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September 9, 2008

Biden: Palin Would Be 'Backward Step for Women'

@ 1:08 pm by Andy Barr

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) says that if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) becomes the first female vice president it will be a "backward step for women."

Asked by a local television reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin if electing Palin would be a step forward for women, Biden said, "well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe?"

"I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden added. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."

Here is the video:

UPDATE: Republican National Committee spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson has a response:

"The only person taking a step backward is Joe Biden, whose appalling and arrogant statements are better suited for the back rooms of his old boys club. Sarah Palin�s nomination as the Republican vice presidential nominee is an historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling. While John McCain and Sarah Palin continue to press their message of change, Joe Biden should stop these sorts of old-style attacks."

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wow, he is really insignificant right now. its funny how insignificant he really is at this point in time. did he grab a reporter and say "hey listen to me for 2 seconds!" because he knows about his increasing insignificance?

Comment by tyler — September 9, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
When Biden speaks, GOP polls go up.

Comment by HairTrigger — September 9, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
Foreign Policy genius Bide, who favors ethnic cleansing in Iraq by forcing partitions on the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shia, had better do his homework before debating Palin.

Comment by Sigmond — September 9, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Thanks Joe, just keep talking. The more you say things like this the more you are helping the McCain-Palin ticket.

Comment by fred in Lancaster Co Pa — September 9, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
Biden has become a big clown as the years roll by. Who cares what he thinks about whether Sarah Palin is a step forward for women? Obviously it is a step forward for women. This bozo hasn't got a clue and thinks everyone is just going to accept his statements as facts. Leaders like him is why I started looking to other sources after being a member of the UAW for several years. I found their propoganda to be entirely one-sided on every issue (always for the Democrats). I have watched as silly union members blindly followed the statements of their leaders, because they were "working for them". As long as Dems keep electing Bozos like these to office i will continue to support the GOP and other parties. In fact, the GOP is getting too much like the Dems and I will have to shift my allegiance yet again, unless of course Sarah Palin rises up as a shining star in the dark world of politics.

Comment by Stark Granger — September 9, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Bama/Obiden: I�ll fix you gun-toting, Bible-thumping white bigots! Hand me your gun, your Bible and all that luscious tax money!!

Comment by Jane — September 9, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Did the old Hack plagurize this line (too)?
Does he still maintain his father was a poor miner?
As phony as his hairline.

Comment by Paul — September 9, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Biden who? I thought this was an Obama - Palin race.

Comment by Homer J. — September 9, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Just what everyone woman wants to hear. A gray haired politician telling women that following a woman is a step backwards. Keep preaching Biden, everytime you are quoted Palin's numbers improve.

Comment by DJ Neufeld — September 9, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
"I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think, and that's obviously a backward step for women." Joe Biden

He assumes too much. That's why Him and BO are not electable. He can't find any real fault with her so he says something stupid like the statement quoted. I just can't wait until Palin gets a hold of Biden in a debate.

Comment by Al-in-Indy — September 9, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Why does the Obama campaign let him speak? This is a ridiculously stupid comment. I may not want to vote for Obama but that doesn't mean I believe it would be a step back for black people. That would be ridiculous.

Comment by Shawn — September 9, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
I wonder how long it will be before Biden suddenly
"pulls his name out" of the VP slot and obama is forced to choose Hillary instead. Biden is and always has been a joke. Keep talkin' Joe since very few are actually listening.

Comment by Pistol Pete — September 9, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Everyone knows what happens when you "ass-u-me". It should be a blast watching Palin destroy "Slow Joe" in the debate. Could he insult women more??

Comment by Frank — September 9, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Biden,

Assuming is so brilliant. Hey, here's an idea - when you make a claim follow it up. i,e, If you say an apple is red, why? I heard better dribble from high schoolers.

David Torpey
Overtaxed American

Comment by David Torpey — September 9, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
He has got to be kidding!!! If he is really that ignorant, how can he expect to be Vice President of this great country? How can having a female as VP of the USA take females backwards? This goofup has got to be the king of goofups that the dems have done yet. He needs to go back to his home state and stick to Amtrak.

Comment by Mary-Beth Frazee — September 9, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Joe Biden was a loser in the primaries, was a loser in earlier primaries, is a loser because he sees fit not to accept his God given hairline, is a loser because he has done nothing but be a US Senator for 36 years, is a loser because he has a big mouth and will always be a loser. LOSER, Loser , Loser!!!

Comment by Barry Sandford — September 9, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Sure thing, Joe. YOU are the REAL woman in the race, right? Sorry, but being Obama's b*tch doesn't count.

Comment by moronpolitics — September 9, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
The women libbers or National Association of Gals (NAG) is simply a front for an extreme liberal agenda. They contribute nothing to the betterment of women. Slick Willy was a user and abuser of women and the NAGs loved him. Biden is just pandering to them.

Comment by Wayne Eason — September 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
I wonder what else he "assumes"? Maybe he should base his opinions on fact rather than assumption. That's what a "smart" person would do!

Comment by commontater — September 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Yes, supporting the woman is a backwards step for women. So following the same logic, supporting Obama is a step backwards for African-Americans, supporting McCain is a step backwards for Veterans, and supporting Biden is a step backwards for retards.

Comment by Capitalist — September 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Just because Palin is a Republican makes her unfit to be VP and a step backward for women……….HMMMMMMMM! Sounds like to me to be a little sexist, maybe he had a couple hundred hair plugs come unscrewed and rattled that BB brain. Biden, you are pathetic and an idiot.

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Its what we've been waiting for from Biden. What else could we expect from an elitist leftist? By the way, did I miss something somewhere? Isn't Palin the exact kind of woman that the NOW gang wants? Strong and independent who isn't afraid to take on the guys. Oh, I forgot the first qualification……being a liberal. Then independent and strong. Conservatives need not apply.

Comment by nren5000 — September 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Assume….that makes an ass out of you and me. Joe Beiden was fine for Hillary….what has changed? The party. Assume more, I like seeing Bieden as an ASS.

Comment by Mrs. B — September 9, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
Poor Joe…..you dumbocrats try this EVERY election. I guess a step forward is to allow women to kill babies. I don't care what people do with/to THEIR bodies, but A BABY IS NOT THEIR BODY! Screw you Joe & Osama Obama

Comment by Tom — September 9, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
J.B. needs in humanity, I like his Iraqi split up I think we saw that before in Kosovo, but JB is a copier he never came up with anything new. Get real folks this man is a first class Momo.

Comment by spudder — September 9, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
Silly Liberals, don't fear The Palin.

Comment by roger — September 9, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Just cause she's a women doesn't mean she's the right woman to be VP. Get that through your thick skulls. She doesn't even believe in abortion in times of rape and incest. If you woman agree with that stance, go ahead and vote for her and McCain. I'm sure you'll regret it later. This all a ploy and you people are following for it. Her being a woman doesn't make her awful, her and her ignorant policies make her awful. So go ahead and fall for the pandering…sheep.

Comment by Chris — September 9, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Stab her in the back while you can you old hack. Sarah's gonna rip you a new one in the debates. (And you know it).

Comment by Jim Klein — September 9, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Poor ole Joe. He doesn't have a clue.
That gal named Palin is gonna cause
his hairline to start failin'.

One day Joe will say, hip hip hooray
but it won't be election day

Joe is a relic and Barack should have
known it. I can't turn back the clock
but I can always own it.

Bust another rhyme.

Comment by wendellbob — September 9, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Quoting some feminists, "He's never given birth." He supports a candidate whose views on abortion go way beyond choice to outright infanticide. How would he know anything about "backward."

I'll take the woman who can field dress a moose, give birth to a handicapped child (CHOICE), call him a blessing, and run a state equivalent to its own country any day.

Comment by Eleanor L. Iadonisi — September 9, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Don't fear The Palin.

Comment by roger — September 9, 2008 @ 1:29 pm
"My name is Sarah Palin and I was for the bridge to nowhere until it wasn't politically right for me. I don't believe in earmarks unless they're for my town."
Different gender, same old rusty boring politics that we're all sick of.
Sarah Palin = BLAH!

Comment by Chris — September 9, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
Biden whose hair is more than 20 years out of style received fewer votes in the primaries than Palin received to be mayor of Wasilla AK; Biden should run for Mayor oin his home town just to see what support HE has. I ask the OBiden twins, when is it correct for men to say or imply what women should or will think or believe?

Comment by J. Horvath — September 9, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
Biden would be several steps back for us middle aged white guys. I wish the Big O had put a woman on his ticket–not Hill as she is a middle aged white girl.

Comment by allen antrim — September 9, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
I think Joe Biden if elected would be a backward step for women. His party wants all women to abort their Downs syndrome babies, Sarah loves her Downs syndrome baby and held him up proudly foor all to see how beautiful and sweet he is at the convention! It made me proud for you see I also have a baby with Downs syndrome two months older than hers. He is a great baby.

I love Sarah Palin. She is a real woman, and very tough. I am looking forward to watching her debate old Joe!!

Comment by Jody — September 9, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
So, I can assume since all of the Democrats constantly repeat the same tired lines each time they get a soundbite opportunity, (ex. McCain voted with GWB 90% of the time, blah, blah, blah…btw, it would be nice if they could occasionally change the wording so it sounds fresh.)that we will now be treated to Biden's opinion that Republican women are 'backward'. He has been rude and dismissive to those who disagree with him in the past. I expect to see this clip all over the internet and on all the major news channel. I think Biden's anti-women sentiments should be vetted extensively before the election so women can be sure not to elect someone who will set us back 100 years.

Comment by CeCe — September 9, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
All of these blog comments are about as legitimate and useful as a 2nd grade school yard fight, plenty of insults and bullying, but nothing really useful.

Sad what republicans have turned politics into.

Keep following your shepards, sheep.

But, please, please don't blame the democrats when your dollar is worth a nickel and you have to start using Euros to buy things.

Comment by republicans are funny — September 9, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
Obama/Biden would be a step backwards for everyone in America, not just women!

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
So where is the scowling Michelle "Flap Jaw" Obama these days??? Guess they finally shut her up so she doesn't further ruin OBAMA'S chances.

Comment by Jocko Jones — September 9, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
Uhh…the Democrats had an opportunity to make a GIANT leap forward for women by selecting Hillary Clinton and her 18 million supporters, but NO. Who is setting women back?????

Here's a prediction. In one month when McCain is up by 15 points, Biden will suddenly leave the ticket and will be replaced by Hillary. Just watch.

Comment by DHD — September 9, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
He stole that line from Bill Clinton. The exact quote from Slick Willy was "step back here, woman. Yes baby, take a backward step". But seriously, Joe. Is that what it's come to? Making outlandish statements to get your name in the news? Are you really that insignificant? Keep talking / plagarizing.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
What an idiot… I won't insult those who might have different viewpoints by saying that this typifies "liberal democrats" and their anti american ticket.

Comment by Marty, Boston — September 9, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
Joey's desperation is so thick you can cut it with a knife!

Comment by Biden's drop dead gorgeous, PhD wife — September 9, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
Chris says: "She doesn't even believe in abortion in times of rape and incest."

You mean she doesn't believe in the Holy Democratic Sacrament of the D&C? Or the Blessed Communion of the Saline Treatment? Or the Divine Imparting of the Scissors to the Back of the Infant Head?

My God! What a monster she must be!

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
So let me get this straight, Senator:

1. Paying taxes makes you "patriotic".

2. A woman being elevated to the 2nd highest political position in the nation is somehow a "step back" for women.

I guess if I was George Clooney, I wouldn't be as confused as I am right now- I would just be nodding and say, "Yep, that Biden guy knows EXACTLY what he's talking about!"

I'm not sure, but we might be doomed.

Comment by Clarity — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
"Poor Joe�..you dumbocrats try this EVERY election. I guess a step forward is to allow women to kill babies. I don't care what people do with/to THEIR bodies, but A BABY IS NOT THEIR BODY! Screw you Joe & Osama Obama"

Spoken like a true Man. You can't have children, yet you want to dictate what a woman does/doesn't do with her body?

Sorry Tom, but that was the moron statement of the day.

Comment by LOL — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
As a strong woman, I agree with Sen. Biden. Palin is against a woman's right to choose, no matter what. She believes if I were raped by a disgusting thug or relative, I should be forced into 9 months of torture. Not me. You can expect back alley abortions to kick in again if that's the case. There's a step back in time for you.

Palin refuses to support equal pay for women. What???? Did we just step back into the 1950s???

What are you people misogynists?? It's as though we're back to the barefoot and pregnant syndrome. I understand why chauvinistic men support her, but why would women support this moose-eating nutjob?

Palin is bad news for women all across America. Very bad news for the progress we've made in recent years.

NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCain-PALIN!!!!

Comment by Melissa — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
At first, I was surprised by the choice of Palin. Upon reflection, it makes sense. I think McCain's priority is to clean up lobbying or nothing will get done in Washington. Congressmen and Senators rely upon fund-raising for continuation in office and employing relatives. Ethical reform has to originate in the Capital building. With the big programs on the Obama-Biden drawing board, is it realistic to think that they really will take on the their former colleagues to push through lobbying reform and then expect to get their programs passed? McCain may forgo the big programs and go to the people to pass reforms of lobbying, earmarks, and campaign financing.
I think that Obama has to demonstrate how he will reach out to liberals and conservatives within both parties to find solutions to healthcare, social security, pension protection, medicare and job retraining. Maybe he can score points by suggesting some of the names that he would consider for his cabinet. If the democrats view the abortion safeguards as the main issue of this campaign Hillary better be gathering her staff together for a 2012 run against McCain!

Comment by LPeterson — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
…I think Joe is the one who should have his picture on boxes of Frosted Flakes. After all, he's got all those medals for running his mouth. Keep it up, Joe.

Comment by jggrimm — September 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Wow - how incredibly stupid. I guess Sen. Biden really does not think much about women after all. As a Dem I supported Hillary, but I appreciate the forward progress of women in America today. Party lines aside, the progress is what counts. And with two very talented women to help make that point this is all he can come up with.
Go McCain !!

Comment by Degrading — September 9, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
This is great. Biden has been absent for a week. The only way for him to get any attention now is to make completely outrageous statements. The Obama campaign should stop hiding him. He is a priceless gasbag!

Comment by Victor — September 9, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE MCCAIN/PALIN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS STAND FOR?????? SO FAR ALL I HEAR IS "SOCCERMOM" "WALMART SHOPPER" AND 5 KIDS, ONE WITH DOWNS SYNDROME.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH OUR 5 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT? OR WITH A 6.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE? OR WITH A WAR SURGE THAT HAS WORKED..YET WE ARE STILL STAYING EN MASSE IN IRAQ! WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS 2008 AND SEEMS ALL THESE QUESTIONS AREN'T IMPORTANT TO THE MCCAIN/PALIN TICKET. THEY WILL JUST CONTINUE WHAT WE'VE HAD THE PAST 8 YRS!

Comment by jklonaris — September 9, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
…and voting for 2 male lawyers, one a rookie senator and the other a lifer, is a step forward??

Comment by sunshine484848 — September 9, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Obama/Biden would be a backward step for America to the bleak late '70s. Obama's sad pick for veep as opposed to McCain's certainly shows a lack of judgement along with all of the other baggage (Rev. Wright, Ayers, ACORN, corrupt Chicago machine, etc.). Three strikes (Gore, Kerry and Obama), you're out, Dummycrats!

Comment by Seattle Guy — September 9, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Insane, he better understand Gov. Palin more in the debates if he doesn't want to lose the 72-point spread.

Comment by Chris — September 9, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Joe Biden was the right choice for Obama's VP. You complainer's just wait, McCain/Palin will win in a landslide thanks to Joe Biden's off handed comments and Obama's misquotes. America is beginning to discover the two least qualified are Obama and Bin Biden.

Comment by Rank — September 9, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Hey "republicans are funny" what is amazing is how deranged you Dems are… you actually think NOBAMA is going to do the positive stuff he says. He don't care nothing for you, he didn't even help his own brother who lives in a shack for $1 a month. CHANGE moves in both directions… good and bad. Why not research your own candidate with an open mind.

usweekly dot com … go there and see for yourself.

Comment by democrats are mentally disturbed — September 9, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
hey Joe - any step away from the kitchen is a step backwards?

Comment by William — September 9, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Way to go Joe. The implosion of the Libs is starting. It is so predictable. I guess only an abortion loving,tax raising,America bashing Woman can advance the cause of Women. Joe, if you could stop talking long enough, you would realize YOU are the step backward for Women.
You are a Joke, always have been and always will be. You are not fooling anyone except your buddies in the media.

Comment by Mikey G — September 9, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Check out a funny "Nobama" parody song and video at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerweber

Comment by Roger Weber — September 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
So Palin's a submissive sheep, parroting whatever words Bush and McCain say, per Biden's assumptions? Man, you say that crap in the office of a major corporation and you're sent to sexual harassment sensitivity training.

Please give us more of Biden.

Comment by redherkey — September 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
"I'll take the woman who can field dress a moose, give birth to a handicapped child (CHOICE), call him a blessing, and run a state equivalent to its own country any day."

Wow. I'm sorry.. here's yet another moronic statement. Sorry Tom, you've been over matched.

So.. field dressing a moose, giving birth to a handicapped child ( because you know she isn't taking care of that poor child.. some other person is.. she's waaaay too busy with her VP run) and running a state for exactly 18 months makes her a qualified candidate for VPotUS?

Man. Qualifications must be running low then…

With Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin… we are all doomed regardless who wins.

Comment by LOL — September 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Joe Biden would be a backward step for women. This moron has been dead wrong on almost every foreign policy issue for the past ten years. Palin would be a beacon of achievement for women everywhere. She has principles — unlike Biden and his nuanced running-mate, Sen. Obama. She has achieved significant positive results for the Alaskan people — unlike Biden's sad, lurking, feckless career in the US Senate. Palin has faith in God and her country. I get the distinct impression that Biden would sell out his country for political or personal advantage if he had the opportunity.

Comment by Patrick C. — September 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Biden…the gift that keeps on giving!!!
Keep up the good work!!

Comment by zeeman — September 9, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Not only does he call it a "backward step," he goes on to "assume" that she "thinks and agrees" with Bush and McCain. McCain is NOT Bush, that's an old line. What gets me is how he "assumes" that a woman is just going to fall in line behind the men.

With a mindset like that, I don't see how Biden could think that anything she does is a step forward, or that any woman should be anything but to just fall into line. What a misogynist!

Send "Backward Biden" back where he belongs.

Comment by Gah. — September 9, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
Exactly what our country needs 2 HACK LAWYERS running things.

Comment by liberalism is a mental disorder — September 9, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
Hey Melissa. Abortion is wrong. Perhaps some of you sleazy broads should try keeping your legs together until he gets the condom on.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
What, are we in Junior High School? Biden has a big mouth and he never should have said that.

Comment by Jim — September 9, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Biden was a very poor choice for Obama because he is a pompous big mouth baffoon who has been in the Senate longer McCain and could'nt get more than single digit support from his own party during the primaries. If the polls continue to go in McCains way, the rhetoric from the Dems will get nasty and desparate. They will try for the knockout blow of some terrible scandle that the media will be willing to report on endlessly and then in the end if McCain wins they will all blame dumb racist white americans.

I can't wait.

Comment by Rob — September 9, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Melissa- if I were you, I'd look at Palin's record instead of the Dummycrat fear-mongering. Palin has NEVER foisted an anti-abortion bill on the people of Alaska.

Seems some of you people don't actually believe in the word "choice". Her "choice" is that she will have the kid, without question. She will not curtail your "rights" and has stated if Roe V. Wade were overturned, she'd let the PEOPLE decide the next step.

Tell me when she's legislated a woman's body. If you were truly a "strong woman" you'd read up instead of posting a load of BS.

Comment by Clarity — September 9, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Joe Biden THE PLAGARIZER is an old socialist who could not gather enough votes to beat Sarah Palin in all of his attempts to run(ruin) this country as PREZ!What a bald headed jackass!

Comment by mike e. cooney — September 9, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Good to know how Biden really feels now, unless you are a liberal and embittered woman, you cannot walk and talk at the same time. Give us Palin to shake up the beltway. To Mr. Biden, let us look into your poor voting record. You have missed on way too many issues and are a step behind for men.

Comment by Judy Ward — September 9, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Joe - you fool.
I think those hair plug treatments damaged your brain. Funny how men add plugs on the top and can't cut the back - going for that colonial look!

Sarah Palin is OUR GIANT STEP FORWARD for women in this country who have not been represented. Those androgenous feminists ran away with the women's movement. Now Republican women are going to take it back and put it back on track.

Comment by ilonaS — September 9, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
What a condescending jerk. His comment sounds like a third grader's. As someone growing up in Delaware, he's an embarrassment. Thankfully he's got plenty of time to work both feet into his mouth before the election.

Comment by Bill — September 9, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Pee scared Libbies pee! Bawahahahahahaha!!!!!

Comment by Jason — September 9, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Biden's comment is as offensive as suggesting Obama is a step backwards for black Americans.

For a classy guy, Obama sure picked a misogynistic looser for a VP.

Comment by Maria — September 9, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
And another thing: essentially, both McCain and Palin have a hands-off approach to abortion, gay rights and a slew of other issues when it comes to the government. They would choose to not legislate your behavior and beliefs.

Unlucky for you Dummycrats out there, the Obama/Biden ticket would attempt to legislate, well, EVERYTHING.

Comment by Clarity — September 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Melissa, get a grip. Check your assumptions (just like Joe Biden needs to).

Palin is not for "forcing raped women into 9 months of torture." Palin and McCain are also not for unequal pay. Please take a look at the Obama/Biden campaign and you'll discover the one campaign that has the greatest unequal pay, treating its women like the pretty little secretary gals on Mad Men.

Misogynists? That's a big word for someone who doesn't know what it means.

For someone who doesn't check her facts, rants on assumptions that are incorrect and blindly follows what the mainstream media and Democratic machine pumps out for the idiots to digest, those aren't attributes of being strong. Stubborn, yes. Strong individuals have the capacity for independent, critical thought based on objective review of differing sources of information, seeking as close to primary data as possible (when within reason).

Nobody who knows you considers you a strong woman, which is probably why you resent and envy Palin so much. Projection is not something to be proud of.

Comment by flyoversam — September 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Biden is clueless. Just like African Americans see huge symbolism in Obama as a big step forward, so do many, many women see Gov. Palin's place on the ticket for VP as a big step forward.

Comment by calindi — September 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
This is amazing. By amazing I mean to finally watch the left squirm. Besides the Obama Bin Biden ticket and the hilarity they display with comments they spew from their gaping, politically ignorant, oral orifices, they are in a stage of deep fright. They fear Sarah! They fear that she is the antithesis of the very ideology the left has been preaching for the last forty years. They do not fear McCain, they do not fear Sarah as VP, they fear that she is a grass roots politican that will attain the Oval Office in the future and will threaten the very existance of the left!! She is a Threat to all the left has been building with success since the embarrassing hippie laden 1960's and the antiwar movment. Sarah transcends the elite beltway mentality and will be a prominent figure in our politics in the years to come. Hats oo fo all you on this blog who oppose the OBAMA BIN BIDEN Ticket. We cannot afford to let him win. Get out the vote and encourage people to vote McCain Palin. The very existance of the U.S. is at stake.

Comment by Dino, San Destin FL — September 9, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Such a small man with such tiny thoughts becomes so very insignificant with each outburst.

Comment by Clyde — September 9, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Who is this Biden character and why are you covering him?

Comment by GEAH — September 9, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
It's not too late Obama. Dump Old Joe and pull Hilary on board as your VP candidate. Wouldn't that cook his goose (or moose).

Comment by Sammy Benton — September 9, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
John and Sarah must not coast
as Hussein becomes toast.

Comment by 4macman — September 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
I just can't get over how many people on both sides are just flat out blind.

People talking about Palin, the same way how people talk about Obama… as a Messiah.

Hey Republicans… keep it up… you keep raising Palin up on that pedalstal too highly and she is going to have a long way down when she falls… and she will.

Comment by LOL — September 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
How would he know or what makes him think that he actual has an answer? Hey Joe, let's let the women decide this one.

Comment by al bundy — September 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Hey Joe, did your "drop dead gorgeous Phd wife" give you that snappy line or did it just dribble out of your mouth like everything else?.

Comment by Mikey G — September 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
I love how the producer cut to a picture of a sign while Biden continued to mutter his nonsense.

What the heck was Obama thinking? The only thing I can figure out is that Howard Dean & Obama must have cut a deal early in the Obama vs Clinton battle wherein Obama got the party boss's nod as long as the old guard got to babysit him via Biden. Obama got what he wanted, the old guard got their policies, and Dean overtook the Clintons as the party's big-wig.

Comment by k2 — September 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
To think that a Republican making sexist remarks would be torn apart by the left wing main media and nothing occurs when a democrat says something so insulting. This double standard is what is infuriating the majority of Americans. As a Democrat I can not believe our leadership is so stupid to make off the cuff remarks that will only destroy the party.

It was not bad enough that our own party gave the election to Obama after discounting Florida and Michigan - they continue the problems by alienating women from the electorate.

You can't defend this kind of STUPID!

Comment by JW — September 9, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
If Biden thinks that voting for Palin is 'a step backwards for women' then pehaps he can explain his support for Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. Bottom line, this guy is nothing more than a department store dummy with a foam head and a big mouth.

Comment by Ty Shrake — September 9, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
I've got an idea for you Joe, "Why not get her (Palin) to join one of your unions?" This way she too can contribute to your coming retirement fund.

Comment by ONTIME — September 9, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Here's some advice Joe - Stop talking!

Comment by Sarah — September 9, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Where's Michelle?

Comment by clifton dewittsky — September 9, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Biden was in Sarasota last week. A female reporter asked him if he thought Palin would result in Hillary supporters voting for McCain.

Biden told this woman several times "That is a dumb question." He attacked the female reporter–he did not answer the question.

Biden's arrogance and ego will not play well in Peoria.

PS–It wasn't a dumb question.

Comment by Jkurp — September 9, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
This is the kind of rhetoric that the liberals resort to when challenged. I'll bet Hillary is loving it, though.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
YOURE ALL FORGETTING ONE THING, OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE WILL NOT MAKE ABORTION ILLEGAL. IT WILL LEAVE THE CHOICE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL STATES, JUST LIKE THE CONSTITUTION SAYS. SO IF ALL YOU BABY KILLERS CAN MUSTER THE VOTES YOU CAN STILL MURDER INNOCENT CHILDREN BECAUSE YOU CANT KEEP YOUR LEGS SHUT!!!!

Comment by MIKE — September 9, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
And heres uncle Joe and he's movin kinda slow at the junction…Petticoat Junction!!!

Comment by skytrooper — September 9, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
Biden is a step backwards for the advancement of hair plugs and mini-mullets.

Comment by Tom Bro-KAW — September 9, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Hi -
Joe has been shell-shocked by Sarah,he just doesn't get it; Sarah represents many, many women and she isn't afraid to discuss the issues. - Judy

Comment by judy — September 9, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Yah! I tinks dat biden boy yaps iss nodding but lots of wind mit der luttefisck smelling.

Comment by Jimbo — September 9, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Depending on what one means by "backwards", perhaps a step backwards for women might not be a BAD thing…

Comment by TM — September 9, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Someone earlier asked about Sarah Palin. Seems people who post on the internet don't know how to do RESEARCH on the internet! Oh, MSNBC, please tell me what to think and feel!

Facts on Sarah Palin:

1. If Roe v. Wade got overturned, let people decide what's next. (Oct 2006)

2. Control spending by request if possible; by veto if needed. (Sep 2008)

3. Vetoed bill denying benefits to gays, as unconstitutional. (Aug 2008)

4. Don't push school boards on creationism but allow discussion. (Oct 2006)

5. More pipelines; more nukes; more coal; more alternatives. (Sep 2008)

6. Global warming affects Alaska, but is not man-made. (Aug 2008) (God, I love this woman)

7. Vetoed nearly half a billion dollars in wasteful spending. (Sep 2008)

8. Doctors should manage health care, not bureaucracies. (Jan 2008)

9. Tightened restrictions on illegal alien's drivers licenses. (Sep 2006)

10. As mayor, cut property taxes & increased sales tax. (Aug 2008)

11. No income tax; no taking the people's dividends. (Oct 2006)

Comment by Clarity — September 9, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
So True, Sarah bad for Women, Obama bad for Blacks, McCain bad for Vets. Biden for President.

Comment by loanlady — September 9, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
I like McKinnock (aka Joe Biden). McKinnock is a step forward for plagiarism, but a step backward for hair plugs.

Comment by TW — September 9, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
GW was a step backward for men. No one talks about that.

Comment by Shanna — September 9, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
LETS TALK SECOND AMMENDMENT. TWO WEEKS AGO I SAW TWO NEWS REPORTS. TWO 85 YEAR OLD WOMEN WERE ACCOSTED BY LOWLIFES. ONE WAS VIDEOTAPED BEING ROBBED AND BEATEN. THE OTHER GOT HER .25 PISTOL AND HELD THE PUNK AT BAY UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED. JUST LIKE THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Comment by MIKE — September 9, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
Joe,who?????

Comment by JanieG — September 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE MCCAIN/PALIN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS STAND FOR?????? SO FAR ALL I HEAR IS "SOCCERMOM" "WALMART SHOPPER" AND 5 KIDS, ONE WITH DOWNS SYNDROME.
Post 52 WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH OUR 5 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT? OR WITH A 6.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE? OR WITH A WAR SURGE THAT HAS WORKED..YET WE ARE STILL STAYING EN MASSE IN IRAQ! WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS IS 2008 AND SEEMS ALL THESE QUESTIONS AREN'T IMPORTANT TO THE MCCAIN/PALIN TICKET. THEY WILL JUST CONTINUE WHAT WE'VE HAD THE PAST 8 YRS!

The 6.1% unemployed means that 93.9% ARE EMPLOYED! And before this current recession, when the minimum wage was being decided, Republicans said it would hurt the job market. Our dependence on foreign oil, and the Democrats opposition to drilling at home, has also hurt the economy and job market. The war surge has worked, and even most elected Democrats are steering clear of that one. We have had tremendous growth in the stock market in the last 8 years. After 9/11 we have not been attacked. AlQueida is being sent packing by the Iraqis, and seems to be getting more desperate every day. Perhaps more of the same POSITIVE things would not be so bad. Even though the President's rating may be low, it is no where near the 9% of the Democrat controlled Congress.

Then again, tell me what Obama/Biden stands for? It is clear that Obama believes in change, as his position now seems to be changing daily! The DNC needs a new script, as you all have worn out the old one!

Comment by Rank — September 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Biden is so funny,and a regular dynamo on the stump! Please just keep talking Joe!

Comment by Vt Libertarian — September 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Watch closely as Obama bin Biden, George Soros, and the MSM become increasingly irrelevant.

Comment by BlueMax372 — September 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Wow!…Biden was the worst pick ever! Goes to show that Obama really doesnt know what he is doing! He relied on a man who is so far out of touch not only with the public, but with people in general….GREAT PICK O GREAT ONE!

Comment by Bryon — September 9, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Biden is such a sexist. Obama is, too. All these liberal "womens" organizations are frauds just like Obama. They're all for women's rights as long as those women are libs. Sarah Palin isn't a lib so they don't support her. Sarah is a REAL feminist and I support her wholeheartedly.

Comment by Stephanie — September 9, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
hmmmm….

Is this a bigger or smaller step backward for women than BHO picking him instead of Hillary Ciinton? Guess he never thought of that.

The serial palgerizer seems more confused than ever.

Comment by RedGuyInABlueState — September 9, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Love how the democrats say there is no question that Biden would make a great president… why didn't he get any votes in Iowa if the democrats support him so much?

Comment by Tim Jessup — September 9, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Thats a great line Jokin' Joe. How does electing a woman to the VP spot amount to a backward step?

Comment by MtheB — September 9, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Democrats and their media allies take careful aim … and shoot themselves in the foot.

Comment by JET2023 — September 9, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Great post #96.
Biden… who's he?

Comment by wally — September 9, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
ANYONE READ THE FARMER'S ALMANAC? THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCE OF WEATHER PREDICTIONS FOR THE LAST 100 YEARS? GLOBAL COOLING FOR THE NEXT TWO DECADES. OH NO WHAT WILL THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS DO?? MY CAR IS IDLING NEXT TO MY SNOWMOBILE, ATV AND I HAVE A .30-30 IN THE SCABBARD…. LETS GO HUNTIN'. JUST DOIN MY PART TO PREVENT GLOBAL "FREEZING"

Comment by MIKE — September 9, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Biden's comment is empty partisan rhetoric — it makes no logical sense. If his complaint is that Palin holds the same views on women's issues as the current administration, then Palin being elected would neither be a step forward nor a step backward. However, given that Palin was a governor with a 65% approval rating, is a VP candidate with (currently) a 58% favorable rating, and clearly demonstrates the feminist ideal of being able to have both a career and be a mom, she is obviously a very positive role model for women, and I don't see how her election would not be a big step forward for women, regardless of whether you agree with her political views or not.

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Wow, Joe Biden is really out of touch with regular Americans. A woman vice president will be a step backwards for women??!! It's thinking like that keeps democratic women in their place, right Joe?

