Far East Cynic

Debate’s over!

And we all know what that means……

Joe Biden heads back to his hotel room, cracks open a beer, talks with his advisors-and then, when the rest of the herd is gone, our boy Joe takes a long draw on his beer………….

And thinks about what he wishes he could have said. Instead of what he had to say to be politically correct.

Sarah might have even gotten him so worked up he just  might have to turn on Channel Two and get some real action :


You’re a nasty Senator! A nasty Senator!

H/T to Foggy!

  1. While it is highly doubtful that Gov. Palin was the cause of Sen. Biden’s rather lifeless performance tonight, perhaps he’s wishing he hadn’t told so many outright lies. One example……………that Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama voted exactly the same way against funding our Troops in the field. Sen. McCain opposed imposing a timeline in a Bill that Pres. Bush had already said he would veto, regardless of its’ passage.

    It would be interesting to know what the S.O. thought of the debate and the coverage on this side of the Int’l. dateline.

  3. What Biden should have done was pounce on Palin’s misteps: She did not know who the commanding general In Iraq was for example. Except because she is a woman-he loses for calling her on it.

    A vote is a vote and if Biden and McCain voted the same way they voted the same way-its no different than saying you were opposed to the Bridge to Nowhere-when in reality she was not.

    As for McCain’s record of supporting the troops its not great-his record on veterans issues is really poor.

  4. Palin did better than I expected; but the magina all she did was reiterate ad nauseum McCain was a maverick and so was she. And she and McCain were for change and how wanderful she was as mayor of Wasilla and Gov of Alaska.

    All in all shedid nothing to ally my concerns about her inadequacy to assume the presidency.

    Again were McCain Obama no concern; but chances of her assuming the presidnecy are much greater than Biden’s.

  5. Whats makes a President great or competent?
    If Lincoln or FDR were NOT involved in successful wars would we have thought of them so highly?

  6. FDR maybe. Lincoln would have had to engineer another slavery compromise.

    Either way-Palin is an image created by the Republican party that does not match the real person.

    On Iraq, Biden should have pointed out that Iraqis want us to leave.

  7. It depends on who you talk to on the ground as to whether the Iraqis want us to leave. The politicians and tribal leaders want us to leave soon, so they can start the corruption and malfeasance in earnest. The regular Iraqis on the street do not want us to leave soon for the same reason.

  8. I guess it’s me. I just fail to see how any sane person could conclude that Palin is not up to the task of assuming the presidency, an office that she is not running for, and yet presume that there is an alternative out there that is more qualified to be president. Biden, the other presumptive president to be garnered about 1% of the democrat vote during his campaign which should imply that even the dimbulbs of the democrat party think he’s not up to the task. His running mate has achieved less than nothing in his life that an objective voter could point to and say, “there, that act fills me with confidence that this man could successfully carry out and execute the offices of the President of the United States.

    And I’ve never seen one word from those who don’t think Palin is up to the task to justify their conclusion that somehow Obama is any better.

  9. I’m just the opposite-I just don’t see all the supposed “folksyness” of Palin. I see a mean, ambitious, pushy woman who got lucky in Alaska in 2006. Who will tell any lie it takes to create a certain image. Every time I see her on TV I cringe-because it should be self evident. Yet to an entirely too large segment of the Republican party-who is so desperate to give a “conservative” stamp to McCain-adores her. The very fact that all those people like her should be cause for worry.

    As for alternates to Palin who are more qualified, the list is long and distinguished.

    As for Obama-I’ve said it before, he’s here too early too. But this election is about showing a big middle finger to George W Bush and repudiating his 8 years mis-rule and taking this country down economic and foreign policy rat holes.

    Biden, I think could have won more, if the Democrats were more concerned about economics than gay rights and feminism. Problem is he is an old school Democrat. Those guys, like moderate Republicans are being shoved to the curb-so the more strident and less inclusive wings of their respective parties can take over. Its why I continue to believe the two party system is dying.

  10. The Iraqi man in the street is not my concern. Their government says so-so that should be all that matters-unless Iraqi sovereignty matters not.

  13. Skippy-san,

    When I asked who was more qualified for the presidency I meant to confine responses to BO, JB or JM since these are pretty much all the choices we have left now. I’m willing to give Palin a chance. As far as I can tell she is far more articulate than the Obama, far more charitable than Biden, has a great deal more integrity than Obama. I don’t know, maybe what I like about her is that when she was confronted with lying, dishonest, unethical thieves, even in her own party, she gelded them. When confronted by politicians who would not act on proof of others unethical conduct and misconduct took action.

    Did you know that Obama was an Illinois state legislator for years and years and voted present 130 times? OK, everybody knows that but I did see this morning that Illinois state public pension plan is $44,000,000,000 in debt: the largest pension debt in the US? It’s as if everything that man touches turns to slime.

  14. I don’t suppose the Daly machine had anything to do with that-it seems like it will take more than Obama to screw that up.