduction in the adjusted gross income of the top 1% to $1.3 trillion in 2009 (latest data) from its 2007 peak

Cast off your chains, because clearly you are not better off than you were four years ago.

It ain't so, Joe

On the night he accepted the Dummycrat nomination for Vice President, Inside Edition uncovered a lie Joe Biden told at the University of Iowa.

In a striking moment in December 2007, he opened his heart to University of Iowa students. "Let me tell you a little story. My wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree, a tractor trailer, a guy who allegedly, and I never pursued it, drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family, killed my wife instantly, killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons."

The truth is that Biden exaggerated the story...

No charges were ever filed. Local newspapers covered the results of the state probe with one 1972 headline declaring, "Trucker Cleared in Biden Crash." Delaware Deputy Attorney General Jerome Herlihy is also quoted in the 1972 article as saying "…there was absolutely no evidence of drinking."

Biden also distorted the story in his home state in 2001, telling University of Delaware students...

"It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them."

Last night Barack Obama said about Joe Biden...

the "most effective thing he offers is his honesty".

Completely Stupid

You can't blame the kid for crying, in this Register photo, she just realized she has the same hairstyle as Joe Biden.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

She can't help crying as the Dummycrat candidates are going down the tubes.

Here's why, Biden had this to say about his dear friend John McCain at the Republican Convention...

“Ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t hear a word about health care, I didn’t hear about how we’re going to help our children get to and stay in college. I didn’t heard a word from dependence on foreign oil and bring down prices..."

Apparently Biden is hard of hearing, because here's what McCain said in his acceptance speech...

I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them. I will open new markets to our goods and services. My opponent will close them. I will cut government spending. He will increase it.

My tax cuts will create jobs. His tax increases will eliminate them. My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance. His plan will force small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a government-run health care system where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor.

Keeping taxes low helps small businesses grow and create new jobs. Cutting the second-highest business tax rate in the world will help American companies compete and keep jobs from moving overseas. Doubling the child tax exemption from $3,500 to $7,000 will improve the lives of millions of American families. Reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs will let you keep more of your own money to save, spend and invest as you see fit.

My fellow Americans, when I'm president, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much. We will attack the problem on every front. We will produce more energy at home. We will drill new wells offshore, and we'll drill them now. We will build more nuclear power plants. We will develop clean coal technology. We will increase the use of wind, tide, solar and natural gas. We will encourage the development and use of flex fuel, hybrid and electric automobiles.

Sen. Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power. But Americans know better than that. We must use all resources and develop all technologies necessary to rescue our economy from the damage caused by rising oil prices and to restore the health of our planet. It's an ambitious plan, but Americans are ambitious by nature, and we have faced greater challenges. It's time for us to show the world again how Americans lead.

Technically Biden is correct, it wasn't A word.

Biden stressed that there’s a sincere and close friendship between himself and his running mate.

As close as with his "personal friend, great friend" of 30 plus years, John McCain, who he's actually endorsed on various occasions...

"America would be well served"

"I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off--well off no matter who..."

As Barack said, what do they think we are, completely stupid?

YES!

Sniper fire?

Did Joe Biden have a Hillary sniper fire moment at a Chicago fundraiser?

With machismo, and the scientific community is united in that fact, Biden related how he'll handle Sarah Palin in their debate...

He'll ask her about "The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down...

For the record, the helicopter carrying Biden landed after enduring a snowstorm.

The pilot landed about 12 miles from the air base in friendly territory.

Biden, along with Senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, were driven back to the base in a seven vehicle convoy.

Biden said then...Traveling down the snow-covered mountain in the dark of night was the most dangerous part.

Remark A Bull

Harry Reid pulled a Joe Biden when he referred to Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Biden had previously called Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy".

Biden and Reid both apologized.

Reid, in a tough re-election battle, felt compelled to divulge his support for diversity with...

"throughout my career, from efforts to integrate the Las Vegas strip and the gaming industry to opposing radical judges and promoting diversity in the Senate, I have worked hard to advance issues."

Tellingly Reid may have been more truthful (and the scientific community is united in that fact) when he commented on Trent Lott's 2002 commments...

"You play how you practice. If you tell ethnic jokes in the backroom, it's that much easier to say ethnic things publicly. I've always practiced how I play."

Reid's racist remarks are on the record thanks to a new book, Game Change.

That book documents a rift in the Obama-Biden relationship, “Joe and Obama barely spoke by phone, rarely campaigned together.”

I had the feeling there was a fallout back in October of '08 when I opined, Can't hear you now.