Comment by R Richard — September 9, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
If one were to judge the popularity of Mr. Hairplugs from the comments being made here, B.O.
would be well advised find another mate.

Comment by Mr. Right — September 9, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Keep digging Joe, you might hit oil! (hey, an energy policy!)

Comment by Hairplug Joe — September 9, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
For the person above you took a swing at Soccer Moms, Walmart Shopper, people with children - and (low blow) people with children with special needs - FACE REALITY. These are the people that make up America and are more often than not the ones that volunteer, show up to help at disasters, know and care about their neighbors, enlist in the military and fight our wars. They are not ashamed to put their hand over their heart to salute the flag and love to hear out National Anthem.

AND THEY VOTE. And they are mad and tired of being steam rolled by the arrogant, lazy, piss-ant left.

Comment by ilonaS — September 9, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
Hey Biden, you are the next Eagleton.

It's over for Joe Biden, the guy that has been Washington longer than John McCain!

Comment by DBCG — September 9, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
I'm surprised that the campaign allows Biden to answer questions from reporters — it's always a matter of time before he steps in it.

But then again, I'm surprised that Obama campagin picked Biden, instead of picking a woman.

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Joe Biden is a political hack, he would go down on a goat if he thought it would get him re-elected!

Comment by Dirk Digler — September 9, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
"Yes, supporting the woman is a backwards step for women. So following the same logic, supporting Obama is a step backwards for African-Americans, supporting McCain is a step backwards for Veterans, and supporting Biden is a step backwards for retards.

Comment by Capitalist "

THAT IS THE BEST EVER !!! LMAO

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
The Dems can't get out of their own way….since Sarah has been selected they have been in a steady free fall……keep up the good work Joe & O…..America is listening……….and getting turned OFF….NEWS FLASH TO DEMS….SARAH IS THE GAME CHANGER!!!!

Comment by Boston — September 9, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
He was talking about abortion people. Please stop watching Fox News and start thinking on your own. You don't seem to understand that YOU are the problem with America, not the government.

Comment by Jimmy — September 9, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Vladimir Putin is licking his chops dreaming about the day Sarah Palin becomes president of the United States. God help us all.

Comment by Brian D — September 9, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Remind me again..Joe, your running for what again?

Comment by Boston — September 9, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Oooo man, this is going to backfire on Obama. Obama&Biden will not just loose, but they will loose BIGGGG.

Even media realizes that and now it's switching sides. :)))

Comment by Mircea — September 9, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
This is a ridiculous article. Biden meant that a womans right to make choices on abortion would not be supported by Palin, hence the "backward step" for women comment.

Jeez, anything passes for news accuracy these days.

Comment by Jim in Tulsa — September 9, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
Hey ilonaS (post #123). Will you marry me?

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
History will show that the day McCain picked Sarah………the Dems never recovered and the race was won.

Comment by Boston — September 9, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
Wow!

Perhaps he should stick to plagiarizing the sensible thoughts of others and not try to think up his own.

It is much better to steal good speeches from others than to stick with your own bad ones.

I wonder how many women he managed to insult with that one remark?

BTW, why is it a step backwards?

With the exception of abortion, Palin has demonstrated all of the characteristics the women's movement has always admired.

She has makes her own choices, lives her life on her terms, according to her personal philosophy and plays hardball equally with the boys and earns their respect.

Comment by JustifiedCynic — September 9, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
Show me a politician who has not changed his/her opinion or put his/her foot in her mouth and I'll show you a miracle. It's just Joe has a continuing propensity for it, he just doesn't learn

Comment by j bauer — September 9, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
Keep yakking joe, Palins poll numbers keep rising as fast as you talk. Obama/Biden is a backward step for humantiy.

Comment by john — September 9, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
Joe Biden is now an expert on women's issues? Most American's see right through Senator Biden's transparant attempt to associate EVERYTHING John McCain and Sarah Palin do to the previous administration. Hey Joe, it ain't workin'….Sarah Palin is breath of fresh air!

Comment by James S — September 9, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Biden…the guy with all this "experience", couldn't beat Obama in the primaries, who has ZERO experience or credentials to be president.
Not even sure if would qualify as a floor manager for Wal-Mart.
Palin will do well as Vice-President…and I am sure she can handle Biden's sexist remarks and Obama's trashing of the truth.

Comment by DahktaD — September 9, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
test

Comment by kim — September 9, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
So let me see if I have this straight, a woman has to be pro-abortion to lead. A woman with 5 children, who becomes Govenor and now is running for VP is a "step backwards" because she isn't pro-abortion? So all women have to walk LOCK STEP with abortion rights to be considered worthy. What kind of sick mind make this logical? Sarah Palin has already don more for woman theu you hair-plug biden, you who couldn't even get 5% of the primary vote in your own state. You're a pathetic person and one of the main reason BHO is dropping like a rock in yjr polls. I can't wait until sjhe kick you @ss in the debate.

Comment by Fed up! — September 9, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
How thoughtful that a man decides what is a step forward or backwards for women. Listen up, liberals, your gun control policies are going to be the reason you are going to lose. As a woman, I don't love or agree with everything about Sarah Palin, but she sure got me off the fence and into the GOP excitement. And I own guns also, so the fact that she is for no gun control got me to switch from Ron Paul to McCain (something I would never have guessed would be possible….)

Comment by Janet — September 9, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Oh, he assumes Palin agrees with Bush. Just like his supporters in the Obama media! Just assume the facts taht support the Obama talking pointsy No fact checking necessary.

We do need change. Change from the mindless and elitest liberal assertions that drive the Democratic party.

Comment by D. Cahill — September 9, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
Who is this Biden you speak of?

Never heard of the guy. Is he a reality tv show personality, because I don't watch that crap.

Comment by Scott — September 9, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
What do they stand for? Here's a few things you may not understand: 1. Smaller Government Less is more Contrary to those with Marxist tendencies it IS NOT the governments job (my job) to fix all the problems of he people. Its the governments job to protect us from foriegn invaders, maybe fix the roads, thats about it. 2. Less taxes for the rich, the middle class and the poor, no wait I'm sorry the DON'T pay taxes. IT'S OUR MONEY the government does not earn a single dime, they take it from us at gunpoint, and give it to someone else. 3. Along the same lines falls the Pro-Abortion/Anti Abortion argument. If I was opposed to it, I shouldn't have to support it with MY TAX dollars, whether or not it should be overturned is a matter for our courts. 4. American Values, not the values of the French (13% unemployment) or the Cubans, or the communist (never worked , never once) I live in the greatest country on earth, this is proven everyday by the people that risk there lifes at the smallest chance at success here. NO ONE EVER SWIMS TO CUBA. get a clue you self loathing whining OBATRON.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
And Joe Biden's elevation to VP would be a giant leap forward for all the students who need to cheat in order to pass their classes.

Comment by Edward Keithly — September 9, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
Biden has a lot of nerve. As a Catholic, I am deeply offended by this man who pretends to honor my faith. The man clearly does not know what he believes. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a delight.

Comment by Joe Vaughn — September 9, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
Wow, until this stupid remark, I hadn't realized how terrified the liberals were of Palin. Let's hope no one wises up and muzzles Joe and puts him on a shelf somewhere with Michelle.

Comment by RM — September 9, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
Biden and his sidekick are both corrupt, sleezy Democrats interested in power, money (lots of money), more power and dismantling the United States to the point that the only wealthy are Pelosi, Kennedy, Gore, Moore, Kerry and all the rest of the very, very, very RICH Democrats who controled Senate and the country. There a lot of VERY RICH Democrats especially lawyers who all LOVE BIDEN & OBAMA - intersting is it not.

Hussein Borak Obama loves us like he loves his half brother! All words, no cash. Not even a lousy $12. What pigs these people are.

Of course libs are not very bright. I remember when Kerry was running and the signs Dems carried had stop the rich. Kerry was and is one of the richest person in the world. How funny is that!

Comment by amtr — September 9, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
Are these the same Republicans who have been claiming for the last 8 years that National Security should be the #1 issue in America? How can you prefer Palin as VP when Biden understands the international political climate so much better. Anyone (Palin) can be "briefed" on current events and rattle off a handful of names from a teleprompter 5 days after joking that she needs someone to brief her on what it is a VP actually does. I agree that Sarah palin will achieve something historic if elected. She will become the first woman VP who ran solely on a platform of media persecution and fooled an entire starstruck nation. Who is "The One" now?

Comment by Tom — September 9, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
And now boys and girls, here's that love-able, affable Obamaniac side-kick Bubbles Biden! Today watch as Bubbles puts his oversized clown feet in his mouth by being a sexist chauvenist pig… Folks you just cant make this stuff up…this guy is train wreck just waiting to happen.

Comment by Tom — September 9, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
This is a big step forward for Sarah Palin, not for women.

Comment by Kevin — September 9, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Biden has been shoved out of the spotlight by Sarah Palin and is doing anything he can to stay relevant. Problem is, nobody cares what he has to say. Sarah has made moose meat out of Biden and Obama.

Comment by Abby — September 9, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Biden confused battalion and brigade 3 times in one week. He is a disaster. I guess we should be glad he doesn't call professional women "sweetie" like Obama does, or that he doesn't pay his female staffers less money than the men like Obama, but Biden is a jerk. I hear he is attacking children with Down's Syndrome today. Is Biden stupid or just tone deaf?

Comment by Karen — September 9, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
More stupid comments by Joe. I wonder though, are these original stupid comments, or has he plagarized them from someone?

Comment by Mike Rotch — September 9, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
Even as a GOP fan I would have said Hilary winning VP or Pres. (nomination and/or general election) would have been a step forward, it is already historical. Why are people voting at all for this guy given his record of talking down to just about anyone? Delaware should be ashamed to have re-elected this guy!

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
The fact that Obama has to spend so much time attacking Palin demonstrates Biden's glaring ineffectiveness. What's the Biden Gaffe Count at today?

Comment by Jay — September 9, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
The only step backward would be putting this pathetic partisan windbag in the VP's office!

Comment by MontanaJoe — September 9, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Considering how Obama is touted as such an smart guy, isn't it an odd strategy to compare himself to McCain's running mate? Rookie mistake.

http://www.thenewliberal.org

Comment by Graham — September 9, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Biden's son got a cushy job at Department of Justice without any qualifications — he failed the Delaware bar 3 times!!

Comment by Karen — September 9, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Seems the Dim's are starting to back off of criticizing Bush as much. After all, they are being asked "are you now willing to say the surge worked?". The tax stimulus check was a Dim heaven, except for who signed the check. Medicare D was as left wing as possible. Is Sec Rice just a token black & a woman to get points with the public? Has Bush kept us safe (so far, knock on wood) while the Dim's have tried to wreck policies that work? Two years of do nothin congress is not being bragged up much. Hmmm. (sexist remark coming) Maybe its time a woman got out the broom in DC.

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Wait, is this the same Joe Biden, who during the primaries, said Barrack Hussein Obama was not qualified to be President? Boy, I really care what he has to say!

Comment by dutch girl — September 9, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Keep talking Joe. You garner votes for McCain Palin every time you open your mouth. Of course you know what's best for women and Palin doesn't have a clue. Right……

Comment by SDC63 — September 9, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
I mean honestly people, read his comment. All he said was that if she believes as McCain and Bush does it would be a backward step for women. He's not insulting anyone, just stating that their collective views (MCCain, Bush, and Palin) would be a step backward because he feels his views would benefit women.

I mean really people, parse the statement

Comment by Critical Thinker — September 9, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
The election of Joe Biden would be a step forward for plagiarists and men with hair plugs!

Comment by BosG — September 9, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Palin will be a step backwards for liberals/socialists. We can only hope the cooler heads will prevail…

Comment by IMHO — September 9, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Not sure, but I assume Palin's opposition to abortion is what Biden means when he says "a step backward for women." In the warped mind of many a liberal, murdering babies is called "reproductive rights" and they view pro-lifers as "anti-reproductive rights." Palin isn't anti-Pill or anti-condom or anti-patch or anti-abstinence, therefore she isn't against the "reproductive rights" of women. She's just anti-murdering-innocent-babies-when-the-parents-are-to-stupid-or-lazy-to-take-precautions-or-the precautions-fail. Murdering innocents is never a "right" of any kind.

Comment by Kristi — September 9, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
YO #129, your comment portends your ignorance.
We the People Are the Government. They are us, we are them, they are not our benifactors, and they are not supposed to "take care of us" . Dude, if you really want to live in a socialist society why don't you move to one.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
The thing all you paranoid prochoicers are missing, is that Roe vs. Wade was a bad law decision - it usurped the state's right and the people's right in the states to determine their law. That is a violation of the Constitution. For you that have to have Choice, realize that each state will pass it's own law regarding that. Your liberal states will okay it and the conservative will most likely ban it. But the "right to choose" will remain.

Comment by Pretzleman — September 9, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Keep going, Dems, keep going. Anything other than "no comment" re: Sarah Palin ONLY makes her MORE attractive to Conservatives, Independents, and women.

Game over.

Comment by TimD — September 9, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Windbag Joe continues to do his part for alternative energy through his endless gusts of hot air and lip flapping with no substance or value.

What a moron.

Comment by buy me a windmill — September 9, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
did he think up these comments by himself,ordid he read it somewhere

Comment by geo live — September 9, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Biden is right on. Sarah Palin would set women back 100 years in America. Where are all of the thinking, logical citizens in this country? I am horrified that someone as bright as John McCain would use such bad judgement in selecting someone SO divisive at a time when we all need unity. She is no unifier!

Comment by Mary — September 9, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Interesting that the majority of the commenters on this page that disagree with Biden are men. While it is lovely to see a women progress to the level that Palin has, her policies are in total opposition to the female platform: social welfare, improved health care and education, and a women's right to choose. While many women may be proud to see a female VP - a vote for Palin is a giant leep back for the women's movement and women's interests.

Comment by Jennifer — September 9, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Joe never finds a stupid remark he doesn't like. For 20 years he has been running for President and he has gone from plagiarist to dumbist in that time. Joe please don't run for national office again or you might lose your Senate seat.

Comment by Big Jim — September 9, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
If thinking and believing the way Bush and McCain think is bad for women, why has it been so good for Sarah Palin? If her beliefs are so outdated and regressive, how was she ever able to become governor of Alaska?

Biden's crude and pandering attempt to put a negative spin on the success of Sarah Palin reminds me of pre-Civil War slavery proponents who argued that freedom was the worst possible thing to give to African Americans, because it would somehow be bad for them. Vice President Sara Palin would represent a setback for the cause of women? What kind of moron really believes that? And what kind of stooge is trying to con the American people into believing it bears any semblance of logic?

Oh, yeah: Mr. Plagiarist, Pal Joey Biden.

Comment by Ron Henzel — September 9, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
I have now made my decision on how to vote. Unti lnow I have been holding back and gaging each pearson in this race. I vote for the person not the party. After reading this un real remark by Mr. Biden I am sure I am moving over to the republican side of the race. Sorry Obamma

Comment by greg — September 9, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Dear Critical Thinker:
Biden wasn't a critical thinker when he said it. Just exactly where do you come up with that statement Mr Biden? Do you have specifics of women being worse off under Bush? How different from Clinton?

BS is BS Critical Thinker. Yes some of these comments are off the wall, but well deserved to point out the hypocrisy of the speaker. Dim's are Dim's. Dim followers listen to the bubbleheads and lap up the garbage as truth, never to allow anyone else to have a rebuttal. This forum is telling you that the rebuttals are coming this election. Truth will prevail. Garbage will be exposed. MSNBC & NBC are already backtracking. They are disgraceful and are changing their programming. Maybe I'll be able to watch them again some day. CBS is next!

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
What you Liberal leaning people do not, and will never understand is that by attacking Sarah Palin, you are getting people to support her all the more. Every charge, every accusation has been proven false, and a lie. You are only strengthening her popularity. She is the Democrat Pariah. She is the thorn in B. Hussein Obama's side. (supreme Muslim hope, and God, second only to Mohammed.) Just ask General Khadaffi, who praises B. Hussein Obama.
You are turning more people against you, than you are winning over. Liberals can't make compelling arguments. They can only accuse, attack, and name call. Meanness, & bitter hatred are the Liberal way.

The silent majority, the same ones who elected both Bushes, and Reagan, are wide awake, and in motion. And there is not one thing you can do to stop what is inevitable…. Obama will lose, and lose BIG! I sense a landslide! You are going to see McCain in office for a term, or two. The Mrs. Palin will have her two terms. I predict she'll be so popular that the Republicans will reclaim both houses. Hillary will never get her chance to screw America.

And it will all be in part to the stupid, baseless, hate filled attacks by the Liberal Left. hey B. Hussein Obama….. NO YOU CAN'T!!!

Comment by Scott k — September 9, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
U are such an idiot Biden

Comment by Johnnysize — September 9, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Yeah he's a real thinker: "In a strong rebuff to the Bush Administration on Iraq, the Senate overwhelming approved a plan by Biden that essentially calls for breaking Iraq into three sections: Kurd, Sunni, and Shia. While the amendment is nonbinding, it's the first measure to pass, (vote was 75-23,) that goes against the administration's war strategy"
Thats like breaking California into Blacks, Whites, and Latino's to "fix the problem" (personally I'm all for it), but its VERY RASCIST

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
The key word in his statement here is "assume". He "assumes" that Gov. Palin thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain. It just shows how ridiculous and out of touch he really is. He wants to be vice president and he doesn't even know who his opposition is? He is just so absurd!

Comment by Suzy B. — September 9, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
The "JOEBAMA" ticket just doesn't seem to have any flare or fight in them right now. Not that they can't get it back but they are dead in the water looking for a breeze.

Comment by Kelly B — September 9, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Jennifer did Uncle Joe write that for you?

Comment by Big Jim — September 9, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Joe Biden typical horses behind.

Comment by Melvin — September 9, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
how many times has Biden run for president and been rejected by his party and Democrats around the country? So Obama picks him as VP. Nice, very nice. Would you buy a used car from Biden or Obama?

Comment by gregg — September 9, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
i keep forgetting that every woman alive is pro-choice. thanks for reminding me, joe. you are so in touch.

Comment by taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
I bet he stole that line from someone else. Wouldn't be the first time.

Comment by Joe — September 9, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
He and his handlers need to "THINK" before opening their mouth?
I am a Dem. and this is STUPID!!!
This campaign needs to get a GRIP!!!

Comment by Roggie — September 9, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
That's Joe Biden???? I thought it was Bob Barker!

Comment by Ecky Hade — September 9, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Step backward? What is democrat party policy other than more of the same thing we have had since 1930!? Clearly the republicans has been the party of progressives since the election of Reagan in 1980.

And how regressive is it that Obama did the following with the Annenberg funds:

-1- participated proposed teaching MATH / SCIENCE to minority students ….. PROJECT REJECTED

-2- participate proposed teaching MLM ( multi level marketing - think AMWAY ) racial agitprop which they call "community organizing" to minority students …… PROJECT ACCEPTED

Do I need to tell you what they need to learn? Rather than learning to shake down whitey its probably better they math and science and join the mainstream of society.

Listen for yourself to the Milt Rosenberg / Stanley Kurtz interviews. You can google it.

Comment by Fred X — September 9, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
and PUH–leeese ! It's not "Pro-Choise" it's PRO-ABORTION" If you were not such wussies your bumper stickers would speak the truth. Please stop sugar coating it, it's not a choice its a person.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
I'm a Republican. I like McCain and Plain. However, a Republican administration just nationalized Fannie Mae. I own the stock. It has almost no value now. They, in effect, confiscated my property. They say for the good of taxpayers over stock owners. I am a taxpayer. I am not rich. Is this a Communist country? How could this happen in a Republican administration? Would McCain keep this roll toward socialism from continuing? George Bush certainly does not understand. Obama certainly does not understand. WHO IS MINDING THE STORE?

Comment by Happy Harry — September 9, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
This comment is astounding in it's ignorance!
Biden's mouth is just big enough to put his jack booted foot in it.

Well there are plenty of women out here that now have a "voice" as Palin speaks "truth to power".
As the libs are fond of saying.

Comment by Kara — September 9, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Milt Rosenberg / Stanley Kurtz interview detailing how Obama and the Bomber (Bill Ayers) frittered away Annenberg project money is summarized here: http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/obama-and-the-bomber-scamway-project-with-bill-ayers-saul-alinsky-radical-perveyor-of-multilevel-marketing-of-social-agitation-for-economic-gain.htm

Comment by Fred X — September 9, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
Hey #194 , I know it stinks, but without that action or something like it the holder of 75% of the mortgages in this county was about to fail completely, then you and EVERYONE else loses. Check out http://www.bobbrinker.com hes good might help a little\

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
Who the hell does Biden Think he is. His comment is a MAJOR slap in the face for all woman and everything the womans mvement stands for. These Dems keep DIGging themselves deeper and deeper in the hole. Wake the HELL up>>>Palin has more experience as a mayor of Wasilla, than the Community Organizer, Barrack Hussein Osama. You folks better know what your doing when you got to the polls on November 4th. This country will be worse off if You elect Obama and Biden…Do your homework, and don't listen to the Leftist Liberal Media the 99% of you Democratic supportors depend on…………….

Comment by Kenjamit — September 9, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Jennifer:

Define your precious ideals.

Social Welfare: redistribution of wealth?
Improved Health Care: do you mean free or better health care? Education: free or protect the teachers? Right to choose: abortions on demand are the current law. How can you improve that? Supreme Court had no authority to allow them, only to rule that the individual states could make them legal or illegal. What vote did you or I get to make? Clearly that was un-Constitutional.

Come on Jennifer, you can't have your cake & eat it too. You have to pay for it. Are you willing to give up another 25% of your income?

Can you state the improvements you want in each area?

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
I think Biden's hair plugs were set too deep. Everytime he opens his mouth, he makes himself sound less likely to be VP. Keep it up, Joe!

Comment by Klaibr — September 9, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Oh, Jennifer … honey. It's okay. Take another Midol and lay down for a while. But don't forget to keep your legs closed hon.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Sen. Biden, a 35 year member of the Good Ol' Boys club, do not think he has ever rocked the Pork Barrel boat in Washington has he?

Comment by JohnOh — September 9, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Interesting how the conservative males commenting simply aren't aware of the policies Biden was talking about.

The false analogy "Obama must be a backwards step for African-Americans!" reveals the lack of comprehensive skills these guys have. How pathetic.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Democrats only support women if they are democrats - that tells me they don't support women at all.

His comment would be all over the regular media if he was a republican. What if Palin said, "If Barak Hussein Obama, it would be a step back for blacks."

The dems are the most short sighted group of morons I have ever seen.

Comment by Sean in Illinois — September 9, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
As a person from Milwaukee, I can tell you that the reporter asking the question was a leftie himself. No wonder we got such a wonderful, thought provoking answer that aired on TV here last night. My wife and I laughed when we hear it.

By the way, no other comments from Biden were aired, so it makes you wonder what other foolish things he said during the interview. I�m guessing this comment was the best they could use. Sad commentary on Biden.

So let�s get this strait. A successful woman, who has more experience than her Democrat opponent, is a step backwards for women? Then what about Hillary? And what were her qualifications? Palin far exceeds both Obama and Hillary, and to be honest, more than Biden and McCain too. Let�s hear about that one Joe.

Just keep talking Joe. You only give more ammo to McCain and the women are just lining up to vote for you and the empty suit you stand next to. Way to go, Joe.

Comment by RT — September 9, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Obama running for president helps all minorities because he is black. Palin running for vice-president doesn't help women. You have to love the two sets of logic.

Comment by Johnny B — September 9, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Just when I think Biden can't get any dumber……he says something like this and completely redeams himself!

The more he opens his mouth the better it is for McCain and Palin!

Keep up the good work Joe!

Comment by Jason Kaz — September 9, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Let's see here, from a voter perspective.

So much talk about the VP being a heartbeat away from the whitehouse. Hmm, didn't the voters already reject Senator Biden as president during the primaries? If we didn't want him then, why would we want him now?

Comment by Frank C — September 9, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
"So let�s get this strait. A successful woman, who has more experience than her Democrat opponent,"

Give me a break. Have you seriously blindly subscribed to the right wing talking points to the point of exaggerating them? Even they were careful to qualify her special experience as "executive experience," which McCain also lacks.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Biden's claim that "the first female vice president will be a "backward step for women" is incredulous. Professional women like Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, and Meg Whitman, ebay CEO, support Governor Sarah Palin. Governor Palin has executive credentials that that Obama/Biden ticket does not have. More importantly, Palin has the proven leadership to implement the changes that voters want. Palin is a great choice for VP on the McCain ticket, and good for women.

Comment by Trudy — September 9, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
"Obama running for president helps all minorities because he is black. Palin running for vice-president doesn't help women. You have to love the two sets of logic."

Ann Coulter is a successful female writer. Yet she wishes women couldn't vote. Does she promote the female position, or does she hurt it? Clearly the latter.

Please, learn to critically think about things.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
I think a line from comedian Ron White sums Joe Biden up best.

"You can't fix Stupid."

Comment by Jerry — September 9, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
A stupid comment out of the mouth of a stupid man.

Comment by Gale — September 9, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Ah, to luxuriate in the glow of old Joes' wisdom!!

Comment by robfromohio1 — September 9, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Sarah Palin is gonna be wearing Joe's testicles as earrings when that debate ends……..Thanks Joe. I really doubt you have ever said anything that advances modern society.

Comment by Leo — September 9, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Commentors: I have a question that is bugging me.

If a person is 50% white/46% arab & 4% black, what would you call them?

Compare answer to this:

50% white/46% mexican/ 4% arab or black

Yes I know it is racist sounding, but I'm confused that an Arab American would call themselves black. Especially one that has 3 muslim names from birth.

Please straighten me out. Maybe I should ask Joe or Hillary.

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
To appropriate the Elaine Bennes line, "The thing about Joe is, he's an idiot"

Comment by GuyInCT — September 9, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
"Come on Jennifer, you can't have your cake & eat it too. You have to pay for it. Are you willing to give up another 25% of your income?"

Obama's plan, which cuts taxes for 95% of Americans, provides me, as a middle class citizen, with more tax relief than McCain's does.

That's how you stimulate an economy. Look the GDP charts over the last 30 years. Trickle-down demonstrably fails.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
George Soros must be rolling over in his grave. You know, the coffin he sleeps in during the day!

Comment by oracle — September 9, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
"50% white/46% mexican/ 4% arab or black

Yes I know it is racist sounding, but I'm confused that an Arab American would call themselves black. Especially one that has 3 muslim names from birth."

"Mexican" is a nationality. There are "white" Mexicans and "black" Mexicans, and they have racial problems in Mexico analogous to the ones we still have in the U.S.

Please, get a clue.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Democrats dilemma: The Palin pick exposes their contradictions. Wanting to be diverse and discrimination free is contradictory to not selcting a woman. Maybe they are starting to see the true meaning of being color blind. It means judging people based on Character and Skill only. That eliminates affirmative action, forced diversity, and saying it would be a step forward to have the first African American or Woman in office. Can anyone see the ignorance here. I hope. Only people well versed in logic and insight reply. Rhetoric and emotion please go back to your holes.

Comment by frank p — September 9, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Thank you, Joe, your sublime comments have just cemented another million votes for the McCain/Palin ticket.

Way to go, Joe!!!

Comment by Rosalind — September 9, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Two percent Joe….. his own party didn't want him to be President no one wants him a heartbeat away from it either. A blowhard who likes to hear himself talk. At one time he thought he was th Labor Party Leader of Great Briton.

Comment by PKhanPie — September 9, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Joe Biden is a chauvenistic pig. In 1991 he made a tasteless, crude joke and he should have been removed from office.

Joe Biden: "What do you tell a woman with 2 black eyes? Nothing, I've told the b*t*h twice."

As a woman, I will not support a ticket with him on it. Palin and McCain are not George Bush and that has been put to rest. McCain has gone against Bush on 14 of 26 MAJOR ISSUES.

Hillary is telling her people on the sly to vote for mccain-PALIN and I agree.

Comment by Melanie — September 9, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Joe might be on to something. Sarah might be great by herself, but is she free to disagree with McBush?

Comment by Mencken — September 9, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
Extremestan:

Are you a producer of any wealth to this country? I make $55k a year and my wife has a pension of $35k. How much will I be asked to give you because you think somehow you deserve a piece of me? If you make more than me, YOU WILL be paying more!

The Bush Tax cuts just about eliminated taxes for 25% of our payers. Are you saying the Clinton Taxes were better than Bush's?

Hypocrit

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Give him a break!! He was probably just drunk again.

Do you think it's easy to answer questions?

/dion

Comment by Steve in Toronto — September 9, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Biden did not mean that by her running for office it would be a step backwards for women. HE MEANT that if she goes into office all the things that women before our time have fought hard for, such as Roe v. Wade will be thrown out the window. Women will no longer have a choice what to do with their bodies and their lives. Don't be so literal in understanding his statement and understand the consequences of the types of policies and actions that she and McCain have planned will do for women. Even Hillary Clinton has come out and said that their policies are in no way a positive move for this country that has been in a quamire the past 8 years.

Comment by Get it Straight — September 9, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
"It means judging people based on Character and Skill only. That eliminates affirmative action, forced diversity."

Affirmative action and forced diversity are reactions against the fact that people are NOT judged based on character and skill only.

Schools, for instance, are naturally segregating, and black people suffer financially and socially for it. Read "The Shame of Our Nation," by Jonathan Kozol.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
A step backward for LIBERAL women. Frankly she looks and lives a helluva lot more similarly to women I know than the feminist icons the media promotes. And based on the polls she appears to have a strong connection with them.

Comment by Nice Plugs Joe — September 9, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Yes, a women who supported charging victims for rape kits s mayor and doesn't support the ability of a women to make her own choices about her body is bad for women.

Comment by Andrew — September 9, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Babies resulting from rape or incesst are valuable human beings, children whom many are waiting to adopt.

Comment by Callie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
It would be great to have a strong vibrant woman in the VP role. We recently saw Condi Rice, Madeline Albright nominated for cabinet roles and it was good for women to have them as role models. Governor Palin comes with an 80% approval rating from Alaska voters. Palin has managed successful reform and changes implemented in a city and state political environments. Go McCain/Palin.

Comment by Felicia — September 9, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Trudy,

Please don't make comparisons you don't understand. Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, was FIRED because she started to run HP into the ground. Once she was gone, the company turned around and recovered nicely, thank you. Bad comparison.

extremestan, you need to stop drinking the liberal Kool-aid and look at the truth. Palin was a Governor and Mayor. Those are EXECUTIVE level offices, all be it from a small state, but one that happens to be less that 5 miles from Russia. Thus she�s dealt with policies, budgets, developed programs and direction and has executive leadership.

Now for the Democrats. Obama, a non-descript state representative from Illinois and one term US Senate member, who in both cases did not put forth one piece of substantial legislation nor was a leader on any major committee or cause. Biden, long term Senator who�s done what, run for his parties nomination a few times and lost? Hillary, oh yeah, she was in the White House for a several years, but had no power or leadership, but is a 2 term carpetbagger Senator who also has no major legislation or programs she�s championed. Great resume there.

Comment by Jerry — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Electing a McCain-Palin ticket would not be a step back for women, but it would be a step back for women's issues. By women's issues I mean, protecting reproductive rights, so that women have access to affordable birth control and the belief that the government shouldn't be the one to decide whether a woman can or cannot have an abortion. McCain-Palin would also continue to support abstinence only programs, which have been proven not to work. They wouldn't put more money towards education, as the US lags behind other industrialized countries in math and science scores.

Comment by Mary Jane — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
At least he's answering questions instead of hiding behind the mantle of party campaigners and only reading speeches. It will be interesting how Sarah Palin will do with Charlie Gibson, I'm sure it will all well rehearsed and planned. If she WAS ready don't you think she should be out answering questions, instead of hiding behind a podium. Instead the campaign is cramming her full of information (at times misleading) until they feel she is ready to handle the tough questions the media will put her through. I'm interested to know what her opinion is in all of the issues that matter, not just to hear another speech.

Comment by Get it Straight — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Thank you for the gift Biden! We knew the O-Panic's handlers couldn't keep your mouth shut. Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!!! McChange 08!

Comment by Ned — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
"Joe Biden is a chauvenistic pig. In 1991 he made a tasteless, crude joke and he should have been removed from office."

And McCain cheated on his wife and married the new girl. Then called his new wife a trollop and a cunt in front of news cameras. Get a clue.

"Are you a producer of any wealth to this country? I make $55k a year and my wife has a pension of $35k. How much will I be asked to give you because you think somehow you deserve a piece of me?"

Zero, because you will receive a greater tax cut under Obama as well.

"If you make more than me, YOU WILL be paying more!"

Aaaand it is clear you have no idea what the candidate's tax plans are. Please do some research and then come back.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Pardon the typo above. (incest)

Comment by Callie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
I'm a feminist and I completely agree with Biden. If somehow McCain wins then I'm changing my career from architecture and working for NARAL.

Comment by susie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Extreme Stan:

You are actually the first leftie that came close to saying that Reagan & Bush were right to cut taxes.

Did you make a mistake?

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Joe if you quit the sexist remarks Sarah might give you a set of hairy moose balls to hang from your rear view mirror because everyone knows that you have none of your own!! We know where those hair plugs came from.

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Joe Biden, are you Keith Olbermann's daddy? "Stupid is as stupid does".

Comment by Steve B. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
Biden = Clown show!

Comment by srs — September 9, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
As a woman with a full-time job at an investment bank and two small kids at home, I'm thrilled to see Palin running for VP. Such a step forward!!

Comment by EFD — September 9, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
How can this be a step back? Is it only because she doesn't agree with the socialists view on abortion?

Here's the solution. Don't outlaw abortion, leave it legal. Stop the funding for abortion.

It's all about $$$ not life, for the socialists anyway….

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
Biden is a clown.

Have women move foward because of anything he did in the last 30 years? I guess he really isnt qualified to determine this point.

Just like he wasnt qualified to determine that they should divide Iraq into ethnic zones….

Comment by JS — September 9, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
Biden sure would know about women's issues. He wears enough makeup to make a girl on a street corner blush. Seriously, watch him next time he is on meet the press or any of those shows. Oh yeah, and he's had more elective surgery than most Hollywood starlette's. Ahhh, vanity.

Comment by Ms. Reality — September 9, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
youtube.com/watch?v=xABGNdiomtg

Obama is a Muslim…

Comment by The Shadow — September 9, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
"You are actually the first leftie that came close to saying that Reagan & Bush were right to cut taxes.

Did you make a mistake?"

I'm not a leftie, I'm a moderate. Reagan & Bush were right to cut taxes, and wrong to grossly inflate our spending. Look at the deficit charts over the last 30 years.

Republicans talk the talk on fiscal conservation, then take a dump on us fiscal conservatives. They also talk the talk on pro-life, then take a dump on us pro-lifers. They say these things to get elected, and that's all.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Now wait just a minit, Obama could not have oppesed coruption in his state, There is no corruption in Chicago, thats why he NEVER made ANY WAVES, there was none to make. I wonder if his 20 year pastor/iman would be willing to swear him in? The question really is, what book will he be holding…???

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
The Democrotches must have a death wish, as evidenced by Joe Biden being chosen as the vice-presidential candidate. He is grossly obtuse.

Comment by RightStuff — September 9, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Well Biden is just a stupid idiot. Sarah Palin is an accomplished leader and a very strong example for independent thinking. The abortion debate has been long settled and women should be free of the vitriol that the left showers on people who differ in their opinions on how to deal with unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. Shame on Biden and shame of the left for castigating Palin in this way.

Comment by Peter — September 9, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Let's get this right.

Dim's for years have blamed Reagan & Bush for ruining the economy via tax cuts. agree?

Clinton raised taxes and balanced the budget by gutting the military (gore job) and that contributed to a "great economy".

Bush cuts taxes to stimulate the economy. (it worked suckers!)

Now Obama is going to cut taxes MORE? LMAO

Do you really believe outbidding McCain for more tax cuts is believable?

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Joe should just keep his mouth open so he has a place to rest his foot every now and then…

Comment by Monica — September 9, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
Keep talking plugs. Way to represent the ticket of "dumb and dumber 2008″. Barack America!!

Comment by ObamaPlugs — September 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
I'm a feminist and I completely agree with Biden. If somehow McCain wins then I'm changing my career from architecture and working for NARAL.

Comment by susie � September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
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You would have to have a brain transplant and a body to match Sarah's, no dykes allowed!

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
"Look the GDP charts over the last 30 years. Trickle-down demonstrably fails"

Yeah, and 15 years of economic growth during that time was a failure? Please, grow up and learn something about history and how the economy works, extremestan.

Ask any economic expert, raising taxes slows the economy, cutting them puts more money into the private sector, spurs spending and actually INCREASES tax revenues. Is economics morons like you don't get because you want to 'stick it to the rich', who already pay 50% of all taxes

Comment by Jerry — September 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
I love the line from one writer here
Accusing those of us supporting the McCain/Palin ticket of being "sheep"
Well "Bahh - Bahhh" than. I've asked several people at work who they intend to support. When I ask "why" of those who support Obama, they say "he's better than McCain". When I asked where did you get your information? - "I get it here and there when I watch tv while I surf past the news". You can't fix stupid and not much you can do with the un-informed.
I guess we "sheep" at least know who we are voting for and why.
Bahhhhhh - Baaaahhhhh

Comment by Nick P. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
"Now Obama is going to cut taxes MORE? LMAO

Do you really believe outbidding McCain for more tax cuts is believable?"

The information is freely available, Spar Wars. You can look at both Obama's and McCain's tax plans, and see clearly that Obama's is better for middle class citizens like you and I.

Here's a chart:
http://www.goodgamery.com/pics/taxplans.gif

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
It takes more than a vagina to be a step up for women. Good policies would help. McCain/Palin don't have them. Obama/Biden and Clinton all have policies that help women improve their lives.

Comment by Susan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Mr Biden, and Mr Obama. Have a pleasant day. Watch your step and words along the way. They may come back to haunt you one day. Last but not least, get the evil people out of Alaska that are trying to destroy a good lady. It will come back to haunt you Mr Obama; and you wouldn't want that. And Mr Obama, tell Joe to shut the h*** up. He and you are starting to look like an attraction at the county fair.

Comment by fxmulder — September 9, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
I am a woman. I am a student doctor. I vote. I am pro-LIFE. As a successful, independent woman, who should I vote for? The team that would bring about socialized medicine and force me to do procedures I believe are wrong? Or the two that would improve healthcare (but still allow me to pay off my quarter of a million in loans- yes only for the 4 years of med school), and not force me to kill babies? My CHOICE is for the latter.

Comment by Sylvia — September 9, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Wow. The Delaware Entrenched ChiaPet speaks about a real woman but winds up on the wrong side of the argument again! And the Lord Messiah Obama joins his partner in "change" to decry the presence of this in-experience neo-con interloper! I weep for the good people of Delaware. They have such low standards and manage to live down to them on a regular basis.

Comment by ChiaPet Detector — September 9, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Truth hurts guys. If you wanna drop the straw man arguments and ad hominem attacks and look at what he actually said, I challenge you to prove him wrong. McCain is against the equal pay for equal work legislation and supports the abstinence only and faith based programs that Bush did and does, which his own vice president's family offer obvious proof don't work, and Palin slashed funding for Teen mother programs by 20% using her line item veto during her time as governor. They had the babies like you wanted, Sarah! Now you are gonna cut them off? Pretty cold if you ask me.

Comment by Erik — September 9, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
There are a lot of male haters out there.!!
As a woman, I admire men like Obama, Biden, Kennedy, FDR. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE FEMALE TO GET MY VOTE! THEY JUST NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT POLICIES!

I WOULD NOT VOTE FOR PALIN IF SHE WAS MISS AMERICA!
SHE IS A HYPOCRITE WHO SUCKED MORE FEDERAL DOLLARS OUT OF WASHINGTON THAN ALMOST EVERY OTHER STATE IN THE U.S.A.
SHE COULDN'T RUN HER LITTLE TOWN OF 5000, SO SHE CHARGED THE STATE FOR A CITY MANAGER - SOMETHING ALMOST NO SMALL TOWN DOES. SHE SOUNDS LIKE A BUREAUCRAT TO ME.

Comment by janet akers — September 9, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Joe Biden is absolutely right.

Comment by charlotte — September 9, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Joe Biden speaks the truth, yet again… She won't even support stem cell research which could help her son…. that is shameful.

Comment by TheMaster — September 9, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
He's right. But Americans don't want facts. They want fast food and reality TV. Palin's positions are even more anti-woman than McCain's, which is pretty bizarre. Way to be honest, Joe!

Comment by Sarah — September 9, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
I had to laugh as I read the comments and quickly learned this is a pro-McSame/Palin site.

Keep patting yourselves on the back and calling Binden a "stupid idiot" and fooling yourselves that Gov. Moose hunt is a small town, Washington outsider.

What did she do with the $27million she got for the "bridge to nowhere". She didn't spend it on the bridge, but she did spend it.

Comment by rhiannon welles — September 9, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
extremestan said —The information is freely available, Spar Wars. You can look at both Obama's and McCain's tax plans, and see clearly that Obama's is better for middle class citizens like you and I.

So it IS class warfare. Thanks for the graphic.

Oh, I guess I shouldn't say class warfare, BHO calls it "neighborlyness".

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
MORONS!!!
Biden assumes Palen's beliefs a) because of the company she keeps, and b because the golden girl has never actually professed anything that wasn't spoonfed to her in that same speech she's been repeating and cannibalizing since the RNC.
When the GOPs rockstar (a.k.a. celebrity) can actually stand on her own and debate policy she might possibly be a viable candidate. Until then she's just being used as stagecraft.

Comment by SpinningGOP — September 9, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
Re: Comment by Jerry � September 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm

"Ask any economic expert, raising taxes slows the economy, cutting them puts more money into the private sector, spurs spending and actually INCREASES tax revenues. Is economics morons like you don't get because you want to 'stick it to the rich', who already pay 50% of all taxes"

——

Well put. I would also add that increasing costs to corporations (windfall profits taxes on the evil oil companies that provide a much needed and in short supply commodity) will be passed onto the customer anyway. We all pay in the end for the stupidity that is liberalism. I just wish they would quit pretending and wear bags over their heads for all their shame. Obama and Plugs, change you can believe in. What a joke and recipe for landslide defeat to a much strong and competent ticket of McCain/Palin. The choice is clear, except if you are a robot lib who always has his/her hand held out in the "gimme" position.

Comment by ObamaPlugs — September 9, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
"The team that would bring about socialized medicine and force me to do procedures I believe are wrong?"

That's not Obama's plan at all. I think you're taking McCain's rhetoric a little too literally. Obama's plan changes nothing except makes businesses (except small businesses under a generous threshold) that don't provide healthcare coverage subsidize healthcare for folks that don't have it.

"Or the two that would improve healthcare (but still allow me to pay off my quarter of a million in loans- yes only for the 4 years of med school),"

McCain wants to tax health benefits you get from work and pay you back with an insufficient tax credit in an attempt to force you to go private. He wants to put healthcare on the market, which means three things: The ill lose, the old lose, and the docs lose. That's what happens when you insert lazes faire competition into an industry that saves money by bullying the producer and discriminating against the consumer.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
When Bill Clinton was running for president,he promised to cut taxes. When he got in office, he raised taxes retoractivly to the first of the year on everyone. The economy slowed.

Now Obama says he'll cut taxes, but is proposing all sorts of new spending. Sorry to kill the math but it doesn't add up.

When Bush came into offce, the economy was slowing. Taxes were cut and the economy grew again. Sounds like a winning plan for me.

Oh, buy the way extremestan, the President doesn't create the budget and spend, the CONGRESS does. Plenty of blame to go around.

Comment by Jerry — September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
You right wingers are out in force and crowing loudly today, but this election is far from over.

Palin's popularity is as high as it will ever be. When people find out she would outlaw abortion even in instances of rape and incest, when people find out that she became mayor of a town of 6000-9000 with $0 in long term debt and left the post of Mayor of Wasilla with the town $22,000,000 in debt, when people find out that she doesn't believe in global warming, when people find out that she tried to fire a librarian because she wouldn't ban certain books that upset her, when people find out that she fired a police chief for wanting to change last call from 5:00 am to 2:00 am and her state public safety commissioner for not stepping above his authority and taking extra judicial actions to fire her state trooper brother in law during a nasty divorce and custody hearing, when people find out that she didn't know that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; institutions that hold half the home mortgages in her state were privately funded until this recent proposed bailout, when people find out that her husband was a part of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party and that she encouraged them to 'keep up the good work' at their convention just last year…. The shine will be taken off.

Seriously, I don't know how right wingers excuse membership in a party that wants to secede from the US in this day and age. Inexperience is ok with me if you can prove that you have a good grasp of the issues. Sarah Palin doesn't know the issues that face most of us, her views are more right wing than Dick Cheney and her abuse of power smacks way too much of Bushism.

Comment by Victor Shaw — September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Ah Joe, as articulate as ever I see… What is it like to realize that by Obama choosing you and not Hillary he has actually guaranteed his own defeat???

I call it poetic justice. For far too long the Demo-rats have taken for granted that they owned the female vote. However they never have understood that the true red state females(good looking, patriotic, smart, family loving, God fearing) have never felt represented by your version of what a woman in power had to be(manly looking, man hating, country hating, self hating, God hating, baby killing).

So I say keep opening your mouth Joe because every time you do you drive more and more to the McCain/Palin ticket.

NObama/NObiden'08

Comment by Obamasuxx — September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
The idiot that thinks any President or V.P. can change the constitution with regard to abortion is a moron. BO believes late term abortions are okay. This idiot is fortunate thier mother didn't believe in abortion.

Comment by Bob G — September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
ATTA GIRL SYLVIA, It's nice to see that someone sees the big picture!
BTW those student loans will be absorbed by the practice you join, the world will be your oyster! Good luck to YOU. God Bless an America that holds such promise.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
I have news for all you voters out there. Palin is a step backward for women considering her antiquated views on many of the issues that are close to women.

Comment by Eric Relation — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
"So it IS class warfare. Thanks for the graphic."

I take it you now agree that Obama's plan is better for folks like you and me?

Again, trickle-down is a demonstrable failure. Everyone should be able to earn the right to rest on their laurels, but it's clear that there's too much "resting" right now given the causes of our economic downturn (have you been paying attention?). McCain's plan would not stimulate.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Palin is unfit to be president. Mccain is unfit to be president for picking her. The rest is just white noise. Go Joe.

Comment by david — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
There are a lot of male haters out there.!!
As a woman, I admire men like Obama, Biden, Kennedy, FDR. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE FEMALE TO GET MY VOTE! THEY JUST NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT POLICIES!
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Good for you. Now you can have a bucket of warm spit to wash that shyt down.

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Judging by the reaction from the McCain supporters in this column, Joe just hit another red button. Keep up the good work, Joe. You're the man.

PS: He's right, of course.

Comment by Berliner2 — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Such a Tool.

Comment by Bud — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Thanks Sen MBNA for your advice. She is smart.She is capable.She is opinionated.She is independent. She speaks to women with families and jobs and you and your running mate are history.

Comment by Karen — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
1.5 years as Governor/earmark begger state, a lie told regarding her Bridge to Nowhere flip flop,a preference for abstinence only education, refusal to support the right to choose in cases of rape and incest….
Joe should keep quiet, but this is no step forward.

No experience (I've been to Wasilla)
No truth (why lie about what is on public record)
No forethought (kids can be educated about guns, but not sexual reproduction?)
No choice (I'm a rape survivor. It should be a choice)

Comment by lola — September 9, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
By the way, it's really interesting on these comments and others around the internet and on the TV, that the RIGHT - who are in support of Sarah Palin - have become more sexist with her support. And most of it is, liberals don't understand that we want a 'real woman in a skirt' or something. The point of feminism is… ya listening, Rethugs… that it should not matter if it is a woman or a man. The person should be judged on merit, and - in addition - a leader's sexuality and sexual attractiveness is wholly irrelevant. This, to me, is an additional reason why Sarah Palin is a setback for women. Less because of her, but more because of Rethug men who think it's OK to put down intelligent successful women if they don't wear mini-skirts and 3 inches of make-up. Get with the times, gentlemen!

Comment by Sarah — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
again,
MORONS!!!
You morons keep quoting things that have been out there for months as if it's new and revealing of some plot to undermine the entire country. And you portray Dems as conspiracy theorists? You drama queens really should get a life. Read a book, do some research before you start spouting the GOP bullet points again. Maybe then you'll realize the mass stupidity that's been pawned off on you.

Comment by SpinningGOP — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
As woman…I agree with Biden 100%. What a joke Palin is for women everywhere. Anyone, man or woman who tells ME what I want to do with MY body in my opinion is a step back for those who fought Roe V. Wade. For those who fought for their rights. For those who fight everyday for equality in this country. NOT once did I hear this woman talk about equal pay. No she'd rather talk about lipsticks, and pitbulls, and being a hockey mom. Well guess what? While McCain is traveling from house to house to house to house to house to house to house and Palin is using taxpayer $$$ to pay to work from home and praying for pipelines instead of poverty, people have homes to heat, gas tanks to fill and mortgages to pay. And then this idiot Palin didn't even know that Freddie Mac was a private company not Taxpayer funded. NOW It's taxpayer funded with this bailout and it hurts those who did the right thing when buying their house this most. Seriously, she is a danger to our country and woman everywhere. I'm disgusted at any woman who believe this idiots schtick. It's a big gimmick. And when you lose your home to foreclosure and energy costs stay the same, and your job has been cut because the economy is too weak in 4 years under McCain. I'll be praying for the Alaska pipeline too.

Comment by Mockerfab4 — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Biden's wrong. Prove it? Simple. Biden believes life begins at conception. Gov. Palin believes life begins at conception. Biden says he can separate out his personal belief for what's constitutional. Gov. Palin says she can separate out her personal belief for what's constitutional. Biden has a legislative history of doing exactly as he said. Gov. Palin has a history of doing exactly the same as Gov.

If Gov. Palin is a step back for women, so is Joe Biden.

That's the problem all the women's rights folks have. Gov. Palin hasn't tried to impose her personal views and, in fact, has studiously avoided doing so or even giving the appearance of doing so. Sorry folks, say it all you want, but the bottomline is, what's good for Joe Biden is Good for Sarah Palin.

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
what does she believe? what are her policies? why won't she have a townhall meeting and talk to voters? i mean who the heck is sarah palin!? forget the press, talk to the voters!

Comment by righteousbrother — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Biden is right…too bad most of the posters here had already copy-pasted the same old tired response before they even listened to what he was saying. It always amazes me how some CHOSE to be ignorant. Name a policy in which Palin HELPS women? please. name 1…..no, don't name that she's a woman…that's like saying George Bush helped me out because he's a white guy…

you guys have nothing but a beauty contest…and it's based off 1 speech that's been repeated. Funny how much hype you guys suddenly put behind speaches…

good luck helping her win the Repub primaries in 2011.

Comment by Sean — September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Correction, Joe Biden. To paraphrase your own comments on Obama during the primary: "I mean, you got the American female vice-presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking lady," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." It's clear that the Left thinks "womanhood" has to embrace liberal, Democratic ideals or risk being portrayed as gender dysfunctional or confused. To liberals, a "real woman" can't care about the life of her unborn child without being hell bent on overturning Roe v Wade.

Comment by Ralphie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Too bad that we do not have term limits in Congress. That's the only to rid ourselves of arrogant idiots like Sen. Joe Biden.

Comment by Rick in Dallas — September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Post 172 MARY

Mary, Mary quite contrary
what does your Obama/Biden sow?

Whining lines, and the need for change
but never the same answers two days in a row!

Comment by Rank — September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Republicans are hilarious. They run this country into the ground in 8 years, and then expect to be taken seriously when it comes to what we should do about it. HA HA! Please! Let someone else fix the country so you can screw it up again in 8 years.

Comment by ben — September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
After reading all of these unbelievably riduculous posts giving Biden hell for saying that the Republican ticket would take women backward, I am moved to comment.

I'll just make one point. If McCain wins, Roe V. Wade is history. If butchers are doing abortions in the back rooms of this country, is that a forward move for women or a backward move?

Sorry, I have to make one more point. Palin wants creationism taught in public schools alongside evolution. Well, to be fair as this fair "goddess" must be, then should we not teach evolution alongside the "poof, you're there" creationism in all private and Christian schools of this great, fundamentalist, religious, right wingnut, speaking-in-tongues, gun-toting, war-mongering, hate-filled, visiously-divided, Rush Limbaughed, Bill O'Rileyed, bible-thumping, anti-science, anti-education, etc. etc. nation???????

We suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Sam Sharp — September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Thank God the DNC ended a few weeks back. The blathering of hot air from that convention actually melted the ice in my fridge. Global warming at it's gore-ish best.

Biden, keep talking you gray hair-plugged fool. Obama made another great choice in choosing you over Hillary.

I love watching Obama squirm. He's just another jive-shucker.

Comment by patman denver — September 9, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Jerry-

At least Biden sponsored the Violence Against Women Act, which is one more law than McCain has ever put on the books to support women. And as a woman I do think that electing Palin is a step backwards, since she is against sex education for teenagers, does not support abortion even in the cases of rape and incest, and believes that you can pray away homosexuality.

Comment by Denise — September 9, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Comment by Victor Shaw � September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

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Good! You can have your socialism. Not be pal!

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
perfect example of an elected woman leader who did absolutely nothing for women, and made many many people completely miserable: MARGARET THATCHER. In the UK, it will take many more years to recover from what her policies did to this country.

Comment by glenmasson — September 9, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Biden is an idiot?!? LOL. I know that Republicans don't deal in truth or facts, but if Palin is anywhere near the White House, and McCain buckles to the extreme right like he has for the last year and half, Then it IS a step back for women:
1. Roe V. Wade will be overturned
2. Equal pay for equal work will not be supported
3. They have both voted against legislation to protect women in domestic violence sitiuations. One of them is a landmark piece of legislation authored by Biden!
4. She's cut funding for teen pregnancy programs (LOL) and for children with developmental desabilities. (LOL again)

These are just a FEW of the things that Palin set women back on. Just because she's a woman doesn't mean that she would be a step forward. It's no wonder the race is close. people are really this dumb.

Comment by nian — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Saying Palin would be a step forward for women puts women down tremendously as a gender, assuming they are all complete idiots like she is. Think about this one, which will come out soon and it will be over for her and McCain. a- she went to work 3 DAYS after giving birth to her down syndrome baby, b- she showed no signs of ever being pregnant, c- her daughter who is supposedly pregnant now was not seen by anyone for 5 months prior to the down syndrome baby being born because she supposedly had mono. Jesus, if thats not a cover up for her daughter having the down syndrome baby I don't know what is. This, along with the laundry list of horrible, unqualified attributes about Palin should cause any respectable, intellegent woman to not even think twice about this person. TERRRIBLE.

Comment by JC — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
You people really need to get a clue. Biden is exactly right. Palin = no equal pay for women, no reproductive choice and support for endless war that will kill off all your children in return for oil. She's anti-Jew yet claims to love Jesus. She's an absolute idiot, which is why the Republicans have been trying so hard to keep her away from the press. She's too busy cramming for her debate with the much better informed and experienced Biden.

Comment by Tracey — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
You GOP spinsters keep blathering on about protecting the USA from extremism, but now you're going to put religious extremist into office. Nice. So which are you, the pot or the kettle? Your rights end where everyone else's rights begin. Just because you refer to yourself is "the right" doesn't mean that you inherently are.

Comment by SpinningGOP — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Gosh I didn't know The Hill was under target of so many idiotic Republicans and stupid PUMAS…

Comment by JR49, Virgina — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
are you all of you people really that stupid? Palin is vehemently pro life, refuses to speak up against equal pay, and, above all else, is a LIAR! She truly would be a major step back for women. I've been an Obama supporter from the start, but history would be much kinder to Hillary as the first female in the white house than it would be to Sarah Palin.

And for those who say that if Palin is a step back for women then Obama is a step back for blacks. You speak out of ignorance. Obama is advancing the agenda of the majority of the black population. Palin, however, would be willing to restrict or abolish many of the advancements that women have made in the last 100 years.

Do some studying. Learn your stuff. THEN start to discuss politics. But we all know you won't, you'll just keep following blindly like the lemmings that you are. Don't know what a lemming is? Probably because the definition was in a book that Palin banned…

Comment by Ben — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
The dems needs to steer clear of women's issues.
No matter what the dems' intent or response, it will reflect negatively on them.

Forget digging into Palin's religion. Obama's got 20 years of listening to mentor, Jeremiah Wright's hateful thoughts, language and racist rantings.

Stick to the issues.

Comment by Andy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
"Thank God the DNC ended a few weeks back. The blathering of hot air from that convention actually melted the ice in my fridge. Global warming at it's gore-ish best."

McCain is a believer in man-perpetuated global warming as well as Gore is, you doof.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Jennifer #175,

Please enlighten me on the "female platform: social welfare, improved health care and education, and a women's right to choose." I am a WOMAN and believe as follows: The constitution doesn't say anything about ANY of this (if you can find the articles and sections, please post them here). And as far as the "right to choose" goes - the CHOICE is whether to have sex, not whether to kill the child that results from that choice.

Comment by Carolyn — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
So let me get this straight….being against equal pay for women is a step forward for women ???? Sarah Palin is the Anita Bryant of 2008. Please tell me how that is a step forward for women? Tapping her as V.P. is offensive to me, as if women who supported Hillary Clinton weren't supporting her because of her experience, but only because any woman somehow helps our cause.

Comment by Liberated Woman — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Senator Joe is right on but we need loads more scrutiny on the little cheerleader riding high in the bubble her handlers have put on her.
Wake up Democrats: Paleosarah needs a truth squad put on her to expose her lies and tall Alaska tales. A month from now she'll be last month's flavor, her wrapper in the trash and just another soiled political player. Thats the way this our sick commodified culture works…
Overall impact: zero impact.

Comment by chetking — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Sarah Palin is a nasty piece of work. She object to abortions for women you are victims of rape and incest. Ask yourself,if your daughter was raped, would you want her to carry her pregnancy to term. Would you want the child to grow up knowing he/she was a child of rape?

She is pro-life but she kills animals for sport? She's a freak!

She is mobilizing us Democrats–we will do anything to prevent this barbarian b—h from getting into office.

Comment by Bristol Palin's Baby — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
RE: Victor Shaw …..

You sir need to put down the Obama Kool-aid. This is the day of the internet. Nobody is going to believe your stupid list of lies. All they have to do is go to an independent source of information like say Newsweek (hardly a right wing source) and see you are lying and where does that leave you and your candidate?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986

Sorry but the idiot train stops squarely with you!

NObama/NObiden'08

Comment by Obamasuxx — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
An oportunity to break the glass ceiling will make it easier for others. If a woman wants to shoot a moose or be Vice President she should be able to. Or do what ever she wants, is an oportunity to break barriers that should never have existed in the first place. This would give oportunities for all women, not just liberal women or conservitive women. Stereotyping womens rights as only the right to get an abortion is narrow and short sighted. This is a great oportunity for women & America.

Comment by MichCraig — September 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Sarah Palin is less "pit-bull with lipstick" and more turd with whip cream.

Comment by CTSader — September 9, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
Biden doesn't believe it is right to legislate his religious belief and in a country that professes seperation of church and state, he's 100% correct.

Comment by rhiannon welles — September 9, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
This blog seems filled with exactly the kind of anti-feminist men who think Palin is qualified to be VP because she's pretty. Republicans really don't get it at all, do they?

I'm a woman young enough to be Biden's daughter and I agree with him 100%. An anti-choice woman who supports McCain's policy of opposing equal pay, who would endanger our daughters with abstinence only education, who won't increase health care access for children and families, who appears to have a really backward attitude towards education, etc…GIANT steps backwards for women.

Palin is for women what Clarence Thomas is for blacks - an unqualified Affirmative Action pick that only helps prop up the anti-woman right wing agenda.

Comment by Jeannie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Funny - I noticed that most of the pro Palin/women comments are from men. Hmm…

Comment by MattNall — September 9, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Biden voted against the Alaska pipeline.

With experience like his gas will go back to $5/gal.

Comment by Moron — September 9, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Tell it like it is Joe. I am a mother of a 4 year old daughter…and for my daughter's sake…I hope Palin does not become the first woman to get this close to the presidency. Her values are not my values. I am a Christian and I see this woman for what she is worth…and it ain't much.

Comment by DallasHail — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Sarah Palin is a religious extremist whose idea of brave hunting is shooting exhausted wolves from a helicopter. McCain has supported all of the disasterous economic policies of the current administration -oh yea, and remember the Keating Five, McCain's first boy band?-that has shifted more of the tax burden and debt of the wealthiest Americans to us working class men and women. Those people are greedy and narcissistic and distracting the American population from real discussion about real problems with all this social conservatism nonsense. Wake up, stop this money sucking war that our kids are going to pay for since we are not, mind your own business and start talking about fixing roads, bridges, healthcare, education and all of the GOOD things that government can bring to our communities.

Comment by notheocracyinamerica — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Her views on abortion and equal rights are indeed a step backwards — remember, Republicans have repeatedly voted down equal pay for women. Why is everyone so blind to nit see that??

Sure, being a VP is a step forward in general, but her views are antiquated views from the 50's… seriously…

Comment by Joe — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
This guy is a complete dunce. This may be one of thw weakest conclusions I have ever seen a politician draw:

"I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden added. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."

How does an agreement with a particular set of policies signify that women are taking a step backward? That has no logical validity to it whatsoever, and is another overblown, erroneous statement by this Delaware phony and over-inflated ego.

Obama has not run at all on his "policies" platform, and therefore, we do not even know what they are nor how they will be enacted. He has run on a mandate for "change", which is a mandate of uncertainty when you do not make known how to go about making change, what you are actualy changing, and whether or not the change is truly all that necessary. Not EVERY American is looking for a platform of change. Many Americans are looking for a platform of progress, and change does not even remotely equal progress in many instances.

They want to criticize McCain for his voting record that is much in favor of Bush related policies and try to link this guy to Bush, when the two of them historically are not the best of friends. Bush is a not a Conservative in the true sense, he is a Bush. McCain is a Left leaning republican, and despite this difference, neither of them would dare promote the silliness that the Dumbocrats try to pass through Congress for the most part, so how COULDN'T THEY have many similarities to the voting records? This is much more in part to Party affiliation than playing follow the leader.

Unfortunately, the blind, idiot left cannot see things as they actually are, but how they HOPE them to appear. Such is the mandate of change. Pure idealism that does not promote reality. Be gone, Lefties…

Comment by Willy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Wow I just followed a link to this site and was horrified! You are some of the most hateful people I have ever had the displeasure of reading! I don't support either of these candidates at the moment but you people sure could turn an Indepedent away from McCain in a heartbeat. Now I have to agree with my friends who talk about how ignorant and racist some Republicans can be!

Comment by TR — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
He has to assume because she's too much of a coward to do even one interview with the press. And I don't count this shame of an ABC interview that's coming up.

Comment by Jacob — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Shouldn�t we let poor Joe be right on something, since he has so often been wrong on foreign policy? He is after all very experienced in making mistakes. Let�s see � something happens to Obama and experienced Biden is our president and he has a fatal aneurism and the president is�.
As to some previous reader comment - Let me get this straight - some readers agree that Palin is a step backwards for women because she understands that you don't kill a baby because someone raped the baby's mother? My wife and I have counseled thousands of women who had abortions and have been traumatized by the experience. Most of them also carried a very heavy load of guilt for what they came to understand was the murder of their own child. Understanding that makes Sarah bad for women?

Comment by Peter Prange — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
At one time years ago I actually thought Biden was a statesman BUT he has done and said so many things that it's obvious he is dumb.
Sarah Palin will clean his clock one on one. Sorry Joe, it's too late to change those stripes.

Comment by Dick West — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
I've read a few of the responses on here and can't believe some of the ignorant comments.
Biden's whole point is that she continually votes against womens rights.
Even on the bill for equal pay!
She is very fundementalist in her views and policies, which might be fine if this were 1908.
Her state has the highest tax rate, for the love of Pete!
To have her occupy the office would only be a plus for women because of her gender, not her policies.
Wake up people!

Comment by Chris — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
As a woman, I agree whole heartedly with Senator Biden. Based on the information that has been released regarding Ms. Palin's positions in the past (including the areas of government that did or did not get her approval for spending), she does not seem like a step forward for women or the issues that concern women. Furthermore, I am astounded at how many people are not acknowledging the fact that he is assuming her positions because she, the illustrious governor of the largest state or third smallest state by population, has yet to announce her positions on anything.

She may have stated that she believes this or that on the Alaskan scale, but, I for one, would love to her what she believes on the national scale. Until she does all anyone, including Biden, can do is assume. This is an intentional strategy by the Republican party. You can't technical criticize what you don't know.

Of course this is a rational explanation for a logical comment made by someone who has supported women's issues for decades, so I am sure no one here will understand.

As a side not check the facts about the size of Wasilla, Alaska and how many people voted for her as mayor. Don't believe everything Rudy tells you guys, that is definitely a slippery slope to be on.

Comment by Brianna — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Biden is a sexist pig. All women should be ashamed.

Comment by sean annon — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Ah, it looks like the conservative teenagers have taken this board hostage… how adorable. Shouldn't you kids be in school?

Comment by lunarmagpie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Honestly - I have no intention of voting for the McCain-Palin ticket simply because McCain put someone on the ticket with mammary glands. Biden is absolutely correct - this woman is a complete throw-back to the dark ages. She made her CHOICE to continue her pregnancy with a baby with Down's Syndrome. I respect that. I would also have respected her CHOICE to terminate her pregnancy. The thing is, she doesn't want anyone else to have that CHOICE under ANY circumstances. I find that completely abhorent and an insult to women everywhere, to think that someone else would decide for me, my daughters and my granddaughters what they can and cannot do with their bodies. If the Repubs believe in less government, what the hell are they doing in my doctor's office policing FREE CHOICE!

Comment by Rhonda — September 9, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
His words are being taken out of context.

But in the end, what he's saying is true.
Look back at the movement women made back in the '60's.

Those women fought for their rights, and they're still fighting today.

And now, here comes Sarah Palin, who openly opposes many of the battles these women fought for.

I've read articles written by Eve Ensler about the matter.
AND SHE AGREES WITH BIDEN!

Comment by Jeremiah — September 9, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
The point isn't if a women is VP, that it's a step back for women, but the policies that she supports, if passed would be a step back for women. Equal pay, birth control, right to choose etc. That would be a step back for Women all over this country.

Comment by Daymonster — September 9, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Maybe we should be breaking the glass ceiling by throwing out-of-wedlock babies at it?

Comment by CTSader — September 9, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Its incredible that the front runner of the democratic party has chosen a running mate that is hell bent on destroying the ticket. Talk about a "suicide run" !!! Bravo Obama and Biddel what a team ! Would be fun to watch them operate with other world leaders like this ! What a way to make them laugh themselves to death as in "who framed roger rabbit".

Comment by Victor Scott — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Very astute observation Joe!

She would set us back in so many ways.

I don't want her values enforced in my life. I believe in a woman's right to choose. I believe in full sex eduction. Kids can die these days from sexual diseases etc. It's stupid not to fully educate our children with regards to sex. I believe every woman should have the right to birth control and if insurance companies are going to cover 'viagra' etc. for men they most definitely should provide birth control for women.
Sarah Palin has no business running for vice president. She has lied from day one on the campaign tral and throughout. She clearly has abuse of power in her history including the manner of her 'firing' practices (very much like GW Bush). I am sick of lies, abuse of power, and hypocracy from our leaders.

Enough!!
Obama/Biden '08

Comment by ldb — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
l ca n see now that Americans are stupid . What does Palin bring to lift america out of this hole.
She will be a step backward for women cuz she does not support anything good for women . Rethugs want power at all cost . America say no

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
If it weren't for 'liberal/progressive' suffragettes back in the day, women wouldn't have the vote and Gov. Palin wouldn't be on the ticket. But of course now we take that revolutionary effort for granted.

This isn't a popularity contest, this is about leading the country from the middle, not the extremes, through all kinds of difficult times, not the least of which is climate change.

Think before you write…karma is a terrible thing. The personal comments are not what it's about, it's about leading the country.

Comment by Ana — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Old gray haired Joe needs to forfeit the V.P. slot. Then B.O. can grab a hot chick like McCain did. Go Sarah! You are awesome.

Comment by Jerry Haas — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Yeah…wow. Judging by the comments left on this article, you'd think I wandered into some sort of twilight zone.

Alright, I'm going to spell it out for you all. Sarah Palin is the definition of pandering. I'll say it again–Sarah Palin is NOT a step forward for women. She was chosen SPECIFICALLY to court lost Hillary Clinton voters AND the more religious orientated republicans concerned with McCain's lack of the word God in every sentence.

As a 22 year old woman I will NOT be told she is beneficial to "women," not when other, far more qualified FEMALE candidates (Kay Bailey Hutchison, anyone?) were overlooked in the process. She is a nothing more than a distraction and a floundering joke in this political race.

I FEAR for the sake of this country when voters are swayed more by the fact that she's a honky-tonk, gun carrying, moose-shooting, creationism inspired, book-banning, baby-making factory who only has to say "abortion is bad, mkay" and "America was built on Christian Values" to sway an election.

Look at the ISSUES, people, not under the candidate's skirt for the real story. She is most definitely a step backwards for the women of America who pride themselves and their good name on their hard-earned recognition, integrity, and *GASP*, qualifications!

Comment by Dierdre — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
You all are taking it wrong. It is a step back for women if we vote for Palin just because she is a woman. We need to vote for the right canidate and it is sad that McCain thought he could get women's vote by simply picking a woman. She has no real experience for this position. Has no idea about our financial situation, (her comment about Fannie may and Freddie Mac confirm that). We need change in goverment unless you want to continue on this war path that we have been in for 8 years. War, decreased economics, High Debt. I am a huge supporter of Women as VP or President for that matter, however, you will not see me make a stand for women by voing for Palin because I know it is not right for our Country. I want BUSH out and her close minded values is not what I want to see in office.

Comment by Linda — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Biden and Obama are the only chance this country has to recover from this republican run nightmare that we have Indored for the last 8 years!!!

Comment by Dan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
The VP decision will go down in history as Obama's biggest mistake.

Comment by jd — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Most of the Republican men posting on this blog are abusive and sexist. They display their contempt for women in almost every post. Any woman who thinks the Republicans will ever be on their side is proving what these bigots believe, that women are essentially stupid.

Go, Joe. You'll eat her alive in that debate. And she's such a "pitbull", so you don't have to go easy on her.

Comment by Linda — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
There are so many McCain supporters on here, and they are still as blind as both times Bush was elected into office. This country continues it's slippery slide into the abyss. Palin is a "good ol' boy" wearing a skirt. Don't you see the damn Adam's Apple and gun rack on her pickup truck?

Comment by Whathaveubeensmoking? — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
You know what liberal woman hate Palin? Because she's smart, strong and attractive!

Look at all the liberal women, from the NOW gang through congress. They all look sour and mean, anger lines on their faces and can only spew the same tired lines thsy have been said fo rhte last 20 years.

Palin may very well destroy the glass ceiling once and for all and they hate her for it becuase it will be a conserative Republican women who will be doing it. Not Hillary, not Nancy Palosi, not Gloria Steinem, but Sarah Palan, a woman who's PRO-LIFE and not part of the looney left. And it kills the left that it's happening when it should have been Hillary.

Comment by BobbyJoe — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
extremestan –
I do not agree with you, as I said it's class warfare, from BHO and the socialist left.

Tax the rich pay the poor. Socialism at its worst. The top 1% of wage earners pay 29% of all taxes and the top 5% of wage earners pay 50% of all taxes.

Here is a quote from An Analysis of Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Numbers –

The argument most oft used against tax breaks are that they benefit only the wealthy. It is clear from even a cursory look at the numbers below that the 'wealthy' will receive the majority of any income tax reduction because they pay a disproportionately huge percentage of the income taxes! To structure a tax break such that those in upper income brackets are excluded would constitute nothing more than transfer of wealth from those who have it to those who don't (i.e. legal plunder.)

It's interesting to note that my wife and I have now become "wealthy" in the eyes of the far left socialists and they don't think we "pay our fair share". We pay plenty. So tell me stan, why is it so fair to the middle class to be so unfair to me and my wife? I guess I just need to have more "neighborlyness" (BHO's word, not mine) in my heart.

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Of course she's a step backward for women. She's an extreme right-winger on abortion (she wants it banned even for rape and incest) and sex education (she supports the failed abstinence-only approach). She also cut programs for teen mothers.

All of these positions set women back greatly.

Comment by Jeremy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
I thought Obama was running a different campaign? Wasn't he suppose to be different? He didn't want the same old and tired politics. If so, why did he select Biden? He's about as old and tired a politician I've ever seen and heard.

I think it's a tactical decision on Obama's part. He really wants Hillary but decided to take her on only two weeks before the general election. Until then he'll let Biden be the scapegoat and generate outrage. Once Biden is replaced with Hillary, it will cause such a media blitz that it will overshadow McCain and Palin. The Republicans won't be able to react fast enough and all the Hillary supporters will get back on here bandwagon. This will be the big bounce he's hoping for. It might just work. Obama may be stupid but he's not dumb. Stupid: When you have brains but don't use them. Dumb: When you don't even have the brains (i.e. Biden). I can only hope that this predictin will not come to pass. I like Biden. He's the best thing that has happened for the Republican party. He's on the foot diet. Open mouth, insert foot.

Comment by The Oracle — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Biden has a brain, Palin has a closet full of skeleton and no brains.

Say no to McTool/Pawn '08!

Comment by Jacob — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Bush = Maccain . Vote Democrats

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
"Biden is a sexist pig. All women should be ashamed."

Why should women be ashamed? lol. Think before you type.

You misunderstood Biden's comment. Read it again, carefully. He's saying that though Palin is a woman, she does not promote the views of a majority of women in this country.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Palin would be a step back for women, and I say step back because she thinks the world started 6,000 years ago and she wants to control my womb, even if Im raped by a difty republican. Hockey Moms are role models for more useless hockey moms.

Republicans remind me of the kind of people that would salivate at the burning of a "witch".

Comment by Laura — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
either Biden or Obama needs to ask palin/mccain if they are for or against stem cell research. We need to know how each one of them stands on the issue

Comment by dbailey — September 9, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
So let me get this straight….Palin gets elected, and suddenly millions of women are forced to have abortions in back alleys by old crones with sharp sticks.

Sounds like the politics of fear to me.

Comment by Larry — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Yes, She did spend it. She tripled per pupil funding of special needs kids. See attached.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1

The following is from the liberal "RetireTed" website. This is the Google cache of the page because OOPS! it has been taken down because it shows Palin in a favorable light…..BY DEMOCRATS!!!!

"The Gravina Island Bridge initially received $223 million in 2005 via earmarks by Alaska Senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski. The bridge would have connected Ketchikan, Alaska with its local airport on nearby Gravina Island (population 50). Congress stripped the earmark after a national uproar about it but appropriated the money anyway for unspecified transportation uses. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski�s administration set aside about $113 million of the appropriation for the Ketchikan bridge. However, Gov. Sarah Palin said the $398 million bridge was $329 million short of full funding, and only $36 million in federal funds were set aside for it. She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any more money for it and that the state had higher priorities."

The money was spent on other State Infrastructure as it was earmarked for.

By the way……Obama and Biden voted FOR the bridge to Nowhere……….. OOPS!!!!!

Comment by Nox — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Answer to Sean: Palin helps women because she understands and has fought domestic abuse. She helps women because she knows the hardships of a working mother. She helps women because she understands issues with family, school, sports, car-pools and family budgets. She helps women because she has shattered the Alaskan glass ceiling and is at work on the Washington glass ceiling. She helps middle class women because she does not come from entitlement and knows the economic pressures on families. She helps women because she has shown strong self-reliance. She has as much as any other woman experienced in her family a variety of women's health issues. Sarah Palin is much more representative of and in touch with the average American woman than Hillary Clinton. Unlike Clinton, Sarah has earned her place on the Alaskan and national stages through her own pluck and spirit. She will win or lose on her own merits and through her own efforts and, if she wins, it's a victory for all women.

Comment by Ralphie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Joe Biden is correct, Palin would be an enormous step backward for women.

And I hope he keeps repeating it because IT IS TRUE.

Palin is an empty dress.

Comment by A woman — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
After reading some of the garbage posted on this feed I am conviced more than even that this contry is F*CKED! Say your prayers, sheep.

Comment by expat2b — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
As a woman, I am proud of Palin, good for her to accomplish so much in a short period of time but as a rational, reasonable voter, her beliefs and her politics are too out of touch with reality to represent my interests or those of most Americans
I know.

Any one who votes for McCain because Palin is on the ticket is not only asking for "four more years of the same" but something worse. Who is behind the Palin phenomena? Bush surrogates and insiders who are protecting the interest of the Republican party. Karl Rove presence is all around the McCain campaign. Do you really expect McCain to go in and change any thing when some much of what he is doing now is influenced by Bushites?

Pay attention people, these two do not represent your interests. They speak for the top 5% of Americans or the wealthiest sector in our society. Think about it what has Bush done for the poor and middle class in our country? How has he benefited you or some one you know?

Under McCain well not only have decreasing home values, foreclosures, etc., but we will also have a worsening economy and the potential for a never ending war in Iraq. Not to mention, a military force stretched too thin and no plans for improved health care in our country. But none of this affects you, does it? And since you are not affected, what do you care? Am I right?

Sure Palin presents well, but she has other people protecting you from her, the real Sarah Palin. Aren't you the least bit curious as to why we haven't heard one word from her? Sure, tomorrow she'll be answering questions from Gibson, but what about other outlets. My gosh, not even Conservative friendly, FOXX? What's that about? Supporters of the McCain-Palin ticket, you're being duped. Wake up, will you?

Comment by Kelly — September 9, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Who are you people who comment on this website? Seriously

Comment by L — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Biden is right.

Comment by Shane — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
"Biden whose hair is more than 20 years out of style received fewer votes in the primaries than Palin received to be mayor of Wasilla"

Quit believing the lies your Republican leaders tell you. This is demonstrably false. Look it up.

Comment by Jeremy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Oops here is the link to the RetireTed website cache.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:szpJxaSZwiMJ:www.retireted.com/real-estate/gravina-bridge/ted-earmarked-funds-for-bridge-that-goes-nowhere/&#43

Comment by Nox — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
i think he is saying that a mutt with lipstick and an right wing nut job is a step backwards for women, and he is assuming what she thinks because she doesn't seem capable of saying what she thinks, only what the bushies write for her. of course, banning books, speaking in tongues wouldn't be a step backwards would it?

Comment by tread — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
I always get a laugh out of the dopes on here who cry about the fact that the wealthiest people in the world have had tax cuts that have benefitted them. Hey dummies, wake up!! The Lower to Middle Class don't even pay near that much in taxes. quit looking at percentages and looking at amounts you fools. this is what matters the most. Why should be people be penalized for making money? Isn't that why you send your kids to college? Isn't this why you lpay the lottery? Isn't the Capitalist dollar front and center to the American Dream? Morons.

Also, I would rather see money being spent in putting meat on the table (especially tasty meats like VEAL), than to see money wasted on tree hugging, protecting the delicious Caribou, and seeing gas at $4+ per gallon. I guess maybe I should invest in an adequate pair of Birkenstocks though so I can hike to work everyday like some of these pseudo-hippies would prefer we do…

Comment by Willy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Joe Biden = James Stockdale
Bye, bye Obama. What were you thinking?

Comment by Stephen — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Bush = Maccain . Vote Democrats
Deep…. really deep….

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
"the countries been run into the ground over the last 8 years" Ok wait, let me step up to my $1000 computer with it's $50 internet connection, hold-on I'm getting a call on my $40 cell a month $600 i-phone, no its my $59 land line…ok i'm back. America remains on solid footing because of George Bush's policies on terrorist, and DESPITE his (and GOP Congress) spending like drunken sailors, (sorry drunken sailors). The USA remains the shining city on the hill the world stives to be like. jeezz our poor people hae 1 car and 2 TV's and a FAT. NO ONE SWIMS TO CUBA! McCain/Palin CONNOT overturn Roe/Wade they can only appoint judges how might consider it, and half the time the judges go lefty once appointed, Overturning Roe/Wade is just another of (the long list) of scare tactics litards are using to dis the GOP. Sad that a real debate is out of the question as your issues are mostly non-defendable. Thus the screaming banshee washed up 65 year old pink shirts, all they can do is scream, non-sense.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
The reason he "assumes" she believes the bush/cheney/mccain line is because she says she does. Clearly it is a backwards step for women. These folks do not believe in equal pay for women, women can't be trusted to make their own choices. The gop policies have always favored the rich white men, and always will.Plus, I am totally embarrassed that women do not seem to care that Palin has told one lie after another..they vote for her because she is a woman. The gop counted on women not to think about what was best for them..so far it is working well.

Comment by sherry — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
Quick note to Ben who said 'Do some studying. Learn your stuff. THEN start to discuss politics. But we all know you won't, you'll just keep following blindly like the lemmings that you are. Don't know what a lemming is? Probably because the definition was in a book that Palin banned'

Perhaps you should take your own advice…it took me 5 minutes on FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan site to discover that Palin never banned any books…think before you post, and vote. Please

Comment by Stephen — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
If the Republicans want a knock out punch, here is the one two combo. Name Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice to the Cabinet. Two black Republican Americans who are strong and field tested.

Comment by Chuck D of Valpo — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
Am I the only one who thinks that Biden sounds in that clip like he's half in the bag? He must be drowning his sorrows in booze. My only fear is that
he will come down with an "illness" some time in the next few weeks and be replaced. Otherwise, he's the best thing going for the republicans.

Comment by rothbard — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
It is a fact that in this country, as backwards as it is compared to the rest of the industrialized world, women still prefer the right to choose. This assertion is not contested because, unlike many statements made here, it can easily be proven by looking at the polls-no matter who takes them.
The world does not advance on a conservative agenda, it advances on a liberal one. Some might disagree with the results of this progress on the basis of whether the results are good or bad but if we had stuck to being conservatives from the beginning we'd still be living in caves, we'd still have slavery, and women -never mind running for office-wouldn't even have the vote!
I know women nowadays have to juggle a home-life with a work-life and to some what Sarah is doing is laudable. However, I don't want the VP of the most powerful country in the world taking the job on as a part-time occupation.
I doubt there are many people out there who consider a 17-year-old girl getting pregnant as something positive-even if barren parents are waiting to adopt their kids-it's a calamity for a parent. Whether it was Palin's husband responsibility or Sarah's someone should've been watching over that girl to avoid her getting into trouble. Too much tinme away from home?
I don't want to elect someone to office that is like me -8 years of Bush have corroborated that mistake- I want someone in office that is smarter than me, can lead, and has a vision for the country that people can rally around.

Comment by Rick — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
Why are Biden's eyes so puffy? Has he been crying? Probably so - he's been thinking about having to face Sister Saint Sarah in a debate.

This is truly delicious.

Comment by Richard Williams — September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
So Jennifer, abortion shouldn't be legal because its our choice to have sex or not?!?!
So in the case of rape and incest, where you having sex is NOT your choice, than you should carry that dirty, horrible, vile, felon's baby to term right? That's what Sarah Palin would have EVERY woman do. She would make that choice for you. Seems pretty reasonable…
Also, the Democrats had a woman running for vice-president 25 years ago!!!! The Republicans do it as a publicity stunt and act like they're breaking some sort of social barrier.
Get a clue!

Comment by nian — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
MacCain supporters are just Moron . MacCain came fifth from the botton in class passing out . Just his father influence .
Vote on issues . Rethugs had put america pride in the hole for the past eight years .
Vote the clown out of office .

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
I don't think commenters here should be too hard on Joe Biden. After all things are considered it is quite possible that his harebrained incompetence is a direct product the hair growing into his brain due to accidentally inverted hairplugs.

Comment by Richard — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Biden is just amazing, for a lobotomized plagiarist with mad cow disease.

But no worries. Someone will think up a foreign policy, and Biden will steal it, lock, stock and barrel.

The problem with this kind of personality, however, is that when his skirt catches on fire, he'll be looking around for someone else to put it out.

Yi Ha ***
Minister of Information
Peoples' Capitalist Republic of Whizbangistan

*** Pronounced "YEEEEE HAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Comment by Osamas Pajamas — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Ahaha, look at all the libtard drones coming out of the woodwork to bash Palin with nothing but insults and lies. Reflects good on us. Obama is hurting and it shows. Ha!

Comment by Cobalt — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Jo Biden plagiarized other people�s work in college, he admitted it. Is he repeating someone else now or are these his OWN thoughts? Nobody knows!!!! He stole other people�s work in college. He�s just a thief.
Anybody that thinks that a woman that can be a governor, a wife and a mother of five is a step back for women is a joke. This is EXACTLY what the feminists have been saying women could do for decades. Now they have a woman doing it and, since she's not from their party, they trash her. Joe Biden IS a joke and The National Organization for Women is a joke.

Comment by Jack Waldrop — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Can't say I am suprised repub lemmings fall for this one-hit wonder… Yikes…this will bethe ugliest unveiling of a candidte ever, and all I am gonna say is, October is really gonna be a bummer for all her fans!!!! (Hint: she has a lot more in common w/Paris Hilton than Obama ever will!)

Wait for it……

Comment by Palin the Puppet — September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
They keep saying Palin is only "A" heart beat away from being president. Shows the kind of math education you get out of a liberal school.

Actually she's about 725,330,000 heart beats away assuming McCain lives to be 96 like his mother. (60 beats a minute for the next 23 years).

By the liberal media's and The Obamabots form of calculations, Nancy Pelosi (you know, Ms Botox) is only two heart beats away from being president. NOW THAT'S SCARRY!!!!

Comment by The Oracle — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
How about when we talk about the "choice"…we actualy say what the "choice" is. Which is to kill an unborn child or let it live. That's the "choice" …..

Comment by PKhanPie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Jeremy said:

"Quit believing the lies your Republican leaders tell you. This is demonstrably false. Look it up."

But Biden did state that Obama was not ready to be the President of the United States.

Look it up.

Comment by Nox — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Keep running your mouth, Joe! I love it. The liberal elite think women should either be breeders or lesbians. (Or both.) Heaven forfend they actually achieve national political power.

Comment by Eric — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
What the Republicans don't get (and that includes all the one's who will vote for McBush) is that Joe has to assume everything about Ms. Pain right now because the Right Wingnuts have her in hiding, tutoring her for her first unscripted public appearance. Yes there is no question about it women will be put back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, having babies by rapist, and incest, forced to take care of children that they never wanted without a father in the home, because he will be in jail or unable to obtain work because of his criminal history, or maybe all the unwanted babies will be adopted right, wrong, there will be so many that the US will be filled with orphanages, Oh and by the way, don't you dare ask the government to assist you in raising that B*****, you got yourself raped. You republicans are some of the biggest hypocrites I have ever seen in my life, and I thought they all hung out at Church, oh, I'm sorry, that's right you do hang out at the Church.

Comment by M. Evans — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Biden will EAT Sarah's lunch three times over when they debate. That grating, wisecracking, bowling-alley, gum-smacking, do-nothing, doublespeaker from the outback will be revealed for the fool that she is in front of an intelligent, polished, passionate professional politician.

You neo-cons crack me up. I hear you say all of the time, experience doesn't matter, she has good values. Yeah right, she speaks in tongues, gives herself a per diem to sleep in her own house, fleeces the federal government by gorging herself at the trough more than anyone else in the country (a fulltime lobbyist for a town of 6,000!!!). Yeah, she's just what we need, all the "executive" experience. I am a T-ball coach, so I guess I have more exec experience than McCain, too.

And finally, she is Bush on steriods. What the different between Palin and Bush?????

Lipstick.

Comment by WayneW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
No, Palin didn't ban any books. She just tried to fire the librarian who wouldn't LET her ban any books. Even worse!

Comment by nian — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Again, the liberal left shows their strips. They are all for womens rights as long as those rights are for the liberal women. They do not want them to apply to conservatives. Now that we have a strong, confident woman on the ticket, they are cutting her down be cause she is a woman. Forget that she has accomplished more than any liberal woman. They just can't stand it that we are finally going to have a woman in the White House and she won't be a left wing tight ass, she will be a loving wife and mother of 5. Something they do not beleive in.
And I have to add something that h as bothered me about alot of the attacks on her by the woman on the left. They talk aobut her being a "soccer mom", they don't even know anything aobut her, she is a hockey mom, if you can't get your facts straight, maybe you should keep your dtupid comment to yourself.

Comment by Tina — September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
These comments are so funny. Did you catch Biden on Meet the press this past weekend? he knows his sh*t when it comes to foreign policy especially the iraq nightmare. Anyone here who thinks Palin can last 1 round with Biden on Iraq, I've got a lease on that bridge to nowhere. Wanna buy it?

Comment by Fitz — September 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
Palin IS a backwards step for women. She does not support equal pay (legislation re: 180 days for discovery prior to statute) and she is NOT pro-choice (a WOMAN'S right to choose what happens to her body, even if she's the victim of rape). That's backwards if I ever heard it.

Comment by Barbarella — September 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
It sounds like the libs just woke up with a hang over from last nights toot. Have a welfare cheese sandwich and change your shytty depends.
Better go and lay in a supply of depends because this woman has you libs scared shytless including Obammy and Obiden. If you don't believe me read the blogs that are posting anything reguardless of the truth. You are like cockroaches when someone shines a flashlight on you. Pretty pathetic!

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
McCain = 0.9xBush
Palin = Bushette

They love the fetus, hate the woman

Comment by Louise, CO — September 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
do you really think that the rich are just going to absorb the tax increases…hell no they will pass them along to you…obama's tax increases include the majority of small businesses which create most of the jobs out there…will they be able to aford you….with his plan there will be a lot of folks scratching a broke unemployed ass.

Comment by jack douglas — September 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
Right Nian - libs believe in housing and feeding the rapist for life and killing the innocent victim - the baby. Conservatives believe it would be better to put the rapist to death and house and feed the baby for life.

Which option do you think is more just?

We favor the innocent victim over the criminal.

Comment by Richard Williams — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
After reading some of the garbage posted on this feed I am conviced more than even that this contry is F*CKED! Say your prayers, sheep.

Comment by expat2b

after reading your post i'm convinced you have had relations with sheep.

oh, try spell check in your browser. oh, that's right, you use internet explorer because that's the only browser out there.

but i'm just a typical white person that doesn't have enough "neighborliness"

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Biden a sexist pig? You people ought to get your heads out in the open air for a change. Palin is a GIANT step backwards for women, by virtue of the fact that she's McCain's running mate.

Women want equal pay, reproductive rights and privacy. McCain opposes equal pay, reproductive rights, and Palin opposes reproductive rights and right to privacy.

Comment by nweppins — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
So Obama had the forward thinking to pick Biden, and McCain had the backward thinking of picking Palin. Seems to me that the left is very scared of Palin and the right, laughs at Biden.

Comment by Greg Williams — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Dooms day is a coming thanks to the red states. Yeeehaaaa!

Comment by Whathaveubeensmoking? — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Really you Rethugs must be stupid . Biden qualification cannot be matched as a qualified VP . Get lost you moron

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Calling Palin a one hit wonder is laughable, Puppet. She has done more in her short career as Governor of Alaska than Obama has done as a US senator.

He has not one legislative accomplishment…..NOT ONE!

He is truly a NO HIT WONDER.

Comment by Nox — September 9, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Sarah Palin's election would be historic, but not a step forward for women. She wasn't chosen for credentials. She wasn't chosen for progress for women. She was chosen for sales appeal to the right wing. Her positions are, "don't judge my family, but I'll promote policies that judge YOURS!"

Her "executive experience" record is abysmmal, not at all the lies above. She grew Wasilla with big box stores. She left the town with 22 million in debt. She wanted her sports center built at all costs, regardless of the LAW she was SWORN to uphold.

Maverick? No. More like a loose canon promoting her cannons of extremism.

As for Biden's answer, perhaps not the best, but who knows what was cut from that clip. And Palin's views model Bush's more than McCain's. THAT is frightening for OUR future.

Sarah Palin, whose policies work against women, or Joe Biden, sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act? No contest for me. I'll go with the "old guy" who has stood by women and their families rather than the latest incarnation of "I got mine so who cares about yours" Queen Bee Phyllis Schlafly.

While

Comment by T_Pol — September 9, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Hey moron #385, at least Palin is smarter than Paris Hilton. I bet Obama wishes he were. Not happening though.

Comment by Jack Waldrop — September 9, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Electing McCain/Palin is a backwards step for all Americans - men and women.

With McCain/Palin you get the following:
- More war which increases the threat of terrorism instead of reducing it

- Less regulation which has led to great things such as Enron and the mortgage mess

- More government debt for our children

- Overturning of Roe v. Wade

- Drill Baby Drill which leads to further dependence on foreign oil

- A VP with ZERO foreign policy experience while we're in the middle of two wars. Not to mention a flat out liar (see "against Bridge to Nowhere", "sold plane on eBay" claims, both false)

Seriously people, wake up. Republican rule has punished our economy, destroyed our standing in the world, and made us less safe by creating a new generation of terrorists. Do you really want more of this?

Comment by Dan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
It is obviously a step backward for women when they will no loger have a CHOICE if McSame get's elected.

Comment by Brian — September 9, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
It is simply amazing to me how many mindless Republicans actually post on this board! Think about it, people. You mock Joe Biden who is actually a friend of John McCains and beyond reproach, but you support Sarah Palin without knowing anything about her beyond, "She shur looks purdy and speaks good!" Well, allow me to introduce you to the REAL Sarah Palin who:

1) Believes creationism should be taught in schools.
2) Sued the Bush administration to have polar bears removed from the endangered species list.
3) Believes in abstinence only teaching . She does not want us to talk to our kids about safe sex even after her 17 year-old, unwed daughter got pregant.
4) Does not believe that global warming is man made.
5) Belongs to an extremist church that believes that prayer will bring Alaskan's a new pipeline and "cure" homosexuality.
6) Blatantly lies about her record: No, she did not sell that plane on ebay. Yes, she did support the bridge to nowhere. Yes, she did hire a lobbyist to raise 27 million dollars in earmarks for her small town of 6,000 people. Yes, she did use state funds to pay for travel for her husband and kids. No, she did not "get rid" of the governor's personal chef - Instead, she kept her on the payroll and gave her a new title and kept her cooking.
7) Tried to fire her small town librarian because she was shocked and appalled that Palin had asked her about banning books.

Now, I know a great majority of you are backwards thinking Christian Conservatives who long ago forgot why this country was started, but smart, forward thinking people know what's what.

Comment by Obama Supporter — September 9, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
It appears to me that the American people have been dummy down. It amazes me that with the country being in the shape that it is, that people are not concern about the issues. McCain manager was right, it appears that it is not about issues. It seems to be about religion and the first female. I never thought that I would see the day when people go to the poll, unconcerned about this country. At the end of each convention, the candidates said "God Bless America". It's apparent, we will need it because if McCain/Palin wins, we are in for some hard times.

Comment by Mary — September 9, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
Ya gotta love all the misguided folks here whining about "eight years of failed Republican policies." More like eight years of failed Democratically-controlled, I'm-not-sure-if-I'm-for-the-war-or-against-it, Nancy Pelosi led, do nothing, lowest-approval-rating-in-history Congress. You can blame the Iraq conflict on George Bush. Any other "failures" you perceive belong squarely on the head of your Democratic congressional friends.

Comment by Rob of the Right — September 9, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
"It's interesting to note that my wife and I have now become "wealthy" in the eyes of the far left socialists and they don't think we "pay our fair share". We pay plenty. So tell me stan, why is it so fair to the middle class to be so unfair to me and my wife? I guess I just need to have more "neighborlyness" (BHO's word, not mine) in my heart."

Add up the yearly incomes of you and your wife. Now look on the chart I gave you, and find where you and your wife lie. Got it? Now look at both sides.

Obama gives you more.

Now, I'm no lefty. I'm aware that the top percentages of folks pay the most taxes strictly in terms of dollars. But you have to look at it in terms of what people need to satisfy themselves. Lazes faire capitalism says that money and merit are directly correlative. But that simply isn't true in practice. As a middle class citizen and a Christian, I simply don't believe that someone needs millions upon millions of dollars to satisfy themselves.

You might say it isn't my right to make such a determination, but it is. It's the right of every reasonable, even-minded person.

Do I think we should take all of their money, then? Of course not! Money and merit may not have a direct correlation, but they have a correlation. Capitalism necessitates sufficiently rewarding merit. That's why pure socialism in communism is terrible!

The socially just and productive answer is social capitalism, and it's exactly the answer America has been employing for almost two centuries. The Eastern countries take socialism too far leftward. Late 19th century firstworld took it too far rightward. Today, we make socialism and capitalism play nicely together. And it works.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Ahhh…. the banning books line appears in comment #368, I love it! and as usual it's accompanied by fould mouthed intellectual rehtoric of the modern marxist. I've said it befor, and I'll say it again. Put one of these marxist, leftest, Obatrons in front of the right pile of books and they know they not only would throw the match, but crowds of 1000's like them would cheer! Face the mirror! YOU are what give's rise to facsist! Read a little history, your sick "shut-down-the-opposition" mentality is a pattern that has been seen throught out history. The Right believes in less of this crap, not more. Kill all the babies you want, just don't ask me to pay for it.

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Some of you Rethugs just don't get it. AA are not voting for Obama because he is black (he is white to by the way). Dems have ALWAYS received practically all the AA vote. As a woman blogging , Palin and her views are a step back for women. All the things she supports places us in the position of losing all the we were and are fighting for. She is just a Bush extremist in a dress.

Comment by Virginia Mom — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
If Palin ever is in the position to pick a new justice of the Supreme Court, rest assured that she will pick someone whose ideology will set the women's movement back 100 years. And, any ends timer whose finger could be on the 3 AM button is scary.

Comment by AlD — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
I think Sen. Biden is correct about it being a backward step for women - simply because this particular woman is not an equal to Sen. McCain. Now if he had chosen a different woman who knew about foreign policy, national security, national economics, etc. it would be a totally different scenario. So yes, it would be a backward step for Sarah Palin to be babysat by the McCain administration. She's not ready for primetime.

Comment by Diane — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
As a women I say - Go ahead you nit-wits..vote for Palin…and watch your daughters/grand-daughters/womens RIGHTS go BACKWARDS…funny her daughter gets a Choice/ YOURS WON'T! Go ahead Vote for Palin…and watch OUR standing in the world sink further…she Is EVERYTHING Hillary Clinton Is NOT…Hillary Clinton has FOUGHT for women..this woman is NOT for you..but go ahead- shoot yourselves in your own foot,and watch your Futures end…and America DEVOLVES further into Obscurity!

Comment by Catherine C. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
wow, what a bunch of rednecks.
Palin is so ignorant on issues,
they won't even let anybody
interview her, let alone let her
campaign without McInsane because
she's not done studying yet.
What a joke. At least Biden knows
what the hell he's talking about.
He's only in his 60's, not 99
like McInsane.

Comment by fred — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
I think Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America said it best: "Women who vote for the McCain/Palin ticket are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders"

Sarah Palin has allowed herself to be used by the GOP. She is negating all of the progress made by women in this country by allowing herself to be put on a ticket solely because of her genetalia. Her nomination has zero to do with any accomplishments, its all about the swing vote. The women I look up to would see right through the thinly disgusied pandering, no matter what their party affiliation.

Comment by Julie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Oh yeah, and she not only brings her religion into her official government duties for the people, worse yet, she brings her trashy, filthy personal life into her duties. Having an affair with a longtime friends' wife?? FIRED!!! Doesn't matter that she's known you forever and you've been great at your work (praised through the roof just a few weeks earlier). You are fired!!!! Mess with her little sister and divorce the little sister???? FIRED!!!! She will get you. She is vindictive.

Yes, we certainly need this trashy behavior in the highest levels of our federal government. Affairs, personal vendettas, firing people for "stern looks" (former Wasilla police chief), her pregnant teenage daughter who is bringing her a "family blessing" by not being able to control her hormones and getting knocked up, resulting in a shotgun wedding. YEEE HAWWWWWW!!!!!

Someone should compose a song about the Palin family and set it to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Liseen to a story 'bout story 'bout a family named Palin … (i'm working on it)

Comment by WayneW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
How many times has Joe Biden been rejected as a presidential candidate by his own party?????

Comment by J J Boyle — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
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Comment by WayneW � September 9, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
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No, Palin didn't ban any books. She just tried to fire the librarian who wouldn't LET her ban any books. Even worse!

errr…Wayne, go to FactCheck.org. read the entire piece, and then, if you are able..post a retraction. BTW: I am a Democrat, and I expect better from the party and the voters.

Comment by Stephen — September 9, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
I thought the comment above about Joe's hairline was hilarious given the sweet looking comb-over that McCain sports. Hard to tell where his old hair ends and his old skin begins.

But name calling isn't going to get us anywhere. The comment Joe Biden was making was not about a woman in the VP job being a backward step for all women. He was responding to the question about Palin specifically and her way of thinking and agreeing with the current Bush/McCain policies would in fact be a step backward. I agree with that. There certainly isn't any problem with woman in that office just one so backward thinking - No Choice - Pro_life - Pro Church in schools - Pro killing of endangered species - Anti environment. I guess the earth is just for the pleasure of the republicans today forget what we are doing to it god will save us in the afterlife so it's all good.

Go Obama!!!!!

Comment by JJP for Obama — September 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
Yea Mary,
Obammy is going to wave his wand and blow some fairy dust and everthing will be fine. NOT!!!1

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
"Ya gotta love all the misguided folks here whining about "eight years of failed Republican policies." More like eight years of failed Democratically-controlled, I'm-not-sure-if-I'm-for-the-war-or-against-it, Nancy Pelosi led,"

Nancy Pelosi has led for less than two years. Two years is less than eight years, which you just said. Get a clue.

"do nothing,"

They tried plenty of things. Bush veto'd them. That's what happens when the white house and congress are on different pages — little happens. Didn't you learn this in school?

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
USA USA USA!

Comment by Jon — September 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
You people are so ignorant I have to laugh or else I would need to figure out a way to remove all of you from the gene pool. You do know what the gene pool is, right? It's that thing that your brother and sister, ERRR, your mom and dad added you to. This is the most unqualified person that has EVER been chosen to run for Vice President. Everything she has commented on is a lie. If you don't believe me, LOOK IT UP!!! But that would require you mouth-breathing idiots to think for yourselves, and we all know that is impossible. Do you really think McCain will do a good job? To answer that, you have to answer this: has George W. Bush done a good job the past 8 years? If you answered yes then you are beyond saving and should throw yourself off a cliff right now. If you answered no, then ask yourself why in the world would you vote for McCain when he is THE EXACT SAME PERSON! The fact that this needs to be explained at all makes me sick. Damn what happened to this country? Our founding fathers would not even recognize this disgusting mess that represents the ideals they set in motion over 230 years ago.

Comment by WhiteTrashLosersMakeMeLaugh — September 9, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
If the Christian Right wing thinks that bigotry, racism, ignorance, arrogance, hate, fear, and greed are family values than McCain and Palin are for you!
There is not one thing that the Republican Conservative party is that resembles anything that Jesus Christ stood for.
You people are frightened of anything other than yourselves.

Comment by Rich Monk — September 9, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
It seems pretty obvious that the right-wingers got here first. Look at all their hateful blather about "elites". Hey, morons, who do you think the Bush/McCain tax cuts help? The poorest of the poor? No, dummies, they help the richest 1%, who don't need any help. The Republicans are manipulating you low-information (and NO-information) voters, and you're falling for it again. Thanks for ruining America, dupes! ("Oh, but she raised 5 kids! And she's a hockey mom!" That's terrific! Now STFU!)

Comment by John Clavis — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
It's amusing irks the posters here… two wars, a crumbling economy, health care in crisis, near record deficit, home foreclosures, five year high in unemployment–and these troglodytes can do no better than these trite personal attacks.

You are morally bankrupt and intellectually deficient!

…eight years of mismanagement and incompetence will not be rewarded with four more for Bush/McCain/Palin!

Comment by Bemused — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Way to go Joe!!! Palin would have us looking and acting like women in Iran. I am not interested to moving back to the dark ages, I'll take my chances on separation of state and church. I'll take my chances on the Democrats, I am not interested in living on a compound toting a gun having 15 children and pretending to believe in Jesus who by the way was Jewish NOT blond hair blue eyed, I'll take my chances on the left thinking diverse Americans who are not prejudice and who do not believe the world should be controlled by America, but who accept that there are all races of people who inherit the earth and have long before America came along. Thank God for the liberals who can see clearly, instead of blinded by the fog of a outdated confederate mind set whose history is gone with the wind. Yes Joe we are American women who have brains to decide women's issues for ourselves.

Comment by Lynette — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Any women hear that would vote for the McCain/Palin ticket has absolutely no self-respect. Who the hell would vote for candidates they believe that women don't make as much money as men because they are not as educated? Why would any woman want the government determining her decision about childbirth? Women with children, do you know these candidates position on Education? Do you know there position on Heathcare? What have they offered anyone in area of jobs? Do you know that if we drill our Oil that it will take about a decade before we see any of it, that it will only supply the United States Demand for six months? That if we get it, because our Oil will be placed on the World market, and we will have to bid against the likes of China, and India. Ladies I urge you to watch this, and ask yourself why would I vote for Palin, if they wouldn't?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/abc-interviews-palins-clo_n_125062.html

Comment by PAposter — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
For all those women-hating right-wingers commenting here, you need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.

Joe Biden DID NOT SAY selecting Palin was a step back for women's rights. He SAID, if she should become VP it will be "a backward step for women".

And he's right. Palin is more radical than even McCain and her views on the rights of women is horrific.

For anti-abortionists out there? If you are against a woman's right to choose, or against abortion, YOU ARE PRO-RAPISTS RIGHTS be that rapist a stranger or family.

You remember that. Anti-Women's Choice is Pro-Rapists Choice. There's no other conclusion.

Comment by Catharina Shields — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
WAY TO GO JOE!!! Sarah Palin is nothing more than a religious freak from the far right. That's the only reason McSane picked this loser, to excite the idiots in the republicans party. Hopefully, and I really mean hopefully, informed americans will see through this Bulls*** put out there by the republicans and not vote against their best interest because the republican party has NEVER had the best interest of america at heart.

Comment by Marcus — September 9, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Joe Biden looks down on women. That is what he meant to say. He does not believe a woman should be Vice President. He continually tries to put women in their place. Talking about the made up story about the waitress. He speaks as if women are lower than him. What a pig!!!!!

Comment by amy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Look at how many people came to this site to squawk that Biden is attacking Palin as a woman. Read the article and tell me where he attacks Palin as a woman?

I can't tell if the average Republican believes the lies he's told, or if he's been convinced that passing on the lie is somehow patriotic. Which is it, do you think?

Comment by John Clavis — September 9, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Biden's absolutely right. If Palin aligns with her party and McCain, she will not be a proponent for womens issues, she'll be an opponent.

Her selection alone is actually not progress - it's just more patronization. Being selected based on how you look, not what you've accomplished is insulting to women. McCain earned his ZERO rating from naral. I personally don't see how any self respecting woman could agree to run with mccain. His poor voting record on womens issues and his history of derrogatory slurs toward woman - I'm surprised she doesn't have enough self-respect to turn him down.

McCain / Palin are no friend to womens issues - once the true word is out on them, women will run away.

Comment by Julie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Hey WayneW, This is for you IDIOT:

All join in to the tune of Willie Wonka�s Candyman:

Who can take an earthrise,
Sprinkle it with cool?
Cover you with change and a miracle or two
Obamaman, Obamaman can,
Obamaman can �cause he promises you some change
and makes the words sound good

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it �round your eyes?
Soak your brain with speeches, you�ll believe his cattle pies
The Obamaman? Th� Obamaman can
The Obamaman can �cause he mixes it with promises
and makes his world sound good

The Obamaman makes
everything he states
Satisfying and delicious.
Talk about his childhood wishes.
No one can dispute his disses!

Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
Obamaman? Th� Obamaman can, the Obamaman can
The Obamaman can �cause he mixes it with fluff
and makes his worlds taste good
And all the words sound good
�cause the Obamaman thinks it should

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
(1st Woman) x (U.S. Vice President) = Backward ?

Hmmm…

I'm no rocket surgeon, but THAT seems a little backward to me.

Here is a corollary of the above theorem derived by entrenched femiNazis concerning women in leadership roles who do not toe the "sister" line:

Strong Female = Legitimate Leader = Real Woman if and only if {pro-choice, anti-gun, anti-Christian, etc.} = TRUE

Sarah Palin's very existance, love it or hate it, refutes this.

Sarah Palin is a "Red Stater". I am an Independent and I do not categorically agree with her positions — or those of Senators Biden, Obama, or McCain. But it is unfair and hypocritical for the Feminist Bloc to demonize Governor Palin for refusing to kowtow to its agenda. Doing so will inevitably backfire and drive millions of independent(perish the thought!) women into the McCain/Palin camp.

Comment by Adam L — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
"Joe Biden looks down on women. That is what he meant to say. He does not believe a woman should be Vice President. He continually tries to put women in their place. Talking about the made up story about the waitress. He speaks as if women are lower than him. What a pig!!!!!"

McCain cheated on his wife, then married the new girl. He then called his new wife a cunt and a trollop.

Get a clue.

Comment by extremestan — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
THE PUBLIC CASTRATION OF JOHN McCAIN CONTINUES.

NOBODY CARES WHAT McCAIN IS SAYING, HE ALREADY LOST THE ELECTION TO HIS RUNNING MATE.

PORK BARREL PALIN LOVES RAPE BABIES!!

Comment by Cathy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
I cannot wait for the Biden - Palin debate. It will be several steps backward for the Obiden ticket.

Let's all face it, Palin is a sound and proven leader and the Dems are scared.

Palin is all business and no fluff.

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Palin believes flouride in water is a communist plot to destroy our country from the inside! How can you vote for her?

Comment by K — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
McCain/Palin '08 - 10% Maverick 90% Bush

100% Lies

Comment by Jimmy Dean — September 9, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Joe is right! Women will suffer due to the policies McPailin would institute, such as their anti-choice, stack the Supreme Court with Scalia/Thomas clones. Wake up - She's an extremist!

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
SARAH PALIN IS A STEP BACK IN TIME - THIS IS NOT HISTORY ITS A REPEAT OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS - SARAH PALIN IS GEORGE BUSH IN DRAG.

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Yeeeeeeeeeee-Hawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. We havin' us a weddin'!!!!!

We'ze headin' for Worshintun, Dee-C … Don't know much but I don't take no crap from no one — bring it on!!!

We'ze gon put some moose antlers above the fireplace in that big ol' white house you got there …. we gon' have affairs littering the newspapers, illegitimate pregnancies, lots of vendettas and payback … we gon gitcha!!!

Comment by AllenR — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Is Governor Palin experienced enough to be President? No. But she is more than experienced to be VP. By the time she would ascend to the Oval, she would be experienced enough. That's not the issue with her, though.

Only an insane person could have listened to the Governor's speech at the convention and thought that she represented any sort of change. She is a carbon copy of George Bush, only meaner. If you like George Bush then vote for Palin/McCain. If you think the country is going in the wrong direction, vote Obama/Biden. It's that easy. I'm not sure what Governor Palin brings to the table that changes that.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that people are voting for McCain just because he put a religious extremist female on the ticket. That would be a stupid reason to vote for somebody. There must be a more logical reason, but all my republican friends can't figure it out. They are all voting for Senator Obama.

Comment by Jeff — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Our country is sinking like a stone in water. Now is not the time to be concerned about the glass ceiling for women but getting our country back into positive financial shape. The Republican Party is destroying our country with their devisiveness. Worry about the country first, the glass ceiling later.

Comment by Fran Garrett — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Sen. Biden is correct..Mcain/Palin would diligently work to abolish the womans right to choice…they would do nothing to ensure equal pay for equal jobs for women..along with a host of other Bush policies they would adhere to…I shudder to think..Palin is not ready to be Vice President and is definitely not ready to be President..

Comment by Sue — September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Joe is originally from small-town Pennsylvania, and now is Senator of the 2nd smallest state, which is 30 miles wide by 150 miles long with 3 electoral votes, and Alaska by contrast is our largest state. We only need to recall Obama's words as a clue to what's behind the real Joe. In Obama's own words, people from small-town Pennsylvania (like Joe), "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"…. Women and men have a chance to vote for a balanced gender ticket for the first time. Both McCain and Palin have the experience and qualifications to get the job done for the American people. McCain/Palin is a vote for a positive future.

Comment by Zaki — September 9, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
Remember ladies you have your own voice, don't listen to Joe Biden or your Husbands. Listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

If you have sons, you should for be voting for them too.

Comment by PAposter — September 9, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
The only "Change" Sarah Palin represents is changing John McSame's diapers. She is a FRAUD and a LIAR. Wake up you retards!

Comment by Gail 2 — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Ooooo… I must have stumbled on a rightie site - the bitterness is like noneother.

Why don't you folks debate the issues? You know, like McCain/Palins positions on womens issues? Ah…I know why, you don't have a clue where McCain/Palin stand on the issues either! Well, that makes a whole country of us because they're just runnin' a beauty pagaent, they can't be bothered with details on issues.

All the gop has is bitterness and snarky comments. I think it must su ck to be you.

Comment by JB — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Palin is a step backward for women. She will do her best to over turn roe v wade and get creationism taught in schools.
Her and John McCain are LIARS - Biden needs to be keeping this fact in everyones face by mentioning it at every public appearance.

Comment by Mark — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
What are all of you so-called evangelicals going to say about "Mrs. Family Values," Governor Palin, when the truth surrounding her extra marital affairs is revealed? How 'bout the per diem she paid herself to live in her own home rather than the Governor's mansion in Juneau? Shouldn't the IRS take a look at that use of tax dollars? You'd think with all the money she stole from the taxpayers of Alaska she could have bought some condoms for her daughter.

Comment by Charles — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Comment by WhiteTrashLosersMakeMeLaugh � September 9, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

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You still fvcking your sister or blowing your brother????

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
If you listen to the clip, Biden says that if Palin adopts the Bush/McCain policies, then it is a step backward for women. Um, he's right. Adopting the failed policies of the last eight years is a step backwards for all of us.

Comment by Erica — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Well Joey, ya did it again…you got foot in mouth disease. Now we should just call you Joey, " the plug " slug !

Comment by charles gibbons — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Biden's correct. Here's GOP Platform synopsis:
The official Republican Party Platform adopted this week has the potential to threaten women's rights domestically and abroad. Globally, the platform (see PDF) rejects adopting the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It supports withholding funds from international organizations involved in abortion and upholding the "Mexico City Policy," which prohibits federal monies from being given to non-governmental organizations that provide abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries.

Domestically, the platform targets abortion rights by opposing clinics at schools that provide information or referrals for abortion or contraception and by supporting parental notification requirements for both abortion and contraception. The platform also supports a constitutional amendment in support of human life, protection of the unborn under the 14th Amendment, and the appointment of more pro-life judges. The platform opposes abortion in all cases and does not allow for exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or maternal health.

Additionally, while the platform supports "the advancement of women in the military" it also favors their "exemption from ground combat units." Also regarding the military, the platform supports banning gays and lesbians from service.

Comment by Madeline C. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Just because she is female and could become a vice president does not make it a step forward for women. She is still not competent to possible be president should something happen to McCain, and her record shows she is untrained and unready. All of the women (the men need to just shut up frankly–you haven't a clue) out there who are up in arms about Biden's comments–Feminists, it fascinates me that you now are defending her despite her truly regressive stance and for the religious conservatives, if she had been a Democrat and doing the same things you would have been decrying her all over the place. As someone who has served in one of the most sexist professions ever–being mainline clergy–I find it apalling that women of any political persuation cannont look at the situation objectively. It does not help women to not think for yourselves. Tell me why someone like Kay Bailey Hutcheson wasn't picked? The choice was a slap in the face to all of us women who have spent decades fighting the glass ceiling. Stop using her x chromosomes as the response when her competence to possibly become a leader of our contry in such unsettled times is questioned. It isn't always about sexism.

Comment by Diana E — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
amen biden. ladies, just because she has a vajayjay does not mean she is a step forward. she's anti choice and she doesn't even know her stuff. you can't claim foreign policy experience b/c you neighbor russia. you also can't claim to be an 'energy expert' b/c your hubby works for BP–palin didn't even know who freddie mac and fannie mae were. biden is not anti woman–give me a break and use your brains instead of this childish reactionary politics.

she will not help the women's movement. give me a break!

Comment by christina — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
It�s pretty bad when the democrats are beating up Mrs. Palin because of her �lack of experience� when she has WAY more than Obama does. He was in the Senate 143 days before he started running for president. While he was �running� a senate staff, she was running a state with a 10 billion dollar budget. Obama said that his experience to be president is the fact that he�s RUNNING for president, that�s his experience!!! WOW, I might just run out and vote for him myself�NOT!!! When a guy claims that the proof that he has enough experience to be president is the fact that he�s RUNNING for president, that�s really sad. The dems are scraping the bottom of the barrel with this guy.

Comment by Jack Waldrop — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Please Joe Biden - keep up these comments on the distortions of McCain / Palin and poor judgment of McCain.

Show that the American people are not stupid about a 72 year man like McCain and an ill-equipped / inexperienced / self serving Palin.

Comment by David Helmick — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Keep on talking Senator Binden. The more you talk, the stronger our position gets.

Comment by Lane — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Biden is an embarrassment to the human race! He is an obsolete leftist/communist fan of Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro, and a paid for slave of the left and "MoveOn.org". Who cares what this idiot has to say? He and Obama couldn't find their way to the "men's room", and, yet, they expect us to trust them with our country? What a joke! Go Sarah! I can't wait to watch you make mince meat out of this clown Biden.

Comment by Gator_Rick — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Let's get real.A girl or woman is walking down the street.A man knocks her over the head,drags her in an alley,rapes her,and when she finds out her rapist impregnated her…Palin will tell her,"You're going to have that baby!" So for nine months,the female will watch and feel a child grow in her body conceived not from love (or even like),but from a violent criminal act.
Is that FORWARDS of BACKWARDS?

Comment by Passenger57 — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Biden was told keep his speeches & answers short due his foot-in-mouth disease. But after this exchange with a TV reporter, I guess now the only cure is for Biden to wire his jaw shut or amputate his feet.

Can't wait for his debate with Palin and watching him stuff his foot down his throat.

J.V.

Comment by J.V. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
If you think that going back to the days of back-alley abortions, no equal-pay laws (sad that we have to legislate such a basic right), and having a President like McCain who has repeatedly demonstrated his contempt for women and the political issues they consider important, then yes, a vote Palin is a step backward. I am pleased to see that a woman is being considered for VP, and HRC would have gotten my vote had she won the nomination. Please remember that if Palin gets the VP job, it doesn't mean that she will be an advocate for women's issues - she has her own agenda which is not at all in sync with the majority of women in the US. And she doesn't come "ala carte" - you get Palin, you get McCain, and THAT should scare the hell out of anyone.

Comment by Otaku — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
It would be a backwards step for women if she believes as does McCain - NO equal pay for equal work. The GOVERNMENT will tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. It would be step back. I lived through the area of alley abortions. Personally, I don't want to see women go back to those day. Also, I happen to believe that women should receive the same pay as men doing the same job. I guess I'm just to progressive.

Comment by Sabreen — September 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
THE PUBLIC CASTRATION OF JOHN McCAIN CONTINUES.

NOBODY CARES WHAT McCAIN IS SAYING, HE ALREADY LOST THE ELECTION TO HIS RUNNING MATE.

Comment by Donna — September 9, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
As a WOMAN, I can say that He's absolutely 100 percent RIGHT! Its a shame to see all these women supporting her without knowing nothing about true facts and the issues. She's an embarrassment, and thank goodness for Joe Biden speaking the truth.

Comment by Gia — September 9, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
It's incredible that no one hear is well-informed enough to understand Brother Biden. Let me 'splain. Palin is anti-choice even in cases of rape. That's a step back for women. She is against the Equal Pay Act which assures that women be paid the same for equal work. That is a step back for women. She is against sex-ed. That is a step back for women. She wants to further increase the health-care burden on the patient. That's a step back for women. The list goes on. Read the GOP platform people.

Comment by Steve — September 9, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
As a woman I wholeheartedly agree with Sen. Biden. Sarah Palin has no business running for VP nor should she be a role model for any modern woman. Her pro-life stance even in instances of rape and incest is repulsive. Her blatant LYING on the campaign trail is despicable. She also ties herself to the term "Hockey Mom" which in all honesty is a derogatory term usually used to describe upper-middle-class Mommies who do little but drive their kids around all-day and get manicures. The urban and youth vote will not stand for this. They are the ones with cell phones only (POLLS DON'T CALL CELL PHONES) and a grass roots momentum that will propel the Obama/Biden ticket into the White House and restore respect and peace to America.
Sarah Palin - you make me sick!!!!

Comment by Samantha — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Funnier than Biden's comments (and they are pretty funny) are the comments on this page. Looks like old Joe hit a nerve.

Comment by Leftofmao — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Also a true pro-lifer would be against the war and the death penalty. Right???

Comment by Jacob — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
What planet does Biden live on? What an idiot!

Biden as VP would be a "backwards" step for America.

Comment by Ian — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Obviously she's a backward step for women when she's extremely Pro-Life…to the point where if a women is raped (by a stranger/ a person in her family) she won't be able to make decision about her own body. She's backwards because she thinks its okay for a woman to bring a baby in this world even if it' out of incest and the baby may be mentally disabled as a result. She's a backwards step for women because she's against using birth control so that we can make sure that future mothers are ready when they give birth…she's backwards because she can't seem to put two and two together and admit that with teenage pregancy comes a very difficult life for the mother and the baby….and because so many women are so obsessed with what parts palin has and not what ideas she actually champions…we may be forced to deal with a n administration who'd leave us scratching our heads wondering why …the amount of abandoned babies and dumpster deaths are going up…why are teenage girls dying after botched abortion attempts…The women who support Palin are BACKWARDS

Comment by Jahmil — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
If the Republicans believe that I would vote for a woman, just because she is a woman. They are sadly mistaken. Joe is right. A vote for Palin will set women back. The McCain's move was calculated and desperate. I pray it does not work.

Comment by Cindy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Joe Biden rocks and will make a great VP along side Barak Obama a historic team that will finally get America out of the gutter.

The fact that Rethuglicans are so angry (read the posts here) says to me they know it's over, why else defend a harpy, book-banning, lying, dimwit, anti-choice, redneck? It makes no sense - I feel like I'm back on the play ground and all the right wingers can come up with to say is "I know you are but what am I?"

This isn't discourse here, these comments - there is almost no substance, it's just angry uptight white men who hate the fact that they are no longer going to be able to run things into the ground, as the last 8 years have proved.

Theyare bitter, angry and they cling to their religion and guns (Obama was right) because at the end of the day they'd rather have stupid reactionary white people ruining the country then an accomplished smart Harvard educated black man running the country.

Obama/Biden 2008

Comment by Mark — September 9, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Obviously, most of you on here are Republicans and joining in on the "dumbing down on America GAME". I am a female and all of you women always screaming equality and wanting the same pay as men but don't want to be held to the same standard. Now you want to scream sexism because Biden has basically confirmed what Palin said which is, if she wins the election for VP, she will work hard to abandon any form of abortion, basically stripping away a woman of her right to choose. God gave all of us free will and this is a guaranteed, you use it regardless of what you do with that free will. When the media was attacking Obama on his religion, personal beliefs and above all race, I didn't hear screams from any of you. Obama was in a Christian church for twenty years and is not a muslim but the Media or others keep saying he is even when he keep saying I am not. You don't want to believe Obama after 19 mths but you are willing to back a candidate, Palin, who was not even fully vetted and you have only known her for 2 weeks and you are willing to believe every word that comes out of her mouth. If you wantto talk sexism, you better be fair and talk racism as well.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
I am appalled at the number of people who are fooled by those stupid republicans over and hver. I am aN iNDEPENDENT and it is true women would be taking a HUGE LEAP back. where are they on women's issues?? do women have issues???(they problably do not think so) People are not even learning about her independently, just believing the bullshit that they claim in their speeches. Does it not worry anyone who runs McCains campaign (Schidt) who is a Rove guy>>> Rove should be in jail for all the criminal activity he has done

Comment by Kath — September 9, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
WayneWacko: Per diems are SOP. Never mind the governor, each member of the legislature of most of the states in the US receive per diems ranging from $50 to $250 per day depending on distance traveled. In Denver you get $45/day even if you live two blocks from the State House. In Maryland legislators get $157 for meals and lodging. (See the complete state-by-state list at http://www.empirecenter.org/html/legislative_salaries.cfm.

Alaska's a pretty big state (I've been there). Governor Palin's per diems are right in line and certainly put less of a burden on the state payroll than the rest of the legislature.

No dirt here. You'll have to keep digging.

Comment by Vast Right Wing Conspirator — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
I'm amazed at these comments. Mr. Biden is referring to her stance on abortion which is barbaric as is McCain's. This coupled with McCain's promise to appoint Supreme Court justices like Scalia represent a full frontal assualt on Roe v Wade. This is the step back for women Mr. Biden is referring to.

Comment by What? — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
"Babies resulting from rape or incesst are valuable human beings, children whom many are waiting to adopt."

That's unless they are black babies, then they can stay or be killed in foster care. You people only care to be supreme over others in every way possible. McCain-Palin will be a step backward for this country. I see WWIII or China calling in their loans looming. Get ready. Who knows if you all are dumb enough to do it again a third time the world may start to price oil in Euros, then we all can suffer. Get a clue. Read something. Educations is fundamental. Only in America can a man who graduated at the bottom of his class and a women with a BS in Journalism be considered seriously to run the country. I guess graduating at the top of the class is a bad thing. I'll tell my children only to strive to work in a factory. Thats the American Way!

Comment by Nicole — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
With so many unbiased sources fact checking Palin's speeches and claims, it's now clear she's dishonest. She requested more than $750,000,000 in earmarks - that's our tax dollars - for Alaska in just a few years. She kept the $240 million in earmarks for the "bridge to nowhere", and she was for it, until Congress turned her down for the full $360 million she asked for. Then she changed her mind. In her whole political career only 109,000 people have voted for her! The whole population of Alaska is about one third the city of Chicago. If McCain was serious about the future of our country, he would have chosen any of the highly experienced Republican women, who actually know about the issues and have a positive track record.

Comment by steve — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w
Be sure and vote McCain

Comment by Good Voter — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
seems to me that "smart forward thinking people" have had their chance to run the education of this country down to where we rank somewhere (depending on which report you check) around 20 in the world.

the "forward thinkers" have run the congress to an approval rating to 17.8%.

"forward thinkers" don't understand that sarah palins daughter is a good example that if you do not abstain from sex you will risk pregnancy.

"forward thinkers" fail to look at the past to see the failed policies and keep recycling them expecting a different result.

but i'm just a typical white person clinging to my bible and guns.

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Amber Wilkerson?

Palin's nomination by the GOP to run as VP with McCain is NOT a step into breaking the glass ceiling.

That ceiling's already been shattered - by Geraldine Ferraro and you repubs ridiculed them.

So get off your high-horse Madam, and back into the real world.

Sarah Palin is a cancer to the women's movement although her nomination as McCain's VP running mate is historical - in the Republican white male racist and sexist club, that is.

We Democrats WERE THE FIRST. As always, Repubs always play "catch-up". That's what you get when you keep looking back instead of forward or are, as you call yourselves, "conservative".

Get a grip, Ambie or stfu. You're an embarrassment to all women in the United States and your feigned feminine outrage is so transparent.

Comment by Catharina Shields — September 9, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
ee… I wonder who Biden stole these comments from. Of course, insulting minorities and women may be the only original thoughts Biden has had.

Comment by Doug — September 9, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
not everyone is fooled by this pitbull in lipstick. you can put listick on a pitbull or a pig but it's still a pig

Comment by dbailey — September 9, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Palin IS a step backward - OR more like 100 Years of being backward.
She cut funding for the Special Olympics while Governor. (BEFORE her down syndrome baby was born)
SHE believes in ABSTINENCE only - how old is that? She's 44? Not a woman with young ideas. She sounds like some old man that wants to keep girls and women bare foot and pregnant until they go into menopause! And if it sounds like I'm mad - I am. Women don't respect other women that drag their down syndrome infant around the country so that she can be famous. And, we truly QUESTION why whe would go back to work 3 days after having a baby.
WHO is this woman that kills moose in front of her young daughter? That fires people just because she can?
I'll take Barack and Biden any day. And, you know what IF Hillary WOULD have been on the ticket the ATTACKS BY ALL of you would be ridiculous!
PS Sara could be pregnant right now!

Comment by mappy — September 9, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
We women DON"T have the right to do anything we want with our bodies. We can't put illegal drugs in our bodies and we can't be prostitutes. WE can't sell a kidney. That argument that we have the right to do anything we want with our bodies is a crock that the moronic liberals dreamed up to swing the unthinking females to their way of thinking.

Comment by Jennifer Wilson — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Comment by Ken Taylor

Actually I finished both of those chores yesterday. Today I just checked off my only other requirements:
- putting a dildo in your dad's rear end AND
- taking a GIANT crap on your mother's face.

The good news is they both loved it! Merry Christmas!

Comment by WhiteTrashLosersMakeMeLaugh — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
I can't believe how threaten the radical left is being. Per diem for living in her own home? Extra maritial affairs? Give me a break. How would she have time. Well ahh Bill Clinton and John Edwards did. But.. They are men.

We have the radical left on the run and it is very humorous. LOL

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Why would I vote for a woman who is against individual freedom of choice and belief, and who is pro-war and pro-oil? Not to mention how corrupt she is. Joe is right again. A neocon ideologue is not a step forward for any of us but four more years of economically destroying and divisively dividing our great nation.

Comment by E. — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
McCain should've just nominated a uterus. After all, Clinton has a uterus and that's what women want.

Right? Come on, Republicans, Palin is the best you can come up with? So much for your permanent majority.

Comment by joey — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Biden. How sad. He wants people to think, because Palin is a conservative with values different from the left, that her success is "bad for women." The issue for liberals is that it would be very inconvenient for a republican woman to reach the White House first. They can't stand that the conservative party, one whom liberals consider backward and old-fashioned, might actually get it done. It would be so embarrassing for them. It's quite transparent. I'm so glad Obama, rather than risk real change, picked the 6-term senator who got, what, 4% of the vote in the primary and was run out of the 1988 presidential primary for lying and plagiarism. Biden was chosen for his alleged foreign policy experience, which didn't help Obama much when it came to making a statement about Russia's attack on Georgia. Obama still fumbled about for several days, unsure of which side to be on, showing his ignorance and inexperience. Where was Biden to tell him what to say? Where was all that foreign policy experience that Obama thought would complete his ticket? Hmmm.

Comment by JMS2008 — September 9, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
To Vast Right-Winger: Per diem is for when you are AWAY from home. Palin charged her state for 312 days when she slept in her own bed in Wasilla.

Now that's reform we can believe in!!!

Comment by WayneW — September 9, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Also a true pro-lifer would be against the war and the death penalty. Right???

Comment by Jacob

So a pro-deather (choicer?) is for war and the death penalty????

perhaps i've been wrong about things….

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Can any of you republicans read???? It says: "I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think," Biden added. "And that's obviously a backward step for women."
THAT's a backward step, not SHE'S a backward step. Having a woman be nominated as a VP is a step foreard only if that candidate is going to promote the rights of women. If someone (male or female) votes against women's rights, then that is a step backward for women. Duh! Doesn't take a genius to understand that! I agree that based on what we know about her (and it would be helpful if she did a real interview to find out what she really believes), it does sound like she would not be a step forward for women.

Comment by Carrie — September 9, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Joe is spot on! Palin would be a step back. Palin was such a bad choice both my mother and father in law are no longer voting for Mccain.

To those who think Obama is somehow hiding Biden or that he has not been speaking, you have no clue. He's been out stumping without Obama (something it appears Palin is unable and unwilling to do) ever since the Democratic Party convention. He also appeared on Meet the Press this past Sunday. Do a youtube search of his speeches. He's fantastic. But keep thinking he's "hidden" away and not talking to important groups of voters. You will be in for a huge shock!

Comment by Stacy Smith — September 9, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Sorry, all you Neanderthals, but Biden is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Sarah Palin's sneering dismissal of community organizers (such as Susan B. Anthony and others who made her way of life possible), her insistance on abstinence only education, her anti women positions on reproductive choice, and her slashing of special needs education in her home state tell me that she would indeed be a step backward for the women of this country. End of Story.

Comment by Nancy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Biden is an Idiot

Comment by Lou — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Oh, that's just Joe, going off again. Remember the one about Indian decent and 7-11's? I wonder if he speaks with an accent when he visits a 7-11???

Comment by Rich — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Gee, did someone wake up the lefties?

Bout time you got here.

Let's list the spew of these idiots came up with:

If the Christian Right wing thinks that bigotry, racism, ignorance, arrogance, hate, fear, and greed are family values than McCain and Palin are for you!

Here's a brilliant one: Joe Biden DID NOT SAY selecting Palin was a step back for women's rights. He SAID, if she should become VP it will be "a backward step for women".

More brilliant: WAY TO GO JOE!!! Sarah Palin is nothing more than a religious freak from the far right. That's the only reason McSane picked this loser, to excite the idiots in the republicans party.

Downright Brilliant: You remember that. Anti-Women's Choice is Pro-Rapists Choice. There's no other conclusion.

How are my reading skills doing: For all those women-hating right-wingers commenting here, you need to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.

Now my turn:

How did your last date go? Was your makeup ok? Shoes hurt? Did you go all the way? LOL

PASS the GRAPE KOOKAID. Most of us Repub's should be in jail according to all of these kooks. Last I knew, I appreciated my wife, my daughters and neighbors. I pay my taxes, I vote and I have the right to express an opinion.

You don't agree?

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Pray that your sister or daughter never gets raped by someone.
And God forbid that that someone is a part of your family.
Still, if it did happen…..pray even harder that she does not get pregnant.
Because if she does, she'd have no choice but to keep the baby.

That sound fair to you?
That sound logical to you?
That sound American to you?

It should. It is the position of the McCain/Palin ticket.

Comment by Ravi Kanwal — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
I grew up in the sixties, supposedly the most racist era in history, however, this is the most racist era in history, the only difference is instead of hanging blacks on a tree, shooting or beating them to death, Republicans and racists use legal loop holes to continue their racial bias and discrimination. During my youth, it was very for whites and especially well to do whites to take their pregnant teen to a private family doctor and get them an abortion. If a white woman or teen ended up pregnant by black, the baby would automatically be aborted or if the white woman or girl was raped. The black would be killed and woman or girl's baby would be aborted. So these so-called moral republicans are about moral as a prostitute or a "John".

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
As a woman I care less about the glass ceiling than I do about the issues facing the country today. So for the GOP to throw the "female candidate" bone to women, expecting them to grovel and kiss the feet of Palin just because she is a woman, is a mistake in judgment. I, for one, look to character and ideas . . . and not hobbies, family size and make-up, or gender.

Comment by Debra — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
What's the difference between Palin and Bush?????

LIPSTICK!

Comment by WayneW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
America continues to be divided against itself while Japan, India, China, the Middle East, Europe, Northern Africa and parts of South America zoom right past. Funny we are literally on the fringes of being a bankrupt country and republicans want to talk about toting guns, having abortions and saving the world from itself when they can't even save America. Alaska will be the last place on earth during end times???? What gave Palin and her church that idea??? I've never heard of such a notion, Isreal, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Italy okay I see the biblical connections, but Alaska????? And we live in 2008???? Somebody needs to just say yes to education in America and fast.

Comment by Lynette — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
As a white, Evangelical Christian, 42 year old mom, I can tell you without a doubt…

…yes, electing Sarah Palin would be a HUGE step backward for women in politics.

Comment by miteegirl — September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Hillary Clinton is voting for McCain, despite the lip service she is giving Obama and that is good enough for me.

mccain-PALIN 2008

Hillary 2012

Comment by Melanie — September 9, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
The reason I like Sarah Palin is precisely because she does not agree with the agenda of the progressive left. Pro life? Awesome! Pro-gun rights! Awesome! Anti-tax hikes and pork barrel spending! Double awesome! Pisses off feminists, I mean liberal nazi facists? Quad-rupple awesome!

Biden/Obama if we in the GOP cared what you thought of Palin, we wouldn't be republicans now would we? Go blank yourself Biden!

Comment by Houdini — September 9, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
It is amazing how divisive the radical right is! All they do is smear Obama, spreading untruths and repeating them ad nauseum, and then whine when anyone responds to their immoral and destructive leaders who are undermining everything that made America the greatest country on earth! Amazing! They should be ashamed of themselves!

Comment by E. L. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
The Republicans are such an interesting lot. Hear them talk disparagingly about their own favorite clud, "the Old Boys" club. Very soon they will be disowning their White support base too.

Come on, you are not fooling anyone. You stand solidly for the status quo, and no amount of propaganda or tokenism will change that. Choosing a woman as your token VP does not make the Republican party pro-woman, anymore than putting Justice Thomas on the Supreme Court makes that party pro-black. On both gender and race, the Republican Party is backward and insensitive. Compare the number and percentage of women delegates at the 2 conventions!!

Comment by HKP — September 9, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
McCain/Palin in 2008!!!!!!

Comment by kirk — September 9, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Palin is a backward step for the liberal agenda not for women. The Democrat reaction to Palin clearly exposes the real motivation behind the so-called feminist movement in this country. The feminist agenda has little to do with advancing women, just like the environmentalist movement has little to do with protecting the environment or the nationalization of health care has to do with improving health care. All of these "causes" are nothing more than masks for the true liberal agenda which is the conversion of America to socialism.

Comment by Keith — September 9, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
It is a shameful, a farce and reverse sexism to accept that any woman, such as Palin, is deemed qualified to be a VP or, worse, Pres. without the same qualification requirements that any man be have to achieve. I am woman but don't share the same views, beliefs or their utter lack of "family values" (witness their (her church) religiously speaking in tongues, the End Days, the Rapture, anti-US jobs, anti-Union, anti-Abortion, anti-US Constitution, anti-environment, library censorship, no ethics, no morals, etc.) of Palin or McCain. Those two don't represent me in any respect! Come on, how will her bigoted religious views of the End days affect her decision making? A prophecy of positive change and determination for our country is much, much better for us with my pick, BARACK OBAMA/JOE BIDEN!!!

Comment by Jane E. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
If the polls are right, then the right wing, anti-woman portion of America is stronger than the middle and left, pro-woman portion of America…

I feel sorry for my former counry and am glad I live in Canada.

All I can say is you better get off your ass and go vote if you want to prevent the final demise of the Empire!

Yours truly…

An America Abroad

Comment by sharons — September 9, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Biden is right on the money. I'm a woman, and Sarah Palin does not speak for me. Her position on the issues - and the fact that she would align herself with John McCain and the ultra right wing fundamentalists - all spell out loud and clear that she is a step backwards for women's rights. Just being vice president (heaven forbid they win) does not a step forward make. You actually have to DO something in your position of power that helps people OTHER THAN YOU to move us forward. She's only promising to make things worse. Such a shame.

Biden is a brave man for speaking the truth when saying anything against Palin is "sexist." The Republicans need to get straight exactly what sexist is before they start throwing around the term.

Comment by HC — September 9, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Democrats are pro-choice, unless that choice conflicts with theirs. Simple fact is this, Palin represents more average women than Hillary ever will, and that simple fact alone scares the living daylights out of the liberals. On another note…. the Bush bashing got Kerry elected in 2004 right? People didn't buy it in 2004 and won't this year either.

Comment by js — September 9, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
I have nothing against women who happen to be proud because she is a woman, being a woman myself, BUT, PLEASE, look at the facts. Read up on her, instead of just going to rallies simply to see her because of her celebrity. The woman is a revert back to BEFORE women had rights. Otherwise, the Republican party NEVER would have chosen her.

Comment by Gia — September 9, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Dude uses the web site and then lies about what is on it, Sad really sad.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
As a female voter, I couldn't agree more with Biden that Palin is giant step backward. But she'd bring foreign policy even further back than she'll bring women if she's elected with McCain. And the fact that Alaskans received more per capita in earmarks last year than any of the other states while she continues to tell that lie about saying "no thanks" to the bridge should tell you that she is exactly like the administraton of the last eight years - she's an impressive politician but she's neither honest nor a statesman and that makes her more of the same.

Comment by Ann — September 9, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Source: http://www.factcheck.org

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn�t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She�s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
HKP, the excitement by the Republicans over Sarah Palin is real. Just as it was for Clarence Thomas. Your sterotypical viewpoint is getting stale.

Comment by kirk — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
You guys are all unbelievably stupid. Yeah the party that doesn't want to regulate a woman's body, supports EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK for women, and understands that a woman is about more than what passes through her vagina and driving her kids to their hockey practice are the ones who are sexist. How silly of Democrats to elect a black man over a woman that is really sexist and old fashioned to, you know, vote based on issues as opposed to let themselves be PANDERED and LIED to. How is Biden sexist for echoing the sentiment of many feminist leaders? Electing a woman who is obviously just a political tool being used to pander to disgruntled Hillary voters and distract attention away from the issues and the fact McCain/Palin offers NO change or vision for our country except George Bush's failed ideas IS A STEP BACKWARD. Women are much too intelligent to allow themselves to be manipulated by a party that has done absolutely nothing for women until it was politically convenient. And all those people who "can't wait" for the Palin/Biden debates remember this: Joe Biden has over thirty years of foreign policy experience vs. Sarah Palin who has been the VP pick for weeks and yet, for some reason, has not been allowed to field questions. Oh yeah, and she's being schooled on foreign policy by aides to George W. Bush. So when your sons are drafted to be sent to Iran or your daughter is raped and forced to bring that baby to term and sacrifice her future, remember that you had a choice between irrelevant bullshit and real policy change and you chose the former. By the way all you "overtaxed" citizens, Obama wants to cut taxes for the middle class while McCain wants to cut taxes for oil companies. I hope the CEO of Exxon decides that instead of hoarding his extra money he wants to pass it on to the rest of us, or else we're done for.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Testing, 1-2-3….

Comment by Osamas Pajamas — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Listen up, liberals! Abortion is a horrifying INVASIVE, degrading and mutilating procedure for women. There is NOTHING feminist or forward about it. Here's a novel idea: men need to tell men to WRAP IT UP each and every time they have sex and then WOMEN won't need to get their insides SUCKED OUT AND CUT OUT! Liberals and FEMINISTS need to stand up and make sure NO woman EVER needs to have an abortion! Abortion is NOT a choice: it's a nazi-camp experiment on women.

Comment by Janet — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
It is very important to read or listen carefully before forming an opinion and then posting a comment for all to see. If so, then one would understand that Senator Biden was referring to Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin's positions on issues that specifically address women. For example, equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights. There are also many issues that women are very passionate about - gun control, affordable healthcare, and education to name but a few. On every single one of these issues, as well as many more, McCain-Palin represent a giant step backward for women and their families. Sen. Biden's statement is neither appalling nor is it arrogant. It is the truth. Now arrogant would be believing that women would be wooed by Gov. Palin's nomination into abandoning their hopes for the future. Appalling is the constant stream of lies one hears daily from Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin.

Comment by kb constable — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Biden is a throw back from the 60's. His view of woman is from the 50's. Is he still riden those trains to get close to his roots. blah, blah , blah he is so out of it. Send him to his bedroom for a nap.

Comment by Josh — September 9, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
I completely agree with Biden. The nomination of Palin is a complete insult to the accomplishments of women. She was selected SOLELY because she is a women…anyone who disagrees with that fact is truly drinking the Kool-aid. Women, please be smart enough to realize that her nomination was not because of her abilities and accomplishments, but because she wears a bra. This is a transparent, pathetic gimmick.

Obama/Biden 2008!

Comment by Lisa - Ohio — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
I am the gay lover of Ken Taylor and I was wondering if anyone has seen him on this message board? Sweetie, you left your gimp suit and butt-plug at my house last night, silly!

You know that no one can ever find out about us because they will take away your gun rack, confederate flag, and kick you out of the Baptist Church, honey pie!

I hope to see you tonight Ken Taylor, because I know how much you like weiners in your mouth!!!!

Comment by WhiteTrashLosersMakeMeLaugh — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Seriously people � there are far more qualified women out there than Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin�s main skills include being able to field dress a moose and bark loud enough to distract Americans from tangible issues around which we should be electing our nation�s leaders � like the fact that the credit bubble created under the Republican administration is imploding, while we spent 3+ TRILLION dollars in Iraq. I�m tired of my hard earned tax dollars being used to line the pockets of wealthy oil executives and John McCain�s other cronies who own more houses than they can count. Why don�t we spend some of that money domestically on things that directly benefit America?? John McCain cheated on his first wife (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html), so why wouldn�t he cheat the American people? I�m not interested in a President who would be fun to have beers with or in the Vice President�s fashion sense (which are the issues the media seems to focus on) � I want a true global President who can lead and inspire this country out of our morass and towards its true potential. To me the choice is clearer than ever: Obama-Biden 2008!

Comment by Melissa Burke — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
WAY TO GO JOE!!!! Please come out and call her the LIAR she is. This moose killer does not represent me at all. What she does represent is IGNORANCE TO THE TENTH DEGREE.

You wannabe moose killer, you know the female emotional voter — the one who will vote for her just because she has a vagina. This is why we are not taken seriously. You stupid people. This moose killer has no credability and it will all come out for the American people to see. Right now you are flying high, but that high will fall and when it does, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be in the White House thank goodness.

I will not vote for a ticket that DOES NOT represent this country. Nothing but rich white folks (old dudes), poor white folks (racial pigs), and silly, confused females (consistently vote against their own interest).

If you think for one second that the grassroots of the Democratic party, you know the community organizers moose killer mocked, are going to stand by and let an old dude who has no original thought of his own, or the moose killer, who has absolutely NO EXPERIENCE other than firing people she hates, take control of this country, you are kidding yourselves.

This country is for ALL people just not white folks.

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
All I see on this comments section are bitter, hateful criticisms with no intelligent argument or substance. Typical for republicans to be all aggression and no substance - - unfortunately for the country it's led to death and turmoil.

Comment by PaulSanto — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Bush/McCain/Palin are a backward step for our country. It's time to remove the radical right from office and not reward them for their unending incompetence! Who can trust people who make up new things everyday and are now running against themselves, as if they could bring any reform to Washington. I believe in this country and its character to much to vote for the McSame ticket.

Comment by E. L. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
oh you self-righteous hyprocritical republicans who can never admit when you're wrong, who maintain it's my way or the highway attitude without ever taking time to study the issues…. if you scream loud enough with no substance to back your words you'll win… believe or not Roe vs Wade was important legislation that Palin would have overturned in a heartbeat…. that's a step back for woman… equal pay for women…. that's a step back for women… go ahead and scream all you want… what??? is the tide starting to change for your tabloid cover VP pick as more and more truth comes out? oh right it's the liberal left that is into smear, although it was palin who announced her daughter's pregnancy, it was palin who chose to run aware that rumors were flying around alaska that she faked her own pregnancy, it was palin who chose to run knowing is under investigation for ethics violation… oh a victim of the press you scream… problem is we got the facts to back our words…. what a concept…. as Obama said "Enough is enough!!!!"

Comment by deb — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
HKP, the excitement by the Republicans over Sarah Palin is real. Just as it was for Clarence Thomas. Your sterotypical viewpoint is getting stale.

Comment by kirk

What's wrong with Justice Thomas? Oh, I remember now, he wasn't "black enough" for some folk.

I guess Sarah is too much man for you kirk?

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
So far Palin has shown me nothing that impressive. She reads the lines that others compose for her, she hides from the press and the videos I have seen of her speaking are either full of goofy church-lady patter or fraudulent posturing about how she's going to go in and shake up Washington DC. Her apparent adherence to Bush policies look backwards, not forward. So Biden is right. Or if he's not, let her come out and say so. Or at least say something that's off the script.

Comment by Dave — September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Do some fact checks you idiots. Making me sick with your kookaid quotes.

Sorry, all you Neanderthals, but Biden is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Sarah Palin's sneering dismissal of community organizers (such as Susan B. Anthony and others who made her way of life possible), her insistance on abstinence only education, her anti women positions on reproductive choice, and her slashing of special needs education in her home state tell me that she would indeed be a step backward for the women of this country. End of Story.

Comment by Nancy � September 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Samantha: How out of touch can one person be? Hockey Moms, Soccer Moms, and the rest are COMPLETELY different than what you picture. A hockey Mom works outside the house or keeps house (that qualifies as work), picks kids up at school, brings them to practice, picks them up at practice, watches practice, brings them home, cooks their meal, makes sure they've done their homework, makes sure they've got clean clothes for tomorrow, reminds them of their dentist appointment, monitors their Internet usage, gets them to stop texting and brush their teeth, then she tucks them into bed and starts all over the next day. I've been to thousands of hockey, soccer, softball, and Little League games and I've know hundreds of these mothers. They also volunteer for the sports league and the school and the PTA and everything else that needs doing and live a hectic lifestyle devoted to their families. Sorry, but your characterization of them is a load of crap. They are the movers and shakers of middle class America.

Comment by Ralphie — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Source http://www.factcheck.org
(but don't let the facts get in your way)

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn�t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She�s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
EXACTLY!!! With the available black babies, the rich white would rather go over seas and adopt any race of baby except for black babies. Most blacks are of average or below means of living and don't have the economic status to adopt additional children,so they are left behind. If you are so pro-life, (white women), start an organization to encourage your fellow white friends to adopt black babies.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Joe Biden is absolutely right and I'm glad he has the guts to be blunt about it. I'm sick of hearing McCain/Palin talking heads slam legitimate critiques of Palin's political views as sexism. What a patronizing travesty! By using that pathetic defense, they are only harming the progress of women in public service. Just because I am also a woman doesn't mean that I share Palin's views or that she represents my interests.

Comment by Laura — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
interesting to think that representing or helping 'women' can only be demonstrated by being a Democrat, and by favoring abortion on demand. I would think that having a black woman traveling abroad representing the US would represent a significant step forward for 'women,' and that step was initiated by a Republican President. I also know that a majority of women do NOT favor abortion on demand. Does Biden really believe that a majority of Catholic women support abortion on demand?

Comment by Jack Wilson — September 9, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
The GOP DEPENDS on an ignorant voter base to win. They depend on clueless uninformed simpletons who will believe any lie that they spout. Basically, if you want to know the truth, it is almost ALWAYS the opposite of what the GOP says.

The record is crystal clear- Democrats REDUCE debt, and Republicans ALWAYS rack up massive debt. Always.

Besides Palin's crazy religious freak creationist beliefs and her willingness to lie about anything…

******

here is all you need to know about her…

Palin became mayor of a small town of 5,000 people that had zero debt. When she left office six years later that small town has a massive debt of $22 MILLION! Easily verifiable.
THIS is the "executive experience" she is touting? Book-banning CARIBOU BARBIE is a joke!

******

She ought to spend more time with her many children and make sure the "christian" brats aren't aren't cranking out more bastard grandkids!

The average GOP moron will vote against their own economic self-interest based on how many years McCain was trapped in a box, or the "hotness" of the VP candidate!

Sad, but true.

Comment by ScoobyDubious — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
As always, the cries of commie, fascist is used against the left…the right is only for socialism for the rich and right! That's the real red scare. history, always with supporters of mccain it is about traveling back in time, never forward…more of the same, that is McSame and his crew! (#41) none of you could stand mcCain a week ago, now look at you…your "candidate" now hides behind a skirt and you love it…

Comment by tread — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Oh yeah, after finding out in the FactCheck that all the news you listen to is false: will you be a strong woman and apologize?

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small Alaskan town. She is an elitist snob who hates everybody not from Alaska. She wanted Alaska to leave America!! She's lying when she claims to be a Republican, she's a modern day secessionist. Her hustband still belongs to that far-right party that hates America! the Palins still give (taxpayers) money to that party! She's a traitor to America! Wake up People!

Comment by Donna — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Here are two giant steps backward in the McCain/Palin ticket:

1. Roe vs Wade
2. Creationism in public schools

Unfortunately, we all suffer with those backward steps.

Comment by RationalThinker — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Joe Biden is absolutely right!! How can anyone who supports womens issues possibly believe that Sarah Palin doesn't bring us back to an era when we were denied many rights we fought so hard to win. Simply being a woman doesn't automatically mean she's forward thinking. (If a woman advocated taking away women's voting rights, would she not be going backward??
The personal, belittling & mean spirited comments here truly sadden and sicken me. What does any of this have to do with hair or age, or Down (NOT Down's) Syndrome or mooseburgers??? How about some REAL issue discussions from the Repubs???
The nasty, personal attacks make me disillusioned and disheartened. Disagree on issues but please stop the belittling! Christan Judeo tenets are not about so much meanness.

Comment by brooklynpat — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Taking away a woman's right to choose IS A STEP BACKWARD for American women everywhere.

If elected, I predict she will be such a horrible presence in Washington (she has no economic or foreign policy knowledge, she lies over and over again about her credentials, she favors cronyism and she's a religious extremist) that no woman will even be nominated for another decade. Yes a step backward.

Look, dis Biden and Obama all you want, but I guarantee that unless you're RICH (and agree with Phil "Mental recession" Gramm's disastrous dregulation mess), EVIL (and agree with Dick "Halliburton" Cheney on foreign policy) or IGNORANT (which is bliss), then you will regret a McCain-Palin white house.

People, use your brains on this one: read the policy positions of the candidates, study their records. If we elect Obama we gain the world's respect and admiration. If we elect McCain we become the world's laughing stock.

Comment by Adjective — September 9, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
Thank you Christina #463. If you think Joe Biden is giving women a bad wrap, pleae wake up to the real world. If you think the replubicans have not fought hard to give women an unequal share in all walks of life. Please wake up. She has been part of the problem with the rights of woman. Please do your research before making decisions that will effect your children and their children too. This is too important. Please look at what is at stake. Our country is close to unrepairable and people are still listening to same republican spin. Feel your wallets for christ sake! Come on this is too obvious. Issues, Issues, Issues, and oh yeah 1 more, Track record! Research it and learn it and bet this Hoopola about the McCain/Palin change ticket won't look the same. I am very worried!

Comment by David — September 9, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Aren't our leaders supposed to represent the people and fight for the people, not just half of them? McCain/Palin only sees it 50% - we are one nation - leaders represent 100%.

Comment by Brian — September 9, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Good work Joe, stay at them. Sarah Palin is a right wing religious nut job. We need her as much as Iran needs the Mullahs

Comment by otto des moines — September 9, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
I am a highly educated woman. I don't expect the government to "offer me something in the way of jobs." Like Palin, I made it just fine on my own, thank you. Like Palin, I did it without sacrificing the possibility of having a husband and a family. Like Palin, I had a baby at age 44 while all my liberal friends tried to talk me into aborting him, just because there was a chance he might be born with Down Syndrome. He wasn't, but while researching the subject, I made the discovery that parents of Down Syndrome children are quite happy with them. (Happier than I was with my "normal" teenagers at the time.)

I'm paid MORE than most men. I just have to be better. It's not a problem.

What "ardent practicing Catholic" Joe Biden is referring to is abortion. What many of us (like Sarah Palin) know is that we don't have to kill our children in our wombs in order to have a career. We can very literally do it all. As a child of the bra-burning generation, THAT'S what was drilled into me. And now the so-called feminists are telling me that I can't do it all?

Too late. I've already proven that wrong. And so has the future Vice President.

Comment by Karen — September 9, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Keep on telling yourselves that this statement by Biden helps McCain/Palin.

Women have what is known as a "memory".

They remember who wouldn't let them vote.
They remember who wouldn't let them have credit.
They remember who under paid them.
They remember who harassed them.
They remember who refused them control of their own bodies.

They remember who demonized them for wanting equality.

They know the score.

There are people who will be motivated to vote for McCain/Palin because of Biden's statement that voting for McCain/Palin will set women back.

Sexist men.

Women who submit to sexist men.

The rest of the country agrees with Biden.

And there are so many more of us.

And… really… let's be honest… there will be a "Palin effect" this election because after all these years of demonizing women who are in positions of authority over men… sexist men will not vote for a woman to be VP knowing that she will be the nominee for the Republicans for 2012 whether McCain wins this year or not. These men don't like Dems but they hate the idea of a woman in charge. I don't believe these pathetic men will vote for Palin when the moment comes.

Comment by AntonBursch — September 9, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
The comments from conservatives are astounding. If your only qualifications for running our country is a beauty queen, moose killing, mother of 5, mayor of 7,000 people, bible thumping, hockey mom, then you have set the bar way low. Do any of you look at what this woman has accomplished and what Joe Biden has accomplished? Do you read? Are informed? Really people Sarah Palin is not that great. Do you understand our country is going down the toilet and it's because of the last 8 years. Educate yourself people.

Comment by Janet — September 9, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Source http://www.factcheck.org

(but don't let the facts get in your way)

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn�t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She�s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

God bless America

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Would you get me a copy of this "legislation"?

believe or not Roe vs Wade was important legislation

LMAO at you idiots.

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Janet — you made my point, emotional ignorance. A woman should have the choice. What don't you get about that? Look at you, you love McStupid/Moose Killer, I think your totally insane, but that is your right.

Don't you or any of your right to life freaks tell me what to do with my body. If I should ever have to make that decision, it would be my alone and not yours LADY!!

In the end, I answer to GOD and not some right wing NAZI lover like yourself. Pathetic American.

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
This coming from the man who, the day he was introduced as Obama's running mate, said his wife being educated is "a problem." As a woman I find that far more insulting and a push in the wrong direction for women than anything Sarah Palin stands for.

No, thank you. Neither Joe Biden or Barack Obama are in MY best interests.

Comment by Beth — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
TRUTH: Biden and Obama are a step backward for newborn babies fighting for life after a failed abortion. But, I suppose Obama/Biden are not sexist because they will not protect either boy and girl babies fighting for life. They will support the infanticide of babies regardless of gender. Don't you think that undermines the Obama/Biden claim that they will stand up for the weak and powerless? (If you answered "no", you are brainwashed).

Comment by TW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
There is so much vitriol on this thread it's mind blowing! Saint Sara has clearly energized the Republican party but who she is and what she thinks (and what she knows) are still a complete mystery. Is filed dressing a moose REALLY are good criteria for a VP who may have to step in for a guy with a 1 in 6 chance of dying in office during his first term?

What are her thoughts on the economy? The debt? The weak dollar? Outsourcing jobs overseas? Failing infrastructure? US relations with friend and foe?

Does she support signing statements and the Unitary Executive?

For all you red blooded small government typres-Since she ran the state that receives the highest per capita subsidy from the lower 48, left her town of Wasilla $20 million in debt, and secured the highest per capita earmarks in the nation how effective will she be as an advocate for lower taxes, fiscal responsiblity, and accountable spending? She RASIED taxes in Wasilla- What will she support if in office?

Does she know and understand the US Constitution? Do any of you? Palin thinks the Plledge of Allegiance should remain "just as the founding fathers wrote it" Most of you probably do as well. Since it was written in the late 1800s and the words "Under God" added in the 1950s does that mean the founding fathers DIDN'T write it?

Since so many of you hate all things Liberal I assume that none of you take advantage of the Vote for Women, the Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, Social Security, Medicare, Minimum wage, Racially integrated military, the 40 hour work week, Child Labor Laws, or any of the other horrendous things Liberals have foisted on America.

In case no one was paying attention during the last eight years, The SIZE of the Federal Government has exploded, the Debt has doubled, the real wages of working people have gone down, the dollar is in the tank, oil (which is ppriced in dollars) has gone up more than threefold, the number of Americans in pooverty has gone up, and the number of uninsured has gone up. Foreclosures are at an all-time high and the financial markets are now of the Government Payroll. OUTSTANDING WORK for ONLY 8 YEARS OF REPUBLICAN CONTROL!!! BOO-YA! USA! USA! USA! Gotta go field dress a moose and get a 16 year old girl pregnant- It's my gift to GOD.

Comment by Truman Democrat — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
i can't wait to the day after the election.. all you repugs will be sitting around asking each other.. what happen what happen

Comment by elaine — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
They remember who wouldn't let them vote.

Democrats…look it up lady.

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
The Palin Fetish is a cunningly evil act of sorcery by the Republican power cabal to perpetuate their embezzlement and evisceration of America.

Comment by jonesgen57 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
By the way JS… if you're honestly going to say that John Kerry was the one mudslinging at George Bush in 2004 you need to get real. Imagine if liberals attacked John McCain's service record? John Kerry was an elitist because he windsurfed. George Bush was an everyman because he staged his photo-ops in front of ranches even though he was born into money, got every opportunity he received because of his rich daddy, didn't have to go to war because of his rich daddy, and then became president because of his rich daddy and then used his power to send poor kids in the military off to die so that his daddy's oil buddies could get richer. So when you vote based on who is like you or who you want to have a beer with, remember that people die based on these decisions.

Comment by Robert — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Joe is shooting from the hip again. I hope he keeps it up right through the election. He has no answer to Sarah Palin.

Comment by Champsummers — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
To the pin-headed thought that "Palin is much more similar to most women than Hillary."

As stated, this is a pin-headed thought. Here's why:

1, Hillary, like most women is pro-choice. Palin doesn't want to give women a choice about anything, even if rape or incest are involved. That concludes this debate.

2, Is this really about electing someone "similar to us" on personality and lifestyle??? If that's the case, I just ran into a woman at my neighborhood grocery store. Hardworking, straight-talking, smart. Let's elect her. …. better yet, let's turn the VP office, and even the POTUS, into a reality show. We'll have a weekly show and follow them around, voting off one a week until we have the one who eats the foods we eat, has trouble keeping their house clean like us, has no foreign policy experience like us, etc etc …. yeah, that's a great criteria for electing someone.

Come on!!!!!

Comment by WayneW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
It is truly a delight reading the rantings of the Libs. The Messiah's campaign is coming completely unhinged. They are on the defensive and all they have is whining and insults. I hope the continue to insult seniors by calling McCain senile, making fun be Gov. Palin's special needs baby by calling him a "sympathy baby," making light of family situations that many families face and calling her an unfit mother. Please, please keep this up. I do ask however, How is this working for you?

Comment by eagle35 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
We need American values, not Hollywood's.

Comment by Thom — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Hey #487, since Biden has admitted to being a liar and a thief (he plagiarized his college work), what's the difference?

Comment by Jennifer Wilson — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Um . . . "Sarah Palin�s nomination as the Republican vice presidential nominee is an historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling."

Wouldn't the highest glass ceiling be the presidency, not the vice-presidency?

Comment by trrenaud — September 9, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Is this a joke? It's pretty clear to me the guy is saying the her policies are a set back, not her.You Americans scare me. Some of this stuff you write is absolute nuts and you even take the time to make it rhyme! I hope McCain/Palin get elected. McCain will die and Palin will ensure that America and it's crushing debt will slither into obscurity just like the once all powerful British Empire where I reside.

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
The women that was so crazy about supporting Hilary, I THOUGHT they believed in her agenda and her beliefs and therefore would support Obama because their agenda and beliefs were basically the same. He never attacked Hilary from sexist standpoint. Now we find these women were just a bunch regular, same old racist type group of people, just the Republicans.

And yes, Palin is a token for the Republican Party, all you have to do is look at their history and really just spin the clock back to the primaries and listen to the Republican analysts and pundits.

WOMEN STOP BEING USED BY THE REPULICAN PARTY, YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THAT, I HOPE.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Joe Biden is correct. As a woman, I think Sarah Palin sets us further back then anyone in this race. She has the most archaic and dangerous policies regarding women, their rights and gay people and their rights. It's appalling that people think electing any woman sets them ahead. Alan Keyes can run for President and yes, set black people backwards. It's all in policies and ideas and Sarah Palin fails tremendously at bringing any progression for women to the table. I don't care if she shares the same chromosome as I, she's lest for women than either Joe or Barack.

Comment by LT — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
A woman president and even vice president is a huge step for women, but not when the woman is as ignorant and dishonest as Sarah Palin. Palin the Pitbull taking office would be an embarrassment for women not a step forward.

As for Joe, he's a real American, who doesn't use his personal tragedy for votes, like Palin does with her mentally handicapped child, which just goes to show what kind of person she is.

Comment by AR — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Please, please, please Joe, keep talking. The more you say, the more the country sees you for the arrogant ass that you are.

Comment by Steve — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Vote for My Mommy so i can be a national whore!

Comment by Bristol Palin — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
I love it! Everytime Joe Assclown opens his mouth the Dem ticket gets two miles further from the Whitehouse.The Democrats will actually boast about Bidens foriegn policy experience? This is a guy who thought that the fall of the Shah of Iran was a good thing. Nothing like a little bit of Islamic extremism to brighten your day, huh Joe?

Comment by Cf/Pitt — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
"The Palin Fetish is a cunningly evil act of sorcery by the Republican power cabal to perpetuate their embezzlement and evisceration of America."

Using a Thesaurus for rolling joints again I see.

Comment by John W. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Comments by Karen — yet another kool-aid drinking emotional ignorant voter. Sarah Palin is nothing. She had 5 kids so what! My mom had 8 and my father died at 41 leaving her with 8 children to raise by herself. Now that is something to be proud of. Sarah Palin aint sh#@! She is a liar period.

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
"A woman should have the choice… Don't you or any of your right to life freaks tell me what to do with my body. If I should ever have to make that decision, it would be my alone and not yours LADY!!"

This is the same things slave owners said. If you don't like slavery, don't own slaves. It's MY plantation, I'll do what I like on it.

Comment by TW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
HEY DID YOU GUYS REMEBER, THAT AFTER BUSH'S REELECTION IN 2004, A LONDON PAPER SAID HEADLINED, 49000000 "STUPID AMERICANS"! WELL I SEE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE HEADLINES IN THE MAKING, BUT THIS TIME IT WILL BE "? MILLION DUMBASS AMERICANS"!

Comment by CHARLIE — September 9, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Everyone, before posting and revealing how uninformed you are of the issues, please read the Newsweek article which runs down all the lies the internet bloggers have been spreading about Palin. You don't have to agree with her, just respect the facts.

As I am confused by Biden's lack of direction, I would like to ask him if electing Obama would be a step forward or backward for blacks?

Comment by Jennifer — September 9, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
You clowns don't really understand the english language do you? Obviously from the south, where education takes a back seat to, well almost everything. What Biden clearly said to anyone with at least a 40 IQ would understand is that, the beliefs of Palin, which are closely aligned to Bush take rights and power away from woman. The fact that her life would be better doesn't mean by any standards that the rights of ALL the other woman in this country would get better. Got it? Understand? Comprende? Morons

Comment by Karl_Roveness — September 9, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
I have two daughter's futures to worry about - and a vote for Palin would most certainly be a step backwards for them and for me. Thank you Joe! Tell it like it is!

Comment by FedUp — September 9, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
It is bad enough when you have a liberal woman speaking for women…now Biden thinks he knows the minds of women. I am happy now that we have a politician, like Palin, that I can actually look up to!

Comment by Kerry — September 9, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Let us see how often she EXPLOITS her baby. Afterall, your un-wed pregnant daughter is fair game so what the hey. What a woman!!!

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
Biden= Loser and poor sport= Republicans Victory!!!!!!!
Palin=VPILF= lots of horny guys out there

Comment by marcus — September 9, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
SPAR WARS….if you want to talk who didn't let who vote, check this out, black women along with black men only got the right to vote 45 years ago.

By the way YOU check out history, the Republican party agenda is no where it was decades ago. Lincoln was a Republican and you can't even compare any Republican President in this era to him.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Sarah Palin is so old testament.

Comment by riveted — September 9, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Kerry - your a fool!!!

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
Gia,
"The woman is a revert back to BEFORE women had rights. Otherwise, the Republican party NEVER would have chosen her."

I hope you have now looked at what you've commented, only to realize that you have ABOSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE COMMENTING ABOUT!

You'll be one of those crying sore losers on November 5th…tool.

Comment by paxnhymn — September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Joe Biden is right…

Sarah Palin has voted against equal pay for women, she cut funds for disabled in Alaska, I haven't heard her say one thing about child care, or healthcare, or equal pay, or the right to choose, retirement, social security. The only thing she has ever said about advancing the cause of women was that she was going to shatter the glass ceiling that Hillary has so graciously put 18 million chips in…
And for those of you who say that Joe Biden is a step back for women, do some research. He is a big advocate for women's rights and domestic violence.

Comment by JLove — September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
It is amazing how divisive the radical right is! All they do is smear Obama, spreading untruths and repeating them ad nauseum, and then whine when anyone responds to their immoral and destructive leaders who are undermining everything that made America the greatest country on earth! Amazing! They should be ashamed of themselves!

Comment by E. L. � September 9, 2008 @ 4:01 pm

And then the facts come out on Factchecker and you say what?

I will now lower myself to your level…bite me!

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Viola — you go girl! Look at this party — all white people with a spec of color here and there. And we are suppose to pretend this party deserves another crack at it. Remember KATRINA????

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
I remain puzzled by what Obama hoped to gain by selecting Biden. Notice also that whenever he "revises" or "refines" his position (he never changes his mind), Obama always gets closer to John McCain's positions.

If this campaign is about "judgment"…

Comment by Ben — September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Vote for My Mommy so i can be a national whore!

Comment by Bristol Palin

posted by the party of compassion.

I guess Bristol wouldn't be a whore if she had an abortion and nobody knew….

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
go joe, go. women have come a long way in being able to determine their own lives. now palin will try to forcee her church's (which one?) beliefs on the country, helping appoint yet more judges that will be ideologically skewed, or maybe skewered if they don't kow tow like the polar bears. it would not be one step backward, it would take us into the dark ages, in terms of women and hokus pokus politics of appointing unprepared officials who merely have the right ideological and kow towing credentials.

Comment by patrick — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
GET 'EM JOE!!!! the repukes picked someone that wasn't, isn't and never will be ready to lead. KEEP AT EM!!!!!

Comment by K — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
George Bush sailed into office in 2004 with a 'mandate' as he called it; and he 'planned to use it'. How is that going for you?

McCain/Palin is more bad news.
10% change, 90% Bush.

The newspapers overseas asked "How can 59+ million people be so dumb?" in 2004. It looks like a good number of those have written comments today.

Laugh, ridicule, and bury your heads in the new culture war, while Rome is burning. Asshats.

Comment by SADforUS — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
And another idiot that can't check facts:

Sarah Palin has voted against equal pay for women, she cut funds for disabled in Alaska, I haven't heard her say one thing about child care, or healthcare, or equal pay, or the right to choose, retirement, social security. The only thing she has ever said about advancing the cause of women was that she was going to shatter the glass ceiling that Hillary has so graciously put 18 million chips in�
And for those of you who say that Joe Biden is a step back for women, do some research. He is a big advocate for women's rights and domestic violence.

Comment by JLove � September 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
"Obviously from the south, where education takes a back seat to, well almost everything. What Biden clearly said to anyone with at least a 40 IQ would understand is that, the beliefs of Palin, which are closely aligned to Bush take rights and power away from woman."

I'm from the South, and have a 156 IQ. And you're a typical condescending liberal jackass who believes in conspiracy theories far more than the facts that are before his/her very nose.

Comment by John W. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
"Since so many of you hate all things Liberal I assume that none of you take advantage of the Vote for Women, the Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, Social Security, Medicare, Minimum wage, Racially integrated military, the 40 hour work week, Child Labor Laws, or any of the other horrendous things Liberals have foisted on America"

Civil rights were oppesed by the left (including ALGores daddie), Social Security is an upside down broken system destined by the population to self-destruct, Minimum Wage COST jobs for more than it helps. Why not make it $10 an hour…415 an hour…$30 an hour? <- you see the point? it is a failed theory to prop-up the next politition's couse, Medicare was one of George Bush's biggest mistakes it is another program (like social security) that cannot sustain itself the coming ageing population, The 40 hour work week? wouldn't a 30 hour work week be even better (like in France) maybe a 20 hour work week?
Government should get OUT OF OUR WAY, not wipe our collective Arses!

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Biden wouldn't have to ASSUME anything if Palin would step out from behind the podium and from behind the McCain Campaign script.

The truth is that Palin isn't just bad for women, she is bad for all of us.

We are on the verge of confronting and taking serious steps toward solving serious environmental issues that Palin doesn't even think exists.

Instead her and McCain want to DRILL, DRILL, DRILL. It would be as if in the 90's, on the verge of the internet and computer revolution they were standing there saying: TYPEWRITERS, TYPEWRITERS, TYPEWRITERS.

Comment by John — September 9, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
I am the gay lover of Ken Taylor and I was wondering if anyone has seen him on this message board? Sweetie, you left your gimp suit and butt-plug at my house last night, silly!

You know that no one can ever find out about us because they will take away your gun rack, confederate flag, and kick you out of the Baptist Church, honey pie!

I hope to see you tonight Ken Taylor, because I know how much you like weiners in your mouth!!!!

Comment by WhiteTrashLosersMakeMeLaugh � September 9, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
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Boy, you do your democratic party proud!!!
Enough said!

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Hey moron #573, and you are a moron, did that woman in the grocery store improve a state with a 10 billion dollar budget? You should have asked her while you were stocking shelves! By the way dipstick, MOST women don't want to murder their babies, just the liberal ones. I guess the 143 days that Obama bin Laden played in the Senate before he started running for president makes him qualified?

Comment by Jennifer Wilson — September 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
All of you so hung on Sarah Palin as a woman and not as a candidate, you are very SHALLOW.

When Jaime lynn Spears got pregnant, OUT OF WEDLOCK, O'Reily and other "moral" republicans was tearing her apart and saying the mother is the ultimate one that is responsible for her daughter getting pregnant and this was not too long ago and NOW O'Reily and the Republican hypocrits are saying Palin IS A very good mother because she supports her daughter and stand by her, SO DID JAIME LYNN SPEARS MOTHER AND SO DID BRITIANY.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
What a bunch of hypocrites you conservatives are! Joe Biden is right! Sarah Palin is out of step with most women in the USA on most issues. But what would you know of the issues since you put that dumbass Bush in there for 8 years. Palin is a hypocrite (bridge to nowhere, earmarks, troopergate, attempts to squash investigation, kissing the right's ass to get elected). Under Republican rule, the USA is fading fast in the world. And don't give me that shit about how the congress has been under Democrat control since, what 2006? You know (or should know) that they have not had a veto proof majority and Bush has vetoed most of the legislation out of congress to try and change the direction of the country.

Comment by Mike — September 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
"The Messiah's campaign is coming completely unhinged. They are on the defensive and all they have is whining and insults. I hope the continue to insult seniors by calling McCain senile, making fun be Gov. Palin's special needs baby by calling him a "sympathy baby," making light of family situations that many families face and calling her an unfit mother."

You people are a shot of pure comedy into the jugular. The Little Limbaugh impressions that pass for analysis around here are certainly entertainment. Keep it up with the manufactured outrage, the reaction to every word spoken by a Democrat as "appalling," keep violating every social norm you can think of in your mad rush to keep hold of power. Here's a news flash. When Obama's in office and Biden's his deputy, they're going after the cabal and sending them to prison. So suck on that for a while, dumbasses.

Comment by Mr Blifil — September 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
This is fun: more from the soft, touchy, feelie left wing kookaid drinkers:

Vote for My Mommy so i can be a national whore!

Comment by Bristol Palin

posted by the party of compassion.

I guess Bristol wouldn't be a whore if she had an abortion and nobody knew�.

Comment by tongaloid � September 9, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

Comment by Spar Wars — September 9, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
Lord, please take us away from this world. These liberal idiots are just plain stupid, especially Obama & Biden.

Comment by Ken H. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Source http://www.factcheck.org
(but don't let the facts get in your way)

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn�t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She�s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

FOCUS Obamatrons!

Comment by GW — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
"Viola � you go girl! Look at this party � all white people with a spec of color here and there. And we are suppose to pretend this party deserves another crack at it. Remember KATRINA????"

Typical racist Obama supporting crack whore.

Comment by Joe E. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
PLEASE WOMEN - STOP BEING SO STUPID!! If you EVER believed in ANYTHING Hillary Clinton stood for, you would see that what Joe Biden said was true. It's not JUST BECAUSE she's a woman - It's because SHE HAS THE WRONG WOMEN'S VALUES. Of COURSE she would be a step back. Dammit - I want EQUAL PAY for EQUAL WORK! I don't want to be called a CRIMINAL when I choose NOT TO CARRY the child impregnated into me FROM A GANG RAPE!!! Do you even realize she vetoed legislation that in turn makes RAPE VICTIMS PAY for their own HOSPITAL RAPE KITS and police investigation!?!?! DO YOU REALIZE THAT!

OF COURSE THIS WOMAN WOULD BE A STEP - A GIANT STEP - BACKWARD!!! GET A FREAKING BRAIN!!! STOP BEING THE GRAND OIL PARTY'S PUPPETS!!! FOR GOD'S SAKE EDUCATE YOURSELVES!!!!

Comment by Stella — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Viola…can you say "Reagan"?

Comment by paxnhymn — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Robert,

You missed my point. The anti-bush platform (re-incarnated this time by linking mccain to bush) didn't work in 2004 and won't work now, I didn't say anything about mud-slinging. I don't agree with anything that was said about Kerry in the 2004 election, that was not right. My comments about pro-choice… I am a libetarian and I am for all choices, and my observation about Democrats is are that they suppress differing opinions as well as or better than Republicans.

Comment by js — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
If the people of the United States of America lose the ability to think rationally and logically as a society then they will be forced to throw away all of their geography books because the world will become flat.

"Deprogramming the masses since 1547″

Comment by RationalThinker — September 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Joe hit the nail on the head. As a Christian woman who is also an executive who has worked my way up over the boys for 20+ years, electing Sarah Palin would be a backwards step. He got his facts right, she's George Bush in a woman's suit. Who cares about a glass ceiling if the whole house falls down? I can wait for a woman to make office, I would rather die without seeing it than see Sarah Palin get that distinction.

Comment by christianlib — September 9, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
Thanks Joey! Everything you've decided is wrong –Shaw of Iran, Bombing Serbs, Iraq Troop Withdraws, and etc.; EVERYTHING! Keep up your astounding record, and maybe one day soon we'll vote you out!

Comment by Russ — September 9, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
Biden was referring to the collective social policy positions of McCain-Palin which if implemented would send women's rights back decades. As a Senator he has consistently defended a woman's right to choose even though it goes against his personal religious beliefs (he understands what separation of church and state means) and sponsored the Violence Against Women Act.

Comment by Lisa — September 9, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
GW — they have nothing to offer but the same mentality McStupid and Moose Killer offer. They want to divide this country.

I am ashamed of McStupid. He learned NOTHING from his days as a POW. What a poor excuse for an American. And Moose Killer — nothing needs to be said. She reminds me of the chick you could not wait to kick her ass because she thought she was the badest thing around.

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
sparwars - i'm a leftie??? i thought i took a jab at the leftists with that last post…

sigh

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
I remember Katrina. When the democrat mayor and governor told the people of New Orleans to evacuate and they didn't follow directions (many of them hoping to stay behind and use the natural disaster to rob and loot). Watching what happened in Katrina is exactly what made me leave the Democratic party for good. Ridiculous, intellectually dishonest people.

Comment by RKR — September 9, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
FACTS… Something you Liberals hate to deal with! Instead of just listening to the media, why not try to get some true facts about Palin? Certainly, Alaska does not have the population of Chicago. However, Obama was not the mayor of Chicago.. he was simply a "Community Planner". Palin has more executive experience than both Obama and Biden combined. She took the money that was designated for a Bridge to nowwhere, and used it for more appropriate projects for the betterment of Alaska and its residents. Too many politicians take grant money for useless projects, simply to get publicity.

I guess someone with an approval rating above 80% is a threat to congressional politicians with a 9% rating. She must be doing something right, as the Obama campaign has sent more than 30 lawyers to Alaska to dig up dirt inan effort to destroy her credibility. My bet is they will find someone from that 20% that will speak out against her. It is also my bet that they will not use any comments (unless they can distort a few) from the 80% that approve.

Let's see if we even question Obama we are racists. However, if Liberals dig up dirt (true or false) on a Republican then its factual news that the media and Liberals can have a field day with. NOTHING SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED… AND YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT!

Mark me another gun totin, bible thumpin, non-elitist that will be a votin for McCain/Palin!

Comment by Rank — September 9, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Sarah Palin believes a woman who is raped MUST bear the child of her rapist. Palin believes a girl who is molested MUST have the child of her abuser.

Palin cut funding to help pregnant teenagers - these are young girls in Alaska who are in trouble, need help and have no where to turn.

Those are cold hearted, full on right wing fundamentalist positions that Sarah Palin has. One can easily conclude - she is NOT GOOD for WOMEN.

Joe Biden supports a woman's right to choose - even though he believes life begins at conception, he knows he has NO RIGHT to tell women how to think. He's more respectful towards women than Palin could ever be.

Palin wants to repeal Roe V. Wade and with the help of her Joel's Army of radical religious nuts, she will do just that.

Comment by Raging Gurrl — September 9, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Sarah Palin wins for belittling sarcasm. I will give her that. There would be nothing for her to say except her little fibs without the sarcasm. Why does the republican base, apparently the evangelicals especially, like sarcasm so much? Is that something you learn in church?

Comment by riveted — September 9, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Please keep calling Gov. Palin a whore. This is great! The more you wing nuts talk the higher McCain/Palin go in the polls. Please do not stop.

Comment by eagle35 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
Joe who???? Oh Biden, that blow-hard from Delaware? Does anyone really think this guy is actually going to be the next VP?

Comment by Bill — September 9, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Okay who said that first, Biden? He is a giant step backward for Democrats. Obama could have wiped the floor with McCain if he would have picked Hillary for VP. Just one of Obama's many flubs.

Comment by Tommy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
i don't understand why his statement is so preposterous to some people. palin wants to overturn roe vs. wade, promote the religious right, AND continue with the bush administration's policy. considering all that, his statement made sense to me.

Comment by blah — September 9, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Thanks for speaking up, Joe! It's only a matter of time before all voters — and women in general — learn the full details of this right-wing extremist Palin. Her views are so out of the mainstream that it is going to take a few weeks before people fully understand just how scary and extremist her views are. Palin is going to end up being a big drag on the Republican ticket, despite the fact everything looks rosy for her now. Once you delve into her real record — thin as it may be — it's easy to discover that her views are not even close to the views of most Americans, especially most women.

Comment by J.T. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Joe who???? Oh Biden, that blow-hard from Delaware? Does anyone really think this guy is actually going to be the next VP?

Comment by Bill � September 9, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

I sure do. And so do you!

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
She joins a ticket with a guy who doesnt even believes she should be paid the same amount of money equally as he is paid. And if he would have voted for the sex ed for kids maybe her daughter would have got the guidance she needed since her ambitious mom didnt have time to teach her.

Obama 08

Comment by Mike — September 9, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Well, aren't we just a wonderful country. Look how civil our discussions are. Look how we respect one another even though we have our disagreements. Look how mature and thoughtful we are.

If you have kids, I hope they're not reading this blog.

Comment by La Plante — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Sen. Biden is standing up for women. We have a large voice (18,000 strong) who will look at the views of this woman and see how backward she wants to take us. For our daughters and granddaughters sake, we must listen to Senator Obama and Senator Biden and vote for them on the issues that are in front of us. Thank you, Senator Biden.

Comment by ps — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Biden is a moron Washington insider hackjob. Political correctness at its worse

Comment by Dave — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
and they say Obama supporters drank the Kool-Aide, well … you Palin supporters have ODed on Moose Juice!!!

Comment by brooklynpat — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
GW � they have nothing to offer but the same mentality McStupid and Moose Killer offer. They want to divide this country.

I am ashamed of McStupid. He learned NOTHING from his days as a POW. What a poor excuse for an American. And Moose Killer � nothing needs to be said. She reminds me of the chick you could not wait to kick her ass because she thought she was the badest thing around.

Comment by Shianne

the right wants to divide the country?

let me see, the mccain tax cuts are for all wage earners and the BHO tax cuts are for all wage earners EXCEPT the top wage earners….

that's inclusive?

i'll get back with you if i find anything different

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Please keep calling Gov. Palin a whore. This is great! The more you wing nuts talk the higher McCain/Palin go in the polls. Please do not stop.

Comment by eagle35 � September 9, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

Oh yeah, this blog is going to put McStupid/Moose Killer of the top. Another right wing un-American nut!

Comment by Shianne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
"When Obama's in office and Biden's his deputy, they're going after the cabal and sending them to prison. So suck on that for a while, dumbasses"

At least some one is honest that Obama and his supporters hate Americans who have a different point of view. There is so much hate from this man. And, I am sure you are absolutely correct — when he gets in office he will attack his enemies the way Hitler did.

Comment by yarkum — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Once again liberal women are misguided. The Gloria Steinem's of the world are angry, insecure women who blame men for their personal and professional failures.
These so-called educated angry Steinem women have from the beginning looked down upon the Sarah Palin's of the world as brow beaten barefoot and pregnant housewives as under achieving females that should be pitied instead of admired.
What makes the Steinem feminists even angrier is that fact the Sarah is a happy, fulfilled, and successful woman that isn't full of the anger and hatred toward the male species.
The Sarah Palin's of the United States go completely against what the feminists have been preaching since the sixties and they don't like it one little bit.
This is why some of the posters above are noting that Sarah Palin is nothing more than an illerate Alaskan savage that belongs in the igloo instead of the Vice Presidency.
A sixities femnist well never admit that all these years they were wrong.

Comment by Melvin — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
to christianlib:

Being a Christian you should not harber hate for your fellow man or woman, Stating that you would rather die before seeing Ms. Palin voted in as VP is to me hate or at the very least a big harsh dislike.

I believe I sence a large amount of missing Hillary!!

Comment by Richard of JAX — September 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Republican men like Palin because she, lets face it, is the equivalent of an 1800's saloon whore.

At your service sir!

Comment by Abigail — September 9, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Sadly, Joe is 100% right. Palin is Dick Cheney in drag. She lies like him too.

Comment by Lori — September 9, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
He is not arrogant. If people would look at the POLITICS and not the person, you would understand where he is coming from!

Comment by Chrissy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Liberals are patriots and Islam is a religion of Peace. …and palin is a hack, come on people, wake up. Obama is the ONLY way we can move forward. I personally want to rest of the world to like us, not sure about you, but the opinions of those in Spain for instance matter to me. And they ALL WANT OBAMA!

Comment by jon — September 9, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
It also seems to me that McCain continues to "fax copy" most of the things Obama does in his campaign. McCain literally started using Obama's change message months ago. Now he wants to call himself the REFORMER.. what is he going to do fire all the Republicans in the house and senate if he becomes President, Well unfortunately, that is about as likely as me becoming the President in November, I am a black female, 58 years and only some college, so what do think can I win the Presidency.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
Well, aren't we just a wonderful country. Look how civil our discussions are. Look how we respect one another even though we have our disagreements. Look how mature and thoughtful we are.

If you have kids, I hope they're not reading this blog.

Comment by La Plante

only half of us in here have kids, the others were a choice……

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
One thing I find amusing is that while Democrats are actually out working all day, Republicans sit at home looking for internet blogs in which to post vile and offensive rants.

Comment by Diane — September 9, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Even back in 1908 there were Women who actually FOUGHT against other women,trying to KEEP women from having the RIGHT to Vote…these women were satisfied with MEN telling them how to live thier lives,they LIKED being Subserviant..and fought Tooth and Nail "with Clergy" to Derail women the RIGHT to Vote….Is this what you want Fellow women? Do you REALLY want your/OUR RIGHTS/women's Rights to slide backwards via RIGHT wing Supreme crt Justices? Is this what your dream of American freedom and Equality have Evolved into? Our Fore-Mothers/The Suffragats ROLL over in thier graves!

Comment by Catherine C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
I LOVE Biden. Every time he opens his mouth it is like he is campaigning for the GOP.

Comment by Lori — September 9, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
It is a sad commentary on America. A man that has a lot of foreign experience, that even his most ardent critic will confess and identify him as an expert, at a time we are at war….is considered a "big mouth bafoon." Yet, a Vice President pick from out of nowhere that can dress a moose is qualified and considered a serious choice to run second in command?

We are a superficial, racially divided country that is stuck on stupid to our own detriment Many are not voting for Obama/Biden because of the color of Obama skin. Lets talk about "the big elephant" in the room. We pretend it has nothing to do with race but easily accept the premise of sexism and use that card whenever another side seek to resist scrutiny and it is perfectly acceptable. On the oher hand, if Obama ever use the race card..there will be an outcry of abuse of a "non-issue" for America hates to admit how much she has not grown. WE have two very brilliant candidates that is talking about the real issues that concerns this country that is in a lot of trouble thanks to the current administration. We have sat under a president that used a lot of "hollywood or cowboy-like) style that got him in the White House…he waved his flag pin and then Americans…stuck on stupid and oblivious to facts or issues decided to vote him in to office and we have been manipulated, lied to and sent to an unjust war that people keep trying to pretend is noble and just. You can not initiate an unjust war that was not warranted..and then try to spin it into a noble project. God frowns on that kind of mentality and all one would have to do is look at Viet Nam to understand that wrong don't make right … only right can conquer a wrong.

And here we go again. Another election. And people are looking at Sarah Palin like she is a hollywood figure. Don't even know her thought process. Don't know anything at all about her that is relevant to how she would run a country..we know that the very camp that selected her …refuse to let her do interviews. Too bad, the other men in the election were not given that luxury of not being scutinized. They have taken this election and turned it into a mockery. The same party that made havoc out of the popularity of Obama…now worshiping their "own Obama" style candidate. Just the style though…for no body knows Governor Palin to state her policies. We do know that the little information on her has been grossly exaggerated..but that will not persuade the "non-thinking" masses who are drunk on sensationalism (if it is of their own brand that is) and they do not care about the division and undermining of the Republican party because they are clueless to the reality that a "country divided into liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans and the "thems" and the "thoses" will easily tumble for it can not stand. But they want to cling to their superficial surface issues that is void of depth to continue this destructive road to self -implode our country from within. WE need a cure for the "stuck on stupid" that is killing and destroying all that is the idea of America.

Comment by SRD — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Biden is right! If McCain/Palin are elected then women wouldnt make any steps forward thats for sure. Palin agrees with GWB more than McCain even does! Abortion should be left up to a woman, no one else should be able to decide for her. She is a terrible role model for all women. Shes a liar, a cheat, she has put her little town of 9000 in debt over 20 million dollars. Not even her 4 best (women)friends are sure they will vote for her!!! She has done nothing good for her town, state, and she will do nothing good as the Vice president. Oh not to mention that McCain thinks it's ok that women make less money than men working in the same field…. It would be a tragedy if these 2 were elected.
Obama/Biden!

Comment by Brian — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Hey JT you and all your ilk are so full of it it makes me sick. "When people really find out about . . . just wait" you say. Well, what about when people finally find out about Obama? His Mother was a socialist nut job, his father a marxist, his best friends all his life have been socialists, he changes his political position based on polls, he says one thing to one audience and contradicts it to the next. Palin has proved once and for all that the would be emperor Obama has no clothes.

Comment by Dave — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Keep up the insults Libs. I really like the whore insults.. You are doing great. Please, Please do not stop!!!!

Comment by eagle35 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
I cannot believe that the American people are so hellbent to follow a man who has switched his campaign from experience to change. It is as if he thinks he can beat Democrats at their own game. Sarah may have more experience than Obama….which I find debatable but I will take the bait, but she shows horrible personal judgment. I just want everyone to envision Sarah discussing foreign policy with foreign leaders. That sarcasm is not going to be a breath of fresh air to the Middle East. Or how about her speaking to Israel and dropping the bomb that we are just carrying out God's will? It seems clear to me that part of her job description in Alaska fell under the heading of…"do something I don't approve of" and you are out. I'm not even going to address the fact that she made a point of hiring good friends into office because she just as quickly fired them if they did not follow her orders. We have one candidate who wants to talk to foreign leaders and read rights to those who may be found guilty and another who only knows how to fight wars and bring vindication for past wrongs. We need to change…not just in rhetoric but in our stance on human rights and human wrongs. A very telling interview happened this morning on ABC when the Elite 6″…Sarah's best friends would not come out on camera and endorse her. Don't let a fresh face and a promise of getting rid of the Good Ol' Boys snow you from Alaska. Pro life has as much to do with humans as animals and yet she has conveniently decided that four legs might as well receive a bullet and turn into a couple of freezer patties. Any woman who would decide she had to speak at an oil convention when she was experiencing initial labor signs is someone who makes poor maverick choices. If she had to drag the afterbirth behind her she probably would for oil and NRA.

Comment by Ann Boreson — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
It's the POLICIES Palin advocates not HER.

She is pro-life. That's a huge limitation of women's rights because it dictates how women spend their lives. For the party that claims to want small government and to nurture individualism it is hypocritical to take that decision away from women and put it in the hands of government.

Sarah Palin and all those sharing the pro-life agenda should get out of the bedrooms of America and get back to the education, science and community service that moves us forward. Keep their pro-life opinions to themselves. We women are adult enough to handle that responsibility!

Comment by gymrat — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
It happens all the time when the left is threatened-they go Wacko. You go Wacko because Palin is not a militant feminist. She is first and foremost a leader and a governor with no other agenda than to do what is right for America. She is a leader not a follower, looking out for the best interest of her state and her country. She is not self serving.

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
You didnt shoot yourself in the foot, Joe. You shoot your running mate in the foot! Thanks, Biden, you 'da man!

Comment by charlie — September 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
If Biden makes a statement we know the opposite of what he says to be true. Biden is a waste of skin, a nobody and a HORRIBLE pick for The Messiah. It's funny watching the libs scramble and will be even more hysterical should McCain/Palin win this thing. Dimocrats thought they had this election sewed up and now this. Biden is a zero. He has no substance or influence.

Comment by Ping2007 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
It amazes me that people will use Ad Hominen attacks against posters and claim that the "other people" have no facts when the attackers themselves are posting nonfactual information that is easily found on many news websites at a click of the mouse.

Comment by RationalThinker — September 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
I agree with Biden. It would be a step backward for women to have a VP with Palin's views. As a women I don't know many of us who agree with her archaic views.

Comment by Deb — September 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
The men defending Gov. Palin on this blog are of course hypocrites. How they must wish they could be defending an old white guy moose hunter instead of a young white woman moose hunter. I'm sure these guys have spent alot of time thinking about women's issues for years before Palin was sprung on them by their maverick candidate. Right. Listen to yourselves and have a good laugh at yourselves.

Comment by jonesgen57 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Stop the lies on Palin, she did not cut funds to special ed or any of the other lies the Obats spread. Check the facts at the left wing Newsweek fact check_http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986/page/1.

McCain Palin 95% Change 5% old politics

Obama / Biden 100% talk 100% fluff 100% old school Chicago / Daley politics and Washington Beltway boys. 0% change.

In his career as a junion senator name one thing the freshman senator has changed.

Comment by HRC_2012 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Seems to me like a fair assessment from Biden - especially since it's coming from the senator who wrote the important "Violence against Women" act which gave them so much protection under the law against violence perpetrated on them. If you seriously believe that a man who could do the heavy lifting on that act would stand for women going backward, you're really drinking some serious Kool-Aid

Comment by patwal — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
McCain is so desperate. All you NeoCons are still sweating and you know it. She hasn't even opened her mouth for an interview and won't do one… least Biden has something other than a old Red playbook to speak from oh. right and experience in all matters he's talking about. Dems in the White House and a Dem Senate/Congress. Scared GOP? Don't answer… we know.

Comment by Sean — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
The waitress that had been talking to some of the investigators on Palin's case, and worked at a restaurant where Palin patronized said that when Obama beat Hilary, Palin's comment was "SO SAMBO BEAT THE BITCH" and her and her entourage let out big howling laughs….the waitress wanted to remain anonymous for obvious reason (probably get fired) and said that's the way people talk here.

Well I guess so, blacks do not live in Palin's town, well maybe one or two.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
What it TELL you fellow women –DICK CHENEY LOVES SARAH PALIN? Aaargh - If Dick Cheney likes & Endorces her thats's ALL the reason NOT to like her.

Comment by Catherine C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
All Joe said was she is just like Bush/McCain and being just like them equals a step backwards for women.

Bush and McCain policies ARE a step backwards for women.

Palin, as far as we know, believes faithfully in the same Bush and McCain policies, therefore her policies equal a step backwards for women. That's not sexist, demeaning or anything else except real true politics.

Palin is a politician. Palin is a diversion. Palin can't stand the heat.

Obama/Biden 08

Comment by kady12 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
One thing I find amusing is that while Democrats are actually out working all day, Republicans sit at home looking for internet blogs in which to post vile and offensive rants.

Comment by Diane

I happen to be at work and I have time to do this because I own my own company and have democrats working for me….

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Post #663. Nice comments gymrat! Straight and to the point.

Comment by RationalThinker — September 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
I agree with Biden, just because it seems like a sensitive issue it needs to be said. Let's not forget that just this year Palin was criticizing Hillary whenever the gender card would be brought up as were several of McCain's top advisers. The best thing for them to do though is to keep attacking their ideas and what they believe would "fix" America.

Comment by kcfire08 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
PALIN IS A STEP BACK FOR WOMEN! I'm a woman. I have friend who are as energetic and intelligent as Palin. (and who are hunters!). But McCain voted AGAINST EQUAL PAY; he voted AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL; he has said he will overturn Roe vs. Wade - do we want our young women in back alleys with clothes hangers again? Palin is a step back, because aside from the historic nature of the position, her policies and beliefs could reverse the gains made by women for women.

Comment by Beap — September 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
GAFFETIME — ANOTHER SLAM TOWARDS WOMEN & SARAH
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Biden and Developmental Disabilities [Yuval Levin]

Joe Biden�s comment today, suggesting some contradiction between support for those born with developmental disabilities and opposition to embryo-destructive research is among his more appalling and insulting gaffes to date. As CBS reports it, Biden said:

I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there's joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?

When asked whether this was an implicit reference to Sarah Palin�s son with Down syndrome, Biden�s press secretary put out this statement:

This is a clash of policies not a clash of personalities. We've heard not a dime's worth of difference between the McCain-Palin ticket and the Bush Administration on medical breakthroughs that millions of parents and doctors believe could save lives and transform the quality of life for countless Americans.

Where to begin? First of all, the example Palin sets in how she and her family have welcomed her Down syndrome child points in precisely the opposite direction from Biden�s call for the destruction of human embryos for research: it points toward a society that treats every human life as deserving of protection and regard. It is the very reason to oppose embryo-destructive research.

Second, while stem cell work, including embryonic stem cell research, can help in the study of human development in general, as a matter of basic science, the notion that it offers a path to the treatment of Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities is just not sound. The basic science (which at its edges could have some impact on the study of developmental disabilities) can be and has been pursued under the Bush administration�s stem cell policy, and even the most adamant advocates of the policies Biden has supported have not listed a cure for Down syndrome among the miracles they promise. Biden�s remark is indicative of the lack of seriousness with which some Democratic politicians treat the relevant science here: they don�t themselves think this is one avenue of cell biology that could offer important help in one range of potential biomedical advances but rather they see it as a kind of magic bullet and universal cure-all that allows them to be for curing all that ails the human race and accusing their opponents of being against it all, meanwhile paying no heed to ethical concerns.

Third, to the statement from Biden�s press secretary. I certainly think it would be nice if there were no daylight between McCain and Bush on stem cells, but in fact John McCain voted to overturn the president�s stem cell policy, just like Joe Biden did. Unlike Biden or Obama, though, he has been very eager to encourage new advances in cell biology that could well make the entire debate moot, by making available the benefits derived from embryonic stem cells but without the need for embryos, and so with no ethical concerns. McCain is well informed about these advances, and has suggested they could change the balance of moral goods involved in the stem cell debate. He wants a solution that could advance medical research without undermining our society�s commitment to human equality or dignity. Joe Biden seems just to want a political weapon, and seems not to know much about the subject.

The Obama campaign is now backing away from Biden�s insulting remark, and especially arguing that it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin (despite the obvious contextual evidence to the contrary). The Democrats have been hoping for a gaffe from a VP candidate, but this isn�t the gaffe, or the candidate, they had in mind.

09/09 03:16 PM

Comment by LE — September 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Speaking of assumption.So BHO dumps Joe for some "medical" reason and automatically Hillary will step in. Not unless Hillary has zero pride. Then again……………

Comment by SilentJ — September 9, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Yes, after all the criticism, I agree with Biden. One women getting someplace maybe everything to some women, it's just quantity, not quality. She is a disgrace to her gender.
I am a Christian, Catholic, and a few other things. Palin is a fake and a fraud.

Comment by Donna L. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Hey "Deb"…Row vs Wade was NOT legislation. Nobody voted for it, not the people or their representatives in congress. This was NOT the will of the people. It was purely a judicial decision championed by a seriously patrisan left wing activist judge (Blackmun)who saw "penumbras and eminations" coming from the Constitution. If the people could vote on R vs W it would crash and burn, and liberals know it.

Comment by dlaws99 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Hey Joe,

So, if Gov. Palin's election would set back women, would Sen. Obama's election also set back African-Americans?

Comment by Mark — September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
I'm recovering from surgery so I have an excuse to be blogging- whoever used the term Messiah a few posts back is seriously confused between their church and their state! Some call that brainwashing!

Comment by gymrat — September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
The reporter took a cheapshot.. and Joe gave a full answer.. TOO BAD, the bi-line is a LIE. DRUDGE is lying.. and only putting up the words of the conversation he wants to spread. I see you now DRUGE! Your motives are CLEARER everyday….

Please focus on the ISSUES people.. we can screw it up this time.. George is put us in too deep of a mess..

Comment by Anna — September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
She has 3 more children than prescribed, should have exercised her rights and had them aborted.

She also has a husband that hasn't repeatedly cheated on her, he should so she can show her strength and stand by him.

She like to hunt and fish, isn't afraid to get her hands dirty and fights for what she believes in. She should quit doing all this and play the victim as all progressive women should.

She also wears women's clothes so the whole world can see she is a women. She should start wearing pantsuits so she resembles what a strong female should look like, not a women, just not male.

Maybe if she does some of these things she will be able to please some of her forward thinking critics.

Comment by Matt Welch — September 9, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Obama believes Sucking the Brain from a baby is fine.

Comment by shea — September 9, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Joe Biden is the author of the Violence Against Women Act. He supports equal pay for women. He is pro-choice, which most women are in this country, though he does not support federal funding gor abortion. There has been no bigger supporter of struggling women in this country than Joe Biden.

Palin believes in outlawing abortion for rape and incest victims, which most women in this country do not agree with. She does not support equal pay for equal work.

So, Joe Biden is speaking the truth. The headline took his comment out of context to suggest something it didn't. Maybe if you thick-skulled republicans began looking at substance, you would learn not to vote for the people responsible for the mess we're in.Have you had enough yet?

Comment by bidenite — September 9, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Of course it is a backward step for women. She was chosen only for gender not for her competence. It was a beauty pageant pick. All women should be offended by this pick. She does not represent women of America.

Comment by AG — September 9, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
The only thing Biden is guilty of here is understatement. Palin in the White House would be a retrograde step not just foe women but humanity as a whole. Newsflash to all the Palinite trolls, book burning went out of fashion in the 1930's, the earth isn't flat and it moves around the sun. If you want to join Ms Palin in her 16th century outlook on life why not move to Alaska? She's going to be Gov. there for a few years yet.

Comment by gerrydoyle — September 9, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Liberals are running scared with pee running all down their legs..he he he..
Palin is the best thing since Ronald Reagan!!
THANK YOU JOHN MCCAIN for giving us Sarah Palin!!

Comment by statefarmqueen — September 9, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Oooh, what an insult to "women" Gimme a break with the phony Repuglican outrage and chivalry. If Palin/MCain get in the White House, it's a setback for the whole country, women included.

Comment by Nordstrom — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Sorry SRD… you are the one who is stupid. This woman is better than O.John and Joe. Pull your head out of your left winged A$$!

Comment by BHSOB — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Looks like the Evangelicals are out in full force posting here under a dozen different names.

Hey religious freaks, if we wanted to be dragged back to the 7th century, we'd live in Iran and wear burkas and that's no better then your Sarah the Creationist wants to takes us all - if she actually really believes in ANYTHING because since she refuses to speak to the press, its hard to know anything aside from she'd like to hide.

We've had enough of the dishonest inept Bush/McCain Republican Party and in the words of the Who … WE WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN.

Comment by Steve L — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Wow. So this is where the Neo-Con Facists come to play? Do you people ever take a look outside of bunker in Neo-Con Land see what's really going on? Any of you read books? Any of you actually fact check your old political heros? Do any of you think beyond the Neo-Con brainwashing? I doubt it. Oh and by the way, considering about how little the country knows about "Caribou" yourselves included. Oh wait, I'm sorry you believe everything your spoon-fed. That's why our country is in the shape its in. Good Job REPUBLICANS! YOU'VE GONE A BANG UP JOB.
-R

Comment by Rick_D — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I understand why folks want to vote for Obama. He represents the mother you never had. He'll take care of all your needs in a time when people feel insecure. Obama supporters are only acting human. They're desperate and they'll vote for anyone that they think will make the "pain" go away. news falsh! Obama ain't your mommy and he's not going to kiss your booboo and make it all better. What he'll do is infect the wound with his socialist ideas and make the pain that much worse. We need to amputate this fools ideas before they infects the nation. McCain and Palin are like an anti-biotic. They will erase the fool from politics once and for all.

Comment by The Oracle — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I'm confident that Palin will beat Joe Biden in their debate. Joe Biden mouth gets him in trouble everytime he opens it. Do you remember the statement "Clean Black Man." You Left-wingers should be concerned.

Comment by Champsummers — September 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
WELL… MC CAIN keep's HIDING SARAH.. she is mearly window dressing..

AND.. the way he wants to HUG HER ALL THE TIME is CREEPY!.. Just because he can't draw a crowd.. is that the ONLY REASON she is on the ticket? WINDOW DRESSING and a PONY SHOW.. with ONE LINE bit parts?

I THINK that is a step BACK for any woman! She's is NOT even allowed to TALK TO THE MEDIA!

Comment by Anna — September 9, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
Mothers who vote for Sarah Palin vote against their own child's best interests.

Comment by Darren — September 9, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
I guess if you consider losing your ability to choose what you do with your own bodies and losing your rights to equal pay (both of which Palin is against) are a step forward for women — then I guess you could say she's a step forward.

Yes, a great step forward for women it will be when any young girl who is raped and impregnated by her father or pedophile uncle is forced to keep the child resulting in the traumatization of two more young American women. If Palin is elected, it won't just be open season on wolves, it will be open season on young women everywhere.

Comment by T.K. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Once again liberal women are misguided. The Gloria Steinem's of the world are angry, insecure women who blame men for their personal and professional failures.
These so-called educated angry Steinem women have from the beginning looked down upon the Sarah Palin's of the world as brow beaten barefoot and pregnant housewives as under achieving females that should be pitied instead of admired.
What makes the Steinem feminists even angrier is that fact the Sarah is a happy, fulfilled, and successful woman that isn't full of the anger and hatred toward the male species.
The Sarah Palin's of the United States go completely against what the feminists have been preaching since the sixties and they don't like it one little bit.
This is why some of the posters above are noting that Sarah Palin is nothing more than an illerate Alaskan savage that belongs in the igloo instead of the Vice Presidency.
A sixities femnist well never admit that all these years they were wrong.

Wow that is great. Hits the nail on the head

Comment by Dave — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Many women use abortion for birth control. Especially those black gals lol

Comment by shea — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
One thing I find amusing is that while Democrats are actually out working all day, Republicans sit at home looking for internet blogs in which to post vile and offensive rants.

Comment by Diane � September 9, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

———————————————-
Hey Diane,

I have been working all day to help pay for your uneducated welfare bast**ds with their hands out.
Maybe Obammy can pay for them for a while, I'm tired of working hard only to be called cracker from a damn crack head. Fvck them and anyone else that disagrees.

Comment by Ken Taylor — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
The thing I am most proud of about Palin is exactly how frightened the Libs are. It's like mass chaos over at DailyKos (should be renamed Daily Palin since that's all they talk about now). LoL.

Before Palin, I honestly thought Obama was going to win by a landslide. Now, I'm really intuiting that McCain is going to win. What will the libs do then when they realize socialism has NO CHANCE in the US and that they will all have to move center if they want to elect more democrats. I actually feel bad for the libs… they are watching their beloved socialism die right in front of their faces… that can't be easy to do. If your messiah can't save your party, then who can??? Obama is the best dem that has happened to your party and he's still not going to be able to pull off a win. Poor you.

Comment by Janet (not the other liberal one) — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
he's absolutely right. The continuous illogical argument from the right is that just because she is a woman she will be good for women follows the same false claim that because McCain is a veteran he must be doing what is right for veterans. There is no relation to being part of a group and doing right by that group, they are two separate things. That would be like saying just because Bush is an oil man his presidency will benefit the oil companies… i guess sometimes they do go together.

Comment by Jordan — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
'A step back for women'. Are you kidding me?

Comment by Tracy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
I can think of no one more backward than (Jurassic Dem) J. Biden. It's so telling just how wretched and lost the feminist Left has become they have nothing good to say about themselves and instead choose to make Sarah (a Post feminist) into some kind of cultural 'Boogie-gal'

Fear & self Loathing is all J.Biden's ilk have to offer.

Comment by AMR1960 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Another perfect statement for Biden…ha ha ha

I got something for John & Sarah,a little tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Eo8HbNZZw

Comment by phil — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
THIS IS TYPICAL Joe Biden, known among mainstream journalists as "A GAFFE MACHINE."

Take a look at the real Joe Biden….

Take THE BIDEN QUIZ

and watch THE BIDEN MOVIE

http://www.TheBidenQuiz.com

Comment by Jon Moseley — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
Biden says what his boss (Soros) wants him to say.
This guy (Biden) is so out of touch, and prime example is his voting record against the Serbs in Kosovo, where today his boss (Soros) owns the biggest complex of gold and copper mines (40) in Europe, called Trepca Mines.

Comment by Logan — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
The Democrats really know how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's just like a train wreck, you have to watch!

Comment by Ken Madden — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
I love all the women on here ranting how she's a woman so that's not a backwards step for woman. Let's take the flip side of that - just becuase she IS a woman doesn't mean that electing her IS a step forward for women either. She is just full of more of the same GOP crap that has been ruining the country for the past 8 years packaged differently. Frankly, I find it appalling and patronizing that the Republicans think that women are stupid enough to vote for her only because of her gender. Let's wait for all her rants and raves to pass and see what happens when she actually has to discuss the issues…oh wait, that will never happen because it will only be more of the lies she was spouting off during her acceptance speech.

Comment by Andrea — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
McBush selecting (or rather his handlers selecting) Palin was a gimick, a joke. It panders to the far right/rednecks. This ticket is even worse than Dole/Kemp and they set the bar pretty low.

Comment by James — September 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
If you idiots would actually read something, anything about her other than simply ingesting what your party wants you to hear or read, you'd realize that she is VERY similar to Bush in her thinking and the policies she advocates. That IS a step backward for women. You need to stop this sexist BS because I doubt any of you could name ONE credible source that is actually "sexist" towards Governor Palin. On the wacko fringes certainly, which is disgraceful, but 99% of the mainstream press is doing what they should do, and are examining her record and credentials. Whatever you may think of Biden, he has paid his dues and trumps her piddly 2 years as governor several times over. I'm not saying she won't be a political force, but even she said in March of this year that whining about PERCEIVED sexism in the media "doesn't help women [sic]". Learn something sometime, ya nutjobs!

Comment by GetRealYouDolts — September 9, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
"We have a large voice (18,000 strong) who will look at the views of this woman and see how backward she wants to take us."

Wow, 18,000 women in the USA?! I'm quaking in my boots.

Comment by Joe E. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
Comment by Dave � September 9, 2008 @ 4:43 pm

So True Dave

Comment by LE — September 9, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Wow. So this is where the Neo-Con Facists come to play? Do you people ever take a look outside of your bunker in Neo-Con Land see what's really going on? Do any of you read books? Do any of you actually fact check your political heros? Do any of you think beyond the Neo-Con brainwashing? I doubt it. Oh and by the way, considering about how little the country knows about "Caribou Barbie" yourselves included I think all anyone can do is assume. Even yourselves you assume she's the messianc figure of the GOP that will save you from the Librals. Oh wait, I'm sorry you people believe that and everything your spoon-fed. That's why our country is in the shape its in. Good Job REPUBLICANS! YOU'VE GONE A BANG UP JOB.
-R

Comment by Rick_D — September 9, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Most of the postings ignore the basic assumptions (oops, that term again) of Biden's statement, both of which are true:

1) Palin's policy positions are like Bush's policies on steroids
2) Bush's policies do NOT advance women's issues.

QED

Comment by Frank — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
All of you gullible, naive Palin supporters. This really shows your IQ to be around 5, anytime you go all outrage of a candidate that you have never heard questioned, that you have no idea what her complete issues are and you BLINDLY, support her without question, and only known for two weeks. WHY? Because she is a female. You are showing what men have taken average for years, EASILY BRAIN-WASHED"….HOW MUCH WOULD YOU HAVE SUPPORTED ROMNEY, PELINTY, OR LIBERMANN,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It seems to me that absolutely disrespecting Hilary experience and ideas.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
" Learn something sometime, ya nutjobs!

Comment by GetRealYouDolts "

Biden, is that you?

Comment by Bill C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
TO GETREALYOUDOLTS…wake up and pull your head out of the DEMS ASS!!!

Comment by BHSOB — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
To Jody "I think Joe Biden if elected would be a backward step for women. His party wants all women to abort their Downs syndrome babies, Sarah loves her Downs syndrome baby and held him up proudly foor all to see how beautiful and sweet he is at the convention! It made me proud for you see I also have a baby with Downs syndrome two months older than hers. He is a great baby. "

Do you bigots all have to resort to lies? The Democrats do not want everyone to abort their down syndrome babies. I have two cousins with downs syndrome and your comment is extremely hurtful. if you think palin and her using her downs syndrome baby as marketing would make a great vp then state some real reasons, not some bs made up crap like that. and you probably call your self a christian!

Comment by Zach — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
The comments on this page largely speak to the ignorance the GOP harnesses to win elections.

Joe Biden authored most of the Violence Against Women Act, and was largely responsible for getting it passed in 1994. He is a supporter of equal pay for women, while McCain skipped the vote for the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in April. Palin has done nothing to further women's issue on a national level, and if anyone could point out something in her record (other than being a mother and standing for "family values") that disproves this it would be fantastic.

Comment by Suzy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I love it! GO McCain - Palin! I cannot remember when I had more fun watching and reading the libs go crazy about Palin.

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
"We have a large voice (18,000 strong) who will look at the views of this woman and see how backward she wants to take us."
\????????
18,000 ummmm ok

Comment by LE — September 9, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Palin is not suitable for presidency period if something were to happen. Whatever her beliefs are because a president has to be a president for all the people not just it's party's people.

Her views are not acceptable or mainstream. She is against pro-choice, that is a woman's right to choose regardless of incest and rape. She backs an illegal war and occupation and calls for people to pray for it. She lies daily about her stances and about the ludacrousness that she's be ready to be president. She is backwards being presented as forwards.

Comment by Marchion — September 9, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN?!? You Obama lemmings are buying into the biggest con job since Charles Ponzi.

Comment by dlaws99 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
She's female so she must be for the advancement of women's rights. Nevermind the fact that what she stands for will set back actual women's rights about thirty to forty years. She waves a bible to distract you all from her blatant hypocrisy.
She's pro-abstinence but has an unwed teenage daughter, she's against ear-marks but used lobbyists to get porkbarrel money for her state. She's for the war in Iraq, but until recently said she hadn't been paying much attention. She flaunts her autistic child around and yet is supporting McCain's health plan which would strip health insurance from working class people who have autistic children.
Yep, she's a straight shootin' feminist alright!

Comment by jose — September 9, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
My wife was undecided. So thanks Joe, she'll vote for McCain once I show her this one.

Comment by Burke — September 9, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
since when is the office of VICE PRESIDENT the "highest glass ceiling" for a woman? isn't VP the 2nd highest?

*sighs*

Comment by jessica — September 9, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Get ready for 16 years of Palin!!!

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
"Mothers who vote for Sarah Palin vote against their own child's best interests.

Comment by Darren"

Women who vote for Oblama kill their own children.

Comment by Bill C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Oh and Darren number 700, I am a Mother and I DO have my childs interest's at heart and will to the day I die, that is why I am voting McCain/Palin. You are so narrow minded and uneducated.

Comment by Tracy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Joe Biden is exactly right.

And the RNC knows it. Funny how the Rublican Party has suddenly discovered "women's issues" and "tolerance for difference." Who knew that they were the party of challenges to established power all along?

Blecch. This is a painfully transparent tactic, and the idea that somebody might not see through it makes me lose all hope.

Comment by FeministOne — September 9, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Biden's statement makes perfect sense and you all know it. Please stop being so disingenuous

The platform that McCain/Palin are running on is very detrimental to women and IS a step backwards for women.

Comment by Susan — September 9, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
OK, let's look at what she believes. For starters, if she has her way, if your daughter becomes pregnant by an act of rape or incest she should, by law, have to carry the fetus to term and deliver the baby. She also thinks creationism should be taught in biology classes (alchemy in chemistry? voodoo in med school?) She also thinks there is no human contribution to climate change despite the unanimous agreement on the subject by the National Academy of Sciences. She also thinks that Jews should be "converted" to her narrow form of Christianity. Palin would not just be a step back for women: she would be a step back for every living American. This woman is a radical, hands down and McCain picked her for one reason: to bring the evangelicals back in the fold. McCain's slogan should be "Politics First."

Comment by sandy — September 9, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
The problem with what you said Frank is that this is a republican dominated message board, they don't like the truth. Whenever anyone reports on the truth, its a liberal bias.

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
#652 Jon
What are you smoking?
If people like you because you don't have a backbone, does that make it right?
Spain tryed to make the terrorist like them by appeasing them. It Dosen't Work! They blew them up in their trains.

Comment by navy65 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Yeah, a woman who does and has it all; career, intelligence, values, and family, would be going backward. Way to go Biden!

Comment by boB — September 9, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Joe has been an excellent Senator, although I've had some disagreements with him here and there but over all he would make a fine Vice President. The barbiecudda cheerleader the grand OLD party wants to put a heart beat away from the president, and mccain may not have many heart beats left, is a sham and a slap in the face to the American people.

Obama/Biden 08

Comment by joe from philly — September 9, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
LOL @ All the "apalled" white people.

I can't wait to see each and every one of you without a home, without a job, praying for your old, crusty GOP leaders to do something, anything, while they soak up the wealth they have created for themselves with their wedge politics and fearmongering.

A bunch of moron hicks and wannabe "businessmen" in a bunch of useless Red States turning America into Australia Redux with a bigger itchy trigger finger. Congrats.

Comment by RyanD. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Condoleeza Rice was a step forward for women, Wasn't she? So how are Bush/Cheney policies bad for women? But logically, assuming that McCain continued all executive orders of the current Presiding officer, how does that step BACKWARD? i.e., that is the status quo (current state). Therefore, Biden's syllogism is inaccurate and logically false, no matter how its parsed beyond it's face value of merely being offensive. What the liberals are clammoring for, ERA, equal pay, abortion, etc. are a not the current state of law, so they want society to change and pass laws that guarantee things that have never been the positive law in most of our country. Sodomy and abortion are still illegal, just unenforceable because of the liberal supreme court. That will eventually change because justice demands it. And for the rape survivor, however you justify it, intentionally killing children is wrong - kill the rapist instead if your lust for revenge needs to be satisfied.

Comment by Crawford Rose — September 9, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
WOW !!! Biden's got the right ideas, and if women go 'back to the future' with this McCain/Palin nonsense, the United States as we know it, will cease to exist. . .Women are smarter than McCain thinks we are !!! The far right, evangelical crowd are showing up in all the polls, now that McCain has becaome 'one of them'. This nation is NOT a mega-church !!!!
Get real. . . Palin's a joke, and if the dems had put someone on the ticket like her, the right wing nut cases would go crazy !!! But of course, they're the ones that always pray for each other; etc. . . but if you're outside of they're fundamentalist sect. . . you don't count.
Sounds like Jesus would NOT approve. Hey, wasn't he a community organizer ????

Comment by BJ — September 9, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
TO GETREALYOUDOLTS�wake up and pull your head out of the DEMS ASS!!!

Comment by BHSOB � September 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

Wow! Touch a nerve? Seriously, go find out some actual facts and then try to defend what she says against her actual record. Go ahead! Spoiler alert: You can not.

Comment by GetRealYouDolts — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
"Whatever her beliefs are because a president has to be a president for all the people not just it's party's people."

You mean like Obamamama wants to be "president for all people"? The guy is a racist pig who attended a racist church for 20 years, and is supported and surrounded by black liberation racists. Oh yeah, he's real inclusive.

Comment by Bill C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
LOL. Yeah the dems want to abort all down syndrome children, just like republicans want to cut your taxes, reduce the deficit, shrink the government, uphold the constitution, and not infringe on our civil liberties.
Yeah you Neo-Cons make me laugh just like when I watch The Simpsons.

Comment by Rick_D — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Sarah Pelin is disastrous for women. She leaves every thing for God to solve. She thinks God is responsible for having babies. Hope she stays in Alaska. She is not fit for main stream. Go Joe Biden. We need you and Obama

Comment by Lata — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
699, Sarah has only been in the mix for 10 days. How about giving her a chance? She's interviewing with Charles Gibson for 2 days straight; nothing out of bounds. She's scheduled for Meet The Press. She's got the debate coming up. Doesn't appear she's hiding to me…

Comment by boB — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
I can't wait to see what she will put on Ebay next! Starting with the Do nothing congress! OH that will not one bid I am sure!

Comment by George — September 9, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Sure, Palin is tough. But toughness is only a virtue when you're right on the issues, and when you're wrong on the issues, toughness is a problem. The past eight years have taught us that, if nothing else.

Actually, Palin's toughness is very similar to Bush's. It's the toughness that comes from ignorance, from conviction that's impervious to reason. She's essentially a female redneck who thinks that everyone in America's heartland is just like her. And here she is in for a rude awakening. There are plenty of people in smalltown America who are thoughtful and intelligent. McCain and Palin certainly won't win their votes.

Comment by dipsy doodle — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Number 35. Are you voting for her because she has and loves her down sydrome baby as you do? What mother doesn't love her child. Should we value her love for her child greater than the love we have for our children because her child happens to have down syndrome? That is so narrow-minded. She could be an advocate for special needs children without being in the Whitehouse. Has she spoken out nationally about children with special needs. She's a Governor who could have used her platform nationallly to bring attention to children with special needs. I had a brother who had special needs and I have nieces and nephews with special needs. But I will not give my vote to a person based soley because I can identify with them in that regard. I don't need someone I can relate to I need someone who can address my overall needs, health and well being. It seems you are voting emotionally, without regard for the issues at hand in these very troubling time.

Comment by Chandra Green — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Hillary would have been smart enough to not fall into the McBush trap the Dem's can't get out of. McCain killed the argument with Palin. Now the Dem's are too stupid to get a real play book. All they know is " I hate Bush" . When they wake in defeat in November their tombstone will read " Defeated by failure to understand they were not running against Bush"

Perhaps they should learn to run FOR something instead of "against Bush"..

Comment by HRC_2012 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Me liek gunz and Jezus. U toopid to no how God will rane mercyles on u when judgmen com.

Palin is from God and Jezus will show librals just what they need at judgment day

Comment by mindfix — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
"the United States as we know it, will cease to exist"

Chicken Little, thy name is BJ.

Comment by Bill C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
It will be a great step forward for unborn children.

Comment by Jake Lamew — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Why are the Republicans so determined to continue to make America the laughingstock of the world? (Vice)President Hockey Mom, (co)leader of the most powerful nation in the world? This is going to improve America's stature in the world?

Comment by jonesgen57 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
Thank god (or buddha, or allah, or confucious or zeus, or thor or whoever the hell else) that the Democratic party has finally fielded candidates that will stand up to the lunacy. Alec Baldwin is right - they simply can't handle a liberal who can punch back.

Biden is right. Damn right. You have a right to your own opinions but not your own facts. This is a message to those of you who still - by virtue of ignorance, stupidity or greed - continue to flout a discredited conservative movement. The days of the pusilanimous liberal are over. You can and will be called on your crap. We no longer cede patriotism, religion or values to you. In fact don't you dare continue to think that those are issues you alone are right about. We've brought guns to this gunfight.

Palin qualified … my ass she is.

Comment by swiftian — September 9, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Obama and Biden vow to run a clean campaign until they get behind. Then then send an army of elitist, slimey, left-wing, lawyers to Alaska to dig up dirt. You left-wingers still think Joe Biden isn't p issing in his pants about the debate. Wait until this news gets out. Obama will be down 15….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122098190668515511.html?mod=opinion_journal_political_diary

Comment by Champsummers — September 9, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
ah Mr. Biden. feeling a bit intimidated? feeling a bit overwhelmed? feeling a bit nervous? thought the election was in the bag? Well think again, Governor Palin has more sand than you will ever have.

Go back to the Jurassic period where neanderthals like you need to be.

Go Sarah!

Comment by MKB — September 9, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
LOL @ All the "apalled" white people.

I can't wait to see each and every one of you without a home, without a job, praying for your old, crusty GOP leaders to do something, anything, while they soak up the wealth they have created for themselves with their wedge politics and fearmongering.

A bunch of moron hicks and wannabe "businessmen" in a bunch of useless Red States turning America into Australia Redux with a bigger itchy trigger finger. Congrats.

Comment by RyanD.

ryans post was brought to you by the party of tolerance and diversity.

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Palin's VP candidacy = one giant leap forward (into thin air) for one woman, one giant step backward for all the others.

Defend America; Defeat McCain/Palin.

ENOUGH!

Comment by Diane Cort — September 9, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Ken Taylor: "The thing I am most proud of about Palin is exactly how frightened the Libs are."

You are a moron. We are not frightened of Palin. We are frightened of the fact that if she and McCain are elected we will all have to deal with 4 more years of terrible policies, neverending wars, and economic crisis! How can you really think we are even intimidated in the least by her. Shes a loon, a liar, a cheat, and she will bring our country down with her.

Comment by Brian — September 9, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
The hate displayed on thie website is stunning. I thought I came across some Taliban website - instead of a bunch of Americans who don't like "liberals." For sure, you're not being very Christian.

Comment by Mary — September 9, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
People, all you have to do, is just get out of the libs way, like Rush says, if there is a pile of manure in front of them, they'll find it and step in it, every time.

No need to insult the libs, just let them keep foaming at the mouth yelling Bush Lied, and all the other rants, just make sure you go out and vote and get rid of Obama and Biden once and for all.

Comment by The SLovak — September 9, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
People… calm down. What he was implying was that McCain has been against equal pay for equal work for women, and furthermore, Palin does not support abortion rights. Either of these issues are something most feminists are trying to fight against. McCain and Palin do not represent the same step forward.

Comment by Emily — September 9, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
"…praying for your old, crusty GOP leaders to do something, anything…"

That's the difference between you liberals and us. We don't pray for help from politicians. We own our own successes or failures, while you losers hold your hands out waiting for scraps from Big Daddy Government.

Comment by Bill C. — September 9, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
QUICK! Someone hand Joe a new shovel! The one he's using just caught fire from the furious digging!

GO JOE, GO! DIG JOE, DIG! Go JOE, GO! Only a few more miles to China Joe!

Comment by Frank — September 9, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Me liek gunz and Jezus. U toopid to no how God will rane mercyles on u when judgmen com.

Palin is from God and Jezus will show librals just what they need at judgment day

Comment by mindfix

i hope you are spelling like this to make a point and it's not because of the public school system…..

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
WE DON'T NEED A HALF BREAD OR A IDIOT!

Comment by mrisen — September 9, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Dont get mad because he told the truth, when will you Rethugs face the facts. She's trash.

Comment by DumbPresidents — September 9, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
almost forgot ryan, i'm not white, i'm beige…

Comment by tongaloid — September 9, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
#

Hey Joe,

So, if Gov. Palin's election would set back women, would Sen. Obama's election also set back African-Americans?

Comment by Mark � September 9, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

Hey Mark–Apples and oranges. Obama actually works to help African-Americans, women, whites, Hispanics, working stiffs, students, children, veterans, elderly, pregnant teens. What's McSame done?

Comment by kady12 — September 9, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Here the NEOCONS go trying to twist what Biden said like they always do. Trying to make him out be a sexist and this other crap.

To them it is okay be racist, just don't appear to be sexist.

These are the talking points that the Republican Main Steam Media will continue to talk about for the rest of the campaign over and over.

Just like Palin degrading community organizers. Does Palin know that community organizing is what Jesus did when he walked through the country trying to get people to God, that Neighborhood Watch programs are based on community organizing, and actually campaigning is a form of community organizing, small communities like the one she comes from, do community organzing all the time, the same big community neighborhoods do, trying to get city ordinances changed, policies changed, trying to make neighborhoods safer, establishing local community job training programs.

Well I guess she doesn't allow community organizing in town, everyone has to do whatever she ORDERS them to do.

Comment by Viola — September 9, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
Republicans, including Sarah Palin, have come to specialize in snide, smirky, sarcastic, and down-right mean-spirited nastiness. Their language is ugly, their tactics are malicious and vicious, and they lie through their snarly teeth. I am a woman and will tell every woman i know NOT to vote for sarah palin, a snide, smirky, sarcastic, and downright unpleasant human being who is not adverse to lying her way into the White House. i agree with Joe Biden entirely.

Comment by margaretta swigert — September 9, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
PALIN/McCain stand for NOTHING …greed, money and the destruction of our constitution!!! VOTE NO! She is a thief and a liar

Comment by bosie — September 9, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Biden is 100% correct. Back to the kitchen women, and make sure that your ideas are duplicates of any males in your circle. When it comes to how many votes he got in the primaries, if I was the republicans I wouldn't go there.
Palin got 0% votes in the primary as she was not even qualified to run in the motley crew that made up the GOP candidates.
Heck, I was on the water commission for a small town and received more votes than Palin got for Mayor. Guess I'm qualified for VP eh?

Comment by CorieJ — September 9, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
I will probably upset many people with this post. I contend that any person who believes in a supernatural being is irrational. However, it is possible to have irrational people who are also good people; i.e. considerate, thoughtful, caring, etc. On the other hand, when an irrational person acts in a way that is contradictory to logical reasoning, that is when problems can occur.

Questioning a librarian about removing books, being open to teaching creationism in public schools, having a political platform that proposes to appoint judges with the purpose of taking away a women's right to a safe and legal abortion, those thoughts are not logical. Those thoughts are dangerous to the freedom of the people of the United States of America.

"John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench. "

Comment by RationalThinker — September 9, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
How copuld we not assume with Sarah Palin, she is not being given permission to do interviews, so we all have to guess at what she stands for…. unless you want to use her record, than the wingers will say it is an attack. FREE SARAH…let her speak. How insulting to us and to her to keep her quiet..

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